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 … 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… … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read Full Story
If your stylist leaves and take all your clients with them and the same process happens all over again every few months how much will … 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
We asked Alan to share his 32 year industry experience of leading salon team by pushing from the back instead of dragging from the front. So … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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.… 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 … 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
Whether you expect repeat sale or not, you should say thank you regardless, it is given. With such human selfless act you can be forgiven … Read Full Story
Baby-boomers have been replaced by the Millennial Generation, they are some 81 million kids (Source: Google) who already entered college and the workforce … Read Full Story