Hello and welcome, actually this week it’s Hola y bienvenido because I’m speaking to you today, very early in the morning before it gets too hot, on my roof terrace in my new house in Spain. This week my message to you is that I’d like you to slow down, take a bit more time. I’ve seen a very distressing trend in Salons over the last few years and we’re getting addicted to express services, we’re getting addicted to these little nuggets of service that we’re passing onto clients at a very low cost, and banging them out at a very rapid rate. Now I’m not suggesting that we get rid of all express services, they are what I see as a profit maximizer, so they’re an add-on; they’re a filling for those little gaps that you get during your day in your column. They shouldn’t be something that we rely on day in and day out and this is what’s happening. So I want you to ask yourself when you’re doing an express service, is this the very best job that you could do for that client? If she’s having an express service, have you got all the time that you need to pass on the information and aftercare advice that you need to. In an express service have you got time to make her feel special, I don’t think you have. The danger I think over time is that we’re not paying attention to our craft anymore. What we’re not doing is actually the best job that we can to impress people, with the experience that they can get. I’d like you to pay attention to what’s going on in the barbering Industry, because barbering has had a massive resurgence over the last two to three years and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon either. Now this massive resurgence that’s happening in barbering isn’t happening off the back of very quick clipper cuts, it’s not even happening off the back of cheap services. It’s happening off the back of people paying into their craft, so they’re retraining in ancient barbering techniques, in excellent cutting skills, and they’re pushing out higher priced service in many instances to a much bigger audience and the audience is absolutely lapping it up. I think we could be transferring that into the hair and beauty industry as well. I think we need to pay attention to our craft, pay into the training, keep developing yourself and your team so that you’re skills are absolutely fantastic. The other thing that I think is missing particularly in Hairdressing is there’s no history, there’s no culture, with a lot of Stylist anymore. Go back, have a look at the people that formed our Industry and turned it into the trade that we’re applying today. So slow down and start moving away from the express services, push the experience, build your training, and build your craft. I hope that’s been useful to you, if it has don’t forget to subscribe. I do a video like this actually maybe not quite like this every Monday, and I would hate you to miss out on the content that I’m sharing. Until then take care.