Ep. 290 • How 'Project' Clients Can Fill Your Books Quickly w/ Nicki Bianco
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
@nickiwildflower took a leap and started her own business in a salon studio. After rapid growth of her clientele, she realized her speed & efficiency was part of her popularity. She shares with us how she reframed this into a luxury perk for her clients and developed a coaching and consultation business to help other hairdressers do the same.
This Week's Topics:
• Finding hair in NY as an apprentice
• Starting her own business in salon studio
• How she started to establish client & personal boundaries
• Value-Based Pricing vs. Hourly-Based Pricing
• Slice Squad: her coaching and consulting program
• Running a business vs. Doing it 'for the love of hair'
• Her recommendations for automating your business
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, so it's like you kind of have to just reframe and start looking as at efficiency, as more of a luxury and not less of. Hey, what's up? It's you boy, Garrett Dixon. This is Crystal Chaos. Hey, it's Josh Skinner. Hey, this is Schmeggen Bacon. Hey, everyone. This is Sharon Spellman. And you are listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:25.7 | If you're in California, hopefully you're staying dry. |
| 0:27.1 | It continues to rain out here. |
| 0:30.8 | I think we're actually going to get rain again this upcoming week. |
| 0:33.8 | But it's chipping away at our drought. |
| 0:36.1 | So that is the other side of that. That is the silver lining of the rain cloud. |
| 0:39.5 | We have video versions of our episodes now on the YouTube channel for you to watch. |
| 0:45.9 | Subscribe for free to the channel, The Hair Game on YouTube and check out the Hair Game |
| 0:51.8 | podcast playlist. We already have nearly 20 videos from |
| 0:56.2 | previous episodes over the years. Also coming up soon, other than the rain, this upcoming weekend. |
| 1:03.4 | Premier Anaheim lands for the first time in Southern California. This is the new version of the old ISSE. So it'll be |
| 1:13.7 | exciting to see how the show changes from what we've all kind of become accustomed to with |
| 1:20.0 | ISSE. Be sure to check that out. I'm going to be there. The PBF is going to be there, |
| 1:25.6 | be there Professional Beauty Federation, of which I am chair, is going to be there, be their professional beauty federation, of which I am chair, |
| 1:29.3 | is going to be there. They're going to have a booth and we're going to be giving away information |
| 1:34.0 | on how to get stimulus money. I don't know if you guys know, I haven't been mentioning it much, |
| 1:39.8 | but there's still stimulus money. It's almost, it feels like a relic of the COVID past, but there's |
| 1:46.4 | still, um, stimulus money for small, uh, beauty professional, small businesses out there. |
| 1:52.7 | The PBF has been leading the charge on helping beauty professionals actually find this money. |
| 1:58.5 | And it's the real deal. So if you're there, |
| 2:02.6 | check out the PBF's station or booth. And Fred Jones is going to be there and hopefully I |
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