10 Technologies: QR Codes
If you’re wondering about those bizarre two-dimensional barcode boxes you’re starting to see in magazines, they’re called QR (Quick Response) codes, and they can be your ticket to delivering information to the most tech-savvy of your clients.
10 Technologies: Appointment-Filling Programs
Even in this climate of constant change and innovation, there are two things we know about today’s consumers: they want real-time information, and they’re relying more and more on their phones. Additionally, a segment of the market does not plan ahead.
10 Technologies: Automated Loyalty Programs
Airlines, grocery stores, bookstores, pharmacies, restaurants and retailers—today, it seems every business has a loyalty program with an identifying member card.
10 Technologies: Collective Couponing
Now that we’ve brought up the G word, let’s take a closer look at the collective couponing phenonmenon—is it a good strategy for salons or a bad strategy? While we acknowledge there are many players in this segment, Groupon still leads the pack. We invited two salons to debate the issue, and a third to weigh-in with an industry alternative.
10 Technologies: Online Client Surveys
For more than 10 years, Khiem Hoang, business manager of Umbrella Salon in San Jose, California, had issued written surveys to gather client feedback. “But it seemed challenging to get people to fill them out.”
10 Technologies: Webcams
When Mitzi Bishop, owner of Bishop’s Salon and Day Spa in Nashville, Tennessee, discovered a salon webcam was a window into her world, she tapped into a whole new level of marketing and client education.
10 Technologies: Hair Color Management
Techonology is even finding its way into the color room. Recently, a team that supplies 60 percent of the color formulation for the paint and ink industry got to thinking: why can’t the same technology be applied to ensure error-free, waste-free hair color dispensing at the salon?
Ten Technologies: Web Development
While many salons have developed professional websites, many have not learned how to use them to best support their salon business. SALON TODAY invited Mike Cooper, founder of Salonbuilder and the MODERN SALON Site Kit, to share his thoughts on the top five tips for salon and spa online success:
2011 Salon Software Guide
When it comes to managing your salon, your software is your most valuable business partner. This brief guide introduces you to the business management software players in the professional beauty industry.
Oribe Owners’ Exchange
AT LAS VEGAS’ HARD ROCK HOTEL and Casino last May, the models strutted, the hair flew, and the crowds cheered for the iconic Oribe and his Oribe Backstage. But before all the on-stage action started, it was ideas that were ying in the Oribe Owners’ Exchange.
SureTint Systems Granted U.S. Patent on Hair Color Software and Formulation Technology
Mitchell Saranow, Chairman of SureTint Systems, LLC, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office approved issuance of a patent covering important features of SureTint’s new hair color software formulation system.
Tornado Relief Cut-A-Thon
Angus Mitchell and his Angus Mitchell Salon Beverly Hills staff recently held a special ‘Tornado Relief Cut-A-Thon’ to help the American Red Cross raise money for the victims of the Joplin, Missouri tornado disaster. Read the details
2011 PBA Symposium Speaker Lineup
WITH ITS 2011 THEME, the Professional Beauty Association’s Symposium, held July 30-August 2 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, will encourage participants to “Be More Intelligent.” Keynote speakers and finely tuned workshops combine with high-profi le networking time to offer salon professionals the wisdom to advance both their careers and beauty businesses. SALON TODAY invited each Symposium presenter to give us a preview of the wisdom they’ll share:
Team Strategies Rides for the MS Society
Team Strategies bikes 150 miles for Multiple Sclerosis. Read about their journey.
Industry Technology Experts Weigh In On Increasing Profitability
We tapped some the industry’s leading technology experts to ask: How does your technology help salons increase profitability?
Eurisko Design Announces Distributor Relationship With Neill Corp.
Eurisko has announced that it has formed a distributor relationship with Neill Corporation.
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