Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Shear Beauty: SpaBeautyEd. com

Shear Beauty: SpaBeautyEd. com

New spa and beauty online education directory offers students an information-rich resource for selecting a career in the industry. Schools now have a new tool to help increase enrollments.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) October 27, 2007

All Star Directories, one of the fastest growing online publishers of educational directories, today announced the debut of its newest site, SpaBeautyEd. com. The official unveiling of the site took place at the annual American Association of Cosmetology Schools convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend.

Dedicated to connecting prospective beauty and spa students with the schools that fit their education needs most, SpaBeautyEd. com's recruiting service boasts both beauty and brains and offers searching students and school advertisers an aesthetic and user-friendly experience.

Students: The Real World -- Beauty
The famous Persian poet Rumi once said, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." SpaBeautyEd. com aims to help students do just that by providing them with a sundry of informative articles about the spa and beauty profession, which can be found in the Career Center of the site. The articles offer advice about what it takes to make it in the spa and beauty industry, provide insight from top practitioners in related specialties and describe requirements for obtaining a license.

SpaBeautyEd. com also makes it easy for users to search for schools and programs by geography and across spa and beauty specialties, including cosmetology, hair design, massage therapy, aromatherapy, esthetics, holistic skin care, reflexology and nail technology. Students can also easily view detailed fact sheets with information provided by schools, as well as send admissions information requests directly to the schools to begin the application process.

Schools: Leads Never Looked Better
As a part of All Star Directories' network of educational sites, SpaBeautyEd. com offers schools in the spa and beauty sector a proven model for delivering high quality leads. The addition of SpaBeautyEd. com to the space also provides schools another channel for diversifying their enrollment and marketing spend.

This new site provides all of the same industry-leading student recruitment tools that have made All Star Directories' other sites popular with more than 6,000 featured schools:
 Fact sheet with 750 words, logo and two color photos  Request Info form customized to each school's requirements  Event calendar to promote events and sign up prospective students  Double-filter technology to block unqualified inquiries  AutoResponder emails to simplify student follow-up  Detailed monthly reports  Online password protected Inquiry Manager tools to boost conversion rates

"There is a growing trend among men and women to seek spa and beauty treatments for pampering, as well as for general health, therapy and rejuvenation," said Herman Chiang, product manager for SpaBeautyEd. com. "The launch of the new site is in response to this growth in the industry. We are riding this wave of momentum by offering searching students with visually appealing and information-packed content, while at the same time positioning ourselves as the go-to-resource for schools to market their programs."

About All Star Directories
All Star Directories, Inc. is one of the Internet's fastest growing publishers of online and career school directories matching millions of highly qualified prospective students with the schools that best meet their education needs. Recently, Inc. Magazine ranked All Star amongst the top 500 fastest growing companies in the country, and the Puget Sound Business Journal has recognized the company as one of Washington State's fastest growing companies for four consecutive years. From leading research institutions to fast-growing online and for-profit schools, more than 6,000 featured schools trust All Star Directories as the authority in online student recruitment. The All Star network of sites focuses on a wide range of fields and includes such properties as All Art Schools, All Business Schools, All Nursing Schools, All Psychology Schools and SpaBeautyEd. com. Please visit www. AllStarDirectories. com or call 1-888-404-8043 for more information.

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