Leadership Blog & Newsroom

Great Clips influencers go #Hats Off for March Madness

By Beth Nilssen

4 days ago

Lessons from a 9-year-old on how to FAIL to succeed

By Beth Nilssen

one month ago

Entrepreneur ranks Great Clips #1

By Beth Nilssen

one month ago

Great Clips Insider: Franchisee News

By Beth Nilssen

2 months ago

Great Clips at 40: Adapting to new realities

By Beth Nilssen

3 months ago

How Great Clips goes “all in” to celebrate its franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

4 months ago

Former Army captain impressed with this “battle-tested” franchise hair salon brand

By Beth Nilssen

4 months ago

Does your franchisor have BRAND COLLABORATION power?

By Beth Nilssen

5 months ago

Great Clips at 40: A strong franchisor that listens to its franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

5 months ago

Are you a “typical” franchisee?

By Beth Nilssen

6 months ago

Show some love for your favorite franchise

By Beth Nilssen

6 months ago

Looking for a smart investment, this franchisee took Warren Buffet’s advice

By Beth Nilssen

7 months ago

Do you WORDLE?

By Beth Nilssen

7 months ago

Check out this checklist for investing in the right franchise

By Beth Nilssen

8 months ago

A simple way to create a culture of trust

By Beth Nilssen

8 months ago

Can listening to employees save Starbucks?

By Beth Nilssen

9 months ago

Leading Like Ted Lasso

By Beth Nilssen

11 months ago

The key signs of a great franchise opportunity

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Find out what your employees want—what they REALLY want

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

The key to recruiting and retaining staff: Show a little R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Say yes. Then figure out how.

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

This franchisee knows what Army soldiers and salon stylists have in common

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Meet a rookie franchisee who’s not even out of college

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

One Franchisor’s Surviving-to-Thriving Story

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

For this franchisee, a haircut proved that giving and receiving is one and the same

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Best Advice I’ve Heard: 4 Franchisees Tell All

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

5 Pet Peeves of Zoom Meetings

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Virtual meetings are here to stay. Here’s how to make the best of them.

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

How This 31-Year-Old’s Dream Came True When He Became a Great Clips Franchisee

By Beth Nilssen

one year ago

Entrepreneur ranks Great Clips #1 in Category

By Beth Nilssen

2 years ago

The Best Advice We Got: Lessons Learned by Rookie Franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

2 years ago

Why Right Now May Be the Right Time to Become a Franchisee

By Beth Nilssen

2 years ago

Can a Company Culture Thrive—or Even Survive—During a Pandemic?

By Beth Nilssen

2 years ago

Building a Company Culture: It’s Not All Fun and Games

By Beth Nilssen

2 years ago

Disrupting Your Routine: What You Can Learn From a Company That Got Rid of Its Clocks

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Why This Franchise Executive Believes Strategic Plans Are Anything but Boring

By Rob Goggins

3 years ago

Meet a Franchisee Who Helps Employees Build a Career, Not Just a Job

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

The 1 Thing Successful Franchisees Focus on to Grow Their Business

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

I Want to Be a Franchisee: Training and Onboarding a Salon Team

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

I Want to Be a Franchisee: Teaching a Franchisee How to Be a Great Franchisee

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Rookie Franchisee Makes Big Impact as Salon Owner in Ontario Market

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

End-of-summer rituals: Back-to-school haircuts, first day of school, and remembering summer jobs

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

How to Deliver Feedback So It Sticks

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

What kind of boss are you—too kind or too candid?

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Women Count Here

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

3 Ways to Manage Your Boss

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Managing: It Goes Both Ways

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Opening your first franchise location? Here are 3 ways to keep your sanity!

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

I Want to Be a Franchisee: Building Out Your First Storefront

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Want your employees to hit home runs? Act like this winning baseball manager.

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

I Want to Be a Franchisee: Finding the best location for a walk-in salon

3 years ago

I Want to be a Franchisee: How the Best Franchisors Onboard New Franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

3 years ago

Franchising, Coffee, & Google

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

When a Franchise Investment Becomes a Successful Family Business

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

How to promote a new business to local media

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

I Want to be a Franchisee Part 3

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee Part 2

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee Part 1

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Hall of Fame Franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

When a haircut is more is more than a haircut

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

What makes a great franchisee?

