Lumiere (Anyone making money?) - Page 24

TJ · 02-20-2007, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Glowtanningctr

TJ, I am not claiming to make money with this machine, I am claiming to make money with laser 100%. Laser is a million more times effective! Lumiere is a tough sell and I would not do it again. That is why I do free treatments and the buy one get one just to get rid of the rest of the products. Some of my clients love it and I think they love it because they can lay down for 20 mins, in complete silence, and chill out! RAI, no comment, they called once, to sell me more products. $ spent on marketing, I do alot of in house marketing and I do video email, I wouldn't waste money on that. I am not disappearing either, any questions you may have for me, just email them away!!! I would rather buy another handpiece for my laser machine and make triple the money or another tanning bed or standup!!

I guess I'm confused about your statement here Glow. Are you saying you didn't market lumiere properly?

TanologyGuru · 02-20-2007, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Glowtanningctr

Research everything and yes, people will take you seriously if you are informed, professional and knowledgeable. I began doing laser hair removal about a year ago, and honestly, it makes me tons of money, knock on wood, haha. However, you need to answer everyones questions, not let your staff, who is probably young and clueless. Make sure you know your stuff, inside and out and they will come. Laser is even more advanced that lumiere and much more room for error and I had 68 clients last weekend. So, sorry TJ, but if you market correctly, know your product and are professional, anything can work!

You see do your homework. Learn your market and your products. Train your staff. Do not have Kids selling advanced skin care regimes to adults and the most important thing is you have to do alot of work. Anything new is going to take time to get people to understand it.
We may not have any Lumiere devices in HI and maybe it is to early for this guy to bring it in, but he is the one to make that decision because he knows his market and what it will support.
I commend this poster because she did her homework and probably worked her A** off to get to where she has 68 appointments coming to her for laser.

Great Job!

TJ · 02-20-2007, 11:48 AM

Yes.....I agree whole heartedly. My wife and I were spending all of our free time for over a year promoting our new business add on. Weekends were at the health clubs and all of the trade shows in the area halling the equipment there and doing free demonstrations. We have no a---- left. :-) We did all the right things.

Glowtanningctr · 02-21-2007, 07:51 AM

Yes TJ, I brought in lumiere well before I began doing laser. Now, since lumiere is such a tough sell, people do like it, but it's tough. I make much more money with laser and now that we have handpieces for skin tightening, skin rejuvenation, cellulite and vein removal, I can't keep both. I believe it to be a conflict of interest. And honestly, I think the laser is more effective. And thank you tanology, you need to be informed as I'm sure you know!

TanologyGuru · 02-21-2007, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Glowtanningctr

Yes TJ, I brought in lumiere well before I began doing laser. Now, since lumiere is such a tough sell, people do like it, but it's tough. I make much more money with laser and now that we have handpieces for skin tightening, skin rejuvenation, cellulite and vein removal, I can't keep both. I believe it to be a conflict of interest. And honestly, I think the laser is more effective. And thank you tanology, you need to be informed as I'm sure you know!

Thank you Glow. Yes Education and information are key to being succesful in any business venture.
I see how you said it was such a tough sell. were you offering it under an EFT program?

TJ · 03-24-2007, 02:51 PM

Did any of you purchase a lumierre machine at the Nashville trade show last year (2006)? Do you have any success stories to share with us?

rooney3 · 03-26-2007, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by TJ

Hey Ric,

What's the good word on lumiere?

Hey TJ,

I haven't gotten any e-mail notices for posts here in a while, so I just happened to log in today and saw your post from last month. I used to get notices every time there was a post to this forum. I'll have to double check to see what happened.

But life out here in Colorado is fine. The VIP membership is doing well, could always be better, but we have 39 VIP's right now, so I'm not complaining. Our goal is still 100 VIP members.

We just had a nice article published in the Gazette last Thursday (3/22), our local paper here in Colorado Springs. Page 1 in the Lifestyle section, a two page article with four pics, the lead one of a customer using the Lumiere, a pic of a customer in our Relaxation Room and a third one of the Hydration Station.

