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Overcoming Burnout --- Regain Your passion   Building and growing a hairdressing career or owning a salon/spa can be daunting. Balancing your personal, professional, and financial development can cause a series of peaks and balances. In trying to seek a better life for ourselves and our families, we sometimes run into roadblocks or just suffer from burnout from time to time. Everyone from time to time will meet the challenges of overcoming burnout. Some handle this temporary challenge better than others. The following guidelines will [Click here to read full article...]

 Does Owning a Salon/Spa Get You Down? The daily pressures of owning your own business, balancing your personal life, and raising your standard of living can be daunting especially in today’s tough economy. Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Do you find it difficult to find and keep good help? Have you defined your purpose in life? Do you manage your business, instead of your business managing you? Are salon profits rising? Do you manage your team, or do they manage you? These are just some [Click here to read full article...]

                                 It Is Time for Educational Reform.   As we near the end of this destructive pandemic, now is the time to reform our outdated educational system to better meet the growing job market and consumer demands. Business practices that may have worked in the past are over. Our profession will never be the same. It’s time for new ideas, new concepts, and innovation.   If we are to rebuild our business and career, raise the standard of living for hairdressers, and improve salon profits [Click here to read full article...]

Attention Hairdressers! Are you ready to be a Peak Performer and want to maximize Your Full Learning and Earning Potential?   Discover the Success Secrets Every Stylist Needs to Know! Be Among the 5% who stands above the crowd! Do you want to Learn How to Greatly Increase Your Income? Do you want to attract an upscale clientele? Do you want to learn how to promote your skills using social Media?   You can avoid a trial and error approach to building a successful career [Click here to read full article...]

Compensation Guidelines for Salon Owners and Hairdressers   I’ve been lucky to have traveled throughout the US and Canada meetin thousands of salon owners, managers, as well as hairdressers and educators.  Many times, I’ve been asked about compensation.  Suffice it to say, there can be a large gap between the opinions of salon owners and managers, and the hairdressers that work for them. In this article, I’d like to attempt to bridge the gap between salon staff and management and offer a few tips to [Click here to read full article...]

Special Message to all our Loyal Customers: Here is a sample letter you should send all your customer by staying in touch with your customers as you get ready to reopen your salons when this pandemic is over soon. Feel free to edit and add your salon's name. get your message out via youtube or your social media resources.   As the owner of Chez Jon Hair Salon and our artistic team, we wanted to let you know that we are thinking of you and [Click here to read full article...]

Staff Retention Identifying and Avoiding the Causes of Staff Turnover No salon can maintain continued growth and profitability with a constant merry go round of staff instability and turnover. The following guidelines will help you address this very critical business challenge. Salon Owners Avoid These Pitfalls Poor Hiring Decisions --- is one of the leading causes of staff turnover and internal salon challenges facing salon owners? Make sure you develop your staff development program to minimize making hiring mistakes. My book Creating Your Salon [Click here to read full article...]

An Invitation to attend my Business Only Seminar. By Jon Gonzales Hello, my name is Jon Gonzales President and founder of Hairdresser Career Development Systems. Thank you for visiting my new education only web site. I want to share my 43 years as the former owner of 3 of the top salons in southern California and 10 years as an educator, business consultant, author, blogger, and mentor to young talent who have chosen hairdressing as a career, and yes it is a career. As I [Click here to read full article...]

                                       How to Rebuild Your Business after the Corona Virus The first thing you need to do is stay healthy, safe, and positive. Follow the instructions at Corona Virus.com. You will find all the answers you need to stay safe and healthy. This Virus will end. Most of us are confined to our homes due to the closings of our salons. Use this valuable time to reflect on 2019-2020 before the virus hit us. The way you operated your business in the past is now [Click here to read full article...]

A Special Message: By now you know most people throughout the U.S. and the world are concerned about the spread of the Corona Virus and how it’s affecting our families, our business, our health, and personal wellbeing. We will get over this crisis, don’t worry or panic, just use common sense. And stay positive. There is plenty of advice on how to protect yourself and your family available. Type in CDC or Corona -19 for information on how you can prevent this disease. Sadly all [Click here to read full article...]

Salon Owners Are Not Greedy   There seems to be a growing contempt, misunderstanding, and jealousy towards pharmaceuticals, oil companies, financial institutions, Wall Street, rich people, or anybody who is successful, and surprisingly salon owners throughout the United States. I was recently reading some chat rooms comments where hairdressers were commenting on their salons and owners. I was alarmed by the degree of animosity, misunderstandings, and negative attitudes towards salon owners and managers towards their efforts to grow their business and improve profits. Some of [Click here to read full article...]

A Message to all Beauty school Students: "When you develop a passion towards education and self improvement,your possibilities are endless." Jon Gonzales Congratulations on choosing hairdressing as your chosen profession. I do hope the following information will help guide you as you start your journey towards reaching your goals and aspirations. You have the potential to be as successful as you want to be provided you know what it takes and have what it takes. When you accept and take full responsibility for your success [Click here to read full article...]

"Some of the best lessons we ever learned , we learned from our mistakes and failures."   It’s no secret that salon owners are facing many challenges. Lack of business management skills is one of the leading causes of salon failures. Sadly many salons will fail because far too many salon owners are in denial and will not adapt to change because it will require new thinking, effort, and a lot of hard work. It is much easier to stay in their comfort zone, Rather [Click here to read full article...]

Tough Love By Jon Gonzales Hello, my name is Jon Gonzales President and founder of Hairdresser career development Systems. I want to extend an invitation to attend my 2-day business only seminar in November in Las Vegas. Thank you for visiting my new education only web site. Click here to view the benefits of attending. I want to share my 43 years as owner of 4 of the top salons in southern California and 10 years as an educator, business consultant, and mentor to young [Click here to read full article...]