Alan Forrest Smith
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Books by Alan Forrest Smith
“The Salon Punk: How To Make Your Salon a Raging Success” (2018)
I’m not sure why you’d want to read this book. I can’t make any great claims of taking over the hairdressing world or winning endless hairdressing awards. I never had fifty stylists breaking endless records and I never had a salon that turned over millions in pounds in haircuts or hairdressing services. Yet looking back at my 17-years as a salon owner I feel did do something pretty amazing in my own little world of hairdressing that you as a salon owner can look at and feel inspired by. Before I did that amazing little thing I had to accept this one thing about my life as a hairdresser and salon owner. It was this. Being a great hairdresser was and will never enough to create a successful hairdressing business. It just isn’t. Your great and successful salon business only arrives when you begin letting the public know you are a great hairdresser with a great salon. It’s about knowing; managing, aiming, pushing, directing and marketing your salon in ways that could cost you nothing and give you everything. It’s also about finding and using systems that are actually proven to work and work fast in a salon like yours. And I know that because I’ve done that for many salons as a mentor and also done that for my own salons between 1989 and 2003. I know for an absolute certainty that there are powerful things that must be done daily to make sure you have a hair salon business that is a success and that in turn gives you a much happier life. Happiness comes from doing the things in life you really feel the need to do. Your salon business either supports that or might actually be preventing that because of the lack of results. If you are not making enough money or unable to cover your bills or pay your stylists or even unable to pay yourself – you’ll have a huge problem and that huge problem will make you unhappy with your life. A lack of money when you’re working hard can be a real killer. Yet it is fixable and can be fixed fast. I had to slowly and sometimes painfully learn the art of turning my salon into a real business. A business that could give me the kind of life I wanted. The life I wanted then was really a life built around a young family that needed to be fed, looked after and nourished. I had to create a business that would do just that. That’s exactly what I eventually did. I could not afford for it to fail. Failure for me really meant no food on the table that really was my personal bottom line. Eventual success in my salons gave me the ability to build my own stunning five-bedroomed converted barn on a farm, have around a one acre plot of garden with it’s own orchard and space for my kids to play around and have the time and money to be able to live a more enhanced life as a hairdresser. I made mistakes, plenty of them. Some mistakes were huge and almost cost me my salon and salons on more than one occasion. I will share those stories with you as you read along. Yet, after 17-years with my salons and the hairdressing business I discovered, learned, uncovered and found some of the most incredible ways to make sure not only did we all stay busy but the phone rang constantly, the appointment book was packed and we even had a long list of clients waiting for a last minute appointment. This was an incredible achievement for a school dropout, ex-landscape gardener and punk rocker to hit the top slot in a town of 35 very established salons. Anyway, be sure of this. Whatever you are going through in your salon right now is pretty normal. Even the salon stars of this world have troubles and issues that would leave you jaw-dropped in total disbelief if you knew them. I know, I’ve worked with some of these guys and seen it first hand in the biggest to the smallest of salons. It is normal. It is fixable and can be fixed faster than you will know right now.
“The Ultimate Missing Client Kit: How To Get Hundreds of Missing Clients Back Into Your Salon” (2018)
The Ultimate Missing Client Kit Here’s How To Get Hundreds of Missing Clients Back Into Your Salon Spending Money In Just 21-Days Or Less Using Simple Direct Mail Get More Clients This Week Get More Cash This Week Using A Powerful Proven Tried and Tested Salon System Guaranteed To Work. Not only are the results phenomenal it is cheap and easy to do and insanely effective! What I am about to share with you I have done already in hundreds of businesses. Not just hair salons but restaurants, car showrooms, jewelry shops, accountants and literally hundreds of hairdressing salons just like yours all over the world. Please take what you read very seriously, it works! Doing this one single piece of marketing has transformed salons just like yours (and mine) and given salon owners like yourself access to an already warmed up clientele going into the hundreds that have already been to and already knows your salon. This is easy. It’s actually a no-brainer. That means you really don’t need a brain to do it. That’s how easy it is. However, a brain will help – of course.
“Happiness: Five Spiritual Laws For Happiness & Your Personal Escape from Zoomanity” (2016)
Happiness isn’t born it’s created. When you think about it, every single thing you do every minute of each day is designed to lead you into a happy life – hopefully. You work hard or harder for more money. More money pays for what you want or have to pay for. Paying for things or buying things you feel based on what you know makes you feel happier. You get a better job because you feel a better job with better prospects will make you happier. You start a new relationship because you feel being in a relationship will make you a happier person. You go to the gym, to try and get fit and healthy so you look and feel better about the way you look. If you feel and look better you feel you will be a happier person. Your life might not be as happy as you’d like it to be, you feel under many pressures and those pressures force you to look and listen to others. You listen to what they say and do and yet despite trying these things you are still not happy with your own life. It seems whether it be money, relationships, health or any other subject, happiness is still the elusive dream that looks and feels exclusive to others. You can see what you feel and believe is happiness in the lives of others yet you cannot see and feel the same in your own life. Social media has you convinced that most are now enjoying a bigger, better happier life than you enjoy. The real effect is you become less happy when observing the life of others. Can a single photograph on social media where a friend looks, as though his life is incredible really truly tell the story of a full 24-hour day or even a life? Of course not it’s nothing more than a snapshot or a moment that represent no more than that. You might feel you know what you want i.e. more money, a relationship, a better job etc. but is that what you need or what you simply want? The secret of happiness is here.
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