...PROCUTS BARBERSHOP The product life cycle of PROCUTS BARBERSHOP is a valuable tool used by the marketing officer to illustrate the four stage process which influences the sales and profitability of the business. Shaving is a popular service offered by barbershops, PROCUTS target men living around the suburban location of the building. Men go in to get a professional look of an expansive array of services; cuts, grooming, styling and shaving. Women also visit the barbershop to get their eyebrows trimmed and shaped. These services are created to exceed the customers’ expectations and stand out from other firms in the market in close proximity. The Barbershop’s mission is to become the number one recognized leader in its targeted market for barbering and hair cutting services. They intend to reflect class, excellence and professionalism in all that they do and maintain quality standards and make customer satisfaction a priority. PROCUTS has three or four licensed hair stylist on staff to provide the mentioned cosmetology services; this will preliminary be the main source of revenue for the firm. At the introduction stage PROCUTS is launched, potential customers are unknown and very few, making revenue minimal and expenses incurred; building renovation, promotion and equipment costs high. A lot is spent on advertising, The marketing officer decides to put An A-Frame in the front of the building displaying services offered and prices, Advertisements are place in all possible...
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...The Responsibility Project: Birds Barbershop ETH/316 University of Phoenix Film Summary Birds Barbershop is a short film about how two lifelong friends came together to start a small business in because neither of them wanted to work for large companies. What seems to start out as a simple small business in a simple small community seems to turn into a successful social experiment on how a small company can begin to grow and become successful while maintaining some good old-fashioned values. Co-founder, Michael Portman tried working for a large corporation and found that as he climbed the business ladder, he did not like the personalities that made up different management levels. The inference in the film was that Michael did not like the ethical standards set forth by upper management, and decided he wanted something more rewarding from his business career. Jayson Rapaport also tried working in a larger corporation where he experienced the negative effects of corporate bureaucracy. As one point Jayson realized it was time to make a change and do something on his own, so he returned to Austin, Tx. where he reconnected with his life-long friend to create a small business in the community that provided a service, but did so without all the fanciful trappings of a large corporate chain or national franchise. Their vision was to bring back the charm and solid values of an old time community barber shop: Birds Barbershop. How ethical principles can be used to address community...
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...Project Name Remodeling office space for a Barber Shop Project Number Project Manager Anita Maharaj Prioritization Owner(s) Mr. & Mrs. James Rowe Start Date: 07-07-2014 Scheduled Completion Date: 08-25-2014 This remodeling project is undertaken to establish a new barber shop for Mr. and Mrs. James Rowe. Upon completion the Rowe family will generate revenue by renting the individual stations to their clients. The new barber shop is scheduled to be completed in August 2014. The project must be completed by August 25, 2014 so that the Rowe family can start setting up the area. The setup will includes buying equipment, example cash registers, buying barber chairs which is the most expensive piece of material in the barber shop, supplies, consumables, cleaning supplies. Additionally, the Rowe family will be advertising opening of the new store and be marketing for prospective renters. The grand opening of the store will take place on November 16, 2014 a week before Thanks Giving. Upon completion of the project, the new shop will include the following as described in the design specification. • Design a detailed floor plan for 484 square feet of retail space • Construct counters for the six work stations • Build a shampoo bowl • Build a counter in reception area • Interior plumbing complete • A small table for magazines • Painting complete • Install mirrors over the counters This office space is being remodeled and redesigned into a barber shop to meet...
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...ETH/316 Week 3 Assignment: Organizational Issues ETH/316 16 December 2013 Instructor: Dr. Tim The short film that was viewed was The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Birds barbershop. A little back-story on the film, the co-founders of the company; Jason Rapaport and Michael Portman each started out in other businesses and thought they needed to make a change in their own lives because of the jobs they held. They both felt like they needed to take the business out of their newly formed business. They wanted to bring back the small town barbershop to their hometown of Austin, Texas. The issues in the film that are the most important are; keeping the small business small while trying to expand in the process. Both Jason and Michael wanted to keep the relaxed atmosphere in their business while trying to expand at the same time. The hardest problem was to become a corporation without becoming a corporation. They like the small town feel of the business and wanted to keep this feeling to make the creative employees feeling empowered to be creative and in touch with their clients. Jason and Michael have opened five (5) shops in five (5) years. They had reached the goal of running a business but not getting to big to become the suite and tie affair they had left behind. The roles of the external social pressures in this story are the small town mentality and the feeling of relaxation when receiving a hair cut in their business. They paly music that one employee wants...
