Janelle Bell™

A little bit about my hair extension business… 3 pillars: 💈 STUDIO: Brick & mortar salon that specializes in extensions with retail & space for hosting workshops 🛒 DTC: Online store that retails our clip in extensions, products & accessories 📚 EDUCSTION & WHOLESALE: online & in person workshops for our proprietary extension method + wholesale hair for professional use. Currently #1 generates 85-90% of our total revenue, but has the highest overheads. My goal over the next 3 years is to flip the ratio so #2 & #3 generate 85-90% of our revenue. First steps in my plan: - Launching new courses in 2 weeks. Then test & tweak - Build landing pages for DTC - Hire manager for salon so I can focus more on DTC & eduction. Let’s see how this goes! 🙏🏼 #buildinginpublic #hairextensions #Entrepreneurship #shopify #myjourney #DTC #ecomm

why is it impossible to speak to someone at @flighthubglobal

@AirCanada can’t wait to hear your plan for compensating your costumers

Air Canada to Gradually Resume Service Today after Reaching a Mediated Settlement with its Flight Attendant Union : aircanada.com/media/air-cana…

@AirCanada just hung up on me while we were trying to get them to rebook our flight. literally hung up the phone - abysmal customer service

@REV_Insulin_Res @gerorgefox @AirCanada how do you know it’s over?

@gerorgefox @AirCanada The dispute is over, for now. But they say it takes a week to get everything sorted. I could cancel the return flight and book myself. But that would void the flight delay insurance.

Stuck in San Diego due to Air Canada labour disruption. @AirCanada at least pick up the phone to make things right.

@Pesceranf @wendigo40 @AirCanada that is wild! we are 24 hours out and i am so curious to see when they actually give us an update

@wendigo40 @AirCanada our flight was cancelled three hours before departure, even though we had already cleared security and had our boarding passes and gate assignment

Air Canada suspend ses plans de reprise des activités après que le SCFP a défié la directive du CCRI de retourner au travail : aircanada.com/medias/air-can…

am i losing it? wasn’t the @celeboflight always before the long weekend with the finale being on the sat of august long? #vancouver #celebrationoflight

@JrmeCLEMEN69290 @DHLCanadaHelp This is a brokerages issue 🥲

@jaayday @DHLCanadaHelp Hey @DHLCanadaHelp I've had issues with tracking too. Try checking with the store where you dropped off your package - they might have info on hold times & issues.

Experiencing some pretty brutal customer service at DHL. @DHLCanadaHelp can you help?

Wait all day for a @FedEx package that’s already 2 days late. Estimated delivery time comes (1:40pm) & bam - it changes to end of day 🫠😖

@theerastourinfo That’s an iconic seat. Congrats!

I AM NOT BEHIND THE STAGE ANYMORE! I will be selling my behind the stage ticket. #VancouverTSTheErasTour #TSTheErasTour

If you’re still in the queue for Vancouver you’ll just get this message once it lets you in

@erastourticketz Maroon ✨🫶🏼 of course

**SELLING** 🩶(2) tickets for Vancouver @ BC Place on 12/7/2024; TOTAL: $39 CAD + PayPal G&S fee 🩶Please comment with your favorite Taylor Swift song! 🩶Ticket(s) and price have been verified. *Please no DMs! 🫶🏻

@nickgraynews I started falling out of love with my city after 13 years. I wonder if that’s a common expiration date 😂

