Ep. 153 • Robert Cromeans On the Second Shutdown & Advice to Help You Through It
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Robert Cromeans is an industry legend and has seen many trends come and go, but nothing like our current situation. He shares his thoughts on the second shutdown in CA & advice to help you through it. We also get into how to raise your prices and improve your client experience.
Show Notes:
• People in dire straits & working together as an industry
• tenant / landlord issues during covid
• adjusting your prices in the new normal
• adjusting work models to the current situation
• Focusing on making your service better
• What a hairdresser can do now to promote reopening of CA salons & do during downtime
• His London hair show & the BLM movt
• His thoughts on the future of hair shows
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| 0:00.0 | You know, State Board, my wife gave me a great understanding this morning. They're not designed to protect us. |
| 0:04.9 | They're designed to protect the consumer. So forget about State Board on this. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, this is Naima LaFond. It's Alfredo Lewis. This is Amanda Libergert. This is Victor Valverty. |
| 0:15.3 | It's Robert Kromins here. Thank you for listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey, listener. I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:21.6 | It is week five of the second California shutdown order. |
| 0:25.6 | I went to the dentist yesterday and I laid mouth wide open as the dental tech manually cleaned my teeth with her hands from a foot away. |
| 0:35.6 | Saliva spraying everywhere. She was wearing a mask, she was |
| 0:39.6 | wearing a face shield, she was wearing gloves. Same as hair dressers, except hair clients have |
| 0:45.8 | to wear masks too and when you're getting your hair cut, no saliva is spraying around the room. |
| 0:51.3 | Have there been any reports of any COVID spread resulting from Dennis' offices? |
| 0:58.0 | I haven't seen any, but it's got to be more dangerous getting your teeth cleaned than getting your hair cut from the standpoint of cross infection. |
| 1:09.0 | Yet salons are shut down and dentist's offices aren't. It just doesn't make |
| 1:14.7 | any sense. I then went to a restaurant and I sat outside watching groups of people sitting and laughing |
| 1:20.7 | very closely together, all maskless. As I'm sitting there, I watch an Instagram story of one of my babysitters hanging in a friend's |
| 1:29.8 | house with countless other 20-somethings, all maskless. |
| 1:34.2 | We in the salon industry were closer to a hospital than most businesses that are allowed |
| 1:39.8 | to operate. |
| 1:41.0 | Yet salons are closed in California. |
| 1:44.0 | No other state in the United States has closed |
| 1:46.7 | salons. Newsom is the only governor who thinks that salons are more likely to spread the virus |
| 1:53.6 | than these other examples that are clearly more risky and rampant. It's just not right. |
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