Christmas

[Spirits Alive]

We are getting the last minute details of our open house together.  We will have free smoothies from a friend of mine that is opening up a smoothie shop in 2 weeks (cross promotion), chair massage, skin analysis/mini facials, acupuncture consults, a local gym will have a rep here to promote her place (it's like a Curves) a rep from Spa Destinations will be here to do a spa party, and we will have a Moonwalk for the kids to jump on while Mom's and Dad's get to spoil themselve's a little.  We will have "Buddy Bucks" - $5 off coupons for every new person an existing client brings with them to be applied toward their next appointment.  Plus discounts on services, Gift Cert packages, etc., Food and door Prizes.  It is exhausting getting this all together, but it is worth it.  We have named it our "Client Appreciation Open House" since it is right before Thanksgiving, and we are so thankful they are our clients.   I will let you know how it goes.  We could have 20 people, or we could have 200 people, it's so hit or miss!

 

[sdheed707]

The florist 2 doors down had their open house this past sunday. I peeked in to get ideas  lol I wanted to have one for the spring, but a Christmas one sounds gooood. Awsome ideas so far!

 

[Pompal 09.]

We just had out open house last week.  I was quite amazed at the turn out.  Alot more than I expected!  We had light appetizers, soft drinks, and lots of door prizes.  We also had invited someone that sold jewelry and purses and someone that sold Mary Kay and Avon was also there.  We let people take a tour of our facility.  We have to MT's and 1 nail tech.  I had a drawing set up in my room. I gave away two $25.00 gift certificates good towards any massage service of their choice.  In return, I got about 30 new names and addresses of people that entered the drawing (indicatinig an interest in massage).  I just finished sending out thank you notes to the folks who entered the drawing, thanking them for making our open house a success and inviting them to come back and recieve $10.00 off a 60 min. massage and indicating that the offer expired on 12/31/04.  

 

[Tom N]

For you folks that don't do discounts, Hats off to you!Where I live, people actually call around and ask what kind of packages you are offering.  I don't think there is anything wrong with coupons or discounts as longs as you don't do them all the time.  I have received many NEW clients from doing discounts at Holiday times.  I think discounts give folks a chance to try you out and see if they like your massage or not.  I have had many people tell me that they hated their first massage (that they got from elsewhere) and that's why they stayed away from it for a long time.I take great pride in my work and I know that I give a great massage so if I have to give someone a break on their first one then so be it.  They will be back and pay full price for the next one after that, and so on and so on.....Blue skies!

 

[Katerina]

Christmas

Remember - Package does not have to mean Discount.Many Day spas put together a package of services that compliment each other or that are most popular, but does not affect the price (other than maybe free tea and cucumber slices - aka the spa lunch).GC mailers should go out in early December. Most GCs are for people who don;t know what to get someone - and are more last minute purchases than day after turkey shopping.