Partnership Realities, Team-Based Pay, & Building Oasis Curl Salon | Wafaya Abdallah | Owner, Curly Oasis Educator, Art of Curly Hair | Host, The Curl Code Podcast

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🚨STOP! Before you enter into a partnership with anyone or think about Team-Base Pay, listen to Wafaya tell you all about it while sharing her story of building Oasis Curl Salon!

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Key Takeaways

🔅Training her way up, building her book, and learning the business, Wafaya offered to buy into the salon where she worked, which was accepted. After a while, the owner grew tired of running the business, and Wafaya was able to buy the business.

🔅Wafaya steered away from hoity-toity salons because they are too intense and cutthroat. It is so important to pick a salon that fits you.

🔅Beware of partners. Do you share the same vision of the future? Do you trust that they can handle economic or business downturns financially? Do you have everything documented for your business journey?

🔅Do not stay in toxic cultures.

🔅Oasis is a team-based business specializing in naturally wavy, curly, and tight spiral hair. They take a holistic approach because beauty is inside out.

🔅Joining Oasis means you will undergo a skill certification as part of getting on the floor.

🔅Team-based means the staff is salaried. They are paid hourly. The rates are not all the same, but everyone gets consistent pay. The team is collaborative, helping each other with clients and even working on parts of the business. No matter how much hair you cut, team members are given raises based on attitude and work ethic.

🔅When the company hits their goals, the team members get a bonus.

🔅Open-book management means the employees know the numbers, what the business makes and spends, and understand the business.

🔅Check out Wafaya's podcast: The Curl Code!

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