these are the highlights of the full episode hey everybody donovan here producer of the hair game

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All right, on to our episode with Jennifer Alvarez.

So talk to the independent beauty professional.

What are most doing wrong from a business standpoint?

Well, what I could, and this feels so stereotypical of a response, because some people do it very well.

And to each their own as far as what works for you, these are just business models, right?

Booth, rent, salon suite, freelancer, commission salon owner.

They're just different business models of how we gather cash or how we trade time. So what I do see

either a salon suite or booth renter because I do find that they're very in similar categories

is that there's

not a strategy around recording, measuring and tracking, around marketing and what you are actually

doing in the service room, treatment room or behind the chair. We're just going through the motions.

And then what I find is that, and it's interesting now,

because now at my salon, we're getting a lot of people applying who work for themselves.

They're salon suite owners or they got something going out of their house or their booth renting.

But the common thing that I'm finding is that they're struggling

with building their business because they have taken their foot off the gas because they're

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