{"id":147,"date":"2009-04-03T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noyeshallallen.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/03\/we-fix-9-00-haircuts\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:53:17","slug":"we-fix-9-00-haircuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/we-fix-9-00-haircuts\/","title":{"rendered":"We Fix $9.00 Haircuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both;\">There&#8217;s an old story about a hair stylist who ran a successful business by providing consistent service at a fair price. His business grew, and his customers returned year after year. His shop was a fixture in the community. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">One day, a discount chain hair salon opened across the street. They put up a big banner in their window: $9.00 HAIRCUTS! <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">Soon, the stylist noticed that he wasn&#8217;t as busy. His phone didn&#8217;t ring as much, and walk-in business was down. He saw some of his customers walking into the discount shop across the street. He wondered how anyone could possibly make a living cutting hair for $9.00, and he felt disappointed that his customers were wooed so readily by a low price. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">Then, one day it occurred to him. He went to the local sign maker and had his own banner made. He proudly hung it up in his own front window. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">It read: <br \/>WE FIX $9.00 HAIRCUTS<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">Think about that the next time you&#8217;re shopping for a product or a service. There&#8217;s a difference between a low price and a good value. If you understand that difference, maybe you should talk to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\" title=\"NHA Home page\" target=\"_blank\">Noyes Hall &amp; Allen<\/a> about your insurance. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">\n<p><br class='final-break' style='clear:both;' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old story about a hair stylist who ran a successful business by providing consistent service at a fair price. His business grew, and his customers returned year after year. His shop was a fixture in the community. One day, a discount chain hair salon opened across the street. They put up a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-insurance","category-personal-insurance","tag-home-buying"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}