COVID-19 & Your Shop: How to Keep Your Client Connections Alive Virtually COVID-19 has unraveled all of our lives in a lot of obvious ways—financially, physically, emotionally, etc. But this pandemic—and the subsequent shutdowns, isolation, and quarantining—has also thrown another unique curveball at us that not all of us could have initially assumed—client connection. We don’t …
A Guide for Evaluating Your Shop to Ensure Post COVID-19 Success Let’s just be real with each other for a second and stop worrying about keeping up brave faces for a moment—the global pandemic absolutely sucks.Yeah, we’re a professional barbering liability company and we’re saying it this bluntly—the global pandemic sucks. It sucks that so …
The Top 6 Features Every Professional Barber’s Website Needs You’re a hip, savvy businessperson who just so happens to be a badass barber living in our modern world—all that to say, we probably don’t have to sit you down and tell you how important having a website is in 2020.But here’s the thing about websites, …
Raising Your Prices in Your Shop? Yay or Nay? We’re all about to do something we have been absolutely dreaming of for weeks, maybe even months—step back into the barbershops that the COVID-19 pandemic stole from us.If you’re a barber, a shop owner, a manager, or play any important role in your barbershop, then you …
Expert Content SeriesFeat. Dan Perri What’s up guys? My name is Dan Perri, I am an LA based Hairdresser (specializing men’s grooming, barbering), as well as a BabyLiss PRO Barberology Educator.As a freelance groomer attending an A-list clientele and traveling around the world sharing my knowledge, (which has been a dream come true), I would …
HOW TO: Create a Positive Environment In Your Shop During COVID-19 If you read the title of this blog and immediately laughed to yourself while thinking something like, “yeah, that’s hilarious guys, a ‘positive environment’ during a pandemic,” know that we’re not offended and that we don’t blame you.Sometimes, the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic gets …
How to Maintain Work-Life Balance in Your Shop: 4 Tips to Consider Don’t get us wrong, we love the #hustle—and honestly, when it comes to running a barbershop, you kind of have to love the hustle life, too (mostly because there’s no time or space to not hustle). But that doesn’t mean we don’t absolutely, …
The NAOB Details You Need to Know About: A Quick Policy Summary If you read that headline about insurance policies and thought —or (gasp!) maybe even said out loud while rolling your eyes—something like “policy schmolicy, everyone knows that every insurance policy is the same” then friend, do we have some news for you.At the …
Preparing For Your Return to the Shop: What You Need to Know Guys, this is not a drill—it’s finally happening.The shop doors are finally going to be able to legally open again and we can return to work to do what we love best—being badass barbers. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, but we’re finally able to …
How to Prepare For Your Return to the Shop Everything You Need to Know about Preparing Mentally, Financially, and More Let’s just come right out and say it—going back to the shop after all of this pandemic mess is going to be weird AF. There, we said it plain as day so you don’t have to. …
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