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Uptown Hair Studio picked up another Sunshine Coast Excellence In Business Award for 2011. "People often say we are very lucky to have such a successful work place" Owner Rhonda Billett said. "But really the harder the team and I work, the luckier we get." This was the third year in a row win for the Uptown Team, confirming that they really are stars of their industry.
In August 2011 Rhonda went on an overseas business conference to Phuket to bring back some new and exciting concepts for the all Uptown patrons to enjoy. There were some great guest speakers including Tom Potter former Eagle Boys CEO talking about his new venture Crusty Devil Bakehouse as well as Steve Lundin writer of the bestselling book FISH, Mark McKeon Fitness and Team Building Coach at AFL team Collingwood and Li Cunix talking about his life and the movie the Mao's Last Dancer. Rhonda took away much inspiration from these speakers and will impliment some great stratagies from the conference over the coming 12 months to make your experience to Uptown the very best it can be.
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24hr Charity Challenge gets the teams heart rates pumping
Over $2000 was raised in the Jetts Gym 24hr Cardio fitness Challenge with all money raised going to "The Shack" shelter project in Nambour. Uptown Hair Studio did the 4am till 6am stint as part of the community challenge and got dressed up in their bright 80's outfits to add some fun and glamour into the event.
Well done team on the 100.5 km done by the girls on the Cardio machines.
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Guess who's has returned from Melbourne
Owner of Uptown Hair Studio Rhonda Billett along with her partner Neil Haire visited Melbourne to go on Deal or no Deal. As you can imagine the show was VERY HAIR orientated and host Andrew O'Keefe loved chatting to Rhonda about Uptown Hair Studio.
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UPTOWN HAIR STUDIO TURNS 10
Our extra special 10th Birthday celebrations
To Celebrate such a milestone in the history of Uptown Hair Studio we went back in our archives to 1999 and found 40 customers remain with us from the month Uptown Hair Studio started. As a treat we invited those customers to an evening of fun, food and Uptown glamor-
We arranged for a super stretach 11 seater limousine to pick these customers up and bring them to the studio where they took part in a special group photo shoot for the Sunshine Coast Daily out the front of the hair studio. Then were treated to glasses of bubbly, canapes, a walk down memory lane slide show, 3 course dinner and taken home again by limousine.
We want to take this opportunity to thank all our Uptown Hair Studio loyal patrons..
We continue to be a successful business in Nambour- so thank you.
They're my Uptown girls10th Birthday for Uptown Hair Studio-
Sunshine Coast Daily Newspaper Artical-
Photo: Cade Mooney/183479A
Uptown Hair Studio celebrates 10 year in business.Nambour business owner has gone to extraordinary lengths to reward her customers' loyalty.Three days ago, Rhonda Billett celebrated the 10th birthday of her Uptown Hair Studio.There was cake and champagne, a limousine, a nice dinner out at a restaurant, a DVD showing of photos from the good old days and lots of reminiscing about the past.The unusual thing was that Rhonda decided to invite the customers who were there on day one, and who are still there, along for the party.“They were all so excited, especially about getting picked up in a limo because some of them have never been in one before,” she said.“There were about 40 people in the group and we would have had more but not everybody could come.”She said she thought of her customers as family.“Some of them have known me since I was an apprentice and some of them have been married and divorced in that time,” she said.“Anybody who is in business has to look after their customers.“If you are serious, and you are grateful, you need to over-extend yourself.“I am giving every client who comes in during the month of July a sample bag, and that's lovely, but these people have been with us since 1999 and this is a way of saying thank you.“I think it's what they deserve. They've invested in us and we need to invest in them.“It's only fair.“It might put me out of pocket, but so what?“Those people have been with me for 10 years...think about how much they've put in the business's pocket.”Rhonda said she did not realise what she was letting herself in for when she bought the business in 1999, at the age of 21, when her previous employer Stefan closed his Nambour Plaza store.“I threw myself in the deep end and started swimming as hard as I could,” she said.“My father helped me a lot and I went to a lot of hairdressing business seminars because a lot of hairdressers just pay themselves a wage and neglect the fact that their business needs to be profitable and certain KPI standards met.”She said February and March this year showed strong turnover and the salon was doing better each month compared to last year.Among the highlights of the past decade were awards in government training schemes and the Sunshine Coast Excellence in Business Awards, she said.“These people have been with us since 1999 and this is a way of saying thank you. I think it's what they deserve. They've invested in us and we need to invest in them.”
