Blogging – short for ‘web logging’ – has been around for many years, but of late it’s becoming more and more popular for businesses of all sizes.

…So Why should your Spa or Salon be Blogging?

There’s various reasons why you should blogging for your business – here are a handful of reasons, along with a few ideas to get you started.

Here at Premier Software, we keep a close eye on developing technology to see what’s being used by our clients, and how we can further develop our range of products to keep the modern salon or spa happy.

Over the last few years, we’ve recognised the development of apps such as Instagram, which takes your high-res, beautifully coloured pictures, and allows you to apply a retro theme to make your image look like it was produced in the mid 70′s.

So, taking design cues from all of these, we are happy to announce the arrival of our latest, most cutting edge product to date: The appPad™ .

Taking its design cues from years of traditional printing press designs, the appPad™ is a complete, printed diary – in trendy Moleskine – allowing you to completely customise your schedule by drawing in your own lines and dates.

Some of the incredible features of the appPad™

Write Direct With a Stylus

Tablet computers are great, but they’re sometimes infuriating to write with.  We’ve introduced a Stylus, which we call the appBiro, which allows you to write directly onto the surface of your appBook.

Easy Undo

Made a mistake?  Don’t worry about deleting. Instead, simply use your appBiro to scribble over the name of the client you accidentally booked in.

Multi-Coloured Appointment Scheduling

Appointments can be easily highlighted dependant on arrival, departure, type of appointment, or just because Mrs Smith really needs to be a fluorescent shade of green!  Simply move your special highlighter stylus  over the appointment repeatedly.

Easily Customisable

Want to add your own company logo? Easy, just print out your Company logo, cut it out and stick it to the front of your appPad™

Alternatively, if you’d like to purchase a product that manages your diary for you, and leaves no residual marks on your reception desk, please contact our Sales team to request details of our current software packages.

We’ll be taking a few days out of the office for the UK Bank Holidays over Easter.

Our offices will be closed on the 29th of March and the 1st of April, plus the weekend as usual.

Please note that if you hold a Premier support contract, our out of hours service will be available between 8am – 8pm for the holiday period should you encounter any business critical issues.

The team will be returning on Tuesday, 2nd of April, probably still feeling slightly sick from too many chocolate eggs.

Mothers Days is coming up shortly (at least in the UK), and what better present to give long-suffering parents than a pampering session to make up for that misspent youth?  Here’s your opportunity to provide your clients with an easy idea for a perfect gift – a gift voucher.

Gift Vouchers are a perfect present and, with the gift voucher tracking module of your Premier Spa or Premier Style software, they’re easy to track.

As a special gift to our clients, we’re slashing the price of our Gift Voucher Tracking system from £395 to just £149 – less than half price – until the 31st of March, 2013.  Just call our sales team on 01543 466580, or email sales@premiersoftware.co.uk.

Around 35,000 beauty professionals descended upon Londons Excel Exhibition last weekend (24-25th of February) as this years Professional Beauty event took off, and once again the Premier Software stand proved as popular as ever.

Premier Software clients got treated to a free expert training session from our dedicated training team, while potential clients were shown how our software can help them bring their business up to date. Visitors were impressed by the new features, from online booking for clients to a free, cloud based scheduling system for smaller businesses in the form of Salonlite.

We even got people to join in with our ‘fish face’ competition, where visitors to our stand reproduced our now-infamous advert in a bid to win either free training or a free software package (winners still to be announced!).