District Studios makes growth look gorgeous

Industry

Salon & Wellness

Opportunity

Salon Studios house many professionals, but they want more than a chair or a small room. They want a collaborative community that sees them as entrepreneurs in their own right.

Experience

Coworks software brings the coworking ethos to the world of beauty professionals, with a unifying app, events to grow their individual brands, and metrics to measure the health across multiple locations.

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"All our members download the Coworks mobile app when they join!"

Anita Wozniak

Founder @ District Studios

About District Studios Salon Suites

District Studios is a salon suite for beauty and wellness professionals, providing a unique opportunity for passionate hairstylists, nail techs, estheticians, laser techs, and more to have their own private space with a vibrant community. They offer a supportive and empowering environment for talented professionals to thrive together — rather than being on their own.

The Opportunity

District Studios founder Anita Wozniak was herself an aesthetician and looking for space. There were ample options, but she was looking for something more — something similar to a coworking environment that an accountant, or tech company, or startup would have. So like many founders, she created the solution she needed.

The Experience

“When I first started the industry, it was mostly an older generation. The technology was really old. There wasn't a lot of advancement. Seeing where the beauty industry is going now — we have a lot of these young Gen Z's getting into the industry, and being able to help them in their business really excites us. And seeing the new technologies that are available and how even hairstyling has changed so much from when I had first started in the industry — it’s incredible."

"Having the Coworks virtual check-in tool was really important for us. And we use notifications as a way for the receptionist to alert our members if a client is there, or if they have a delivery, without knocking on their doors all the time."

Wozniak's team also uses the announcements feature of Coworks. "That is huge. We have over 100 members, so emailing each one of them, and constantly having new people join really made it difficult to optimize communications. So because we're able to announce things via text or just through the app, and it really really does help. All our members download the Coworks mobile app when they join."

District Studios also has workshop space that members are able to book whenever they need it — and they do that through the app.

The Results

Wozniak didn't want another salon of chair and room rentals. She wanted to build a beauty business accelerator.