Jamie is 22. She just moved to New York City. She’s going on a date tonight. It is her first date of the season. I want you to imagine what it is like to be in your 20s and new to Manhattan. You live in a tiny apartment that you share with your best friend. You walk 30 minutes to work each day and you love every bit of it. You love the hustle, the bustle, the garbage, and the rats. You meet new people constantly. Every single day your world gets bigger. And your career- your career seems limitless. Life is good. You’re young. The city is big. And anything is possible. ~~ I left New York City four and a half years ago. I loved it here. I made it here. I made it, I really did. I started my company, I sold my company, and I wrote my book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party in New York. I couldn’t have done those things anywhere else. But after 13 years I think I was over it. I didn’t know it at the time, but I think the city had started to wear on me. Lugging groceries up 4 flights of stairs. The constant sound of sirens. Garbage bags piled up on the sidewalks. I left New York City but I was quickly replaced by Jamie and thousands of young people like her. And so today I’m going to follow her around. I want to see Manhattan through her eyes. And I want to remember what makes this the best city in America. ~~ We meet up at 8:30AM on the corner of Prince and Mott. It is Friday morning and I’m going to walk with her to work. Jamie always dreamed of living in New York. "I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't thinking about moving here.” She loves it so much. We start to walk north. She’s a morning person and the conversation comes easy. “This is my first time ever experiencing fall. I grew up in Texas. My friends and I, when the leaves started changing colors here, we were all freaking out. It’s so beautiful! I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.” I look up around me and it’s true. The changing leaves are beautiful. I forgot about that. She works in fashion. So I guess she sees colors better than me. When you live in New York City for a long time, you can spot the tourists from a mile away with one singular tell- They’re the ones looking up. They’re looking up at the skyscrapers. Wide-eyed and slack-jawed. I love the skyscrapers. But I stopped looking up after a few years. And then I missed the leaves. They are beautiful. And we don’t have these colors in Texas. ~~ We stop at the next corner to visit her bodega. There’s a guy named Taz who she knows behind the counter and he calls out her name when we walk inside like she’s been coming here for years, not just a few weeks. “He’s remembered my name since day one!” Taz makes her a breakfast sandwich that she will eat at her desk. He plays music as Jamie waits for her order. They dance a beat, and then we keep walking north towards her office. The air is crisp. It is a pure fall morning. We pass a matcha place that she loves. And she points out a sushi market that sells plates for half-off after 8PM. It’s a little neighborhood that has become her own in the few weeks since she landed. ~~ Jamie works in product development for a fashion brand that most women have heard of. She creates tech packs and manages samples all day. Tech packs are extremely detailed specification sheets for mass market clothing, like architectural drawings. “Every piece of commercial clothing that anyone in the world wears comes from a tech pack.” She points at my shirt. “Like your shirt, this gray, the color of the threads, the types of buttons, and the pockets. It’s all in the file.” She shows me a PDF of a tech pack on her phone for a new shirt that she made. The file is 38 pages long. Every thread and button is meticulously detailed. She explains the tech pack in detail and I can see that she loves her work. I could never do this work. But I also wore the same blue t-shirt for a year after I left New York. Some people love clothes and style and Jamie is one of those people. And if you love fashion, it is New York or nowhere. I ask Jamie if she’s happy and if she’s happy that she moved here. She gets quiet and we walk in silence for a few blocks. “Little me would be so proud that, like, I did it. I got my dream job. I made it.” I remember that feeling. Standing in my first Brooklyn apartment after I had lugged home a futon from IKEA. She’s so proud. I can feel it. Maybe her eyes are cold. Or maybe she’s tearing up now. We turn left at the top of Union Square and walk through the farmers market to catch the train uptown. I ride with her for a few stops to Midtown and I take her picture. She has a bounce to her step as she goes off to work. Maybe it is because she has a date tonight. But that’s a story for another scroll. ~~ New York City attracts ambitious people. You move here for your career but you get sucked into the sparkle. You see the city with fresh eyes. And I guess Jamie’s story isn’t unique. It’s a pattern of people that have probably come to New York City for a hundred years. New blood. Fresh eyes. The city renews itself, one dreamer at a time. Anything is possible. And those leaves never change.

@AmandaMGoetz Love this for you guys 💖💖

Taking my daughter to Canada for her birthday to see Taylor Swift and have a girls weekend for her birthday. These are the moments I dreamed of when she was born. I love being her mom so much.

@kingofthedrive @CityofVancouver lol yeah - don’t get your hopes up

@jaayday @CityofVancouver So I have that to look forward too....

Shoutout to @CityofVancouver what a great and reasonable way to sell tickets to the Stanley Park lights....who doesn't have 2 hours to sit at the computer only for the stupid ticketing company's website to crash...well done!!!

@xl_Cryp @stanleyparkrail @BCBurnFund This is exactly what happened to me

Bright Nights in Stanley Park train tickets are on sale today at noon! You may now join the waiting room queue, randomly assigning purchasing order at 12pm, at: brightnights.ca Curated in partnership with @vanparkboard & @bcburnfund.

@PenderPR @stanleyparkrail @BCBurnFund I got in after 2.5 hours & it crashed 😵‍💫

@stanleyparkrail @BCBurnFund Are tickets still available? It says I am in the line, but it has been hours.

@awilkinson But palm trees 🌴

The problem with thinking "everything would be better if I moved to Europe/Bali/Hawaii/etc" is that all of your thoughts, feelings, and anxieties are contained within your brain. And your brain comes with you.

@seabusmemes lol how are you SO funny. I legit remember this too 😂