SOURCE: Genbook

July 22, 2008 09:30 ET

Genbook's Online-Scheduling Button Helps Spas and Salons Turn Website Visitors Into New Clients

Genbook's Free BookNow! Button Makes Online Appointment Booking Simple for Current and Prospective Clients While Saving Beauty Professionals Time and Hassle

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - July 22, 2008) - Stylists, estheticians, and beauty professionals are saving time and attracting new clients thanks to Genbook, the new website tool for small businesses to take appointments online. Beauty specialists all over the country have been eager to try Genbook's free and easy-to-use BookNow! button, fully customizable service menu, appointment booking and scheduling system, and automatic email confirmation. The dramatic growth of the new online service demonstrates the beauty industry's high demand for a reliable and easy-to-use appointment-organizing solution.

"Estheticians and beauty professionals want to focus on growing their client base and the services they provide for them. They don't want to be slowed down by appointment-scheduling phone tag," said Rody Moore, founder and CEO of Genbook. "That is why our customers are thrilled to have a fully customizable online tool that helps organize their schedule and save time while they serve their clients."

Many day spas and salons have websites where clients and potential clients can learn about services, products, and the beauty philosophies of the spa or salon. Genbook helps these businesses capitalize on website traffic by offering a BookNow! button to place on their websites, in emails, Craigslist, and many other places on the web. Genbook's BookNow! button enables 24/7 appointment booking and eliminates phone tag with clients, which often interrupts services or results in lost bookings. Genbook also lets clients offer feedback, which can either be kept confidential or made viewable as testimonials.

"No single product has saved me more time than Genbook has," said Dora Salazar, president and head esthetician at Skin Transformations Inc. in Weston, Fla. "I love that I never have to stop what I'm doing to make an appointment, and my clients love that they can read about my services and book an appointment with me anytime, day or night. I didn't know scheduling could be so simple. I'm booking new clients, too, that see my ads and sign up right away."

Genbook currently offers its services at two levels, Genbook Free and Genbook Standard, which is priced at $39.95 per month. Genbook Standard offers the unlimited booking, scheduling, service menus, and email-update capabilities of Genbook Free, while also creating SMS text messaging appointment alerts, automatic contact database, and clients' credit card capture.

About Genbook, Inc.

Genbook, Inc. provides an easy-to-use, Web-based appointment booking solution for any small business website. Genbook's appointment scheduler frees small businesses from the hassles of scheduling and offers their customers the convenience of booking appointments online, anytime, day or night. Genbook is a free service with available upgrade subscriptions. Genbook is a privately held, venture capital-backed company headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.genbook.com.