A salon's growth ceiling used to be set by how many people happened to walk past a particular shopfront on a particular street, which is a strange way to cap...
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Every platform's homepage says provider-first, which is the corporate equivalent of a stranger insisting they're a really nice guy, technically possible, but you'd like some evidence before taking their word...
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Watching forty percent of what you earned disappear into a commission split before you've even bought lunch has a way of sharpening a person's thinking about their career options. That's...
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Nobody hands you a clear signpost when you're deciding between the two, mostly because the actual answer is it depends, which is the least satisfying sentence in the English language....
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Getting a job request for a venue you'd rather not take is a small, recurring annoyance that adds up faster than anyone expects. Whether it's a festival gig that sounds...
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Somewhere in the last decade, gig work stopped meaning a friend's band playing pub covers on weekends and started meaning an entire generation's actual career path, sore shoulders and all....
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A beauty kit that needs its own trolley, a fold-out table, and a small prayer to get through the security door of an apartment building is a kit that's grown...
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A table that collapses mid-massage is a story you'll tell at parties for years, and not the good kind of story. Whether you're just getting started as a mobile massage...
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The drive to your first booking feels like a job interview and a first date happening at the same time, and then you knock on the door and it's just...
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A profile that's 60% filled out reads like a first date who showed up in trackies: technically present, not exactly trying. Getting bookings through Blys starts well before your first...
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A booking request that just says massage, home, whenever is not a booking, it's a riddle. Most bookings are exactly what they look like: a client who wants a treatment,...
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A gut feeling has never once been wrong about a bad situation, and yet it's usually the first thing people talk themselves out of listening to. Working in someone else's...
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Discovering you're responsible for your own retirement savings as well as running a business is the financial equivalent of finding out you have to throw your own surprise party. Retirement...
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Discovering you're on the hook for both the employee and the employer half of Social Security and Medicare is the tax equivalent of finding out you're throwing your own surprise...
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New providers almost always ask the same question first: what should I actually charge? On Blys, the plain answer is that you mostly don't get to decide, and once that...
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