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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

3 Things You Can Do Today To Increase Salon Profits!

Hi

Head Punk Alan here.

Here's 3 things you can do right now so you can count more pennies at the end of the week.

Don't do them ...and your crazy!

Okay here they are.

1. Review your pricing

Nooooooo not pricing!!!

And why not. It's weird, in our business we continually have an in-built fear of "what will the clients think" ... or even worse ... "what will that terror client ... Mrs. Jones ... say about it?"

Look this is business, this is your business. Your business might not just be supporting you but supporting family also! So this is your life.

When is the last time you increased prices? Who really cares what one single client thinks.

Pick up your price list and go over every single service one at a time. Compare them to other salon prices. Compare them to the last time you had to change them. Compare them to each member of your team... have they been promoted since the last price increase?

Can you add on a dollar here and a dollar there? At the end of the week when you cash up... you'll be shocked at the massive difference it can make to your salon turnover!

Don't question it... JUST GET IT DONE!

2. Review services charges.

Isn't this the same as a price rise? No, here's why.

Lets say you have increased your prices overall by 5%. So everything has risen by the same amount.

Now as an example lets take 'foil highlights'.

Is that serviced priced right? How would you know? Do a price comparison with all of the other salons around you. Then review your standard of service.

In our salons we knew our services were much better than the services offered by other salons. We spent more on training, more on detail, overall we were much, much better. We were also packed out.

With that in mind we raised the prices way above that of other local salons and reviewed them continually.

This one single service review would continually increase our salon turnover and profits. Will it... can it... do the same in your salon.

Review your services NOW.

3. Review your appointment book.

This for me (and other salon owners I have worked with) is one of the single most areas for you to grab back money.

For example...

We used to have a stylist named Helen that never had a last appointment booked in. It turned out she never had a first appointment booked in either. It turned out she never had an appointment booked in right after her lunch break.

That was 3 appointments a day.

Those 3 appointments were worth on average $140.00 each.

That's $420 a day or $2,100 a week!

You read right... $2,100 a week missing from ONE bone idle stylist named Helen!

How are your team doing? Are some missing the same appointments daily? Are you measuring it? Are you conscious of it?

I know this for a fact... when I  began to get a grip of my appointment system in my own salons, my salon profits went through the roof.

Don't even question the 3 things above.

Do them, do them now, do them this week, DO THEM TODAY!

Hope this helps you.

Let me know

Head punk Alan.