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Emma Whaites, from Regis's Dingles branch in Exeter, scooped the Beauty Therapist of the Year honour at the hair and beauty company's Creative Awards held in Birmingham.

New qualifications for beauty therapy will be developed by awarding bodies later this year after HABIA announced that new standards for beauty therapy have been approved.

Face It has won the first UK Salon of the Year award from South African skincare brand Environ. The salon, in North London, sold more Environ products than any of the 350-plus stockists.

As we move further into the new millennium, the business world seems to be becoming more and more reliant on technology. Many tasks that were formally performed by workers have been taken over by computer automated systems. In such a technologically advanced and competitive environment, one cannot afford to be left behind. Salon software can drastically increase efficiency by saving the time and manpower usually devoted to producing commission, sales and stock reports, as well as clients' records and other paper work. It also presents a more efficient way of storing such data. There are many salon software products on the market, but Salon Active Software leads it in both specification and value for money.

Through streamlining business procedures, increasing overall efficiency and giving greater control over the business, Salon active software can ultimately improve profit margins and growth. Issues that may have troubled the business in the past will no longer exist. For example, double bookings, cancellations, stock levels and wastage, cash control, staff commissions and business analysis. The time saved on doing paperwork and the availability of such data can create more of an opportunity to motivate staff, conduct research, and promote so as to maximise retail sales.

Salon Active software will become an integral part of your beauty salon equipment. They also offer a first class training and integration scheme, so Salon Active software will soon seem like just part of the furniture. Salon Active provides its customers with the best quality product and support for their salon software.

Salon Active caters for all sizes of business, and so offers a number of different packages to suit every business environment. That way your individual business needs are catered for in more detail, whatever your budget is. The 'solo' package is the entry level package and allows a single employee in the database. It caters for the salon manager who works between several salons or in a single salon on a rent a chair basis. The 'lite' option is similar to the solo package but offers an unlimited employee database. It caters for all sizes of salon and offers all the features available except accounting and payroll. Salon Active 'pro' is designed for the large salon and is extremely expansive in its options scheme, providing control of clients and appointments, inventory, employees and point of sale as well as extensive accounting section. Finally, the 'enterprise' package is designed for salons that are part of a chain. It offers specialist features and is multi-locational, so each site can view each another's information.

Salon Active Software is not only beneficial for the established salon business. It is also ideal for a new business. A great deal of organisation is needed when a business is just starting out, especially when finances are tight. Salon Active software can be used effectively to keep efficiency and effective use of resources at a maximum to ensure and manage constant and steady growth through managing stock, finances and appointments.

Salon active software creates the opportunity to produce such reports on a regular basis, covering important aspects of the business such as sales, growth analysis, balance sheets, bookings and client issues as well as stock levels, which means you will never be short on supplies. The software also has inbuilt a multi level security system which allows employees access to areas you specify. One of the keys to a successful business is constant evaluation and this sort of data is extremely useful for doing this. Client behaviour can be monitored. For example regular clients can be identified, as well as no-shows and regular no-shows. Among other things, Salon Active software eliminates the need of having a full time receptionist. Business analysis wise, the client database could show a low number of returning and regular customers, which would highlight bad working practices or customer service.

With just a click of a button, you have access to all the names and details of your clients, and every service and product they have ever purchased. Marketing is made easer and more accurate with access to this detailed client database. It provides complete demographic data and purchasing information for each client. With this information at your fingertips, imperative marketing decisions can be positively influenced and stronger relationships can be built with customers. Effectively, more sales can be made with a larger number of clients. Through this client database, you can determine what kind of client base you have and what you need to offer them. This process of market research can often help to shape the business. For example, you may find out that the majority of your clients are in the 21-30 age bracket. In this case it would be in your interest to cater for and to market your products and services mainly towards this segment of the market rather than the whole market.

So why specifically choose Salon Active over all the competition? For one, Salon Active provides great support for the software and produces several updates a year so that in five years time, your software will still be as advanced as when you invested in it. As well as offering state of the art technology with great value for money, it is also extremely simple to use, so less computer literate employees will still be comfortable using the software. Salon active software also boasts the most efficient and easy to use appointment calendar and point of sale screens in the industry. The appointment calendar allows you to view and amend all appointments for any employee on any given day if so wished.

Every aspect of the business can be monitored and controlled through Salon Active software, such as customer information, revenues and staff details. All these fields are interlinked and are updated after every transaction as the software can be linked with cash drawers, bar code scanners, receipt printers and other hardware.

Salon Active is the leader in its field and provides state of the art Salon software including Business management capabilities, appointment calendar/scheduling, POS software and hardware for Hair Salons, Beauty Salons, Nail Salons, Tanning salons and also Massage Therapists.