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...Critical Thinking and Society Exercise Allen V. Briscoe PHL 458 September 14, 2013 Joseph Zodl A situation where creative thought and critical thinking could have been used for a better outcome has to deal with hiring the right skill-set of people in barbershops around the world. Many barbershops around the world hire people who can give good hair-cuts to different customers with different textures or styles of hair, unfortunately that doesn’t go well for some minorities. All barbershops around the world should hire barbers suited to cut all styles of hair to customer satisfaction to include all people around the world. Thinking creatively and critically introduces new ideas and ensures careful planning. Free will is the will to do what you please at any time. Truth is when someone tells facts that happen and could be proven. Knowledge is the research and experience you have on different subjects. Opinion is something everyone expresses about each and every subject. These are all used in our formulation of thoughts. Our thoughts are made up of free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Three habits that are hindrances to the critical thinking process are human limitations, use of language, and misconceptions due to faulty logic. Methods of overcoming each one of these hindrances are to acquire an adequate basis of understanding of the situation at hand for human limitations, for use of language we need to recognize when words are not intended to communicate ideas...
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...October 13, 2015 Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela BA Communication Studies Major in Theatre Arts 4-1 Thesis Production “Ang Unang Regla Ni John” Ni: EM Mendez By: Elisia Jades Malicdem Ma. Lilyn Lupo Jay-Ar Empinado Jasper Roberto Jerome Angelo Tepace Introduction: ”Ang Unang Regla ni John is a play about a boy’s journey to manhood, his developing and growing preference towards who he really is. The concept of this play is about growing up, its reality and the tags along with it. It also focuses on LGBT Community to be represented by John, the 11 year old lead character in the story. The story will depict acceptance, freedom and responsibility where the lead character will discover what he really wants to be in spite of being surrounded by his gender oriented family. Brought up in the ideology of “machismo” Mang Julian, John’s father who has an occupation of being a barber raise the three of them with the belief of ‘the more hair you have, the manlier you are’ however his younger son John viewed it the other way. Unlike his elder brothers, Jerome and who fantasize about women particularly the pin up poster of “the dream girl” on their barber shop, John admires her for being flawless, hairless on particular areas where a boy’s hair grow. John wants to be like her. Later on in the story after the dream girl visit his dreams, everything suddenly became crystal clear to John. Instead of having “wet dreams”, he was enlightened about his gender preference...
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...Emily Clark Dr. Dicke HST 122h-999 Examination 1 Imagine being a young boy in 1899. Now imagine the fact that there is no time for play. Imagine having to sit in to coal mine day in and day out breathing in the dirty fumes from the coal itself. Young boys in the year 1899 did just that. They all imagined what it would be like to play outside in the streets instead of working underground for hours each day. What would it be like to have time as a kid? Men worked. Boys worked. Everyone worked. Labor was intense, conditions were not always the best and overcrowding in the factories was a problem seen from day one. With this, the greatest social and economic change in America occurs; Industrialization, in which a society or country transforms itself from an agricultural society (human power) into a society that is based on the manufacturing of goods and services through machine power. Individuals in this period are replaced by machines and craftsmen are replaced by large assembly lines. No longer do men, women, and children have to do everything step by step, the use of machines is now implemented, making it so the production of goods and services is more beneficial and effective to all. In the year 1899 industrialization has reached its adolescence stage, in which the U.S. becomes a developing nation. In its previous infancy stage industrialization created few factories and steam ships, neither being significant enough to see a change to the economy itself. In 1899,...
