HIGHLIGHTS • The Good, Bad, & Ugly of Opening a Salon w/ Ash Fortis
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We've taken clips highlighting some of the topics discussed in the full episode and put them together here! Check it out if you want a bite-sized version of the full episode.
Ash Fortis @xostylistxo continues her story this week about her battle with her publisher in getting her book made, as well as the great (and NOT so great) things about building your own salon.
This Week's Topics:
• Issues with the publisher creating the book
• The complete process of designing & building a salon
• Her most difficult conversation with a client
You can find Ash's book on Amazon by clicking here:
https://tinyurl.com/AshFortis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:09.6 | So I-S-S-C Long Beach was last weekend, and I and the Hair Game podcast team were there in full force. |
| 0:16.2 | We had two panels, one about how technology can help you succeed as an independent beauty professional. |
| 0:23.1 | And the other, just generally how to succeed as an independent beauty professional. |
| 0:28.1 | We had amazing panelists for both. |
| 0:30.3 | We had a great turnout for both. |
| 0:32.8 | And I couldn't even get through all my questions. |
| 0:35.6 | So we're going to have those episodes coming up. |
| 0:39.6 | You guys are going to love them. If the audience's reaction and questions were any indication, |
| 0:44.7 | I know you guys, the podcast audience, are going to love these episodes. So the show itself was, |
| 0:53.0 | I actually loved the fact that there were fewer people there. |
| 0:57.0 | I think everybody suspected that there would be fewer people there given the fact that |
| 1:01.0 | ISSC canceled, you know, ISSC Long Beach is normally in January. |
| 1:06.6 | And we had the Omicron spike leading up to January of this year, 2022. |
| 1:12.9 | So the PBA who puts on ISSE decided to cancel it for January and then reschedule it for the |
| 1:22.0 | middle of June. |
| 1:24.5 | Just so happens that they booked it at the same time that IBS Las Vegas was going on. |
| 1:31.3 | So a lot of the brands who had committed to IBS Las Vegas were like, well, I'm not going to do two, or I can't do two shows on the same weekend. |
| 1:41.3 | So some of the brands were out there. It was a smaller show and a smaller |
| 1:46.4 | turnout. I actually appreciated that more because you could walk around the aisles of the show |
| 1:52.9 | without getting run over and you could walk up to any booth and talk to anybody who was, you |
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