Next Generation of Salon Software

In this exclusive editorial, we hear from Sam Austin-Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Floomly, a mission-based business ready to assist its customers in achieving their business and profit goals by alleviating business pain.

How would you describe Floomly?

Acting as so much more than a bookings software, the primary goal of Floomy isn’t to make bookings for salons; instead, it is to make businesses more streamlined, easy-to-run, and profitable while handling bookings super smoothly. As a family business with a history in hairdressing, Floomly is on the side of the hairdresser.

A business should reflect the founder and their values; it should be a combination of you and your dream customer, and that’s how I bring together my 20 years of hairdressing knowledge into the business. The intuitive design and straight-forward software used by Floomly satisfies my urge to do bigger things for others and to always see things from the other side.

What are you doing differently?

With Floomly, my personal mission is to change the way that software does business by shaking up the landscape and doing things from the perspective of a hairdresser. For example, a real annoyance for me is the way salons’ data is being held. If you want to exit from a software deal (including ours), it shouldn’t cost you more than a nominal amount to extract all of your data.

What is Floomly’s mission?

Our mission is to improve standards of living for teams. We want more people coming into the hairdressing industry, and we want salon owners and teams to benefit from their hard work in very real monetary terms. As such, we are giving salon businesses the tools to be more goal-focused and more profitable.

It is such an exciting thought that we are helping salons do business better. As a family business with a background in hairdressing, we understand the challenges of real salons and strive to deliver solutions to them.

How are you keeping your industry connections?

We are sponsoring a 10-date business seminar tour of one of our business partners, The Fantastic Hairdresser, so head to our Instagram, @floomly, as we’ll be posting dates and locations around the UK to come and meet with salons. We are so excited for the tour and seeing Alan Austin-Smith share live solutions to very real hairdressing issues like profit, recruitment, and the cost of running a business.

Alan will be sharing his incredible wisdom and solutions for hard-working salon leaders to make the change and benefit from it. Our sponsorship side of the tour will be a Floomly panel of fascinating speakers and motivators, and we’ll be revealing all, so follow us on Instagram to find out more.

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