pack out your salon in 30 days or less
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PACK OUT YOUR SALON IN 30 DAYS OR LESS!
And Then Keep Your Salon … Read Full Story
The uncertain economics of digital salon industry
Hair Salon Industry and Profits
Like a tired marriage, the connection between salons and customers has long been becoming dull. “New age” e-marketing, (whether through … Read Full Story
Has a dismal retail summer effected your salon business? Can you use the Olympics to change that?
Even if your salon business is outside the capital or even the island of Great Britain?
Bad economy? Love it!
Whilst the world goes into … Read Full Story
Salon virgin
Hairdressing industry contributes to bigger chunk of European business start-ups, but are hairdressers encouraged enough to flourish in today’s economic climate?
According to The Economist … Read Full Story
5 Tips on Beating The Labour shortage In Your Salon
Even in times of rising unemployment, employers face a skills shortage—a mismatch between available employees and the skills needed to be employees and managers. In … Read Full Story
Does your salon stand out from the crowd?
…and win a salon competition challenge
Did you know that Beauty Salon business is ‘Googled’ 20 million times a month in the UK, considering the … Read Full Story
3 Things You Can Do Today To Increase Salon Profits!
Hi, Head Punk Alan here.
Here’s 3 things you can do right now so you can count more pennies at the end of the week.… Read Full Story
10 Simple Steps to Making Changes Happen In Your Hair, Beauty Salon Fast
Step One
Think about the result you want from your change in your salon. Sounds obvious but all the of the jigsaw needs to make … Read Full Story
5 Easy Ways to Enhance Your Salon Brand Using Free Instagram
…Don’t stay behind…lead your salon customers where the public goes
I am sure you have heard the saying that a picture can speak a thousand … Read Full Story
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Apply to write for Salon Punk
We are excited you are interested to become part of the Salon Punk writing community. Salon Punk publishes original … Read Full Story
Are you hiding from the postman? How to improve credit rating
5 Reasons you should sign up for credit rating agencies…
Late payments, CCJs, red letters, and final demands, we’ve all had them and quite frankly … Read Full Story
How texting good morning keeps your salon column full
Ask a person these days what they could not live without, in fact 9 times out of 10 people would say their mobile phone. This … Read Full Story
Lessons from The Coffee Shop
Lesson from the Coffee Shop
Each day half way through a 90-minute walk we stop at a coffee shop that is new and much needed … Read Full Story
Don’t Ever-Never, Let Your Stylists Dictate Their Pay
… Because Most Of Them HATE YOU!
This one really drives me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do so many salon owners let let their stylists dictate their … Read Full Story
Does Yellow Page Salon Advertising Actually Work?
Your salon phone rings. You are busy yet the person that answers the phone comes over to you and says …
“Alan, it’s Yellow Pages, … Read Full Story
Let’s All Fire a Bone Idle Stylist Today
… Right Now!
Some stylists need to be taken to the front of the salon. You should then get their tools. Throw the out on … Read Full Story
Get your salon name out there! Five ways to get people talking about your salon
Sometimes it can be a nightmare trying to get clients in your salon door and spending their money with you.
It is believed that marketing … Read Full Story
Salon Marketing Live Training From Salon Punk
Salon Punk Live
See the photo above?
It’s a salon I walk past maybe 4 times a week as it is next to my Gym. … Read Full Story
Salon Failing? Salon Marketing?
Is your salon business failing?
We get stacks of emails from salon owners asking for help for free. The most common email is littered with … Read Full Story
How much hair can you talk about to a non-hair stylist?
Whilst conversations about hair is reserved for hair stylists, the less enthused tend to nod and smile, or zone out, when hair and last nights … Read Full Story
Salon lessons from 1930s
As I flip through old, worn out beauty magazines, I can not help but wonder, how did 1930s – famously squashed between great depression and … Read Full Story
Salon Mastermind One-Off Special
Special One-Off Series With Alan Forrest Smith
Salon Masters Breakthrough Calls
There’s two things I have discovered from the new launch of all new salon
… Read Full Story
How government sponsors apprenticeship for hairdressers
In 2012 the UK government introduced a new salon apprenticeship program, supporting both, employees and young apprentices. Amongst qualifying industry hairdressing, and beauty industry is … Read Full Story
3 Ways to measure your salon brand’s social health
We’d all like to have lots of cash in bank, and if having a Facebook account and Tweeting “strawberry blond colour” was all salons needed … Read Full Story
Show Off Your Salon Jubilee Weekend Special
According to statistics monarchy brings £176M to the UK treasury every year (not including the money made by restaurants, hotels, cabs and stores)… with that … Read Full Story
Direct mail lessons from the time of hairdressing
Successful Direct Mail Lesson from THE Hairdresser
In 2001 I still had hairdressing salons. One day when arriving at my main salon I picked up … Read Full Story
Ask a Real Salon Expert?
In 1989 when I opened my first high street hair salon and business I had to do certain things that I wasn’t sure about doing.… Read Full Story
Epitaph for Vidal Sassoon
In the year 1982, I started my hairdressing training I was nearly 20 years old. I had been cutting hair since I was 15 but … Read Full Story
The Secret of a number one salon
This week at Salon Punk Tamara forwarded an email over to me.
I can’t and won’t leave the salon owners name but I wanted to … Read Full Story
How these 3 technologies bring more clients to salon owners
I am from the generation when apple and blackberry were just fruit, and life seemed less complicated, no surprise many, especially busy salon owners find … Read Full Story