GlowdayPRO Blog
Business advice, marketing tips and news for aesthetics practitioners.
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How GlowdayPRO Protects Your Patients’ Data: Our Commitment to Security
Following recent reports of PHP vulnerabilities, we want to reassure GlowdayPRO practitioners that our platform does not use PHP.
Discover how we help protect sensitive patient data through encryption, secure authentication, data separation and Microsoft Azure hosting, alongside our ongoing commitment to strengthening security and safeguarding practitioners and their patients.
NICE draft guidance: protecting aesthetics patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder
New draft guidance from Nice regarding BDD and cosmetic treatments.
Questionnaires, forms and GDPR compliance in medical aesthetics
Is your aesthetics business GDPR compliant?
If a stranger can fill in your medical questionnaire without a confirmed booking, you're now holding their health data. Whether they ever turn up or not. And under UK GDPR, that's your problem to manage.
Here’s why confirmed bookings matter for patient health data, storage limitation and staying on the right side of the ICO.
The GlowdayPRO Roadmap
Over the next few months, we’re improving the platform for new to established solo injectors. We’re then focusing on clinics with more than one practitioner.
How To Plan An Aesthetic Clinic Launch That Actually Fills Your Diary
You've signed the lease. The chair's arrived. You've spent a small fortune on a sign, a logo and a very nice reception candle.
And you've picked a launch date that's three weeks away, with no patients booked in.
This is the bit almost nobody plans properly. Practitioners plan the clinic and forget to plan the launch. Then launch day is a lovely afternoon with prosecco, your mum, two colleagues from your old ward, and a diary that's still empty on Monday.
A clinic launch isn't a party. It's a marketing campaign with a party in the middle of it. Here's how to run one.
"Why would they choose me?" Starting your own aesthetics clinic
We sat down with Cerys to talk about those early days, what helped her build confidence and the advice she'd give to practitioners starting their own clinic today.
10 reasons practitioners put off getting clinic software (and why they shouldn’t!)
Think aesthetics clinic software is too pricey, too fiddly, or not for your patients?
Here are the 10 objections practitioners give, and why none of them hold up.
How Much Will I Earn Doing Botox?
What’s your most profitable treatment? Here’s a handy calculator to figure out the margins on your treatments…is it Botox? Or microneedling? Maybe a simple chemical peel?
Check out this handy calculator to work out your treatment margins.
How to Photograph & Film Content for your Aesthetics Clinic
in aesthetics, patients can't judge your injecting technique before they book. They can only judge your content. Your photos and videos are the thing they weigh up at 10pm on their phone, deciding whether they trust you with a needle near their face.
So your content isn't "nice to have". It's the shop window for a business where trust is the entire product. The good news is you don't need a studio, a photographer or a fancy camera. You need a phone, a bit of consistency, and a system.
“The Aesthetic Industry is Saturated”
“There’s too much competition”
“The market is saturated”
“I can’t compete with non-med pricing”
Are you even an aesthetic practitioner if you’ve never thought these things?!?
Read on to find out how to assess your competition and manage that monkey on your shoulder!
6 Months Free for New Aesthetic Practitioners
You've finished your foundation training. The certificate is on the wall, the insurance is in place, and there's a small fortune sitting in your fridge in the form of tox and filler. And now? Now you're staring down the bit nobody really trained you for: running a business.
We're now offering new-to-aesthetics practitioners 6 months of GlowdayPRO completely free. Every feature. No stripped-back trial tier. No card required at sign-up.
Here's how to make the most of it.
Should you have ANY patient data on your iPhone?
Storing patient data on your personal phone? Here's what UK GDPR, the ICO and special category data rules actually require of your aesthetics clinic, and the real risks.
The Start of the Glowday GLOWUP!
Last month I shared a survey with you, asking you to ‘help us build the best’.
Last week, the Glowday development team grew, and this month, it will grow some more.
What that means for you, is that we’re actively building the improvements you told us you wanted - starting with the practical, daily fixes you’ve been asking for.
Here’s what’s coming…
Finished Foundation Training…What Next? Your First 10 Steps to Your Aesthetics Business
After Foundation Training, What Next? Your First 10 Steps to a Real Aesthetics Business
You've done it. The foundation Botox and filler course is finished, the certificate's framed, and you're buzzing. You can inject. You're ready.
And then comes the quiet bit. The course taught you how to treat. Nobody taught you how to get anybody to treat. So you're sitting at your kitchen table wondering what on earth you actually do now.
Goal Setting for Your Aesthetics Business: Build Systems That Actually Deliver
You wrote "£10k months" on a Post-it in January. You meant it. For two weeks you posted daily, chased rebookings, blocked out admin time.
Then a busy clinic week swallowed it whole. The Post-it's still on the fridge. The diary still has gaps. And somewhere in your head, a quiet voice is telling you that you're just "not a business person."
You are. You're just relying on motivation instead of machinery.
Glowday has a new home. Here's the story behind it — and what comes next.
Glowday founder Hannah shares the news behind GlowTech Software Limited acquiring Glowday — and what it means for practitioners using GlowdayPRO.
Why Clinic Photography and Branding Win Bookings for Your Aesthetics Business
Why your clinic photography and branding aren't vanity — they're how aesthetic practitioners justify premium pricing, build trust and win bookings. A practical guide.
Managing Practitioner Bookings, Completing Treatment Records, and Processing Payments in Glowday
If you’re considering a move over to Glowday, or maybe you’re new to aesthetics and looking for software to help set your business up properly from the start, here’s a quick run through of how Glowday works for aesthetic practitioners.
Disappointed Patients & How To Avoid Them
That amazing feeling, where immediately after a treatment, the delight your patient experiences is so obvious it give you immediate satisfaction of a job done well.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes, treatments disappoint.
Here are six reasons patients can be disappointed with their treatments and how to avoid them.