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

What swoops, poops, scoops, and disrupts the group?

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

How Successful Franchisees Make It Happen

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

A Good Franchisee Can't Act Like a Seagull Manager

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Who 'Ya Gonna Call When Your Franchise Is In Trouble?

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Why We All Long To Be Like Mister Rogers

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

What I learned from my first job: Don't shake the milk

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

How Franchisees Learn How to Run a Hair Salon

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

4 lessons I learned from my summer job on a berry farm

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Customers like it when we dress up

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Does your office dress code alienate prospective employees?

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Are Franchisors Too Picky When Picking Future Franchisees?

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

A franchisees story: This Salon Owner has Stylin' Skills

4 years ago

Giving is good for the giver

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Women Warriors Attracted to the Franchisee Lifestyle

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

From science teacher to hair salon owner, second-generation franchisee Matt Shepherd

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Who are these familiar faces? Canadian franchisees, of course

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Oh, Canada! Bringing walk-in hair salons to a growing market

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Franchisee Matchmaking: How Franchisors Attract the Best and Brightest

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Leadership Authenticity

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Fitting In

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Married couple navigates different work styles to grow their salon business

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Looking beyond the headlines of the retail industry

By Beth Nilssen

4 years ago

Quick to hire, slow to fire

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Second-generation family businesses fail 70% of the time. How did these two franchisees overcome those odds?

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Check Lists

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Rhoda Olsen "retiring"

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Great Clips Recognized as a Top Franchise!

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Getting Rich

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Walk in Their Shoes

By Rob Goggins

5 years ago

Social Media Reputation

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

The Currency of Trust

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Employee satisfaction = Business Results

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

When we have to say no - Part 2

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

When we have to say no - Part 1

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

My Game of Thrones Leadership Style

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Standing in the Hall of Fame

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

Strong co-ops Part 3: Motivating and retaining your rock stars

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

The Peak End Rule

By Beth Nilssen

5 years ago

How we use technology to make our customers' lives better

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

What do a healthy business and a healthy body have in common?

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Tywin, Joffrey, Ned and Daenerys—providing management lessons for business leaders beyond the Seven Kingdoms

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

What do franchising and “Game of Thrones” have in common? More than you’d think.

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Advice from the experts: How not to blow it with customers

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

What to say to an unhappy customer? "I'm sorry."

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

What I learned about being a manager from my toddler

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Celebrating 12 Years of Growth

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Here’s what works for me

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Great together is great for business

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

How having, or not having, control affects your life

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Control equals success for all

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Strong franchisee co-ops Part 1: “We have to walk alike and talk alike to make money!”

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

Strong franchisee co-ops Part 2: Recruiting marketwide for the greater good

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

A franchisee’s story: The secret to my success

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

A stylist’s dilemma: To talk or keep quiet?

6 years ago

The importance of 'first followers'

By Beth Nilssen

6 years ago

We're here to help from the ground up

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The traits of a great franchisee

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Practice kindness this holiday season

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

And the winner of the Miss Congeniality Award for golfing goes to...

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Making a difference on Veterans Day: “Thanks for caring.”

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Franchisee council receives a visit by The Greatest Generation

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

A franchisee’s story: How I make a difference

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The greatest business challenges for franchised companies in 2015

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Focusing on product and people leads to success

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Being kind can be great for business

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The cost of kindness

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Working with your spouse—who’s the boss?—pt. 2

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Working with your spouse—who’s the boss?

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

What to look for in great employees

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Who needs “metabolic winter?” Not me—I live in Minnesota!

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

How to handle customer complaints

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Powerful franchise leader praises Great Clips

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Franchisees talk, and we listen

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The Most Important Things I’ve Learned From Being a Franchisee: Bryan Bitticks (Part 2)

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The Most Important Things I’ve Learned From Being a Franchisee: Bryan Bitticks

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

The sexy side of customer service

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Don’t turn your employees into robots—they’ll drive customers into a valley of despair!

