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Wellness & Beauty Blog

Monthly Energy Bill Comparison: Before vs After Going Green

Image via Wikipedia We have been in our new Complexions Spa location at 221 Wolf Road for eleven months now.  Earlier this week, I decided to take a quick look at the actual energy savings - if any - we've enjoyed thus far.  Here is the quick, back-of-the-napkin rundown: In our previous location we had 4200 sf.  In our new location we have 8450sf. Thus far, monthly electric bills at 221 Wolf

Changing The Focus Of Our Spa Services

The Next Steps In Wellness Complexion's has always been a spa that focuses on the wellness side of the services that we offer but now more than ever we are very careful with how we send this message to our guests.  We do not use words like pampering and luxury.  We have started to explain the benefits of our services along with words like affordable, de-stressing, promoting wellness, mental clarity and more. We have

By |February 28th, 2009|Categories: Complexions Spa|Tags: , |

The Heart of John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success

Heart of the Pyramid Today we had another staff meeting. This time we discussed the three "blocks" of John Wooden's Pyramid of Success that are in the center. He refers to them as the Heart of the Pyramid. The first block refers to condition.  This goes well beyond physical condition.  He is referring to a good mental and moral condition.  "When you are lacking in good mental condition this disrupts the team."  I agree with

Winter Skin Care Tips From My Interview With Diane Lee of Fox 23

Winter Skin Care Do's and Don'ts This past Friday (January 23, 2009), I sat down with Diane Lee - co-host of FOX 23's morning show - to discuss winter skin care do's and don'ts. Considering how cold it's been these past few weeks, I couldn't ask for a more perfectly pertinent topic. :) I think the most important piece of winter-related advice will always be the benefits of a milky cleanser

How I Plan To Spend The Small-Business Tax Break President Obama Has Proposed To Congress

Image by stevegarfield via Flickr Recently, Paul Krugman wrote in response to President Elect Barack Obama's planned tax-breaks for small businesses that First, Mr. Obama should scrap his proposal for $150 billion in business tax cuts, which would do little to help the economy. Ideally he’d scrap the proposed $150 billion payroll tax cut as well, though I’m aware that it was a campaign promise. Dr. Krugman thinks that I'll just horde

How To Build An Energy Efficient Small Business: Part 1

We closed on the new Complexions building in November of 2007 and immediately began demolishing the existing building. Many - my sons especially - think of demolition as a super-fun activity. If only that were true with Green construction! Long story short - we had to be very very careful every step of the way. First and foremost, we had to have asbestos specially removed by an independent company.  They had to have special

2008 Year End Wrap Up

Complexions Year End Wrap Up & What I learned Calculating year end revenue is kind of like solving a circle (given three points on it ;) After relaxing for the first day of the New Year, I went into work today, anxious to print out our month end numbers and our year end totals. I tell you, if you totally focus in on the negative tone of all the media, you would

Going Green Cutting Costs

Image via Wikipedia While it did cost a bit more money on the front-end to make Complexions Spa an energy efficient spa facility, it appears more and more likely with each passing month that our year-over-year energy savings will take care of the initial investment far sooner than originally forecast. And that's with oil being sold at less than $50 per-barrel. I really can't wait to reach that milestone because after that,

Eco-Trends in the Spa Industries

From Suzie's Spa Blog over at SpaFinder: Eco-Embedded Spas: A Deeper Shade of Green: Back in 2005, SpaFinder identified the eco-spa boom, crystallizing the first industry definition, still widely used today. In our 2007 forecast.. I have to agree with Suzie regarding what it means to be a real Green Spa.........I have recently completed a year long  project of building our new facility,  Complexions Spa for Beauty & Wellness.  This was a lengthy and

NYSERDA Loan Fund Application Process

What You Need To Know About The NYSERDA Loan Application Process At one of our SAIC and NYSERDA meetings we learned about the NYSERDA LOAN FUND.  It was an opportunity for us to reduce our mortgage rate by 4 interest percentage points.  In order to move on this we had to  fill out an application at the start of the project.  We also had to have the bank preapproved and they also submitted an application as our

By |January 1st, 2009|Categories: Going Green, Uncategorized|