For the third year in a row, Blo Blow Dry Bar celebrated its annual meeting from February 23 – 25, 2020. Franchise Partners from all over North America came to the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston to learn, socialize and to be celebrated as Franchise Partners of the Blo Family. Keep reading for some key highlights of our meeting.
Key Learnings
For two days, Franchise Partners took part in educational breakout sessions, group discussions, key presentations and meet & greets with Blo Vendors and event sponsors. Here are a few highlights:
Our CEO, Vanessa Yakobson, began our two day conference with her opening remarks, highlighting all of the key-initiatives the Corporate team accomplished that year, including but not limited to: Tips on driving up our Average Ticket Price, the launch of new hair products and services to our offerings, our brand refresh and system-wide roll out of new brand material, the re-launch of our Franchise Development website, and the revamp of memberships and loyalty programs.
Kristi Valenzuela, salon industry educator and motivational speaker, discussed the importance of retail sales as it relates to bottom line profitability. In an informative session, she delivered actionable ideas to enhance the sales experience for the guest and enable teams to achieve retail success.
Andrew Dale, the Founder of UNITE, gave a special address to Franchise Partners and our hair stylists about the importance of great leadership. A powerful presentation that gave insight on how to strive and persevere in a challenging world, while maintaining a positive outlook.
CEO of Glo Skin Beauty, Sharon Collier, talked about her Glo team and highlighted some initiatives they are working on to grow and standout in the beauty industry.
Other sessions included: tips on building strong teams, customer service protocol + productivity, recruitment, social media and influencers.
There were fun interactive presentations with Influencer @mane_ivy on how to style the perfect beach wave, plus other tips for styling hair and makeup geared towards our talented hairstylists and makeup artists.
Dinner & Awards
We finished off the 3-day event with a gala dinner where we honored some of our top preforming Franchise Partners, because we couldn’t have done this without them!
Top winners include:
New-Comber Bestie: The Top Performing New Franchise Partner Award.
Katelyn Eulau, Blo Cool Springs
Kari Valcich, Blo Greenwich & Blo Franklin lakes
Big Pink Heart Bestie: The Charitable Contribution Award
Hillary Sharbutt, Blo Lubbock
Jenny Randawa, Blo Yaletown & Blo South Granville
Curl Commander Bestie: The Team Management Award
Single Unit
Mendy Rodrigues, Blo Brickell
Kari Valcich, Blo Greenwich & Blo Franklin lakes
Multi Unit
Lori Barzakay, Blo Bayview Blo Vaughan, Blo Yonge, Blo King Street West, Blo Yorkville
Erin Freer, Blo Buckhead & Blo Ponce
Makeover Artist: The Location Takeover Award
Heather Stankard, Blo Jacksonville
Lauro Gonzalez, Blo Addison Walk
Hot Pink Hype Bestie: The Marketing Award
Single Unit
Mendy Rodrigues, Blo Brickell
Kerry Welsh, Blo Wilmington
Multi Unit
Erin Freer, Blo Buckhead & Blo Ponce
Farah Jadavji , Blo Bloor West & Blo Leaside
Care With Flare Bestie: The Customer Service Award
Heather Stankard, Blo Jacksonville
Kerry Welsh, Blo Wilmington
Top Knot-ch Contributor Bestie: The Franchise System Contributor Award
Kerry Welsh, Blo Wilmington
Katelyn Eulau, Blo Cool Springs
Hot Roller Bestie – Franchise Partner of the Year Award: awarded to the owner who has demonstrated a passion for and commitment to Blo and the Blo brand, consistently strong (and growing) sales performance (service and retail), ability to drive profitability, commitment to nurturing and developing staff teams, creativity and persistence in marketing their business and building the Blo brand, evidence of agility and adaptability in operating the business, and a tendency to innovate and take initiative in working with Corporate to develop the Blo system.
Franchise Partner of the Year Single Unit
Hillary Sharbutt, Blo Lubbock
Franchise Partner of the Year Multi-Unit
Athena Boyd, Blo Fifth Street, Blo Domain, Blo Hill Country Galleria, Lincoln Heights, and Dominion Ridge
Special thanks to all of our Sponsors for attending + participating in a number of events to support our Blo family!
UNITE
Belevedere
Booker
Glo
SOCi
Clayton Kendall
Dansa Darata Soucia
Dry Divas
Eulerity
FISH
MDP
Priority Business Solutions
Savvy Sleepers
Wells Fargo
Wheat
We want to thank all of our Franchise Partners, sponsors, vendors and speakers for attending our annual meeting and making it a memorable experience. It you’re interested in owning a Blo franchise, fill out a form here!