Technology
Grow Your Business with Automated Marketing
Marketing your business is a top priority; if you don’t market, you won’t attract new clients or keep the ones you already have. Good news: Your marketing strategy doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated to make an impact.
Sponsored by STX
How One Salon Cut Color Waste And Now Saves Thousands Of Dollars
Facing substantial color waste at the salon? Learn how to save money with a new salon system designed to manage backbar usage.
Sponsored by Vish
Grow Your Business with Automated Marketing
Marketing your business is a top priority; if you don’t market, you won’t attract new clients or keep the ones you already have. Good news: Your marketing strategy doesn’t have to be time consuming or complicated to make an impact.
Sponsored by STX
Schedulicity Secures $22M Funding to Drive Growth, Announces Launch of Payment Processing Technology
With a new round of financial funding, Schedulicity launches a new payment processing device and mobile card reader and offers a 1.99% credit card processing fee, the lowest rate in the industry.
Color Savings with Ecoheads' Ping More than 'Vish'-ful Thinking
When used in tandem, Ecoheads' Ping color mixer and the Vish color management app help salon save 29% of every color application. Not only is that good for the environment, it's fabulous news for salon profitability.
What You Need to Know Before Purchasing a POS System
Today's salon management software programs come with a lot of bells and whistles, but what are the key features you need to run a growing and profitable business? This blog outlines the essential things to consider before you make that investment.
Millennium and Textel Elevate Client Communications
Through a partnership between Millennium and Textel, salon owners save time and money at the front desk, reduce no-shows and improve customer service.
by Stacey Soble
The 2019 Technology Guide
Technology plays a strong hand in how successful owners lead their salons, and now the options go far beyong appointment scheduling. This helpful guide introduce you to a number of digital tools to add to your managment toolbox.
5 Salon Trends And Best Practices
Millennium Systems International’s John Harms is an experienced leader—for 33 years he has pioneered salon management software. Harms understands how important it is to keep innovating and adapting in order to be successful in any business, and here he reflects on his own leadership strategies and company innovations that help salons grow.
Sponsored by Millennium Systems International
National Survey of Small Businesses Reveals Growing Technology Adoption
A survey conducted by DaySmart Software and Reserachscape International concludes that small business owners prefer cloud-based software over on-premise software to run their businesses. Findings also indicate that business owners who grew up in the digital age are more likely to use business management software.
by Stacey Soble
The 3 Must-Have Weekly Salon Reports You Should Be Reading
In his first SALON TODAY blog, Phorest's Chris Brennan shares the three critical reports salon owners should study each week to keep their businesses on track and growing.
Here Are The 3 Salon Trends That Are Changing Everything
Are you ready for artificial intelligence, salon mobility and personalized marketing? These are the trending business “musts” for salons.
Sponsored by Millennium Systems International
Salon Meets Today's Client Expectations for Convenience with New Technology Tools
From online appointment booking to e-commerce, new salon owners Anthony and Gloria Edge embrace technology tools that help them deliver on client demand for convenience, personalization and customization.
Shortcuts New Partnership Will Bring Beauty Services and Products to a Client's Front Door
Shortcuts recent partnership with bgX, an on-demand tech service that has a relationship with Uber, will help salons fill their clients requests for mobile beauty services and beauty services at home.
by Stacey Soble
Data Confirms Demand for Online Booking
New research shows 46% of appointments are booked when salons are closed, and 43% of Gen Z clients expect salons and spas to offer online booking.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Tour: Starring by Ted Gibson
The salon combines cutting-edge smart home technology with the more than 30 years of experience shared between co-owners Ted Gibson and Jason Backe.
5 Critical Website Must-Haves
Marketing guru Lauren Bakos offers five tips for building a salon website that makes a great first impression.