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Here’s The Fastest Way Ever For You To Build Your Hairdressing and Beauty Salon Business!

Today in 2012 I am an author, recognized expert copywriter, public speaker and marketing consultant with clients all over the planet.

Below you will find a very brief history about me and Salon Punk.

The real Alan

Born in Scotland (Edingburgh, Leith) to hard working parents. A totally eccentric mother and a very loyal father. The third of three boys and one girl.

Leith was a very working class area on the docklands. I lived in flats called Fort Place. The harbour or Newhaven was across the road from my home. Actually this is where the Queen in the UK (no not boy-george… the royal queen) this is where the famous Royal Yacht is now parked in the harbour.

Moved away from there 1970 to England, the land of the Sassenachs as my dad got a real job and became a prison officer in Risley Prison Warrington Cheshire, England.

I started my first real business when I was around 10 yrs old. I used to re-spray and re-build bicycles, mainly Raleigh choppers 🙂

My next venture was into sewing. I started altering jeans for my mates when I was around 14-15 and used to charge a quid (UK pound) for doing it.

Next I became a house cleaner, gardener, musician and punk hairdresser. When I got my first job in 1979 I was added onto the conveyor belt of life and became a Landscape gardener until I was 20. I hated it!

Up until then I had started cutting and colouring hair when I was 15 yrs as my mother used to always be snipping bits of everybody’s hair at home so I copied her. Going into hairdressing was a cinch, I loved it.

Left school a little early due to being ill with Hepatitis and then started work a bit later.

Although I left school out the back door with no exams, not one, I was the best hairdressing student Worsely, Manchester Hairdressing College ever produced (according to them of course;-)

Anyway after doing the rounds in the salons I decided to set-up my own salon in 1989.

After a year we outgrew the salon as it was around 250-300 sq feet, tiny and moved into a new place that is 2,000 sq feet.

I targeted myself as the most expensive in our area providing the highest quality work at all times.

Back to the salon…

Been there since 1991 and to be honest we have had all sorts of successes and…problems. One thing I learnt in our business is we are continually dealing with rip off merchants that really couldn’t care less about my or you’re salon business. I have had it all over the years from these guys and it has cost me heavily. Read about them in my free e-book it could save you money if you have not already.

Over the next few year loads of changes. Opened another salon. Sold it at its peak. Cost 1,800 to open and made a wonderful profit on it. Staffing was a nightmare in that particular salon and made it all very hard work. I learnt a lot with that salon over three years and how village hairdressing was very different to town hairdressing.

So…SalonPunk.com… what’s it all about?

Initially just a hobby and something else to do. Then it grew. It became about helping salon owners just like you to avoid most of the hassles I have been through. Avoiding common hair and beauty salon pitfalls that have caught me out. Avoiding the scams and scammers that just want your signature and money.

Our industry is packed full of those that scratch each others backs and are waiting to catch you out. Salon Punk will help you avoid a lot of that stuff.

Best of all Salon Punk is honest, upfront, reports right from the salon floor and really doesn’t care what anyone else in our industry thinks about what I am doing over here.

Is that it then? Well I came off the salon floor in 2003 ago mainly due to on-going back pain. Eventually I sold my final salon. Since Selling My Salons I have travelled all over the planet speaking and lecturing to hair and beauty salon owners in Australia, England, Scotland, Singapore, Latvia and many, many other countries.

I have helped well over 5,000 hair and beauty salon owners build or fix things in their business.

My main business now is my other website at www.OrangeBeetle.com where I work as a writer, speaker and marketing consultant.

Couple of Pics from my last salon, group teachings and consulting salons below.

and some clients testimonials:

I signed up for all of Alan’s courses (e-books) after taking on a dying salon taking $600 per week. that was in may 02 ,9 months later I am now expanding into the empty shop next door. since putting all of Alan’s ideas (and a few of my own) into operation I am now unable to fit all of my new clients into my present salon and taking more money in one day than I used to take in a week, this is just with myself 2 other stylists and 2 juniors working.

So…. if anyone has any doubts about any of Alan’s ideas and courses just re-read the above a couple of times and get out your credit card and sign up. You wont be disappointed I promise.

Jeanette (a much better off and happier salon owner)
p.s. I am based in a small town in Liverpool UK and if we can do it anyone can.
Trimmers Haircare

Alan …without you my business would not have gone from four thousand pounds to eight in a matter of weeks and due to your Salon Column Buildersalon column builder I might add.

