Over the past few years, Victor Fontanez has worked tirelessly to build up a global brand name for himself. He dedicated much of his time to perfect his skills and get the right combination of knowledge and skills to make it work. The uphill task led him to stretch over his calendar, developing mental resilience, focus and hard work to make it to the top. 

Victor Fontanez

Victor is a 20-year-old entrepreneur and a professional barber. He hails from Fayetteville in North Carolina- a small town that has scarce resources to satisfy the basic needs. Vic Blends as he is famously known, is the CEO and founder of VicBlends online Barber Academy. The academy teaches over 20,000 subscribers every month how to cut hairs and become professional barbers. Besides the academy, Victor has his hair products and clothing merchandise companies. Moreover, he has gained popularity to become the most influential to receive an endorsement deal with the health and beauty conglomerate Conair.

To build a solid base for his brand, Victor had to set up a unique mindset that has driven him to build his empire.

Time Management Skills

If there is something notable about Victor, is his time management skills. He ensures that he gets the most from the 24 hr clock. He focuses on things which adds value and creates social impact in the long run. What drives him to maintain a perfect calendar is the quote from one Pandora Poikilos “Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters”. He, therefore, maintains the reality of ensuring that he touches every aspect of his daily plan each day. 

By taking the first hour to draw up his daily activity and sorting the urgent ones from the less urgent, he then focuses on completion of those tasks to finally achieve his milestones. 

Developing Mental Resilience

Exposure to the online platform leads one to become vulnerable to cyberbullying and impersonation. Vic Blends has not been an exemption. Over the past year, a lot of scammers have impersonated his likeness. Please take a quick look at Instagram, you will find more than ten accounts utilizing his image, including vicblensds910, vicblendsss, vicblendsreal, vicblends90210, to mention a few.  

To counter the effect, Vic blends has maintained its social status creating awareness campaigns to enlighten his clients about the exposure. If there is something you can beat Victor Fontanez around, is the way he perfectly composes himself as he handles most of the life hurdles. 

Focus and Hard Work

Never be distracted no matter what it may be until you complete that specific task. That’s what Victor stands for. Most of his clients attest to the fact of how keenly he looks and cuts the hair when offering the barber service and how perfectly he takes each cut. For him, it’s not just offering a service, but ensuring that the result will enhance the general look of his clients, therefore boosting their self-confidence.

Perseverance pays. Victor advises fellow entrepreneurs and barbers towards maintaining the high standards of their services, which may at times never be easy at start but will eventually be worth the hustle.