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Entrepreneur Stories 4โƒฃ Inspiration

078: Should You Franchise? How Snip-its founder Joanna Meiseles grew her brand Nationally.

Entrepreneur Stories 4โƒฃ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.7 โ€ข 2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 1 January 2021

โฑ๏ธ 54 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Meiseles saw the need for a hair salon focusing on children and launched Snip-its in Boston, MA in 1995. As Founder and CEO of Snip-its, Ms. Meiseles ran five company locations, then franchised the concept in 2004 and grew the brand over a ten-year period. Under Ms. Meiselesโ€™ leadership, Snip-its received numerous awards including the Franchise Timesโ€™ fastest 55 growth brands, and the Entrepreneur Top 500. Ms. Meiseles was twice a finalist for Ernst & Youngโ€™s Entrepreneur of the Year award. Today, Snip-its franchise owners operate 65 locations in 22 states. Want to Support the Show? Well join our Patreon Group! What's in it for you? Here's just a few of the perks of joining: (1) Instantly Schedule a Call with Austin - where he'll help you with your current or future business... (2) Discounted Pricing for Our Business Masterminds - where you can connect with other listeners... (3) Get Listed in Our Business Directory - for valuable SEO Juice... & so much more... Before Prices Increase... Sign-Up Now at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜ *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions (below is a preview of the Q&A) on this episode visit our website: Joanna Meiseles Interview. *** Support this Podcast via Patreon Fabulous 4 Questions (answered by Joanna Meiseles) ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“š Favorite Book(s)? The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ˜Ž Favorite Amazon.com purchase? Yoga pants ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’ธ Favorite Tool that's GROWN your Business? Gmail ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ’ก BIGGEST Challenge keeping your Business from GROWING? Marketing More Tools & Information on this interview and others can be found on our website: Millionaire Interviews Podcast.

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0:00.0

I agree. It's all in the mindset. Yeah. Being positive or negative. So yeah,

0:04.1

appreciating. Yeah, you take in the business interview and a couple of steps further,

0:07.4

hopefully with mindset that people understand that and think positively and live in the present

0:11.4

to enjoy those things. I mean, I wish I would have started the interview with that because that

0:15.6

is the most important thing. Hey, well, we make an intro for a reason.

0:19.1

I had to sign a personal guarantee. I had to basically like offer them up my first child.

0:32.0

In order to be successful in franchising, I think that the franchise or needs to.

0:40.8

Like, I was warned. I've got the advice. I got the warning. I said, no, that won't happen. You'll

0:46.9

see snippets is different. And guess what? The first sunny Saturday, no one showed up for work.

0:56.1

Hi, my name is Joanna Myceles. I am the founder of snippets, a chain of hair salons for kids.

1:02.3

And most recently, I opened a yoga studio in Palo Alto, California. So this is my new venture

1:08.5

that I'm now working on. You said snippets. Is that nationwide? Because I know I definitely

1:12.6

see a lot of them around here in Florida. Yeah. So they're spread out a little bit. We have 70 locations

1:17.8

currently. And they're not clustered into any one specific geography. We've got quite a few in

1:22.9

Texas. We've got some in California, a pretty decent group in Massachusetts and a few other states

1:30.1

all across the US. Out of school, did you just start opening, doing and becoming a hair cutter

1:35.0

or did you start getting into snippets if you don't mind? Yeah. So I'm actually not a hairdresser at all.

1:40.5

I came up with the idea, if you could bear with me, I'll tell you a quick story. I was a young mom.

1:46.5

I think it was 26 years old. And I had one child and a second on the way. I had moved from

1:53.2

California to Massachusetts. Didn't have any family in Massachusetts. So when my son was ready for

1:58.3

his first haircut, it was kind of like a big deal, kind of like a little bar mitzvah, you know,

2:02.5

mini celebration for his first haircut. I had let his hair grow pretty long. I didn't really know

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