Basic Aesthetic Training Course Sept 12-13 Cindy Graf Consulting

I have a Basic Aesthetic course coming up in Milwaukee on Sunday, September 12 and Monday September 13, 2010 if you have any wives, nurses, office staff, girlfriends, nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians, aestheticians that would like to be trained on the basics of laser/ light, medical microdermabrasion, chemical peels, post surgical [...]

Fall is coming…get your marketing plan ready now for your medical spa!

Fall and spring are great times to market to sell big packages and increase revenue stream in the medical spa.  Hate to talk about it already with summer in full swing but now is the time.  Plan Sept-Nov with Clean Up Summer Sun Damage ads, promotions.  Get your skin care vendors involved.  Host a back [...]

Service Contracts may be a forgotten expense in the Medical Spa!

Service contracts are many times a forgotten $surprise$ in the

medical spa industry.  Most manufacturers charge 10%

per year for both IPL and laser.  There is sometimes a

savings for platform technologies that have one box

(platform) with add as you desire handpieces for hair

removal, photorejuvenation, wrinkles, tightening.

Check it out!

Here is a link to an article I did for [...]

Frequent visits in the medspa treatment room keep protocols in check

If you are a physician or manager trying to maintain high standards of care in your medical spa, make frequent, unannounced stops to say hello to patients during treatments.  This will assure that your staff is always on their toes and impress patients of your involvement in their care.  For more information on these medical [...]

Selling Cosmetic Services takes practice!

There are 10\”Selling Cosmetic Services\” steps to performing a successful cosmetic consultation  that produces CASH!

(click on Selling Cosmetic Services to see a sample consultation by the laser queen!)

Ask the client “Look in the Mirror with Me”
Identify concerns that the client has, make a note of these.
Match up skin care products, injectables and laser/light treatments that [...]

Take this survey to help us develop educational tools for aesthetic industry!

Did you know that 65 percent of the cosmetic medical businesses started do not realize their planned financial success?  Be apart of the solution!  Our industry needs education.  Take this 10 question survey and help us to understand what educational tools that you need to be successful!!!    Click on the link!  
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Considering being a medical director of a medical spa? Check this out!

State concerned about skin-care clinic

A chain of “laser center” clinics offering skin treatments has gotten crosswise with state regulators, who say the business lets unqualified employees perform potentially risky medical procedures.

The Iowa Board of Medicine says the American Laser Centers location at 1300 37th St. in West Des Moines has allowed untrained people to run [...]

How to hire an aesthetician? Download these questions to use in your interview.

Interview questions aesthetician

End of Summer Sept. 1

With Labor Day approaching, I like many of you in this business are cheering and giving thanks to have survived the slow summer months in the medical spa biz. I am enthused about our business picking up as the moms put their feet up (usually 2nd week in September) after getting kids off to school [...]