Reb, Rebecca-ZA.Chapman@noriba.com

Hi Alan, well its been 2 weeks since I opened my salon, and wow. I’m flat out, i kind of expected to be really quiet for the first week or so but I didn’t sit down or eat food for 2 weeks. I put on an apprentice and a receptionist as I cant keep up and am about to put on another full time hairdresser. Your stuff really works and I’m so thankful!!! I will let you know more as it happens !

Thanks again,
Leeanne, Storm cuts hair studio, South Australia

Let me tell you we just followed one of your techniques and the phone was ringing off the hook in less than an hour of the first flyer going through local letterboxes, we put out around 200 leaflets in a couple of hours, the response booked out all the spare slots in the stylists columns for the next two weeks!!!!

We have just embarked on a joint venture with a boutique’s staff and again the phone is going crazy. Alan you have restored our faith in the business and saved us from insanity. We still have loads to work through if it all only works half as well I can’t recommend it enough, tremendous thanks Alan its worth every penny and probably more!!!!!!!

Regards
Paul

More stories, testimonials and how to build your salon business visit Salon Marketing School, CLICK HERE

“I just wanted to say thank you to Alan.

I married into hairdressing 9 years ago so im not a hairdresser, when i lost my job in the down turn and my wife was looking to sell her salon after having our first child, it was really rough, i came across some of Alan stuff online and joined his membership site on monthly payment thing

This was bad for Alan 🙂 but good for me because in one week i had enuff stuff to take my wife salon from a 2 chair drive thru village salon in Ireland to where we are now.

This year we moved to a bigger town so I bought the xtreme 21 and OMG, everything that Alan said to do I did, now wifey only works in salon on Saturdays, we paying for our house no bothers and Im actually bored and now thinking I need to move into the supplier and wholesale side of the business because I kind of shy having to be in the salon when everything is on autopilot.”

I bought the xtreme 21 and OMG

Woohoo it’s started working!It’s given me bags of confidence on upselling. It’s like there’s so much to do every day even if it’s quiet. It’s all the things we should know but we turn a blind eye to because we’re busy or just wasting time. I turned a £16 service into £45 today not to mention the product shell probably buy next visit!! It’s honestly paid for itself already!Thank you it’s sooo exiting…really getting confident now cheers guys

Georgia Florence Hair, UK

Hi Alan The way I see it as we begin our journey through 2016 is it’s going to be an even tougher challenge being a salon owner, manager, beauty therapist or stylist and its definitely going to be even more of a challenge as we approach 2017.The fact is our clients are bombarded with so much confusing information and marketing which quite often makes us feel misled or treats us like we are total idiots!So its no surprise that we are becoming meticulous where we spend our hard earned cash… It’s one of the reasons that reviews have become so popular because people are becoming more and more careful when they choose anything from a hairdressing salon to where they should buy their food!I see so much junk and rehashed and untested garbage that salon owners have been told to use in the salons that simply makes me feel despair because I know is just not going to work.

The way I see it as we begin our journey through 2016 is it’s going to be an even tougher challenge being a salon owner, manager, beauty therapist or stylist and its definitely going to be even more of a challenge as we approach 2017.The fact is our clients are bombarded with so much confusing information and marketing which quite often makes us feel misled or treats us like we are total idiots!So its no surprise that we are becoming meticulous where we spend our hard earned cash… It’s one of the reasons that reviews have become so popular because people are becoming more and more careful when they choose anything from a hairdressing salon to where they should buy their food!I see so much junk and rehashed and untested garbage that salon owners have been told to use in the salons that simply makes me feel despair because I know is just not going to work.So I was really excited when I received my copy of 21 Salon Extreme to see a work manual that would guide you the salon owners, managers, beauty therapists and anyone looking for a clear uncluttered powerful step-by-step direction to not only market your salon but to create a complete dynamic system that can be implemented instantly into your business – even when you have SO much other stuff to do! and is up-to-date and READY for 2016/2017 and beyond!!I love the fact that it’s something I can hold and make notes in, work with and have explanations that really makes you think and understand why and where the concept has come from for each part of the manual. It’s the first time I have seen a combination of multilevel marketing where your guided through everything from Facebook, social media, SMS text, email, direct mail,

