Friday Feature: SimplyBook.me Sales & Marketing Tools [VIDEO]
No business can hope to survive and grow, without some help from a sales drive or marketing push. Even if are relying on good old word of mouth, it is still considered one of the most powerful marketing tactics, with the most significant positive response. To streamline your business administration, SimplyBook.me has some excellent sales […]
Competitor Monitoring Tips & Tools – A Small Business Guide
Do you want to get more clients to your business? Growing your small business client base is not easy. If you don’t know your competition (almost) as well as you know your own, you aren’t going to make a dent in their numbers. That’s where Competitor Monitoring comes in; it’s not just for the big […]
Ingvar Gudmundsson
10/09/2019
Friday Feature: Appointments At Fixed Times [VIDEO]
If you have a diverse range of services and service durations, you might want the flexibility of defining appointments at fixed times, that works both for you and the business. Flexibility for your schedule At the initial setup of your booking site, you might decide to set yourself a timetable that is in slots of […]
August Newsletter: Bug Fixes, Exciting Times, And a little secret, Shhh!
We’re reaching the end of Summer, and the chilled out and relaxed feelings are winding up to give some us some serious momentum through Autumn. See what we have been up to in our August newsletter roundup. Even our developers need some downtime in their lives. So, while actual releases are sparse, there’s a tonne […]
Buying Your Domain Name – What you need to know
If you are considering creating a business website or applying a custom domain to a third-party business platform (Custom Domain on SimplyBook.me), you will need to buy a domain name. While registering your domain name has become a simple and straightforward task in recent years, you need to know what you are doing. Last week […]
Ingvar Gudmundsson
03/09/2019
Friday Feature: Custom Domain URLs [VIDEO)
Does it bother you when a client wants to make an appointment they have to navigate away from your website? Do you wish that your booking site had the same address appearance as your website? Are you concerned that customers may avoid making an online booking because of the different URL address? These and several […]
Betina Moyal talks about SimplyBook.me and Utopia
While in the UK, we talked to Betina Moyal, the owner of Utopia therapy hub. Utopia is a collective of general therapists operating in a range of specialities, which has recently expanded to include blenching therapies. Betina specialises in blemish removal, while other members of the collective offer cosmetic treatments, foot care, alternative therapies, and […]
Ingvar Gudmundsson
27/08/2019
16 Awesome Business Tools to Use for Your Beauty or Hair Salon
While we stick by most of our choices below, we have updated this blog post to reflect changing trends and updates to some of our favourite awesome business tools. SimplyBook.me SimplyBook.me Now, we can’t do a rundown of awesome business tools without telling you about this one. ;D If you run a salon, whether for […]
Ingvar Gudmundsson
21/08/2019
Friday Feature: Intake Forms for Improved Efficiency
Have you ever arrived at an appointment and found that you had to spend the first ten minutes, filling out a form before you could proceed? Perhaps it was even worse, and you arrived at an appointment to find that they couldn’t accommodate you due to a lack of information. Could you have avoided these […]
Facebook Pixel – What is it and why you should use it.
If you never have, and never will contemplate using Facebook Ads as part of your marketing strategy, Facebook Pixel has probably passed you by. But what if you do want to use Facebook Ads? One of the reasons that people don’t use Facebook ads is that there is little return on investment, without a pinpoint […]
Ingvar Gudmundsson
13/08/2019
Friday Feature: Accepting Payments on Your Booking Website [VIDEO]
No one likes the feeling of handing over their hard-earned cash for a necessary or luxury service. If it’s a treat like a spa day or massage, it puts a pall on the whole experience. For necessities, the feeling is even worse because you know you can’t put it off or get away with not […]