SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT!!! Nicole and I were interviewed for The Hair Game Podcast last week, which is based out of Los Angeles. This ended up being so much fun and a super interesting conversation...   Salon Business Consultants David & Nicole Barnett @highperformancestylist went from hairstylists to salon owners, and have learned a ton along the way. They have taken their knowledge of salon business building and focused on helping other salon owners achieve more success.  This Week's Topics: • Getting into the salon business • Selling their salon and moving back to England for fa ..read more

Any way you cut it, the last 12 months has been an experience filled with lessons. Lessons about business, lessons about ourselves, lessons about government, lessons about medicine, lessons about human nature. I'm here to review and talk to you about the business lessons. It would be very easy to just dismiss the last year and just focus on moving on- "NEXT"! But, just like any event we organize or attend, the "gold" is in sitting down, once it's all said and done and reviewing what we have learned, where can we improve, the areas we did well and how we make it even better! There are many salo ..read more

If you've been considering "skipping" your Holiday Open House for your guests this year, let me suggest you reconsider. An open house is a party, so while it's all about celebration, bubbles & bites, it's also an opportunity for us to increase revenue, expand our client base and even set us up for a busy January and February. Any event that is related to or takes place in our business has to have a focus on making money or expanding our business. In this episode I give you three examples that will insure your guests and your team have lots of fun and a thoroughly enjoyable evening at your ..read more

Do you sometimes feel like the nagging parent because you seem to be always asking your team to post on social?! You know how important it is to post, they know how important it is to post but trying to get them to be consistent is an uphill battle! Social media is a part of being in business today, whether you are an owner or a stylist behind the chair. So in this episode I'm going to give you my strategy that will not only give your stylist all the ideas and content they need but also have maximum effect on growing their business. Take a listen..... Have a blessed day, David. Connect with th ..read more

Have you thought of selling your business? What is your salon really worth? How do you even put a price or value on it? Most people think of selling their business when they can no longer stand going into it!  This is the WRONG time to start thinking about selling it! You need a plan and you need enough time to execute this plan so you can maximise the price you deserve for your business. This is something I've had first hand experience with since I sold my salon 5 years ago and and was able to do it in a way that maximised the sale price and set me and my family up for our next adventure ..read more

It's usually me asking all the questions on The HPS Podcast, but today I want to share an interview that Nicole and I were asked to do for my friend, Dom Lehanes show, The How To Cut It Podcast. It was a refreshing change to have the shoe on the other foot as Dom asks us about the current state of the hair industry, some of the biggest challenges and of course can, "We Don't Do Saturdays" really work? Also, it's a rare chance to hear the thoughts and opinions of my wife and business partner Nicole. Take a listen... Have a blessed day, David. Connect with the High Performance Stylist Website:&n ..read more

I came across a fairly random post in one the hairdresser Facebook groups recently that caught my attention. It described how this stylist had managed to create his perfect lifestyle and balance between his career and personal life. He told a story about being able to cancel a full day of clients, reschedule them and take the day off to attend a festival, without a single complaint and received a bunch of flowers from one of them as a thank you!  Not only that..... but after wearing many different hats in the hair world, Luke Hopkins has managed to create a business where he works less ho ..read more

If you listened to Episode 96 of The High Performance Stylist Podcast, you heard me RAVE about the amazing experience I had buying a new pair of sneakers at Fleet Feet. Well, I couldn't stop without digging a little deeper into the training and pursuit of excellence that Fleet Feet clearly stand for in their company. My digging led me to todays guest. Alex Tallman is the Senior Manager of Retail Experience at Fleet Feet, which basically means he sets and maintains the standards for the experience I personally witnessed. This is the first time I've spoken to Alex so have a listen as I ask him a ..read more

It's the 100th EPISODE so you know it's going to be a BIG ONE. That's all I'm saying. Take a listen.... Have a blessed day, David. Connect with the High Performance Stylist Website: www.joinhps.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highperformancestylistcoaching      @highperformancestylistcoaching Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/highperformancestylist/ @highperformancestylist Email address: mailto:david@joinhps.com   ..read more

Ep99: This Could Change Your Business Forever.   Disruption is a word that gets thrown around a lot in business these days. ​ But over the last 30 years I've been in hairdressing I think there has only been 2 or 3 things that have truly disrupted the industry. ​ These have usually been products such as Keratin treatments and Olaplex that allows us a result we couldn't achieve before or it's been a technique that has never been seen before. ​ I believe that what I'm about to share with you has the power to disrupt our industry and it's not a product or a service. ​ This episode is a LIVE p ..read more