Planning guide · 4 min
The hours you can sell are not all the hours you work.
Build a realistic capacity denominator before you allocate overhead, fill your calendar, or decide what a service needs to earn.
Open the guideMake the chair add up.
Connect capacity, working arrangements, retail, and systems without confusing sales with take-home pay.
What you’ll take away
Create an explicit monthly scenario and a practical list of contract, recordkeeping, and operating questions.
20 minutes of reading · Follow in order or start with your questionDecision guide · 4 min
Commission, booth, or suite? Compare the whole arrangement.
A higher share of sales is not the same thing as more money to live on. Put three working arrangements on a consistent monthly sheet.
Open the guideWorked example · 4 min
A bottle’s markup is not your retail profit.
Follow one hypothetical product from purchase to sale—and see what discounts, testers, fees, and unsold stock do to the numbers.
Open the guideBuying framework · 4 min
Price the booking system around a real month of work.
Build a cost-and-exit comparison that includes transactions, team access, deposits, messaging, and the data you need to take with you.
Open the guidePractice guide · 4 min
Keep better client notes. Keep less unnecessary data.
A practical record structure that separates service information, future preferences, and permission to use photographs.
Open the guideKeep going at your own pace. Save individual guides to revisit them in the working library.