The Salon Punk Book (Podcast)
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
Salon Extreme 21 vs Salon Extreme Mentor
This is a quick one. You guys keep asking so it’s easier to reply like this.
SALON EXTREME21 (SX-21) VS. SALON MENTOR EXTREME?
“Alan I’m … Read Full Story
The Christmas List … My Mother!
I’m not sure why but as soon as the kids are walking back along the street to school my brain goes into something that is … Read Full Story
My Accountant The Bee Gee
My salon accountant, Graham, looked like one of the Bee Gees. His hair was perfectly coiffured with every 120,000 hairs held in place with at … Read Full Story
What Every Salon Owner Should Know: Salon Group Q&A
From salon management to solving staff problems;
From pricing up to successful salon marketing;
From running a hair salon during a bad economy to figuring … Read Full Story
MOD SALONS & Mentor Extreme … They Reveal All
SALON MENTOR EXTREME can transform your salon – proof below.
Let’s be honest … £10,000 is a huge amount to invest in the advice and … Read Full Story
Marketing for salons: 5 Ways to Make Your Brick-And-Mortar Shop Mobile Friendly
How can you make your salon shop more mobile friendly and get better results from your salon marketing? In the previous article, I have shared … Read Full Story
Focus on THIS not THAT
Tell me where is your salon business focus right now?
A salon owner emailed me and told me how hard they push on their retail… Read Full Story
Is it worth keeping in touch with clients via mail?
Yes, Yes, Yes and it does work.
But let me tell you, I am amazed by the amount of salons that try a letter, send … Read Full Story
Get Ready To Kick The Butt Of The Big Hairdressing Franchise Salons!
My test!
This is a slightly different front line as I thought we would run a test for you all. I think you will enjoy … Read Full Story
Leap Of Faith
Every now and then you have to take a leap of faith. Life’s like that. Love, relationships, health, business it’s just life.
Some risk can … Read Full Story
5 Ideas to combat cooling foot traffic during slower summer season
Sometimes however you want to try you just can’t drag the clients in, after all, if they are parting in Ibiza, the best thing seems … Read Full Story
Why You Should Use Quiet Summer in Salon to Increase the Average Bill
Summer in salons is traditionally quiet, but you can still earn more money, maximize the sales and use it to your advantage to create a … Read Full Story
7 Star SAGE HAIRDRESSING Extreme
If you have no interest in being the best salon, busiest salon and most successful salon for miles and miles … please don’t read the … Read Full Story
I Fired Salon Manager, What Happened Next Unbelievable!
I FIRED THEIR MANAGER … What Happened Next Unbelievable!
When I started working with this salon they told me about their manager and how great … Read Full Story
Discounting – the blunt tool of salon promotions & 5 other killer salon stats to kick-start your week
At Salon Punk we’ve been testing what works, what does not work and everything in between for your salon, here’s what we discovered:
1. Discounting
… Read Full Story
Meet a 21-yr old EXTREME stylist taking £1,800 per week
Emily is a 21-year old hairdresser. The problem was when I started working with her and her team was this.
She was just a … Read Full Story
How this salon broke a 10 year old plateau
From £5,500 to £9,000
Easter time is traditionally slower for most salons. It was traditionally slow even for this salon.
We changed everything. The result … Read Full Story
Marketing Your Salon Using Salon Software Systems
Are you using salon software systems? quickly discover…
- Why using your salon software for scheduling and tilling is a mistake that is costing you money;
Overheard in the cafe – What is Salon Mentor Extreme
From no clients to 63 new clients a week;
From no upsells to every stylist forming a new habit of upselling, while keeping clients happy;… Read Full Story
How to rebuild your salon team
How do you know it is time to rebuild your salon team?
From stylists to salon receptionists what does perfect team mean?
How do you … Read Full Story
Fly Off The Shelf Product
From the original Salon Punk Archives
Here’s why Paul Mitchell Makes Sense For Your Salon Profits!
Alan Here.
I am going to be mega-fast today. … Read Full Story
The Salon Graveyard: How they used to look
Long before the click and go websites, there were only a handful of brick and mortar shops to offer ecommerce never mind online appointments and … Read Full Story
60 and over: how to market to an older headed demographics
What if your clients are not exclusively the millennials who grew up in a check-me in virtual reality world?
What if a large segment of … Read Full Story
(Salon Story) How to deal with the team that just refuses to do what they need to do to hit numbers
It’s Monday, I’m sleepy and recovering a small storm we had here at the weekend… my mother! I really need another week to recover from … Read Full Story
How to convince your stylists to use expensive hair product and charge higher price for the services
I’m just back from spending a day over at www.modsalons.co.uk with James and Izaak and team.
#LOVEDIT!
Yesterday I had forgotten what it is like … Read Full Story
How one salon owner transformed salon management and salon income in just 8 weeks
I wanted to share with you the inspiring salon success story from Salon Mentor Extreme mentees Steph and Richard, in their own words…
“So last … Read Full Story
The Big Picture
Know the big picture for your hairdressing salon
The big what… Yes, the Big picture.
For example, you don’t start a training program or an … Read Full Story
How do you know if you are losing salon clients in your salon business?
A superb tried and tested system to cure your salon problems
Attrition
Is it killing your salon business? What is attrition?
Well simply put … Read Full Story
Staff In A Shortage
Staff in a shortage? Here are 12 really helpful tips how to deal with the crises
1. Take good, hard look at your ‘draw’ potential.… Read Full Story