That's the first time I can recall that a positive article on indoor tanning has ever been done in that paper. I had to ummm, 'pester' them a bit to give me a chance to show them how our salon has changed and evolved before they finally agreed to come out and take a look around. Here's the links to the article if you're interested:

www.ssatlantis.com/article1.pdf
www.ssatlantis.com/article2.pdf.

Of course a dermatologist immediately came out of the woodwork and criticized the paper for promoting a tanning salon in a 'Letter to the Editor' section. But Joe Levy immediately wrote a ******* rebuttal and fired it off to the editor. We'll see if they print that as well.

But maybe there's a little light at the end of the PR tunnel, as I thought the article was actually fair, balanced and good for our industry.

Take care,

Ric

TJ · 03-26-2007, 04:50 PM

Hey...........good to hear from you Ric. I guess I just missed you at the show. I was only there for a few hours on Saturday. Tony said you had been in the booth just a short time before I came. Glad to hear things are going good for you and I'll check out the links. Keep us posted on anything interesting.

rooney3 · 03-26-2007, 09:17 PM

Will do, TJ. Yeah, it had been a while since I had been to a national show and I really enjoyed Nashville. Found myself a little embarrassed though that I had fallen behind the technology curve on one or two issues (that have since been corrected!).

Sorry I missed you. We'll be back this year.

Ric

TJ · 05-04-2007, 10:23 AM

Wow! Lots of interesting news in the latest issue of Looking Fit. Now we'll never get anthing out of these used units. But at least the new ones will be affordabel so all salons will have them and we will be able to start trying to under cut each other. We will be able to offer this incredible service cheaper than tanning sessions before long.

02-20-2007, 11:48 AM	#233 (permalink)
TJ Join Date: Dec 12 2000 Location: Michigan Posts: 352 Rep Power: 8	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Yes.....I agree whole heartedly. My wife and I were spending all of our free time for over a year promoting our new business add on. Weekends were at the health clubs and all of the trade shows in the area halling the equipment there and doing free demonstrations. We have no a---- left. :-) We did all the right things.

02-21-2007, 07:51 AM	#234 (permalink)
Glowtanningctr I love Derf!! Join Date: Jan 10 2007 Location: Mass. Posts: 239 Rep Power: 2	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Yes TJ, I brought in lumiere well before I began doing laser. Now, since lumiere is such a tough sell, people do like it, but it's tough. I make much more money with laser and now that we have handpieces for skin tightening, skin rejuvenation, cellulite and vein removal, I can't keep both. I believe it to be a conflict of interest. And honestly, I think the laser is more effective. And thank you tanology, you need to be informed as I'm sure you know!

03-24-2007, 02:51 PM	#236 (permalink)
TJ Join Date: Dec 12 2000 Location: Michigan Posts: 352 Rep Power: 8	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Did any of you purchase a lumierre machine at the Nashville trade show last year (2006)? Do you have any success stories to share with us?

03-26-2007, 04:50 PM	#238 (permalink)
TJ Join Date: Dec 12 2000 Location: Michigan Posts: 352 Rep Power: 8	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Hey...........good to hear from you Ric. I guess I just missed you at the show. I was only there for a few hours on Saturday. Tony said you had been in the booth just a short time before I came. Glad to hear things are going good for you and I'll check out the links. Keep us posted on anything interesting.

03-26-2007, 09:17 PM	#239 (permalink)
rooney3 Join Date: Mar 8 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 28 Rep Power: 0	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Will do, TJ. Yeah, it had been a while since I had been to a national show and I really enjoyed Nashville. Found myself a little embarrassed though that I had fallen behind the technology curve on one or two issues (that have since been corrected!). Sorry I missed you. We'll be back this year. Ric

05-04-2007, 10:23 AM	#240 (permalink)
TJ Join Date: Dec 12 2000 Location: Michigan Posts: 352 Rep Power: 8	Re: Lumiere (Anyone making money?) Wow! Lots of interesting news in the latest issue of Looking Fit. Now we'll never get anthing out of these used units. But at least the new ones will be affordabel so all salons will have them and we will be able to start trying to under cut each other. We will be able to offer this incredible service cheaper than tanning sessions before long.

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