sunburst ent.

I am pondering wether or not I am going to get into selling travel out of my salon, I have a spare office that would be perfect for selling travel as well as an excellent sales person. I know a few salons in my city that offer travel but not one of them is in the phone book. I have an approaching yellowpage deadline coming up and I need to find out if this a worth while venture before I post an ad that could cost me $500 a month. I realize this is asked alot but what other businesses have people had success with besides selling jewlery, sunglasses, bathing suits, fatburners etc.? I would like to know if there are any viable options to run a FULL business within your tanning salon business. Post if you know about anything any help is appreciated, thanks

TropBreeze

I sell travel at my salon through Travel Tan. They design the website with your salon name and they pretty much do all the work, you just advertise the Specials and the website at the salon and you get a % of the sales when people book with your "promo code". I just got into this so I cant say how well its worked yet.

kdhtan

Personally, I don;t know how well it would work. It seems like everyone I talk to that comes in tanning books online now through the discount places. I would see how well your prices and discounts would compare to those.
Just my opinion.

sunburst ent.

I realize the competition of discount sites. I also know that there are some corporate places out there that go through agents still when they send employees to conventions etc. I personally know 2 friends one that worked for an investment firm and one that works for a sub contracted IBM company. They both brought a lot of staff to conventions etc. and paid full tilt even when some staff members mentioned that the company should buy from a discount site. I guess it would be up to the owner of the travel place to promote to those businesses.

spraytannedjenn

doesn't seem to fit together in my mind but neither do tanning and video stores but it works for some people.

missmojorising

I can't imagine anyone is really making any money on this kind of stuff. Most places quit paying commisions to travel agents in the 90's and the cost of an ARC number is astronomical.

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spraytannedjenn

There are several on-line travel business out there that you can make good money at. You have a web site and people can book thier own travel thru it or you can do it for them. Travel is a HUGE business. Doing it online reduces the overhead to almost nothing.