Find Your Purpose Find Your Drive | Alicia Soulier Founder of Salon Scale.

From award-winning stylist to entrepreneur, Alicia Soulier has dedicated over 16 years to the beauty industry. As the owner and creative director of Capelli Salon Studio for over 10 years, Alicia noticed a leak in her business that was directly affecting her bottom line: the color bar. Without the proper technology to account for the cost of hair color, many color sessions were walking out the door unpaid for. This discovery led to the creation of SalonScale, an advanced hair salon back bar software that has now earned Alicia the title of "tech founder" into her portfolio. Today Alicia intends to use technology to disrupt the hair salon supply chain and ultimately create a healthier economic ecosystem in the hair industry.

SalonScale: https://salonscale.com/

SalonScale is a hair color management software that allows salons to separate their parts from labor to ensure that every color session is being paid for. Using a mobile app, SalonScale enables you to know your color costs in real-time as you mix, so salons can start accounting for the cost of each session and monitor their inventory levels more efficiently.

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BEAUTY UNDER 40 PODCAST - ALICIA SOULIER

Today I’m chatting with Alicia Soulier, owner of Salon Scale Technologies.  We talk why she felt the need to innovate to elevate the industry, why the walk to the Contessa stage took five years, why she she wished she dived into business numbers sooner, how SalonScale transform how salon owners do business.

SHOW NOTES
01:39: How did you get your start in the industry?
05:00: How long were you a stylist before you became a stylist?
06:20: How did you get involved in competitions?
05:20: When did you decide to be your own boss?
09:34: What do you think of the perception that competitions are rigged?
11:40: How did you live with the potential of not losing?
14:10: What was going on in your mind during your Contessa winning walk, after losing five finals in a row?
18:00: Should there be a limit on how many times someone should win? 
25:40: How did you get involved in education?
32:05: How hard was it to let go and sell the salon and focus on Salon Scale?
39:20: What was the inspiration for starting a tech company with Salon Scale?
43:47: How does Salon Scale work into the architecture of the salon?
46:30: How do you track the effectiveness of Salon Scale?
50:30: Salon Scale has an inherit environmental message - was that intentional?
51:30: Two-thirds of Salon Scale employees are women - why is that important to you?
51:30: What’s next for you and Salon Scale?
59:30: What does the industry need right now and in the future?

1:03:10: Rapid Fire Questions:

• Who is your personal hair hero?
• Wheres the next place you would like to travel?
• What’s your favourite business quote?
• What woman is your favourite lady boss?
• If you could switch lives with any person, who would it be?
• What’s one thing that every stylists should do to give back to the industry?
• If you could ask Vidal Sassoon one question what would it be?
• What’s one thing that everyone should be afraid of?
• What’s one thing you cannot do?
• What’s the worst hair cut you’v every received?
• What’s the best advice from a Salon Scale client?
• Where do you go when you need a laugh?
• If you could get into a time machine and go back in time to give advice to Alicia just starting out in the industry, what would you say to her?
• If you could get into a time machine and go ahead in time to give advice to Alicia after she has won her lifetime achievement award, what would you say to her?
• What advice do you give yourself every single day?

Join this Town Hall with Alicia Soulier, founder of SalonScale, a mobile app that will tell you the exact cost of hair color being poured for every bowl mixed. Alicia, an entrepreneur and award-winning hair stylist, will be sharing her insights on the best ways for small businesses to effectively and efficiently cut costs.

Schedulicity and Hairdustry presents Your Day Off podcast- Alicia Soulier and April Brown- These ladies are the Dynamic Duo of Salon Scale. We sat down with theses incredible ladies and ISSE back in January. You'll receive a PHD in how to start and maintain a business when you listen in. Alicia and April paired up to change the way we look at how we charge for services and how as salon owners we can save a ton of money. 

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We are so pumped for today’s episode with Alicia Soulier the founder of Salon Scale @salonscale. Come along as we talk about how she got her start in the industry, the journey that it took to start Salon Scale. How she stayed focused. The process behind creating a brand and bringing it to life. How risking it all has finally started to pay off. And you know why? All because she listened to her gut and believed in herself and her product.

Thank you to our sponsor Oligo Professionnel @oligopro for standing beside the No Stylist Left Behind community.

Have you ever had a big idea—the kind of idea that scares the crap out of you? If you’ve ever imagined being on the TV show, Shark Tank, this episode is for you. Alicia is back again to share her entrepreneurial journey and how she has raised thousands of dollars to support her fast-growing technology company. You will be inspired, and you will definitely learn new, important information!

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SALON MARKETING on INSTAGRAM // Online Class

Monday, April 20th at 3pm EST

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EDUCATION WE OFFER

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FOLLOW SALONSCALE!

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This is an incredible conversation that we’re not having, until now! Have you wondered what your margins would look like if you could source your products direct? How much are we as salon owners paying our distributors to play the middlemen and women in the buying process? How is our industry years behind compared to others in regard to automation—and who is going to solve this issue so we can sustain our salon businesses? Alicia is back for another round of education, and you do not want to miss this. You will learn why over 70 salons close each day! And what we have the power to do, starting today.

BECOME A MEET YOUR STYLIST SALON!

https://www.meetyourstylist.com

SALON MARKETING on INSTAGRAM // Online Class

Monday, April 20th at 3pm EST

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PqeHbztdSMKeURbCMAeI7w

OUR INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/beyondthetechnique

HERE’S THE LINK TO OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/370912749922331

EDUCATION WE OFFER

https://www.beyondthetechnique.com/salon-education-business-classes

SHOP OUR SALON BUSINESS RESOURCES!

https://www.beyondthetechnique.com/shop

FOLLOW SALONSCALE!

Website: https://www.salonscale.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salonscale

Meeting Alicia will ignite your inner powerhouse! She’s so driven and has made massive moves in the technology arena of our industry. Today you get to hear her journey in beauty, and how she’s now the CEO of the fastest growing technology company in the beauty business lane.

BECOME A MEET YOUR STYLIST SALON!

https://www.meetyourstylist.com

SALON MARKETING Q2 CAMPAIGNS // Online Class

Monday, March 23rd at 3pm EST

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_16n0FbNmTemkcNfjikI3KQ

OUR INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/beyondthetechnique

HERE’S THE LINK TO OUR PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/370912749922331

EDUCATION WE OFFER

https://www.beyondthetechnique.com/salon-education-business-classes

SHOP OUR SALON BUSINESS RESOURCES!

https://www.beyondthetechnique.com/shop

FOLLOW SALONSCALE!

Website: https://www.salonscale.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salonscale

• The problems that SalonScale solves
• How to maximise the profitability of your colour services
• How should you price salon colour services
• What is the typical percentage of a colour service that should be product cost?

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Special thanks to Alicia for sharing her inspiring story with me for this week’s episode. Until next time!

Schedulicity and Hairdustry presents Your Day Off podcast- Alicia Soulier- Something we don’t think about as a creative community is the structure and growth we need to incorporate in our artistry. Alicia has perfected a way to coach other stylists while also focusing on the things she needs to be mind positive and give back. As a Salon Owner she was looking to make a change in the industry while saving entrepreneurs money. Salon Scale is a game changing idea changing the way we do Buisness.

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