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Gas masks come to a salon near you?

In a strange and unusual twist following the revelation about formaldehyde in the Brazilian blowout some salons are resorting to gas masks to keep their stylists safe. The Neal George Salon in Beverly hills California has added a Cabana with open sides to separate the process from the Salon, while the Mark Garrison Salon in […]

November 4th, 2010

No music for you

The copyright battle is moving its from the computer to the salon in London as government agencies start to crack down on salons who don’t have music licenses to play copyrighted music in their salons. A London high court justice has barred Doreen Ellis, owner of Studio 44 salon, in Church Road, Northolt from playing […]

October 20th, 2010

Mobile Payment Processing!

I have been reading a lot of articles and forum posts lately discussing mobile payment processing or the lack thereof. As a self-employed hairdresser I have always been frustrated by the lack of options for my business to accept credit card payments. Thankfully in the last year, three companies of note have released products to […]

October 18th, 2010

salonMonster updates

We’ve been working hard adding new features to salonMonster. We put a new version live today, here are some of the highlights: Manual appointment confirmations (which is optional). This gives you the option of checking the appointments your clients’ book before approving or denying them. The appointments menu shows a badge with the number of […]

October 15th, 2010

Beautiful brand identity for a new salon

Check out this amazing brand identity by Studio MPLS for a new salon in Minnesota called Salon Modern (Website not up yet). They’ve done such an incredible job with their graphic design and colour combos. The wallpaper and product packaging is awesome. It really is a whole image, very effective. I’d go there just based […]

October 13th, 2010

Health Canada issues warning about Brazilian Blowout

Health Canada has issued a warning that the Brazilian Blowout hair treatment possibly exposes people to unsafe levels of formaldehyde. Read more at the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/health-canada-issues-warning-about-brazilian-blowout-hair-treatment/article1748267/

October 8th, 2010

Follow our blog on twitter

We’re excited to say you can now keep up with our latest blog posts on our twitter account @salonmonster . Whenever we make a new post it should show up with a bit.ly url so you can easily view the full post. All of this thanks to the twitter tools plugin. We hope you find […]

October 1st, 2010

Preserving Production Capability aka Holidays

If you’ve ever read the hugely popular book 7 Habits of Highly effective people by Stephen Covey you might remember his comments on preserving production capacity. Covey cites the old fable of the goose and the golden egg where the farmer kills his gold egg laying bird to get all the eggs at once only to find there are none and his bird is dead. This concept of balancing your productivity level with working to preserve/increase your production capacity is so crucial yet is often forgotten in our workaholic society. You just can’t work the machine so hard and delay maintenance or the engine will burn out.

September 26th, 2010

Pingdom

One of the really great tools we use here at salonMonster is pingdom. It’s a remotely hosted web-service which monitors your website or web applications. They notify by email, SMS text-message almost instantly in case of any issues, incredibly helpful in maintaining a high availability web service. They even have an iPhone app, which shows […]

September 6th, 2010

We’re out of stealth mode

We’re very happy to announce that as of this weekend we are out of “stealth mode”. Our pre-release clients are up and running and our information site is now live with a great overview of what salonMonster can do for your salon. We’re going to be working hard to keep improving things every week so […]

September 5th, 2010

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