Alan Forrest Smith (137 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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 firsthand 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. I used to be a hairdresser. Now I make my money writing.It's a coffee shop sized read. It reveals my whole journey into the world of writing great copy (accidentally).If you want more response with your copy, you should probably read it.If you want to become a copywriter. You should definitely read it.If you are a copywriter and want to go into another level, just grab the book and stop playing around.I walked out of school at 15-years old with no grades of any sort and no options so I dug holes in the ground for three or so years and put trees into those holes. I eventually became a hairdresser with a salon in a working-class mining town in Lancashire, England. At some point in my life, I ended up speaking on stages with Jay Abraham, Jay Conrad Levinson, and many other super-stars of the world of business, copywriting and marketing. Yeah, really!I've been flown around the planet at least half a dozen times to teach strategic business (something I have never been taught.) I've even sat with the rich and famous including well-known Hollywood stars and British TV stars. I even spent two weeks in the middle of the Amazonian jungle because of my writing adventures. I wrote some stuff that raised around $100k. I gave it away to an Amazonian fundraiser. They, in turn, insisted I fly to Ecuador and then into the heart of the jungle to see how this was being spent. I went, I loved it, it was crazy!I've even sat in with some of the U.K.s biggest corporate companies and have been asked to give advice, tear down internal marketing teams and rebuild them into small power-houses. Crazy stuff!And I started doing that whilst I was still a full-time working hairdresser.I've had no formal copywriting training or ever taken a course in my life. I've had no paid living mentors to guide me. I never paid more than I should for any book on the subject. I never once read a book from start to end on copy. I just read what I needed to know to get the job done. That's never changed.I want you to know this. I'm not the incredible John Caples. I truly wish I was David Ogilvy. I am nowhere near as good as copywriters like the brilliant self-styled antagonist copywriter Clayton Makepeace or the gentle Michel Fortin.I'm just an accidental copywriter. I fell into the whole thing. I had no idea what is was or what I was doing. I just write stuff. And I suppose I took the time to think about what I wanted to say and then wrote down what I was thinking. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it doesn't. But when it does make sense every word can carry some kind of weird hypnotic power that gets readers to react or respond. I'm still not sure how I do it, but I do it.And at heart, I'm an old punk finding his way in life but seems to have found his way so many times it can read pretty hard to believe.And one more little fact. I started writing Ads for my businesses in 1985. I had never heard of the term 'copywriting' until the late 90s at the earliest.All I knew was that little punk tr. …

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Accidental Copywriter: How I Went From a Hairdresser Earning �7 Per Hour To a High Demand Copywriter Earning �1500 Per Hour. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Salon Sampler: Probably The Most Powerful And Only Salon Marketing Strategy You'll Ever Need. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. This is the realization of one man's life as a Zooman living in Zoomanity. His moment of awakening, his blunt honest questionings, his life messages and inevitable self-destruction all lead to a better, stronger, more fulfilled life.From Punk Rocker to fundamentalist minister, a life of peace to two years of absolute chaos, from humiliating bankruptcy to life shattering divorce.He lost his kids, wife, home, family,even his business before he regained his sanity and eventual freedom from Zoomanity.This is a story of awakening to life, survival of huge loss and one man's truth that led to a bigger, wider discovery infiltrating all of humanity - Zoomanity!Escape from Zoomanity will have you questioning your own life for a better way, so get ready to awaken, shift, discover, and prepare yourself for your own Escape.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. I used to be a hairdresser. Now I make my money writing.It's a coffee shop sized read. It reveals my whole journey into the world of writing great copy (accidentally).If you want more response with your copy, you should probably read it.If you want to become a copywriter. You should definitely read it.If you are a copywriter and want to go into another level, just grab the book and stop playing around.I walked out of school at 15-years old with no grades of any sort and no options so I dug holes in the ground for three or so years and put trees into those holes. I eventually became a hairdresser with a salon in a working-class mining town in Lancashire, England. At some point in my life, I ended up speaking on stages with Jay Abraham, Jay Conrad Levinson, and many other super-stars of the world of business, copywriting and marketing. Yeah, really!I've been flown around the planet at least half a dozen times to teach strategic business (something I have never been taught.) I've even sat with the rich and famous including well-known Hollywood stars and British TV stars. I even spent two weeks in the middle of the Amazonian jungle because of my writing adventures. I wrote some stuff that raised around $100k. I gave it away to an Amazonian fundraiser. They, in turn, insisted I fly to Ecuador and then into the heart of the jungle to see how this was being spent. I went, I loved it, it was crazy!I've even sat in with some of the U.K.s biggest corporate companies and have been asked to give advice, tear down internal marketing teams and rebuild them into small power-houses. Crazy stuff!And I started doing that whilst I was still a full-time working hairdresser.I've had no formal copywriting training or ever taken a course in my life. I've had no paid living mentors to guide me. I never paid more than I should for any book on the subject. I never once read a book from start to end on copy. I just read what I needed to know to get the job done. That's never changed.I want you to know this. I'm not the incredible John Caples. I truly wish I was David Ogilvy. I am nowhere near as good as copywriters like the brilliant self-styled antagonist copywriter Clayton Makepeace or the gentle Michel Fortin.I'm just an accidental copywriter. I fell into the whole thing. I had no idea what is was or what I was doing. I just write stuff. And I suppose I took the time to think about what I wanted to say and then wrote down what I was thinking. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it doesn't. But when it does make sense every word can carry some kind of weird hypnotic power that gets readers to react or respond. I'm still not sure how I do it, but I do it.And at heart, I'm an old punk finding his way in life but seems to have found his way so many times it can read pretty hard to believe.And one more little fact. I started writing Ads for my businesses in 1985. I had never heard of the term 'copywriting' until the late 90s at the earliest.All I knew was that little punk tr. …

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Salon Punk: How To Make Your Salon a Raging Success. Book.

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