by Kimberly | May 19, 2021 | Brookfield, Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce, Hair Styling, Milwaukee, Minority-Owned Business, Service, Small Business
(This post was originally published on SmallBizMke.com) It wasn’t the kind of well-planned, highly-coordinated, and pricey marketing campaign that brought in nearly 1,000 new customers to the International Barbershop in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Instead, it was one...
by Kimberly | Jan 23, 2018 | Hair Styling, Non-Profit
All the homeless who gather at St. Ben’s Community Meal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have the opportunity to get free haircuts. The service is provided twice a month by, primarily, four suburbanites who call themselves, “Barbers Without Borders.” There’s a lot to...
by Kimberly | Feb 4, 2015 | Hair Styling, Service
Some men are born risk-takers, such as Alaskan bush pilots, base jumpers and bullfighters. Personalities like theirs have no fear of the new and unknown, much like older men who—one day—change barbers. Three such adventurers, ages 64-80, summoned their courage (were...