SpaSalon Manager - Now on Facebook!

Ever since we rolled out our new website back in May we've been looking to put more and more information about our program and our company where our customers can see it.  We want you to get to know us as well as how the program operates. That entire time we've worked hard on something behind the scenes and I'm very happy to announce that we're now ready to unveil our company site on Facebook!

When we first discussed creating a Facebook page we were hesitant. We have so much great content on our new web site that there were questions about whether we could create something for Facebook that could add anything to what we already had. Once we got started though the answer became clear - we had a lot to say that didn't lend itself well to showing on a traditional web page.

Our Timeline page allowed us to tell the story of our company in a way that a simple web page could not. You can see the story of our company from its founding in 1985 to the present day illustrated in pictures. We have our newsletters, pictures of manuals and other materials from the early days of the business, as well as pictures of our employees and business owners that worked with us at our trade shows. They work together to tell a complete story of our business as it grew from Kent Crabtree writing a program for his parent's salon in 1985 to the business it is today.

Our Home Page section pulls together parts of our current web page like the blogs, the sign-up for a free trial, and links to our support and sales pages. This should make it easier for everyone to find exactly what they need. In addition there is a Training Videos section there where we give the same type of step-by-step support we offer over the phone to everyone on Facebook. Our growing list of videos give simple instructions that both teach new users how to use the program as well as show what each part of the program can do for you.

I hope you enjoy our new Facebook page! Give it a look, Like us, and feel free to leave comments! I'll personally be very active on the site and look forward to hearing from you there.

Last minute addition: We now have a business twitter account, @spasalonmanager. Feel free to contact us there!

New Email Feature - Email Footer

The Send Email feature of our program has always allowed you to send links and pictures. With a bit of work outside the program first you could even send full web pages. What the program lacked though was a way to automatically include certain links and pictures on every email that you send out. That's why we've added our newest feature to email - the Email Footer.

The Email Footer page, which is available under Maintenance -> Internet Marketing, makes it easy to create an attractive email footer. First, we've given you space to type in a slogan, extra information, current specials - whatever text you'd like to add to every outgoing email. Next, we've pulled together a custom set of logos for various social media sites - Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Yelp, and LinkedIn - as well as logos for your Home Page and Online Booking. These logos are all sized so they can fit together on a single line and link to any of these sites that you use. You enter the address for each desired site and the Spa/Salon Manager takes care of the rest. Finally, we added space for up to three text-based links. These could be links to other partner businesses, your own newsletters hosted on the web, or any other links you'd like included at the end of every email.

With just a few minutes of setup you'll be sending attractive emails that tie your social media presence directly to your emails as well as providing more options and information to your customers. Best of all, this is another free service included to all Cloud and Maintenance Contract customers! As always if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact support.