01-19-2015, 04:49 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 20 | Re: The "Peach" Corner While I commend peach on finding a way to survive, my question is why would anyone want to open or operate a business to simply survive. You can work for someone without the work that goes along with owning a business and survive. I think it might be possible that you may not understand todays consumer when you say an easy method of paying for a service that saves you money is a rip off. If a salon owners desire is to survive instead of maximize income potential or getting the most out of a business, taking advice from a survivor is a direction you can take. Things are always changing and improving in terms of business operations. Avoiding those changes because you do not understand them is indeed a problem in this industry as well as all industries. You must be open to new ideas or even older ideas that are proven successful. It will not be long before those operators with the survive mentality have all gone away. What is left are those that make every effort to improve every day no matter how much effort and educating yourself it might take. Peach there is nothing wrong with you settling for what you have if that makes you happy. |
01-20-2015, 02:08 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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Then EFT might not be the right choice for you. That said - many, many people now regularly use on-line payments, recurring payments, etc etc - in many places. Gas bills, gym, wine-club-of-the-month, and so on. Many customers appreciate this and consider it a convenience. And many also like the cost savings they can achieve by "committing" to a business in this fashion - even when cancellation policies can be very liberal and non-restraining. When we run a business, we have the option of setting it up however we want, and only offering things WE 'prefer'. This will likely attract customers who prefer the same things. If our preferences are limited compared to others in the marketplace - this may limit our customers as well. But any business has the opportunity to make that choice - even if it leads to less revenues or fewer customers. That is the benefit of owning your own business - you get to make the decisions! | |
01-20-2015, 05:41 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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Kooky and Sunsally are right. The world is giving up all of it's information to just about anyone. It is convenient no doubt until it ends up in the wrong hands or you lose control of it. | |
01-20-2015, 07:39 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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You, as a independent salon have to decide whether to be a leader or a follower in your marketplace. I proudly tell my customers that we do not want to get into their back pocket and do not require long term commitments. | |
01-21-2015, 05:23 AM | #17 (permalink) | |
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01-21-2015, 06:34 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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Since when does telling the truth make you a gloom and doomer? I wouldn't be going into my 23rd year in this industry if I was. So, DH....wrong on all counts as usual. The question is not IS the industry in decline, but WHY? Could these "brilliant ideas" that the majority of the industry is following be contributing to this demise? If the problem was crappy salon owners like me, the great salon owners you referred to would have wiped me out a long time ago, and the industry would be purged and purified....and well again. But It is not. So what's up? Something wrong with the strategy? | |
01-21-2015, 07:32 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 22 | Re: The "Peach" Corner I am doom and gloom, because I've seen my market (College age kids) drop 60-70 % in the last 5 years. I'm over 28 years in this business, and it is dying here. THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT all salons are hurting, but most that depend on my demographics are. Pale is the new tan here. |
01-21-2015, 12:33 PM | #20 (permalink) | |
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