Ep. 223 • The Top 3 Problems Facing Salon Businesses Right Now w/ David & Nicole Barnett
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Salon Business Consultants David & Nicole Barnett @highperformancestylist went from hairstylists to salon owners, and have learned a ton along the way. They have taken their knowledge of salon business building and focused on helping other salon owners achieve more success.
This Week's Topics:
• Getting into the salon business
• Selling their salon and moving back to England for family
• Developing the different facets of their education
• Top 3 Problems facing salon businesses right now
- Recruiting & Retention: How do I find (and keep) quality people around me?
- Finances: Where is the money going?
- Standing Out: How can I make my salon unique from all the others?
• Not working Saturdays: changing the business model
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| 0:00.0 | The problem with that is, is that most salon owners, there's a false sense of security where I did 10,000 more this month than last month or 100,000 more this year than last year. |
| 0:10.1 | But their bank account doesn't look any different. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey, guys. My name's Charlie Gray. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Alison Alhammed. |
| 0:16.2 | Hi, I'm Erica Keelan. |
| 0:17.4 | It's Kia Artistically Neil. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Kimberly Taye Hare, and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So in the news, early indications about Omicron are that it is very |
| 0:32.1 | highly contagious as much as several times more contagious than Delta. However, it appears to be milder. The symptoms that people |
| 0:39.0 | are getting appear to be milder than the last two predominant strains. That is not to say that it is |
| 0:45.1 | safe, okay, because, well, for everyone, safe for everybody. Immunocompromise people, people with |
| 0:50.2 | comorbidities, older people, still at high risk. Okay. And it may very well be that, |
| 0:56.6 | you know, middle-aged people like me. I'm 45. I don't want to get it, right? Even if, |
| 1:02.0 | even if the symptoms are mild because it's just not a good thing to have. Pfizer's early results |
| 1:08.2 | are showing that the initial course of their vaccine plus the booster is highly effective in preventing severe outcomes against Omicron. |
| 1:15.7 | This is very good news. |
| 1:17.1 | Everybody was worried about it earlier and it seems like, you know, we're in pretty good shape. |
| 1:23.0 | The booster six months are after the initial vaccine increases antibodies by about 25 times, they're saying. |
| 1:31.4 | Okay. So that's very good news. Other news that is out there right now is inflation. In November, |
| 1:40.0 | I talked about how inflation has been increasing rapidly and I clocked in at 6.2% during the November report. |
| 1:48.9 | The way they do this is each report is a lagging report. |
| 1:53.3 | So when they announce numbers in November, they're talking about October. |
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