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Hairstyles Change-People Don't: A Barber's Journey
…#1 on Amazon’s Best Sellers List under Self-Employed
“Local author’ looking for your support, please don’t forget the 5-star review…Thank-you. “Tim the barber”
This book is filled with the facts your hairdresser would never share! Nor other successful salon owners to their peers! Not at this price. A barbers tell all book, pulling back the curtain for his clients as well as his peers in the business. Mr. Kistler highlights his 44-year career , which consisted of hundreds of hours of business classes combined with the experience gathered from 95,000 career haircuts.
Sharing the ins and outs to salon ownership. A deep dive into the art of successfully operating a husband-and-wife family hair salon.
Always engaging the customer in the salon cross talk even when it comes to their cut or color selection; pointing out they are receiving the input of the additional talent of the salon pros for the price of one. A must read for the next generation of barber-stylist or anyone that has sat in a beauty chair! Mr. Kistler details his business strategies which guaranteed him 44 years of loyal, repeat customers. Get back the cost of the book in one haircut by implementing tier pricing to jump start a stagnant income. Sharing a barber’s acquired wisdom for any that will listen. The twists and turns that led a small-town boy to the big city and eventually into the family profession. Realizing that boyhood dream of true independence and never being on salary or punching a time clock again! These 7 chapters will turn your business into success beyond imagination!
Chapter 4 How bad do you want it?...................
Chapter 5 Client retention, why are Customers so loyal
Chapter 6 From co-worker to soulmate …working with my wife
Chapter 8 Looking in the mirror, Attitude-this huge!......
Chapter 9 Marketing (ALL roads lead back to marketing!)
Chapter 11 Stepping out on your own…
Chapter 12 Pricing your work……………
The other 11 will share the journey of the Kistler Family- 65 years in the Barber Business, 3 generations deep topped off with a fascinating journey through the Barber-Surgeon history dating back to 1100 AD.
Sharing intimate details of the barber business along with the twists and turns that led a small-town boy to the big city and eventually into the family profession. Taking the bus and hitchhiking for four months to barber college which totaled 4,000 miles in my chapter on "How bad do you want it." A real rags to riches story but staying humble. Realizing that boyhood dream to one day be a business owner in America.
A trip to the barber shop-hair salon is something everyone has experienced, now the reader for the first time has been placed behind the chair, putting you in the owner, stylist’s shoes.
“Local author’ looking for your support, please don’t forget the 5-star review…Thank-you. “Tim the barber”
This book is filled with the facts your hairdresser would never share! Nor other successful salon owners to their peers! Not at this price. A barbers tell all book, pulling back the curtain for his clients as well as his peers in the business. Mr. Kistler highlights his 44-year career , which consisted of hundreds of hours of business classes combined with the experience gathered from 95,000 career haircuts.
Sharing the ins and outs to salon ownership. A deep dive into the art of successfully operating a husband-and-wife family hair salon.
Always engaging the customer in the salon cross talk even when it comes to their cut or color selection; pointing out they are receiving the input of the additional talent of the salon pros for the price of one. A must read for the next generation of barber-stylist or anyone that has sat in a beauty chair! Mr. Kistler details his business strategies which guaranteed him 44 years of loyal, repeat customers. Get back the cost of the book in one haircut by implementing tier pricing to jump start a stagnant income. Sharing a barber’s acquired wisdom for any that will listen. The twists and turns that led a small-town boy to the big city and eventually into the family profession. Realizing that boyhood dream of true independence and never being on salary or punching a time clock again! These 7 chapters will turn your business into success beyond imagination!
Chapter 4 How bad do you want it?...................
Chapter 5 Client retention, why are Customers so loyal
Chapter 6 From co-worker to soulmate …working with my wife
Chapter 8 Looking in the mirror, Attitude-this huge!......
Chapter 9 Marketing (ALL roads lead back to marketing!)
Chapter 11 Stepping out on your own…
Chapter 12 Pricing your work……………
The other 11 will share the journey of the Kistler Family- 65 years in the Barber Business, 3 generations deep topped off with a fascinating journey through the Barber-Surgeon history dating back to 1100 AD.
Sharing intimate details of the barber business along with the twists and turns that led a small-town boy to the big city and eventually into the family profession. Taking the bus and hitchhiking for four months to barber college which totaled 4,000 miles in my chapter on "How bad do you want it." A real rags to riches story but staying humble. Realizing that boyhood dream to one day be a business owner in America.
A trip to the barber shop-hair salon is something everyone has experienced, now the reader for the first time has been placed behind the chair, putting you in the owner, stylist’s shoes.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2025
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