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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 Punk. Salon owners are struggling Salon owners need help Salon owners want to grow their salon business Salon owners are willing to do what it takes Salon owners want my mentoring but find it hard to work out if it’s worth the money? Is that you? So we talked this over in the office and have come up with this. Salon Mastermind One-Off Special. Two live mastermind session where I and my team will answer ALL of your questions. This is for 10 salon owners only Y ...

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 on top of the list (good news for hairdressers:)). What does it mean to you? If you are a beauty and salon owner, including barbershop owner, the government will offer you a salon grant of £1500 when you hire a young apprentice between the ages of 16-24. The process is fairly straightforward and if you need to know the details the best place to visit is the official government Apprenticeship website www.apprenticeships.org.uk We ...

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 to have that cash in the bank, we’d all be using just social media to run our businesses, would not we? Instead how many times have you caught yourself browsing through random profiles, only to realize you have wasted time without taking a penny… via Facebook?! The truth is Social Media helps businesses like your salons grow, engage customers and ultimately profit, but unless you find the way to really manage your salon’s social presence, it could be tough, if not disastrous, t ...

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 in mind, and with no whether to support, I could not help but wonder how would UK tourism department go about attracting tourism, if the UK was not the country of queens and late kings. Lucky us, with the flag high on top of Buckingham Palace and Life Guards changing every hour we have that covered 🙂 I know what attracted me to come over in the land of her majesty, and it certainly did not include very wet English weather we are enjoying today at the Queen’s ...

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 my mail as usual, went upstairs into my office and then sat going through the mail. Whenever I got direct mail in the salons I would go through each piece very carefully, open or trash the ones I wasn’t sure about rather than waste time opening, reading and then trashing. This one was a simple, plain, cheap white envelope with a dot-matrix label that said The Owner rather than my name. I was curious so I opened it. The letter was from a car company I knew off and were very ...

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. I could have kept a job but frankly as a creative I had quickly become an unemployable dreamer that just wanted to create great things. So I got a shop. I had to sign a long contract that would keep me committed and in the shop for 15 years. I had to re-mortgage my home to make the shop happen. I had to work 7 days a week for years. I had to be a director, accountant, boss, listener, mentor, trainer and a hairdresser each day. The stress was huge and there was more than one occasion where ...