By Beth Nilssen

7 years ago

Does your job make you happy

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Two leadership lessons from The Walking Dead

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Four leadership lessons from Mister Rogers

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

The 1% solution: Little improvements yield big results

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Coffee can help you be better at work

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Inside Franchising: Are You Running a Healthy Business?

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

The traits of a successful hair stylist

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Great Clips ranks in the top 100 of U.S. franchise systems

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

3 Keys to a Successful Company Culture: Performance, Teamwork, Respect

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Communicate With Your Customers

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

A Franchisee's Life: 5 Ways to Get Your Staff Excited About Community Projects

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

A Franchisee's Life: A franchisee gives to his community—and gets back in return

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

5 Ways to Get Your Staff Excited About Community Projects

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

A Franchisee’s Life: Having the financial resources to make a difference

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Keep your values front and center

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Our culture makes us proud, happy to come to work—and more competitive

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Prospective franchisee looking for more family time

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Exclusive Agent of the Year is Grateful to work with Great Clips

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Bad bosses buy donuts, not development opportunities

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Myths that lead to a busy and unfulfilling life

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Great Clips leaves a lasting impression at RECon

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Put your computer to sleep before bedtime

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Best Practices: Recruiting the best, being the best

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Be selective when hiring and swift when letting someone go

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Is Franchising Right for You?

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Passing the torch to the next generation of leaders

By Beth Nilssen

8 years ago

Great Clips ranked as a fastest growing franchise by Entrepreneur

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Franchisee finds success by following brand guidelines

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Technology and industry growth highlighted at IFA’s annual convention

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Online Check-In reaches another milestone!

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Working with injured soldiers changes franchisee's life

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 13—How to Manage a Manager-run Business (pt. 1)

9 years ago

Great Clips franchisees recognized for making a difference in their local communities

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips continues to lead the industry

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 11—Using technology to attract and keep customers

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Exclusive Agent Matt Martinez feels fortunate to work with Great Clips franchisees

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 10—Helping franchisees track their business with technology

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Cincinnati franchisees use savvy networking skills to build their Great Clips business

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips Franchisees Enjoy Their Lifestyle

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Franchise Disclosure Document—What does Great Clips do with Item 19?

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 9—Navigating the legal contracts

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

What is the Role of a Great Clips Franchisee?

9 years ago

What is a Franchise Disclosure Document and Why is it Important?

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 8—Communications pt. 2: Engaging Your Communities

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

I want to be a Franchisee: Step 8—Communications pt. 1: Talk Amongst Yourselves

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Why I Joined Great Clips—Amer from Georgia

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Beth’s Reading List

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Online Check-In™: From Zero to 10 Million in Two Years

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

When Should You Quit Your Job?

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Former Great Clips NASCAR Driver Jason Leffler Dies in Crash

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips Sets Another Guinness World Record!

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Kim Vosika Shares What It’s Like to be a Great Clips Franchisee

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Why I Joined Great Clips—Toni from Honolulu

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Franchise Industry Lingo: Franchisee vs. Franchisor

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips Creates a Buzz at Annual Real Estate Convention

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Securing Financing for your Franchise

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

We're recruiting in some of the best places to live

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Why I Joined Great Clips -- Danny Friend

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Hot Topics in Franchising

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips President Charlie Simpson Receives Leadership Award

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Great Clips Online Check-In: Help us reach 1 million downloads for a great cause!

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Beth’s Reading List

By Beth Nilssen

9 years ago

Industry trends addressed at recent ICSC event

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Passionate employee + busy street corner = Great guerrilla marketing

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Takeaways from the International Franchise Association’s Annual Convention

10 years ago

In 2012, Great Clips salons raised nearly $500,000 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Great Clips franchisee leaders meet to share best practices, build relationships

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Great Clips experiences a successful 2012—When will you join us?

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Another Great Clips Innovation: Clip Notes

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Fighting Cancer—One Shaved Head at a Time

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Do you have the courage to be bad?

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

How do you turn a tattoo parlor into a family hair salon?

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Great Clips in the News

By Beth Nilssen

10 years ago

Great Clips is a Top 10 Franchise All Star!

By Beth Nilssen

11 years ago