career advice

What If You Came With Operating Instructions?

What would you list as the things that make you tick or that tick you off?

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The 500 Business Card Challenge for 2018

This is an old school marketing idea that will never alter, never go out of style and never be replaced with anything that will ever work better.

Top 5 Rules of Client Retention

A new client, whether a walk-in or a referral, is a nugget of gold. How do you craft this nugget into a thing of beauty?

Finding the Balance Between Free Family Haircuts and Setting Limits

How have you decided to manage free haircuts for family members? How are you seeing to it that you can take care of family and yet not be abused?

8 Ways to Keep Salon Employees Happy

When you are happy where you work, daily challenges are easier to bear. In a business where profit hinges on great customer service delivery, salon owners need to shoot for happy employees.

Salon Secret Systems: New Coaching Program from Celebrity Colorist Jennifer J.

"There is so much to know about this business and most of it can all be sorted out by knowing exactly how to talk to their client and to be able to acknowledge their own worth as a hairdresser."

9 Ways to Make a Positive First Impression & Excel at In-Person Branding

You only have one chance at a first impression. Cool Beauty Consulting shows how to make it a good one.

How to Put Your Barbershop Out of Business

Running a barbershop is fairly easy.  Killing a barber business is even easier.  Here are my top five tips to run your barbershop business out of business.

What is it like to be a Stylist at a Blow Dry Bar?

In this Q&A, we chat with Blo to learn more about blow dry bars and get a glimpse into the everyday life of a stylist who works at one.

Looking for Direction in Life and Career? Attend the Straight-Up Workshop

The Straight Up workshops use new personal development and business-building methods to help you create the life you want to live.