Barbering Beyond the Traditional: Take Your Barbering Services to The Next Level In our opinion, one of the coolest things about being a barber is that you can be as creative as your heart pleases—and we’re not just talkin’ about how you fade hair, trim a beard, or style in your own wild way.Barbering gives you …
How to Interview Your Interviewer: What Barbers Should Ask at Interviews Interviews—they’re no one’s favorite thing in the world.(Well, maybe some people, but, c’mon, how many people really enjoy the painstaking interview process?)Preparing for an interview can be stressful. You need to look the part, you need to have your resume and references all lined up, …
Establishing & Maintaining Trust With Your Clients During COVID-19 With the chaos and uncertainty the COVID-19 pandemic brought us, we don’t blame you if you’re feeling a little anxious and a whole lot of nervous about this new normal everyone is dealing with. As barbers—you know, professionals who work hands-on with every one of their clients—it’s important …
Going Beyond the Basics: More Reasons You Need Barber Insurance Being a barber ain’t no walk in the park. Sure, you love your job, you get to be creative, and if you run your own shop, you get the added bonus of being your own boss. But while being a barber comes with a ton of …
Preparing Your Barbershop: What to Do If COVID-19 Mandates Another State Shutdown This year has been fraught with challenges, changes, and just plain terrible circumstances.We’re not in the business of feeling sorry for ourselves, but we are in the business of being realistic and transparent—and honestly, you guys, this year has been a lot. This pandemic …
Why Did You Become a Barber? Never Forget Your Why Drop the clippers, put down the straight razor, and step away from the chair—it’s time to some serious evaluation, and even though it’s all about barbering, we highly encourage you to step back and breathe before we ask you an important question.Got some space? Good. Now, …
Developing a barber business plan that accounts for what makes your barbershop unique–including location, target market, the services you offer, your competition, and more – is key to your success. Read on for the top considerations and tips that can help frame your business plan for opening a barber shop or expanding the one you already have.
HOW TO:Keep Your Clients Coming Back for More During COVID-19 It’s no secret that 2020 has been immensely challenging. Almost every industry has been affected and impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but arguably, customer service professions where hands-on, up-close-and-personal contact is required have been hit exceptionally hard,Unfortunately—as barbers—that means we have been hit exceptionally hard. …
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 …
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