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Oct 30, 20233 min read
Gift Card and Hint Kit Holiday marketing Ideas
More of the Make the most of your marketing! Here are some of the most effective ideas salons and spas are using right now to increase...
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fredd524
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Get your slice of the Holiday Pie
Get Your Piece of the Holiday Pie During the 45 days before the Holidays, you will see most of your regular clients. Now is the time to...
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fredd524
Aug 14, 20232 min read
What is NEW in On-Line Booking - WOW
What’s New in On Line Booking Make sure your On Line Booking is using all the latest and greatest features. Express Booking pages: allow...
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fredd524
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Tips on selling product that is JUST NOT MOVING!
SELLING DEAD RETAIL PROFESSIONAL INVENTORY IS NOT LIKE RUNNING A CLEARANCE SALE. Dead professional inventory is different than clearance...
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fredd524
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Get Smart about Retailing and Managing Inventory
Many times we add a product or line because the staff or a person on staff loves the product and will sell TONS of it. Of course it...
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fredd524
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Turn Dead Inventory into Ca$h
Turning Dead Retail & Professional Inventory into Ca$h Even with MIKAL inventory control systems in place keepinginventory carry...
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Jun 26, 20232 min read
What is New at Mikal?
ALL NEW OPTIONS AND FEATURES WITH MIKAL Take a look at the new features and programs we have been perfecting. Call us if any of these...
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Jun 26, 20233 min read
Spruce Up the Salon for Spring
Spring Money Making Ideas  Now that winter is almost over and here in Cincinnati it will be SEVENTY degrees today! (great isn’t it?) Â...
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Jun 16, 20231 min read
7.2 is all NEW for YOU
7.2 includes: - Sends an ADDITIONAL REMINDER to clients who have not confirmed their appointments. Less work, fewer no-shows, clients...
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May 28, 20232 min read
MIKAL Seven 7.1 is awsome
MIKAL SEVEN point ONE MIKAL 7.1 lets clients communicate back to your salon/spa their APPOINTMENT CONFIRMATION. When clients receive the...
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May 26, 20232 min read
Client visit cycles slowing? Betta getta JITA!
More on Marketing with the Mikal 5 Step Program Now for the Skeptical clients. The Skeptical clients need to get back on schedule with...
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May 26, 20232 min read
JITA - Add an extra appointment each day - effortlessly!
Just imagine.................Having your MIKAL computer look at the cancellations and availability in your book and automatically send...
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Mar 15, 20233 min read
Spring Promo Ideas for Salons and Spas
Salon and Spa Spring Money Making Ideas Now that winter is almost over and here in Cincinnati it will be SEVENTY degrees today! (great...
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Mar 1, 20232 min read
Do not sign a contract with the wrong merchant processor!
Merchant services usually refers to processing services that enable a business to accept a transaction payment through an encrypted...
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Feb 15, 20231 min read
Mikal vs Square - are they kidding?
Mikal Salon and Spa Software comparison with Square First Mikal gives you 2 competing credit card companies to get the best rates. Square...
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Jan 15, 20231 min read
New Improved On-Line Booking
MIKAL is rolling out the new and improved On-line booking system for our salons and spas. Easy to use and full of features clients love!...
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Jan 5, 20233 min read
Valentine's Day Salon and Spa Ideas
Is your Salon or Spa ready to make some serious money for Valentine's Day? MIKAL Salons and Spas are ahead of the curve and are taking...
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Dec 30, 20224 min read
Salon Owner guest blog - what MIKAL has done for her
Fred, I want to share with you one of the biggest challenges of my career in the beauty business and how I recovered with the knowledge I...
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Dec 29, 20221 min read
MIKAL Client Site information - good info!
Let's take this down time to fine tune our systems! Have you ever logged into the Mikal Client web portal? It has a TON of great...
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Dec 29, 20223 min read
While you are waiting.....Salon and Spa Ideas
2022 has had some challenges - But we are starting the New Year! Don't think New Year's Resolutions, think about your 2023 EVOLUTION...
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Dec 21, 20221 min read
MIKAL now has automatic confirmation tracking
Automatic Appointment Confirmations with MIKAL 7.1 are amazing 35 to 65 percent of clients are confirming back their appointments within...
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Dec 20, 20222 min read
Keep your Staff after the busy season
Compensation systems Your compensation system needs to match performance to income, especially at the high end. We should not lose our...
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Oct 6, 20222 min read
Cinnamon-Honey Macchiatos
Here is one small tactic you can add to your customer relations program that will endear you to your clients. We know clients like to...
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Jun 23, 20222 min read
More 5 Step Marketing with MIKAL
Tough clients? We have the answers! You can MAXIMIZE the Resistant and Stalwart Experience by Marketing with MIKAL Today’s consumer is...
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Jun 18, 20222 min read
More info on the 5 Steps of Marketing
Here are the 5 Steps and strategies Mikal Software salons are using to resume business and grow their businesses. First let’s make sure...
