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Ivan Zoot

Ivan Zoot

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Ivan Zoot is ClipperGuy, a highly sought after presenter and trainer in the world of men's hair. Learn more about Ivan's educational support and programming at clipperguy.com.

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The 500 Business Card Challenge

by Ivan Zoot

I will state the belief that all this instagramming, tweeting and facebooking is not as powerful as classic old school marketing of barber haircuts. The personal referral needs to be just that… personal.

How to Open a Barbershop: Update from February Blog Post

by Ivan Zoot

In February I posted a blog on how to open a barbershop right, right now. I shared the experiences of a friend who was opening a shop in what was (and still is) a tough economic climate. I outlined what I saw him doing that I believed to be the right things to be doing at the time. It has been six months since he opened. It was time for a visit and an update. I stopped in to see him last week.

How to Kill a Comb-Over

by Ivan Zoot

I was inspired to write this blog post as both a how-to for salon professionals and as a public service. Perhaps I will empower some salon professionals and we can beautify the landscape at the same time. I was waiting on a flight at O’Hare, deep in my favorite pastime of people watching. A few of the observed hairstyles left me a bit shaken. One particularly scary comb-over prompted me to take out my laptop.

There Is No "Advanced Men's Haircutting Education"

by Ivan Zoot

I had a conversation with an attendee at Premiere that got me thinking. The central point of our conversation was that there really is no advanced men’s hair education. I think I knew this from years of experience, but the conversation explained it well.

The Five Tools of Guy Haircutting

by Ivan Zoot

This is about being on the top of your game in the use of the 5 environmental tools of guy haircutting. Not the tools in your station drawer. This is about a level of mastery of the tools that truly separate true masters of our craft from average haircutters.

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