Work Share to the Rescue for Employee Based Salons During Slow Periods
First off, I wish I had found this program years ago! Apparently, it has been around since the 1980's. In the past, I was forced to put away nearly $25,000 each year to help carry and pay my employees through our slow season of January - March. It was also the time...
How Jenna Recovered from the Trauma of 3 Salon Walkouts
Jenna Bowden of Crown Extension Studio, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who survived not 1, not 2, but 3 walkouts in 4 years and finally speaks up about the trauma salon walkouts cause and why she needed to recover from it to move on to be the person she is today!
Are you ready to find your perfect Talentmatch with Stefanie Fox?
I find it really interesting that the walkout culture that salons have experienced for many years has made its way into mainstream businesses and suddenly every news program I turn on is talking about, "The Great Resignation." Again, reinforcing that this is not a...
Ginger joins the walkout club. Her genius comeback plans.
Ginger messaged me on Facebook, “I’ve had my first walkout.” I said well, welcome to the club! I was shocked actually but tried to make her not feel alone. Walkouts are a very lonely place. You may remember her from our story last February at...
Radical Candor and Finally the Answer about Walkouts I’ve Been Searching For
I’ve been listening to the book Radical Candor, by Kim Scott, and wow, Chapter 6 - Guidance, nailed it. Finally, the answer to why walkouts occur and the BIG WHY for me and many other salon owners. Why do the people who walk out most often try to discredit and destroy...
Why Patty Chose to Return to the Salon and Why Make Me Fab
We chatted with our new employee Patty Bassett of Patty Bassett Hair Design and had a heart to heart about why she wanted to join a team-based salon before hiring her right after the pandemic shutdown occurred. We wanted Patty to share her WHY with us, before hiring...
Get Glowing: With Makeup Artist Alayne Curtiss’ Beauty Box
Originally posted by TheScoopSaratoga.com "This week I got a chance to visit Make Me Fab Salon and Spa in Saratoga Springs, NY, and chat with makeup artist and owner Alayne Curtiss. I had originally asked Alayne to give us some simple tips that we could use at home...
From Walkout Culture to Compassion and Respect Culture
We are almost 3 years out from the start of my last big walkout, big is an understatement, huge actually. I had just returned from the hospital with my daughter who has Crohn's Disease, running multiple tests to try to manage her disease and her pain. The emails and...
10 Tips To Help You Do Your Own Makeup On Your Wedding Day
There are many reasons why a bride may decide to do her own makeup on the wedding day. Your makeup artist cancels at the last minute. You’re just not comfortable with other people touching your face. You don't like any of the looks that artists tried on you. You...
How Claudia Cordova Rucker is Taking Her Spa Ownership Experience to the Mental Health Field
I met Claudia Cordova Rucker several years ago at a business development class for salon and spa owners. Owners who were struggling. Owners who had gotten into this industry, who were smart, capable, caring, hard working, but barely getting by! We were trying to...