Why clients could not stop buying hair retail and services
It was over 20 years ago and a long time before the social media and the Internet when Alan discovered the secrets to really becoming the … Read Full Story
It was over 20 years ago and a long time before the social media and the Internet when Alan discovered the secrets to really becoming the … Read Full Story
It’s always a good idea to make some noise, especially during holiday season. But for a busy salon owner, spreading the word and generating excitement for … Read Full Story
A letter to a salon owner from the archives of Alan’s original hair salon website while still running his salons.
How much is too much for … Read Full Story
How are you getting on with the systems you have created from the last article?
Did you book the four-week holiday? Not confident enough yet? … Read Full Story
You the salon owner wake up in the morning. What should you do today? After all the salon is going great, everything is cool, the staff … Read Full Story
There is always something new going on to help you market your salon, frankly, it can be hard to keep up sometimes, especially when you have … Read Full Story
This is a quick reminder that sometimes it only takes one small salon promotion a day to take more cash at the end of the … Read Full Story
Interview with salon experts.
Collectively these experts have over 50 years of salon experience. Today they are sharing their insights of ups and downs of … Read Full Story
Can you build your salon using your smartphone?
In this episode of Think Outside Salon Box over 38 minu, es Alan talked about growing salons using … Read Full Story
During one of Salon Punk recordings, Alan shared (off records) the story when his salon was almost fined by the council officer, in fact … Read Full Story
I’ll say this once. Don’t be offended it is what it is.
When I was a salon owner sometimes it was shit!
Shit being the … Read Full Story
This is a story of The Real Cost of Not Marketing Your Salon!
We had a call from a salon owner the other day inquiring about … Read Full Story
No shows and empty hair appointments is not only annoying but it can cost a typical hair beauty salon up to £5,000 over time! That’s … Read Full Story
Are you dragging your salon team or are you leading your salon? We asked Alan to share his 32-year industry experience of leading salon teams … Read Full Story
“If you had £100 to spend on marketing what would you use it on?”
“Why do you lose longtime clients if you are producing consistently … Read Full Story
When Alan first created Salon Extreme 21, he sat down with salon owners and went through some of the proven salon marketing ideas and … Read Full Story
Been there one day and gone the other day salon shopfront can help generate the buzz with customers and draw bigger footfall in your brick and … Read Full Story
I thought because I was a great hairdresser that would be enough to create a busy salon. It wasn’t and that created huge problems for … Read Full Story
Small town hair salon or a city salon franchises, hair salons are at the heart of the communities, or rather communities are often … Read Full Story
If this chair could speak…
See that chair? It’s 26-years old.
That chair has seen millions of words written and millions of pounds created.
I’ll tell … Read Full Story
I am frustrated…My hair is not terribly cut, but it’s not right either..
When I first discovered the hair salon I had my hair done … Read Full Story
Of course, everyone loves selfies, from stylists to clients And with just 150 million users Instagram selfies are here to stay.
After all, who does … Read Full Story
More than ever, clients head online and flick through Facebook and Instagram in search of hair ideas and decent hair stylists. While over 80% of clients … Read Full Story
Our junior Lily came to visit us in the studio yesterday, she needed to print some of her hairdressing training stuff to study, so I asked … Read Full Story
Despite all the doom and gloom of e-commerce takeover and the threats to brick and mortar business sales 92.3% of retail sales were made in-stores.
Obviously, … Read Full Story
Want to be a salon celebrity without living your station? (And deepen client loyalty?)
One client told us she had tracked the time spent on Facebook … Read Full Story
Best time for salon promotion? Mondays for pub owners and salon owners are the same – Quiet for clients, busy for managers.
How’s so?
Pub … Read Full Story
When I was a hairdresser and salon owner I very quickly understood that in a town of 35 salons I would need to stand out.… Read Full Story