So I was really excited when I received my copy of 21 Salon Extreme to see a work manual that would guide you the salon owners, managers, beauty therapists and anyone looking for a clear uncluttered powerful step-by-step direction to not only market your salon but to create a complete dynamic system that can be implemented instantly into your business – even when you have SO much other stuff to do! and is up-to-date and READY for 2016/2017 and beyond!!I love the fact that it’s something I can hold and make notes in, work with and have explanations that really makes you think and understand why and where the concept has come from for each part of the manual. It’s the first time I have seen a combination of multilevel marketing where your guided through everything from Facebook, social media, SMS text, email, direct mail, in salon promotions, how to use your website and the internet to templates for posters and flyers and everything you could imagine you will need to market your salon. It even shows you how to test and measure everything you put in place to help you build your salon business.Just as a personal note from me “Alan,I know you have put your heart and soul into this manual and that it comes from someone who understands what its like to have your home on the line and the bank manager breathing down your neck and what its like to have failure and success and what that feels like – and we both know that it simply works…

So I would like to personally thank you from our industry for creating a tool that if used correctly will help build any salon business, reduce a little bit of stress and make our industry great!

Steve xBest RegardsSteveSteveWynder.com – Hair & Beauty SalonSO Magazine
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Steve Winder

Hi Alan

I signed up for all of Alan’s courses (e-books) after taking on a dying salon taking £300 per week. that was in may 02 ,9 months later I am now expanding into the empty shop next door. since putting all of Alan’s ideas (and a few of my own) into operation I am now unable to fit all of my new clients into my present salon and taking more money in one day than I used to take in a week, this is just with myself 2 other stylists and 2 juniors working.So…. if anyone has any doubts about any of Alan’s ideas and courses just re-read the above a couple of times and get out your credit card and sign up.

You wont be disappointed I promise.Jeanette (a much better off and happier salon owner)p.s. I am based in a small town in Liverpool UK and if we can do it anyone can.

trimmers-haircare.ik.com

HI Alan I think hairee . com is absolutely fantastic I am a bit rubbish on the computer don’t know how to work attachments. Love all the stuff I have read so far i think it has kept me sane, knowing its not just me struggling with staff matters. had a real nightmare this last year your advise has kept me strong thanks very much it is nice to know there is nice people around with love

Jayne king

Been busy with your material.

This is what I think about the material. The first moment when I started to download it I know it was the right thing.
I felt huge inspiration. This material is really important for me cause I am working in a village, that means you gotta get the clients to get there.

Everything was there, but it was really one thing that I felt was missing.
You got the voucher and ads. But when you open a new small salon in a village you need to make flyers and put them in the mailboxes, not just when you open like 4 times a year.

Everything in the package is so great I just would like to see ideas about flyers for the villages hair salons.
This is what I did already. I used your Idea about recommend a friend, but I did it a little bit different. I used my business cards and on the backside I printed the offer, I give my clients that like 10 each and I didn’t use off on service. I called places where you buy hair products and asked them if they had something they wanted to get rid off so I could buy them cheap and I told them my idea of giving them away.

I told them my idea of giving them away.

I bought stuff for 10 Swedish crowns like 10 dollars each I mean brands that people know shampoo gel, hairspray everything. so I give them one product for every new client. So the women that works in our food store give them out to nearly everyone she knows. Of course I have done her hair already.

I gave her limit time of course. So I ended up with 1 dollar each new client and I didn’t lowered my price.
I forgot of course the friend also get a product it cost me 2 dollars sorry. I will let you know more what I am doing. But Alan if you got an idea about the flyers please let me know. That was the only missing link the way I see it.
Fabulous package. I am on my way now. Thank you so much.

Madeleine

Hi Alan
I have found Hairee.com to be a wealth of information.
As a new salon owner I needed information on how to do a better job of marketing & I have been able to try some of the ideas from Salon Column Builder. I have 2 established stylists & a new one to our salon & I did not know how to start building a clientele for her. I have tried a couple of the ideas from the column builder & it is starting to pay off already. I just need to persevere & hopefully she will also have a full column in the not too distant future!
Many thanks

Amanda

The real Alan

Back to the salon…

So…SalonPunk.com… what’s it all about?

Couple of Pics from my last salon, group teachings and consulting salons below.

and some clients testimonials:

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