Competing with ridiculous Competitor's specials

[House of Tan]

Originally Posted by parrot head

Fixed costs, variable costs, or GM, who cares. At the end of the day, If I can stick a few hundred bucks in my wallet

If you tracked and managed these numbers you could easily increase those hundreds going into your wallet. Why would anyone not want to make more money?

[parrot head]

The more I make the more of my social security I have to pay back.

[peach]

Originally Posted by House of Tan

If you tracked and managed these numbers you could easily increase those hundreds going into your wallet. Why would anyone not want to make more money?

Just crunching numbers isn't going to make you more money. After 28 years, I am sure that he knows exactly what his "numbers" are.

[House of Tan]

Originally Posted by peach

Just crunching numbers isn't going to make you more money.

False, it is an essential part of making more money.

[peach]

Originally Posted by House of Tan

False, it is an essential part of making more money.

Read closely, I said "just" crunching numbers.....

[crosbytan]

I recently took over a salon in a downward spiral but its the only salon in town. I made a bunch of noticeable changes then ran some crazy specials during jan and feb. Feb 14 I had Valentanz day name of the salon is Island Tanz. I also did the 16 dayz of giveawayz on facebook to build up my likes. Grand prize was 6 month membership with a manicure/pedicure at a neighboring nail salon and any bottle of lotion in the store for free. i also did a raffle in store which paid me back for the lotion and help recover cost for the 6 months of tanning. All was done to be a lead in for Valentanz day. In 16 days I got 300+ likes on Facebook and 7400 people saw the Valentanz day posts about valentanz day being free tan day. I ran a one day only sale on valentanz as well marking bottles down 10% and super months were 415 off and reg months $10 off. Not 1 person came in to tan for free, and we had the biggest day of the year. We actually had 2 $2k+ days in one week. which is awesome for us considering our average per day is around $500. All in all I dont feel as though it hurt us because today almost everyone of the new customers bought an after tan product ect....

[peach]

Originally Posted by crosbytan

I recently took over a salon in a downward spiral but its the only salon in town. I made a bunch of noticeable changes then ran some crazy specials during jan and feb. Feb 14 I had Valentanz day name of the salon is Island Tanz. I also did the 16 dayz of giveawayz on facebook to build up my likes. Grand prize was 6 month membership with a manicure/pedicure at a neighboring nail salon and any bottle of lotion in the store for free. i also did a raffle in store which paid me back for the lotion and help recover cost for the 6 months of tanning. All was done to be a lead in for Valentanz day. In 16 days I got 300+ likes on Facebook and 7400 people saw the Valentanz day posts about valentanz day being free tan day. I ran a one day only sale on valentanz as well marking bottles down 10% and super months were 415 off and reg months $10 off. Not 1 person came in to tan for free, and we had the biggest day of the year. We actually had 2 $2k+ days in one week. which is awesome for us considering our average per day is around $500. All in all I dont feel as though it hurt us because today almost everyone of the new customers bought an after tan product ect....

Good job! That proves that you can buy a bad salon and turn it around
without breaking the bank. Sometimes all you need is some TLC.