Life as a Business Owner

These days, most stylists have fewer appointments from day to day. There are indoor capacity limitations, spaced-out scheduling to promote social distancing and limit exposure to others, and clients who are still not going out for nonessential purposes. While there...

Affiliate programs for licensed cosmetologists offer opportunities to boost your income by recommending style products to your clients and social media connections via referral links and online stores. If you've built an email list and/or social media following for...

Hair stylists and other beauty, health, and wellness workers may be seeing fewer clients these days, but that certainly doesn't mean they can't still bring in a good living. Entrepreneurs in so many industries have been learning to pivot and adapt in these strange...

Beauty, health, and wellness entrepreneurs are finally getting back to work in some states! While there are effective ways to help clients feel more comfortable coming in, schedules still may not be filling up yet, and appointments should be a bit more spread out than...

The last few months have been stressful to most of us in unfamiliar ways. We're now at a point where we're trying to get the economy going again to restore people's income. Businesses like salons, studios, and spas have been given the green light to reopen here in...

These are crazy times. Now that salons, spas, and other beauty, health, and wellness businesses are starting to reopen, that helps ease the stress associated with the total loss of income of the mandatory coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Still, many clients aren't ready...

As many of you reopen your businesses in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, your health and that of all your clients is obviously a big concern. While hair salons, barbershops, and certain related businesses recently got the go-ahead to reopen here in Florida, we...

Getting through the COVID-19 outbreak as a salon owner is already a stressful challenge, and it's going to get worse before it gets better. In some places, salons, studios, and spas have been shut down by government mandate. Even if you're allowed to be open still,...

Many entrepreneurs in beauty, health, and wellness fields end up working long hours each day, and seven days a week. This isn't sustainable, though. Taking a day or two off every week is an essential part of maintaining your work-life balance—and your mental,...

For beauty, health, and wellness entrepreneurs and owners of salons, studios, and spas, the prospect of increasing prices can be daunting. There’s a big fear that you’ll anger and alienate clients—especially long-term ones who are accustomed to paying a certain amount...

If you’re an experienced stylists who’s been thinking about taking the entrepreneurial leap and opening up your own hair salon, you’re undoubtedly a little nervous about the prospect. Starting your own business is always scary… you’re leaving behind the security of an...

If you’re a beauty professional planning to open your own salon or studio, consider focusing on niche clientele with one or more of the many licensed cosmetologist specialties. By making a name for yourself and building a reputation in specialized services, your...

Running your own beauty, health, or wellness business is a dream come true, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t stressful. Being an entrepreneur on top of delivering stellar services to your clients makes a lot of demands on you physically, mentally, and emotionally. You...

Have you recently launched your own hair salon, spa, massage room, tattoo parlor, personal shopper studio, or similar enterprise? Or are you considering it? Becoming a beauty, health, or wellness entrepreneur is an amazing route, filled with independence, opportunity,...

When you’re running your own hair or beauty salon and serving clients, there’s enormous pressure on your schedule. Not only do you have to maximize your number of daily appointments to maximize your revenue—you also have to tend to the business side of things. And, on...

The entrepreneurial drive usually means you’re passionate about your work and prone to getting completely wrapped up in it. And there’s never any shortage of tasks needing your attention between clients when you run your own beauty or wellness business. Being your own...

It makes sense that you'd want to do everything you can to prevent no-shows for appointments at your salon, studio, or spa. When clients don't come in for their scheduled service, you often lose the revenue for those blocks of time, which you'd of course reserved for...

The entrepreneurial drive usually means you’re passionate about your work and prone to getting completely wrapped up in it. And there’s never any shortage of tasks needing your attention between clients when you run your own beauty or wellness business. Being your own...