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...Vast Hell “A small town is a vast hell” The quote above describes how badly some people perceive small towns. There could be many reasons behind this strong dislike. One of them could be that small towns are often seen as these tight and small communities where everybody know each other in one way or another and are noisy with too much time on their hands, which resolves in gossip spreading out quickly in town when something happens. But what do you do when you try to move past the gossip, and stumble upon the ugly truth? We see this in the novel “Vast Hell” by author Guillermo Martinez, where the quote is also from. The story takes place in a small village, and resolves around a man that thinks back to the arrival of a nameless young boy in the small-town, that manages to become the talk of town, when rumour starts spreading that he is romantically involved with the wife of one of the two barbers in town, who people call “the French Woman” for unknown reasons. Fuel is added to the fire when the boy and the French Woman disappear, leading half the town to believe they ran off together and the other half to believe that the barber somehow did away with them. Further investigation into the case gives the story a whole different turn, because after digging in the ground to see if the barber had buried them there, they do find dead bodies, but not the bodies of the boy and the French woman, but of a lot of unknown people. The story is told with a first person narrator...
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...UMUC Haircuts Case Study In 1995, UMUC Haircuts was opened by Myra Morningstar in a strip mall near the College campus. UMUC Haircuts started as a barbershop with one chair. Over the years, Myra has expanded her business to include hair styling for both men and women. Her business has grown to three barber chairs, three hair styling stations, and a shampoo station. In response to her customers’ requests, Myra would like to further expand her business by adding two stations for manicures. The small gift shop next door to her has recently come up for sale, and she is thinking about acquiring that area for manicures. When UMUC Haircuts first opened, it was the only barbershop within a ten-mile radius. It was one of the first businesses to open in the strip mall where it is located, and the number of customers has increased each year. Over the years a couple of other barbershops have opened around the area, and there is news that a Hair Cuttery (offering men’s and women’s haircuts and styling only) will open about 5 miles away. In the shopping center across the street, an expensive spa has now opened where hair styling is offered along with manicures. Just around the corner from UMUC Haircuts is a home with a sign offering manicures. While UMUC Haircuts continues to grow and profits are increasing, Myra is sure that she could improve her operation in the areas of scheduling, supply ordering, inventory management, collecting customer information, and marketing. Customer...
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...• Charlie Gordon - The protagonist and is thirty-two-year-old mentally retarded man who lives in New York City. • Alice Kinnian - Charlie’s teacher at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults. • Professor Harold Nemur - The scientist in charge of the experiment that heightens Charlie’s intelligence. • Dr. Strauss - The neurologist and psychiatrist who performs the experimental operation that raises Charlie’s intelligence. Characters (cont.) • Algernon - The white mouse that is the first successful test subject for the experimental operation Charlie later undergoes. • Fay Lillman - Charlie’s neighbor in the apartment building, She and Charlie have a brief affair. • Rose Gordon - Charlie’s mother, is terribly ashamed of Charlie’s...
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...Polina Sasinovich Ex.2, p.16 1) Extended program listing Block no. *Adr. 1 2 Operation A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H SIMULATE 2 GENERATE 10,5 TERMINATE 1 START END ! Comments Polina Sasinovich 80 Line no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Line 3: customers arrive at an exhibition every 10 minutes on average with a standart deviation of 5 minutes. Line 4: one customers takes 1 brochure. Clock 795.04 Block counts Number Adr. 1 2 Oper. Current GENERA TERMIN Total 80 80 -------------------------------------------------------------Run nr 2 Clock 756.04 Block counts Number Adr. 1 2 Oper. Current GENERA TERMIN Total 80 80 2) Extended program listing Block no. *Adr. 1 2 Operation A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H SIMULATE 2 GENERATE 10,5 TERMINATE 2 START END ! Comments Polina Sasinovich 80 Line no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Line 3: customers arrive at an exhibition every 10 minutes on average with a standart deviation of 5 minutes. Line 4: one customers takes 2 brochures. Clock 395.85 Block counts Number Adr. 1 2 Oper. Current GENERA TERMIN Total 40 40 -------------------------------------------------------------Run nr 2 Clock 374.21 Block counts Number Adr. 1 2 Oper. Current GENERA TERMIN Total 40 40 3) Extended program listing Block no. *Adr. 1 2 Operation A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H SIMULATE 2 GENERATE 10,5 TERMINATE 2 START END Clock ! Comments ...