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Jun 18, 20222 min read
More on the 5 Marketing Steps to Success
Here are the 5 Steps and strategies Mikal Software salons are using to resume business and grow their businesses. First let’s make sure...
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Jun 15, 20221 min read
Get that Marketing Going and Grow!
Here is a 5 Step Plan Turn your Reluctant and Skeptical Clients into Super Stalwart clients! Do you have the tools in place to not just...
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Jun 10, 20222 min read
New MIKAL New MIKAL New MIKAL
ALL NEW OPTIONS AND FEATURES WITH MIKAL Take a look at the new features and programs we have been perfecting. Call us if any of these...
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Jun 10, 20222 min read
Keep more of your new clients after their first visit
We know from research that salons and spas generally keep three out of every ten new clients who visit their business. After that second...
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Jun 1, 20221 min read
Mikal Listed among 2022 Top-Rated Software!
SoftwareWorld, one of the leading business technology intelligence and research firms in the world, last month named Mikal among the 2022...
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May 28, 20221 min read
Summer Marketing Ideas
Don't let your summer sales slow down. Make the most of your marketing! Here are some of the most effective ideas salons and spas are...
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May 20, 20222 min read
MORE Marketing Ideas
Gift Cards are not just for the Holidays and Mother's Day. Sell and promote them Year Round - GREAT revenue Idea 3 – The Gift Card...
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May 19, 20221 min read
Mikal Introduces Small Bytes on Instagram!
For the past 40 years, The MIKAL Corporation has supported the salon/spa/medical spa industry by offering the only software that directly...
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May 18, 20221 min read
Secure Credit Cards stored on file now in MIKAL
Mikal 7.1 allows you to keep Client CREDIT CARDS on file. Please note: you must use a Mikal credit card partner for this feature and the...
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May 18, 20221 min read
All new SEVEN 7.1 release
Introducing MIKAL SEVEN point ONE 7.1 release now available MIKAL 7.1 lets clients communicate back to your salon/spa their APPOINTMENT...
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Feb 19, 20221 min read
Mikal Employee Phone App - EMBA rocks!
MIKAL salons and spas are experiencing a big increase in Rebooks and Prebooks using EMBA the employee mobile booking app! Salons report...
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Feb 12, 20221 min read
MIKAL clients - easy upgrade idea!
I was reviewing some of our MIKAL long term accounts - maybe you! And noticed that you are still on an OLD version of MIKAL! The latest...
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Nov 27, 20212 min read
Corporate Gift Card Ideas
It’s Holiday Time! Don’t be late getting your holiday specials and ideas out there. Stores, catalogs, and web sites are already going...
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Jul 23, 20211 min read
Staff up ideas at Camp Mikal
Salons and Spas are staffing up, getting busy, and preparing for a busy fall/winter season. Make sure you are using your Mikal system to...
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Jul 20, 20211 min read
Does your salon/spa JITA?
Now that we are Re-Opened we need to fill ALL of our appointment slots. JITA will help to do that. Plus JITA takes the sting out of...
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Jul 18, 20211 min read
Inventory and Retail rethought at Camp Mikal
Is you Inventory organized and easy to handle? Are your Retail sales coming back strong? If not you may need to come in for Camp MIKAL...
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Jul 13, 20212 min read
New Classes at Camp Mikal
I am packaging up some really nice classes for Camp that will be specific option related to help our clients increase sales, understand...
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Jul 13, 20211 min read
Get your EMBA on at Camp MIKAL
EMBA is hot - stylists rebook clients right at their chair. We are seeing salons DOUBLE their rebooking with EMBA! Plus...................
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Jun 14, 20211 min read
Camp MIKAL is for SIX and SEVEN clients!
Camp MIKAL Aug 21-23 2021 Something for Everyone! Present MIKAL SIX and SEVEN clients Camp MIKAL will include: Set up the On-line...
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Jun 12, 20213 min read
Spruce Up the Salon for Summer!
SUMMER Money Making Ideas Now that 2021 is almost HALF over (can you believe it?) and here in Cincinnati it will be ninty degrees today! ...
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Jun 11, 20211 min read
Summer Marketing Ideas for Salons and Spas
That's right sell giftcards in the SUMMER! How? Be creative - Do a corporate gift card special call for example flyers. Companies are...
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Apr 16, 20212 min read
All New EMBA Goals and More
Employee Mobile Appointment Book EMBA is all about GOALS EMBA will show your sales and set a goal with you. Grow your business with...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
QUICK - make some money
QUICK! Let's get you started on: Xris-Xross Marketing: set up MIKAL to send a special e-mail/text only to clients not getting specific...
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Oct 25, 20203 min read
Ideas from the MIKAL Salon Success Club
Success Club Ideas 2020 WOW was the MIKAL Salon and Spa Owner Success Club meeting great. See the ideas below and you can’t beat Florida...
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Oct 24, 20202 min read
Holiday Gift Card Ideas
With the holiday season a lot of people are asking ways of how to promote business. One way is to give employees gift cards to give out...
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