Technology never stops, so make sure you stay up to date with the latest! Especially when it’s in relation to salon business. Floomly is a new salon software company created by Sam Austin-Smith (that surname may ring a bell), previous managing director at The Fantastic Hairdresser. Sam is also the daughter of its founder Alan Austin-Smith, one of hairdressing’s most respected business coaches and mentors. Floomy is a smart, profit-focused solution to support and coach salon businesses.
Sam says: “Our core belief is that business data is worthless unless you know three things: what you need, how to find it and what to do with it when you find it. With our feet firmly planted in the salon industry, we view tech and software from a different perspective: yours.”
Why Floomly
Over the years Sam has conversed with many salon business owners and has used these insights to build a responsive system that addresses real issues.
Sam says: “This is not our ‘best guess’, Floomly is our response to a 30+ year deep dive into thousands of hairdressing businesses of all shapes and sizes. With our salon business coaching experience we know what is necessary to help you and your business. We have learnt that hairdressers need a system developed by people who are genuinely ‘in it’ with them. Floomly delivers our response to the very tangible issues facing salons today and it is making a stand for hairdressing.”
What the Floomly?
Playful and quirky, the name ‘Floomly’ came to Sam in a ‘lightbulb moment’ whilst riding on a theme park log flume – conjuring the carefree and fun idea of “transporting you where you want to go, bringing all the information into one pool, constantly funnelling in the right direction – in fact, everything Floomly aims to do for your salon business!” says Sam.
We hear Floomly is a problem solver, task do-er, mentor, phone-a-friend, business developer and educator. Sounds fab, who doesn’t need a little help at times…especially from a friend. The best part? Floomly is user-friendly (as easy as child’s play). So, you don’t need to spend hours learning how to use it…we like this.
“Rather than demonstrating what your salon has done” says Sam. “Floomly shows you what you need to do for future growth as well as providing you the solutions to get there, and this is how we approach everything we do – as business coaches first, developers second.”
Here’s a look at how Floomly can work for your salon business:
- Team Floomly handles the set-up so you don’t have the hassle of moving systems and data across
- Devise and input your 2-year salon plan, profit targets and team goals, all with the helping hand of The Fantastic Hairdresser Business Coach
- Ready-to-go with focussed targets, plus a simplified system to track and benchmark. The three-month break clause means you won’t be ‘locked in’
- Floomly has doubled up on customer service support
Sam created Floomy for everyone working in a salon environment: salon owners, salon managers, stylists, front of house teams and rent-a-chair salon owners.
Are you experiencing any of the following?
- Struggling to get hold of customer service to sort issues and make ‘simple’ changes
- Being told by your software provided ‘I’m afraid we don’t have a report for that’
- Constantly waiting for your colleague to finishing checking someone in/out before you can see the diary
- Having your software drop out and not having access to vital diary or customer records Being locked into a contract you aren’t happy with
Sam
Sam says: “At Floomly the reality is that we do it differently, doing it the hairdressing way and being the new BFF in software that has your back.” As a software provider and industry partner, the team at Floomly are passionate about supporting the whole industry with collective challenges such as recruitment and team motivation. Sam continues,” It’s a Floomly future goal to turn our profits and our success into the wider success of the industry. We love this industry, and it has been where our family has worked for over 40 years, we want to help where it’s hurting, and it’s central to our business vision.”
For more information email: hello@floomly.com / call: 020 8827 1659 / or click here
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