Traditionally, promotion for massage parlors has always centered around advertisements and word-of-mouth. Today, the same cannot be said as anyone who needs to get a massage or a service similar to it will turn to the internet to look for establishments that offer them.
This is why you need to have a great appointment scheduling site even if you do not have a website. Most prospective customers seldom choose businesses that do not offer online booking nowadays due to the inconvenience that traditional booking methods offer.
Furthermore, businesses also use sites like these to promote themselves on the internet besides offering a simple and easy way of scheduling appointments. You need to do the same as well if you want to compete with them on the internet and help grow your business with more customers as you keep going. Today, you need to show your absolute best on the internet and this is one aspect of it that you should not look over while doing so.
In this guide, we will take you through what you need to know for making yourself a fantastic appointment scheduling site and getting the best out of your subscription to Zoho Bookings.
Do you really need an attractive appointment scheduling site for your company?
The type of services that massage parlors offer is intangible which requires them to look for other ways to showcase their quality than physically doing so. Those businesses who do this well are the ones who can keep their customers happy by showing their service excellence.
While all of this is good and fair to current customers who already understand service quality, what about new customers? How would they understand this if they have not availed your services yet?
This is why you need a clear presence online that reflects your service's consistency and reliability. Hence, it is crucial that you step up your game using your website and appointment scheduling site.
This is even more important when you compete with many other companies offering similar services to you. To keep with them, you must have a great appointment scheduling site.
Your clients who first glance at your web sites on the internet, should get inspired with your business right from the very beginning. In short, it would benefit with your organization to have an attractive booking page, because it will enhance your business reputation online.
Certain rules and guidelines need to be followed while doing this. But why?
Once consumers look at your massage parlor website or appointment scheduling site, they should feel they want to avail your services, since you look better than your competition on the internet.
Therefore, your website should be built in a way that looks as if it is the best in the massage industry. You should also design your appointment scheduling site such that when your prospective client compares it to your rivals, your site looks more appealing.
This is crucial because your customers will have a similar experience as they are looking for a service like this and you need to make sure you get out of one like that in a good way.
The website and booking page, in fact, can only seem suitable for the business if it imbibes the visual characteristics of the massage industry.
Therefore, any company like yours has a certain design and style in which its web pages are produced. You need to do the same as well as it will help you fit in. This generates the perception that your business and services are a part of the massage industry.
This guide gives an overview of what you need to know when designing your scheduling appointment page in your industry. If you need directions covering every step of the process, we have a
guide made for that very purpose.
All right, so, how should you go about making an appointment scheduling site?
When a customer visits your website, they want to know about your business and services without putting considerable effort and time into doing so. Your customer will be happy and pleased when they see an enticing scheduling platform for appointments that includes all the necessary details they are looking for.
That is what you should be striving for when you build your booking page. When your customers are searching for details, you need to make sure that all they need to know about your services is on your website and that they can easily access this information.
One of the most common mistakes people make when designing their site is that they continue to overdo the design, which in turn affects the readability of the text above it. You have to make sure you are not doing the same so that your site is well-balanced.
As for the colors, the color scheme you use on your booking page should suit the one you are using on your website, if you have one. That way, you could provide a similar and consistent web experience for consumers.
If you do not have a website, you can pick any style that you think is appropriate for your business in your industry. It helps to make the appearance of the web seem absolutely stunning and polished. This also helps gain the confidence of the customer due to the professionalism that is being portrayed on the site.
The best place to start is your background image.
Having an idea of how your booking page should look like at the end is the primary step of this entire process. If needed, you can refer other websites and booking pages on the internet that belong to your industry.
You will note, if you notice, that most of them have a single color as the basis on which a significant amount of the text is displayed.
In fact, the color will also be the most prevalent color on all websites belonging to that firm. This is because using a single color across all sites helps one maintain continuity and quality across all of them. It allows us to hold the reader's focus on the text and not on the layout and the design while simultaneously supporting a beautiful template.
Now that we have defined one primary color, we are going to select another color to use along with the first.
A color scheme has the advantage that it can be used across all elements on the appointment scheduling site. Since there are so many colors, how do we go about picking the second color?
Start looking for colors that go with the one you have selected already, then look for a background picture that suits them together very well. This gives your booking page a fluent and appealing feel, as this color scheme is widely used on all elements of your booking page. You can also use photographs of your business if you happen to have any.
If you do not find one, you can search for pictures for pictures sold for this kind of purpose from websites like Shutterstock and 123rf or you can scan for royalty-free photos from other websites as well. More details about this can be found in this post in the guide previously listed.
Make sure that the picture you have chosen is not too cluttered with items, so the user can clearly understand the text that will appear on top. Please notice that if you intend to add your logo to the website, you may need to use software such as Canva or specialized applications such as Photoshop for the same purpose.
What about the other things on your site, then?
We also stated earlier that the color scheme you chose would also be applied to other items on the website. This is done to enhance the backdrop and the other items on the website, and to match together well.
Ensure that the right color representing the corresponding background color is applied when applying the same for the text and clicking it on. Of example, if the background color on the page where the text is being filled is the base color then the color of the text would be the other color you have chosen in the color scheme. It is done so that you can ensure that the customers can quickly understand the text on the booking page without having to make a lot of effort to do so.
Furthermore, you should also guarantee that the business logo always fits well against the background picture when used on the booking page for the same reason.
Check out the website after all of these have been done by clicking on the Go To button at the very end of the Workspace Settings to see that anything on the booking list is going well.
We will also advise that you continue to review the booking page for any adjustments you make so that you can keep adjusting the elements of the website if necessary.
The text on your site is probably the most powerful part.
The text on your booking page consists primarily of two lines which you may use to suit your requirements. While others may use it to show promotional messages to enhance the appeal of the website, some may use it to include direct instructions that should be communicated to the consumer before scheduling appointments.
You need to select the utility of the text field by looking at the requirements, because you can not go wrong either way. Ensure customers can understand the text easily and efficiently, and are confident of what they need to know before scheduling their appointments.
However, if you choose to add text other than these two lines, you can also change the background picture to that effect.
Adding more text in between elements of the page is also a good way to make effective use of space, only if required.
Please notice that any changes to the background image should not impact the overall visual appearance of the booking page.
Is that everything that you need to do? Not quite!
It is always recommended to get reviews from others after you have completed your work on the booking page. It is essential because you are going to get advice from other people who have various points of view.
Start reviewing the page after each update, as described earlier, and adjust anything you think needs to be done in the process so you can build the website the best you can.
You must make sure that your booking page is not too cluttered, that it is beautifully pleasing, and that it is understandable to someone who can access it very quickly. You should also ensure all relevant details are on the website.
We hope that this guide has helped you! If in case you have any questions regarding this guide, let us know in the comments below.