SALONsense and Dollars:The salon professionals channel

The best resource for owners, stylists,and renters to grow and strengthen their business and support for that growth.

Listen on:

Beauty Business topics ranging from STARTUPS and FINANCE to WELL-ESTABLISHED and THRIVING....

Why SALONsense and dollars??

If it doesn't make sense, it can't make dollars.......

Eddie and Christine are active owners of Beauty business'.

We are from totally different backgrounds. We connected through Social Media and discuss between ourselves a wide range of business pitfalls and explore strategies for success in the beauty industry and invite experts to chime in. Our goal is to create a better understanding and vision of how we can continue to grow our industry and business' forward. We think beauty owners with a curiosity for excellence and healthy sense of humor can benefit from joining the conversation while we take a deep dive into topics that:

Discover new and returning trends.

Explore Leadership Styles and the "Why's" behind healthy Business Practices.

Encourages Team Loyalty that lasts DECADES.

Establish Financial Confidence.

Improve Client Experiences, and Quality of work/home life.

Increase Business Ownership Intelligence, and Critical Thinking.

Episodes

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

Employee Metric Benchmarking

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

Christine Quizzes Eddie on how employee benchmarking relates to everyday behaviors, metrics such as retention and retail are discussed and how leaders can coach for less than favorable results.

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

Business Benchmarking

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

Christine and Eddie discuss benchmarking of the PNL and how it applies to daily operations

Monday Apr 08, 2024

Leadership styles

Monday Apr 08, 2024

Eddie and Christine discuss different approaches to leadership and the benefits of Servant leadership

Friday Jan 26, 2024

1099 "employees"

Friday Jan 26, 2024

Eddie and Christine discuss the 1099 tax form and why it doesn't classify an employee in the Beauty industry.

Friday Jan 26, 2024

Employees V. Booth Rent

Friday Jan 26, 2024

Every Beauty business owner has to decide how they want their business to compensate their team, but they might not know which is the best fit for them. Explore the topic with us, we cover all the bases and why each have their own challenges and opportunities.

Friday Jan 26, 2024

Business Identity

Friday Jan 26, 2024

Eddie and Christine discuss the importance of identifiying why it is important to constantly remember why business owners take that plunge, and using your identity as a daily affirmation to stay inspired and on the right track

Monday Jan 15, 2024

introductions

Monday Jan 15, 2024

Christine and Eddie introduce themselves and their backgrounds.

Christine has owned and operated within her Thriving business for 20 years, been a licensed nail tech and esthetician for almost 30 years. Before starting her business, Christine had a successful career in accounting and business management, educated at Northeastern and UMASS studying mathematics, finance and management. As someone who has been around the industry her entire life, and starting her business, Christine found a way to merge her passion for beauty, education, and service and embrace a practical way to help people.

Christine has worked within the service industry and retail for over 35 years and really learned how to develop and grow in that industry.

Additionally she was one of the founding members of Aveda Lifeline group. This group gave data and information to Aveda so they could help other salons to understand their businesses in a general sense. In that time she worked with salons on a one on one basis with issues with understanding payroll, build out guidance, retail support, and many other topics. She discovered the passion for pushing salon owners to feel more empowered by helping them feeling more confident in topics that they felt weaker in.

Christine has also worked to become a Davines retail science lab and treatment lab certified educator helping salons increase retail by 30%

Eddie left a career in Business Management that spanned 18 years, to become the active partner along side his wife, Garan. She has been in the industry for over 12 years and triple licensed for 7 years. Garan has operated within their business as a manager, and Operator since opening in 2021. Eddie and Garan started their business with no debt and Eddie has utilized his passion for carpentry to build all the wooden salon interior elements including styling stations, wall shelving, and decor. Eddie manages and performs the administrative duties, accounting, budgeting, and he is self-taught in marketing and advertisement, analytics, financial forecasting, website design and implementation.