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I’m Kelly, founder of Scissors Make Cents & CEO of million-dollar salon 1213 Hair Studio in Richmond, Virginia. I’m going to tell you everything you need to know to achieve the same level of success and create a life of both time and financial freedom, month after month, year after year.
The path to scaling your salon to a million-dollar revenue stream is simpler than you think.
I’m a 7-figure salon owner, international speaker, and author of the bestselling book Scissors Make Cents. I have the freedom to do what I want, when I want, for myself and for those I love. But getting here was far from easy.
I started out as a stylist working out of my home, literally washing customers’ hair over the kitchen sink, so I thought when I finally opened my salon, success would just come naturally but, instead, I was overwhelmed and panicked. I remember looking around my salon one day at 29 and just thinking, “Is this it? More responsibility and more anxiety in exchange for a little more money and a lot less time? I was a great stylist with passion and talent, so what was missing? I suddenly realized success in business was different from success as a creative stylist.
That was my epiphany moment. I understood that if I wanted to achieve my dreams of a life of peace and financial abundance, I had to learn how to build a team, create a salon brand that spoke for itself, and grow a profitable business that supported my lifestyle goals. I looked up to other salon owners who had achieved the level of success I was dreaming about and I was determined to become one of them.
So, I started educating myself and honing my skills. I didn’t know how I was going to learn to be better as a businesswoman, so I just took advantage of every opportunity I could to be better, period. I even traveled to Europe to study at the London and Ireland Wella Institutes, which pushed me to new heights in hairstyling.
Then, in 2012, I was named "Master of Beauty" by Nick Arrojo and the Empire Beauty System… and my life and business started to change. With Nick and his mentors guiding me as both a hairstylist and entrepreneur—and through a whole lot of trial and error in my own business—I gained the invaluable knowledge and skills that allowed me to scale my business to the 7-figure success it is today.
I went from a stressed-out owner trying to hustle behind the chair to make ends meet to the CEO of a million-dollar salon with an incredible team and the profit margins that supported the home, the car, the clothes, the vacations, and best of all, the time with my loved ones that I had always hoped (and worked) for.
Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working with some incredible people, including professional athletes, models, and television stars. But what makes me truly proud is helping other owners turn their salons around, not in the years it took me, but in mere months, transforming not just their businesses… but their lives.
I am so glad I signed up for this program! Scissors Make Cents has helped me SO much! I am finally able to pay myself as the salon owner and not just a commissioned stylist! It feels soooo freaking good!
Laura
@laurak_beauty
Welcome to my salon! 1213 Hair Studio, in Richmond, Virginia. We were recently named one of Beauty Lanchpad’s Top 20 Salons for 2024. Check out the article here!
New York Weekly
Modern Salan
American Salon
Glamour
Los Angeles Wire
Martha Stewart
So that’s my story! So what about you? Do you want to build a thriving salon while working less behind the chair?
Great! Let’s see where you are in your business right now.
Take the Scissors Make Cents Confident CEO Quiz below. It will reveal exactly where you are as a salon business owner, where the holes are (if any) that need to get filled on your road to both time and financial freedom, and help you with next steps.
You’ll know in 15 minutes if this is the best time for you to join the Scissors Make Cents Business Academy.
Take the next step to freeing yourself from behind the chair, automating your salon, amping up your brand, attracting your ideal client, and increasing profit, profit, PROFIT!