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The xx – Coexist
The new album released by British band The xx called “Coexist” is a perfect fit for the moody, cloudy, greyness of the west coast winter that’s starting to set in here in Vancouver. Fronted by Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim, and Jamie Smith, The xx dabble in melancholy crooning backed up with their fantastic minimalist dark beats. Soulful songs about […]
Posted: November 27th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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salonMonster Hosting Upgrade
We’re excited to announce that we’re updating salonMonster to a new, faster, even more reliable data hosting centre to ensure the best performance possible for our clients. We will be moving the salonMonster application from our current datacenter to its new home on Monday November 19th at 5:00 AM PST. While switching over to our […]
Posted: November 14th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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Creating a Facebook Page for your Salon
Like most stylists I know you probably have a Facebook account. You’ve probably friended some clients and once in a while post an update about your work, but get a bit weirded out by the lack of personal / work separation and don’t really know how to use Facebook to improve your business. Well, it’s […]
Posted: September 13th, 2012 ˑ 1 Comment
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Extreme Home Page Makeover
salonMonster.com has had a facelift! Our previous home page was getting a little long in the tooth and just wasn’t sexy or fun enough … so we’ve changed things up. We’ve added lots more colour and lots more monster. We hope you like it! Here’s a quick peek at the new look: Check out […]
Posted: September 7th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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Monster likes Mobile : salonMonster comes to iPhone and Android
We’re ridiculously excited to announce that we have released the first version of salonMonster’s new mobile app. We’ve released it as a web-app, and we’ve got simple instructions on how to add the app to your phone’s home screen. Once we get a bit of feedback from you, our awesome users, we’ll tweak things and […]
Posted: July 24th, 2012 ˑ 4 Comments
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The Monster Gets a Facelift
We are super excited to announce that we have updated salonMonster with several great new features and a few changes to the aesthetic of the application! First off is a change that many of you have requested and we heard you loud and clear. You will now be able to change the date of an […]
Posted: July 17th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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3 Simple Ways to Make Your Domain Name Easier to Read
Websites have become an important part of modern businesses communication and marketing, no big news flash there. However, an integral part of getting people to your Website, how you present your domain name, is often overlooked. Domain names are the gateway to your Website and it’s important to think about how you present your domain […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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Top 10 Pins
We mentioned a while back that we’re a bit addicted to Pinterest. So many pretty pictures, we can’t resist it! We love seeing which of our pins turn out to be the most popular, it is so fascinating to see what resonates with people. In this vein we thought people might be interested to see […]
Posted: June 1st, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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Greetings and apologies from salonMonster
As you may be aware salonMonster experienced some downtime on Sunday evening and we have been working around the clock to resolve the issues related to this. We wanted to explain to you what occurred and what we are doing to improve salonMonster so that this won’t happen again and if it does that it […]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
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Hairy Jam
Hairy Jam, an exciting new hair industry event premiers this weekend here in Vancouver. We’re super excited, it sound like it’s going to be great! We were able to catch up with the event’s organizer, Jim Dreichel, to ask him a few questions about the project. So, what is Hairy Jam? Hairy Jam is a […]
Posted: April 12th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Hair, Hair Shows, Inspiration