I think those are some great ideas! You and your salon are really thinking "outside of the box!" I can't wait to hear how well the ideas worked! Jenny
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! I wanted to share an idea we came up with at our salon. > Things have been DEAD and we were brainstorming on what to do to rustle up > some clients. What we did was decide that Wednesdays will be Senior Day. > Also we're offering discounts to all students and staff at the schools. We > made up flyers explaining the discounts and highlighting our services and > new products in the beauty supply store and sent them out to all of the > local mobile parks, high schools and both colleges in the area. We made > seperate flyers since the target clientel were so different. > > Yesterday a new client came in for a pedi and I was telling her about the > specials and discounts and she said she was a tutor and she went to most of > the schools in the area and if I gave her the flyers and my cards she'd pass > them out. Heck ya! Free advertising, you betcha! > > I called the local Universitey where I worked for 8 years and got our > special put up on their inside TV station. So far we've had a few new > customers in the store and hopefully our phones will be ringing with the > senoirs who are coming down for the winter. Tuesday I plan on calling the > parks I sent the flyers to so that maybe that will persuade them to post the > flyers so that they're just not from some faceless place but from someone > who actually called and touched base. > > Goodness, this has turned into quite the novel, sorry about that, LOL. > Just wanted to share in case any of you wanted to use our idea. I know it's > not a new one, not inventing the wheel or anything, but I'll let you all > know if we get any response. > > Take care, > Kathryn Pless > Back Door Salon > Dade City, FL > 352-521-3339 > > > ************** > New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, > Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out ( > http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
