A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
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/
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Check out this great KeyTool from ThinkGeek that fits over one of the existing keys in your keychain so it doesn’t take up any more space. It includes: * Large screwdriver * Medium screwdriver * Small screwdriver * Nail file * Finger nail cleaner * Bottle cap opener * Wire cutter * Tweezers Sadly it’s … Read more
I was trying to purchase a new Canon S90 digital camera and found this great deal on the Dell Website. I was all ready to purchase the camera but couldn’t for the life of me find the buy button. Turns out you have to click on the Customize it button to purchase the camera even … Read more
Progress is going well on the application and we’ve sent out our new multiple stylist calendar view to our beta testers for some quality control. It’s really exciting for us as we’ve just been testing a single stylist version of the application so far. Here’s a sneak-peek at it:
From Telus’ online phone purchase form comes a great example of something that a simple bit of programming would solve. Just using one line of programming to strip any whitespaces before or after the text once the user submits it would remove the need to harass every user with unnecessary extra steps.
This is really cool, it’s like Facebook for Hair Stylists! I have been on here for a few months and have found it extremely informative, particularly the forums. Hope you find it helpful as well. www.hairbrained.me