Lessons Learned: Seasoned Stylists Share Advice for Newbies
When you’re starting out as a new stylist—or in any career—it’s difficult to know what you don’t know. And while you may have gone to a top-notch cosmetology school and learned from the best educators, there are still many things you must learn on the job from your peers, managers and salon owner. We asked [...]
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The Power of the Written Goal
Before Jessica Martindale, stylist at Insignia Hair and Body Studio in Nottingham, Maryland went through the Qnity program in 2015, she was struggling with a bad habit—tardiness. Chronically late to work, she would scramble around to get organized when she got to the salon, barely ready for her first client every morning. When her boss
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20% Growth by Focusing on a Single Goal
Rickey Barcheers has been a stylist for 10 years, and has worked at Brieshi Salon and Spa in Rogers, Arkansas since 2008. As the salon’s coach/educator, he knows the importance of continuous growth through improving his numbers. About 14 months ago, he became even more in tune with evaluating and analyzing his client stats when [...]
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A Simple Tool for Immediate Impact
As an ambassador for Qnity, part of Kat Fischer’s responsibilities as a stylist at Planet Labs in Denver, Colorado is to help her co-workers grow their numbers and identify their weak spots. Recently, a fellow stylist, Caitlin, was having problems hitting her retail numbers. She became frustrated when her manager told her she was not [...]
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Teaching Stylists to Love their Goals
When Kacy Reynolds embarked on her career as a stylist at Paris Parker, she happened to start as the rest of the company was finishing up the Qnity program, a system to help stylists understand and track their numbers. But Reynolds didn’t let that stop her. She studied the Qnity tips on her own and ended up doing a crash course with one of the Qnity educators.
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