The Healthy, (More Complex) Barber, Part 4

The Upsell Finally – products. I use a little hair product to tame my crazy hair. If used properly, the tub of product should last about 6 months. The barber should know that if my wife is getting ahold of the “repurchase” responsibility for my...

The Healthy Barber, Part 3

Customer Return Probability Last post, I talked about customer types, buying habits/frequency and the products that they could be upsold with. We went a little bit further in the detail of how each of those aspects of the barbershop business looks, but this week, we...

The Healthy Barber, Part 2

Customer Relationship Management Last post, I talked a little about how analytics can be used to improve a barbershop’s operations and business processes. The three key areas that I mentioned were: Customer Profile Buyer Behavior Cross-selling/Upselling How do...

Weighting K-Means

Here is a brief introduction to some of the things we do with different data. Buckle up readers, this may get a little geeky! But it’s really not that bad – follow the steps and let’s work through it together! Let’s say a business has a data set (what business...