Ep. 158 • Salon Ownership, Explained w/ @victorval
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Part 2 of our discussion w/ @victorval. He gives us helpful advice regarding salon ownership; the startup & day-to-day, as well as handling retail & e-commerce.
SHOW NOTES:
• Starting Kut Haus Claremont – What should it be? Growing his salons by growing people
• The changes in California affecting work status at his salon
• Advice for a stylist wanting to open a storefront salon & team: The pitfalls of ownership
• E-commerce and retail: How he handles it
• What needs to change with hair school training and classes
• His hair horror story
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| 0:00.0 | It's super rare, super rare that I ever meet a salon owner that has done a cost analysis on the business. |
| 0:09.5 | Number two, done a projection on profitability. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi, I'm Neil Malick. |
| 0:15.5 | Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. |
| 0:16.7 | Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association. |
| 0:19.1 | Hi, I'm Philip Wolfe, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:26.4 | So San Francisco County still closed for salons, despite the Nancy Pelosi thing that happened about a week and a half ago. |
| 0:36.1 | L.A. County has opened, San Diego County opened immediately |
| 0:40.0 | after the state released. |
| 0:41.6 | Ventura County opened immediately after the state released. |
| 0:44.3 | Couple weeks ago, LA County finally opened. |
| 0:47.3 | However, LA County decided to impose a capacity restriction, |
| 0:51.7 | the only county in the state to impose a capacity restriction, the only county in the state to impose a capacity restriction of 25%. |
| 0:59.8 | I was just on a call with the LA County health officers and they were asked about the capacity |
| 1:06.1 | restriction and it was blatantly obvious that they didn't really understand why they imposed a capacity restriction. |
| 1:16.6 | There is no specific data in science that they're using. |
| 1:20.6 | It seemed like they are most concerned with the appearance that they are being thoughtful and the appearance that they are being safe |
| 1:29.4 | versus actually looking at what is safe. So that's highly frustrating. They were unable to even |
| 1:37.2 | define what the capacity restriction was. And the main person on the line, the doctor, I forgot his name, said that the main concern, |
| 1:49.7 | or at least the main fundamental thing in his mind was social distancing. If you can social |
| 1:56.1 | distance from somebody next to you, that was his best answer. And of course, you listen to this and you think, |
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