A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
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
One of my all time favourite movies also happens to have some of the best outrageous avant garde hair styles! Edward Scissorhands still stands out today as an exceptional film filled with exceptional hair. The topiary inspired hair styles are fantastic as is Edward’s own hair style, my personal favourite.
My brother forwarded me this great support email he received from Griffin when he was having problems with some headphones from them. It’s not often that a defective product issue ends in a positive customer experience that the customer shares with their friends. Thumbs up to Griffin for thinking creatively when it comes to product … Read more
The Kaze Hair Studio in the Kaze Moóca Building in Sao Paulo Brazil is pretty neat. Its facade is designed as part of a controlled ventilation and passive temperature control system. It also has a great central atrium with a beautiful wall of ceramic panels by the artist Fábio Flaks. Seen at: http://www.noticiasarquitectura.info/noticiasEn/news4967.aspx And : … Read more
Check out this amazing ceiling at Boa hairdresser’s salon in Zurich Switzerland by Claudia Meier. It does an incredible job of evoking the feeling of hair and apparently moves with the air from the hair dryers. I love that the concept behind the renovation was to give the salon a hair cut. Check out more … Read more
We thought it would be kind of fun to profile some of the tools that we find ourselves using on a regular basis here at SalonMonster. We work in a distributed office with people based in various cities and thus rely a lot on our software. So, with this in mind we’ll probably mostly be … Read more
I’ve been reading a great travel book called “To Timbuktu for a Haircut” by Rick Antonson, the CEO of Tourism Vancouver. It’s fascinating to read about his travels in Mali, it’s such a different world to here in Vancouver. Last night I was reading a section talking about the ravages of river blindness (Onchocerciasis) on … Read more
Cloud computing has become incredibly popular of late and here are just a few reasons why it should interest you. To start, with web based applications like SalonMonster, you no longer have to back-up your important information because it is saved for you on a secure server online automatically. Next, you don’t have to have … Read more