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New staff selector makes it easy to change calendar views.
We’ve added a new staff-selector to the salonMonster calendar. This tool should make changing between stylists and to and from multi-stylist/single stylist view so much easier. You’ll notice a discreet new down-arrow beside your name. Simply click on the name or arrow to display a list of all staff within the salon. Click on a […]
Posted: February 6th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Vote for us on KillerStartups.com
As the new monster on the block we’re trying to get our name out there, and we need your help. If you feel like clicking a button or two to help us out please vote for us on KillerStartups.com We appreciate your support!
Posted: January 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Listio
We’ve got a new profile at Listio.com, a community directory of Web 2.0 applications. If you’re feeling like clicking a button or two please vote for the monster.
Posted: January 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Behind The Chair Stylist Choice Awards
BehindTheChair.com’s 11th annual stylist choice awards are now underway and currently accepting your votes. Vote for your favourite products, haircolour, platform artist, company and even salon software… Cast your vote here. For voting they’re giving you a $10 off gift certificate to the BTC Bookstore.
Posted: January 16th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Awards, Education, Hair, Hair Shows, Salon Design, Trends -
More men “reducing grey”
The New York Times published an interesting article this week about the growth of colour treatments for men. More men are finding themselves back in the job market after years of stable employment and are turning to a little colour to keep them looking youthful and help them feel competitive. The trend is not to […]
Posted: January 14th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Colour, Hair -
Pricing options
salonMonster now supports both fixed pricing and prices “starting at” a dollar amount. Previously all prices were listed as “starting at”, but now you can set them to be a specific price. You can change this setting under the your services tab. Here you will see services listed with their prices: In this example we […]
Posted: January 12th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Programming, salonMonster, Updates -
salonMonster application upgrade
We’re happy to announce that a new version of the salonMonster application went live this weekend. We’ve made big changes to the system to support global timezones. We’ve had a lot of requests for this and are excited to welcome more of you to the salonMonster family. Other great new features include a monthly datepicker […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Angel Hairs for Kids and Cuts for Cancer
Angel Hairs for Kids and Cuts for Cancer are two fantastic charitable programs focused on providing natural hair pieces to cancer patients at no cost to the family. Angel Hair for Kids™ is part of A Child’s Voice Foundation™ run out of Toronto. Their goal is to help improve the self esteem and self image […]
Posted: December 31st, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Education, Hair, Health -
Tools we use A LOT: Google Alerts
Most people I speak to have never heard of Google’s alert service, but it’s a really fantastic tool to help stay on top on the news, business activity in your markets and more. This simple but powerful free service sends you updates directly to your email whenever google finds new content or news items that […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Business, Statistics, Tools, Web -
Winter White Salon
I’ve come across sets of photos of this crisp winter white salon from Poland twice this year and thought it was about time I posted it to the blog. (First seen as a 3d model at Dezeen and then in real life at ArchDaily) Designed for Bartosz Janusz by moomoo architects, the space was inspired […]
Posted: December 12th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Design, Salon Design