software for the hair industry

Take a look at the software products for hair industry out there and you will notice a few things:

complexity
these software packages have dozens of features that do all sorts of things, and sure, somewhere somebody uses
all of those features. But ask yourself, what features do you NEED ? which ones do you use everyday ?

I think you will find you need a lot less to stay productive then all these software packages are providing.

Here is the thing about software vendors..they try to put every possible feature they can squeeze into a product
so that its not "missing" anything, so a potential customer will not ever say "well it does not do this or that"

cost
guess what ?

all those features cost money!
they cost money to develop
they cost money to test
they cost money to support

guess who pays for these costs ? their customers of course...
oh..and the ones that use only 10% of the software features ? they still pay 100% of the cost.

end-user

have you priced some of these packages lately ?
well I have, and its really unbelievable.

thousands of dollars initial cost and hundreds of dollars per year ongoing maintenance/support/subscription costs

who do they think is buying this stuff ?
Big-shop owners that's who..

who are they all ignoring ?
The booth-renter.. the "single-chair business owner" that's who.
They can't afford thousands of dollars for software, so they generally get by using paper books
and a calculator.
They miss out on the productivity benefits of technology because the software vendors have priced this group right out of the market.


The bottom line ?

Really take a look at software products before you buy:

Make sure you understand ALL of the costs involved !
Make sure you understand the costs for support. When you have a problem is it a per incident charge ? or a yearly support contract ?
Most times you are ONLY eligible for new version upgrades if you keep your software under continuous ( and sometimes expensive ) support.

Do you really need that feature ?
Or can you get by without it ? Sometimes the add-on modules they are trying to sell you "adds-on" a bunch of cost, with not a lot of benefit.

Test Drive !
I researched nearly 100 software products for our industry, and I found some that had absolutely no way to try-out their software !
Would you buy a car without test-driving it ? or without even looking inside ?
If you can't trial the software with a fully working version, you wont know if its going to work for you.
If the company does not offer it, and will not make an exception, move on.


Well now, the shameless plug!
We think we have built a great easy-to-use product aimed specifically at the booth-renter
to help them get productive and stay productive.

We also think we have it at a pretty good price point too!
Check us out http://www.ibeautify.net ( and yeah, we have a 60-day free trial )