How to Build Your Salon from Your iPhone
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
The day a council officer threatened to fine Alan’s salon
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
Being a salon owner was a shit
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
How Making These Adjustments Can Generate Extra £115,871 Every Year in Your Salon (or Real Cost of Not Marketing)
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
Bad stylists or bad stylists recruitment process? Why it costs your salon thousands
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
How to Solve No Shows
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
Am I Dragging My Salon Team by Leading From the front?
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. … Read Full Story
If you had £100 to spend on marketing what would you use it on?
“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
Salon Marketing Training Webinar through Salon Extreme 21
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
Small shopfront, big impact: How to show off your brand with a pop-up from trade shows to village fairs
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
Why Being a Good Hairdresser is Not Enough
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
One Small Town’s Salon Success
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 Talk
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
Unusual Reason Why Clients May Not Be Coming Back in Your Salon
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
3 Easy Ways Hair Salon Businesses Can Drive Clients With Instagram
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
Unique Ideas to Boost Local Salon Footfall
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
4 Ways How to Keep the Sales Rolling After the Holiday Fever
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
Brick and Mortar – Future is Bright
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
How to Nail Facebook Live And Become a Salon Celebrity
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
Why Mondays are the best for column building and salon promotions
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
Should You Brand Up Your Salon?
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
5 Ways to Say Thank You And Increase Rebookings
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
81 Million Customers And How to Market to Them
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
Generation YouTube
Lily is a junior, she has also just turned 18 (yesterday actually), she also does not like to follow the conventional “hair training system”, instead, … Read Full Story
Is Internet Killing My Salon Marketing
We sat down in the Salon Punk Studio to discuss salon marketing and how the Internet could be killing the business.
Having been marketing businesses … Read Full Story
My Best And Worst Salon Ideas
Salon Punk goes back since 1999, but being involved in salon industry as a salon owner goes back to the 80s. In today’s “Think … Read Full Story
Salon Buying Period
What is the best salon buying period and how to get your shop busy for the busy months ahead. This 5 minutes video will answer … Read Full Story
How 2 extra haircuts can save your life
Can 2 extra haircuts a day make serious money in your salon?
It always sounds easy when you say it fast, but let’s see…
Let’s … Read Full Story
September Salon Clients Are Back
It’s almost September and while it’s a little early to take out my leather jacket from the wardrobe I notice people are coming back from … Read Full Story