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 …
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 …
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 National …
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