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...]

A Special Message :from Jon Gonzales By now most 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 family available. Follow cdc.gov guideline on  how you can prevent this disease. Sadly all you’re seeing [Click here to read full article...]