How to adapt to the success of your hair business
Counterintuitive as it may sound your own salon business success can ruin your business. Now that you are more successful you might be dealing with … Read Full Story
Counterintuitive as it may sound your own salon business success can ruin your business. Now that you are more successful you might be dealing with … Read Full Story
If you have a struggling or underperforming salon business you really should read this one.
The world of marketing your business has changed beyond belief … Read Full Story
We all make mistakes, anything from being late to a meeting to entrusting a person to do a job they are not suitable for. Usually, … Read Full Story
Am I ready to change my business?
Am I getting the results I need to be getting in my business?
Have I gone as far … Read Full Story
It’s a long time since I started my first salon business in 1985. For me, it was about making the money. Yes, service was key … Read Full Story
Do you employ a FREEDOM WORKFORCE?
The way people – hairdressers – work and think has profoundly changed.
If you are still trying to … Read Full Story
By the time you open this email I will be on a plane at 30,000 feet heading to Aberdeen, Scotland with my little salon punk, … Read Full Story
Grab a coffee, grab a seat, get some quiet and read.
I’m on a plane. I’ve just had a moment.
Before I tell you … Read Full Story
When you love what you do, when you are creative, stepping aside is not easy. But as times goes by, priorities change. How you want … Read Full Story
We are definitely in an age where everything is being RE/defined. Salon business, workspace, money, life, death, age and just about anything else you … Read Full Story
Weird question right but your survival might one day depend on your answer.
Here is how to know if you are a yesterday salon.
I want to share something with you. It’s more than relevant for your salon.
Many years ago before I wrote my first book I realised … Read Full Story
A new salon mentor client I am working with has a problem almost all salon mentor owners have and it is this.
All are infected … Read Full Story
In 1979 I did my first marketing. It was a couple of fly posters and tickets I design for my punk band, Clone Youth.… Read Full Story
There is a huge problem in our hairdressing or salon owners industry. It is good to know what that problem is … Read Full Story
When my favorite Italian cafe, Carluccios, closed down I was disappointed, but not surprised. Carluccio’s had the best location in our very wealthy village, but … Read Full Story
Staff don’t care much in your salon?
It’s most likely that the staff problems are created by yourself, but you have the power to change … Read Full Story
How to increase your takings on Thursdays when you’ve had a quiet week? Listen to the short episode as Alan Forrest Smith explains what you … Read Full Story
How salon management will grow your salon business and create busy columns for any stylist.
Listen to the short episode as Alan Forrest Smith shares … Read Full Story
IMPORTANT: Apologies for late delivery of THE SALON PUNK BOOK. The truth is it keeps selling out so fast we literally cannot re-order them fast … Read Full Story
In today’s highly commercialized digital world you’d be forgiven to assume that your clients don’t care about getting another email from your salon, but, based … Read Full Story
Next time you hand over a recommend a Friend voucher ask yourself, is this exploding my salon business? And if it is not, ask yourself … Read Full Story
How is it possible to increase salon income by £88,400 from one stylist? One graduate stylist did just that. Listen to the podcast episode to … Read Full Story
How do you create hair salon promotions that actually work in your shop?
How do you turn your salon into a proper business?
Listen to … Read Full Story
How To Push Your Salon Into The Next Level .. Read if You’re Stuck
Seriously – If results in your salon are the same week … Read Full Story
It’s Alan, The Salon Punk here.
Last December I had a call from a salon owner that had just 4 weeks to survive. By the … Read Full Story
Why is my salon marketing not working is probably the biggest question most salon owners ask me?
“ Alan, we do everything in our salon … Read Full Story
Do you know what does Valentino and Alibaba have in common or for your salon brand?
This week we’ve been sending out some ideas … Read Full Story
After writing The Salon Column Builder in 1999; After Creating a big how-to guide for salon management SalonExtreme 21; and around 10 other books … Read Full Story