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...there enough for any group to take him in. Social culture and the pressures of society do change people and make them act like someone they are not, however, the solution to this issue is to find a group of people you are comfortable with, who you can be yourself around, and stick with them, not hide in the shadows excluding yourself from society as Rickel did. Rickel starts off his essay talking about when he used to go to his favorite barbershop to Rays with his father for a flat top haircut. It seems as though he and his father had a good relationship, during the walk to the barbershop, the two conversed just like normal, however, when they finally swung open the door and set foot inside the shop, things changed. His father became very self-conscious, tiptoeing around conversations making sure not to say the wrong thing, and using his son as a topic of conversation: “my father, stepping through Ray’s door, became someone else; how he suddenly treated me as an other, to be discussed as if not present” (194). Rickel describes that barbershop as “a world of men without women” (193). That means that women didn’t enter the shop and the men inside the shop rarely if ever acknowledged their existence. His father learned to keep mostly to himself, throwing a few words into the conversation now and again to avoid being noticed for not saying anything and therefore seeming awkward. Rickel didn’t particularly like...
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...Trey Trotter Laurie Walker ENGL 121---Winter 2015 T/R 12:30-1:45 16 February 2015 WC: 807 The Men of Color Degree Completion and Retention Plan has emerged a rather new, University-wide initiative designed to retain and graduate more first generation, low-income and culturally underrepresented men of color at EMU. The key component of this effort is the “BrotherHOOD Initiative”, where the “HOOD” stands for “Help Others Obtain Degrees”. This initiative is designed to engage and foster a stronger community for men of color at EMU. The BrotherHOOD aims for the brothers to interact with people from diverse backgrounds, graduate with a degree, and improve the conceptions of men of color. Through participation in the BrotherHOOD programs, the brothers will be able to develop and maintain healthy, mutually beneficial relationships. They will also be able to develop and articulate plans to achieve individual short and long-term academic, professional and personal goals. Gregory Thomas said “It’s crucial for our brothers to be able to communicate what they need effectively so we’ll be able to provide what they’ll need in a timely manner”. Gregory is the mentor and success coach of the brothers in the program, which is one of the many services that the program has to offer. Other services available to men of color who participate in this program include academic support, leadership development, intervention initiatives and campus awareness. Brandon Britt is involved with student...
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...of your education do you see as relevant to this position? 2. One test could be to have a volunteer customer to come in and receive a haircut and shave from the applicant. This would give the employer a good outlook on how the applicant would do with customers and display his or her skillsets. Another option could be to have the applicant cut, braid or fade a model mannequin head. This could be used if a volunteer customer was not available, and would again display the skillset of the applicant. 3. A current barber class would be best for employees to help him or her excel in the barber industry. The class could either be taken at a technical college or at the barbershop, with a teacher. It would consist of learning new styles and trends, also it could be used to relearn the techniques used in the barbershop. This would work best because trends are always changing and techniques can always be refreshed. 4. Two factors that would be best to evaluate in a barber would be active listening (giving full attention to what customers are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking appropriate questions, and not interrupting at inappropriate times) and social perceptiveness (being aware of others reactions and understanding why they react as they do). These factors would be evaluated by the BARS method, to compare the performance standards for...
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...For Pleasure Only Salon • Spa • Bar New Product/Service Development Plan Presented by: Christopher Amos Table of Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Complete Product/Service Description 3 3. Benefits that customers will both recognize and realize 3 4. Competitive Analysis 4 5. Market-research steps necessary to test the concept 6 6. Safety or Health concerns with the use of your innovations 10 7. Development Strategy 10 8. Launch Strategy and Considerations of using Strategic Alliances to get to market 11 9. References 12 Executive Summary For Pleasure Only is a 10,000 square foot modern day salon & spa that is located in the south loop of Chicago IL at 555 W Roosevelt Road, with plans on becoming the #1 leader in our industry in the Chicago land area. There are many salon & spa establishments in the area, but none provide the services that we offer in one convenient location. We will excel in this market because of the personal catering that we will provide to each client. We strive on providing the best customer service possible by exceeding all expectation of our clients. We will offer premium salon & spa products and services to our clients at affordable prices, in a professionally designed relaxing atmosphere. For Pleasure Only will operate 7 days a week with extended hours Thursday-Saturday. Business will be based on appointments and walk-ins. Degreed and licensed physicians...
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