You are a wise woman, Katherine! You know what you want and go after it. I've done exactly what you do....I love LasVegas and that show. But I also enjoy the NailPro Shows. And I would love to go to a networking event. I haven't had that opportunity! I have avoided, with the exception of Premier-Orlando, the big, multi-beauty service shows. And, in response to an earlier comment, I have seen a huge change in the attention to nail products in my local beauty supply shops. No one in my area carries more than just smattering of OPI and Creative. Then I think, holy cow, there are SOOOO many nail manufacturers and each of them has SOOOO many products, how in the world could you expect a supply house to carry everything from just one manufacturer!! Enter...catalog ordering. Marsha :>)
________________________________ From: Katherine <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 12:12:14 PM Subject: Re: NailTech:: why support large trade shows when they don't support us nail techs? I prefer going to trade shows over networking events because my husband will not travel, so, the Las Vegas Cosmetology Convention has become my combined vacation and continuing education trip. I usually take an extra day to goof off in addition to the show. I like Vegas because there is so much to do and I do not need a car. I do not gamble, so I can spend as much as I want. I've done the Vegas trip on $200 and I've spent $800 some times. Depending on what I want to do. If I can only afford $200, that's what I do, if I want a longer or more luxurious vacation, I spend more. I can choose from year to year. I can also choose at the trade show what classes on what subject and with what product I want and it's a one to a one and a half hour class. Then I can walk on the trade floor and ask questions and get detailed demos on the spot. At a networking event, the whole day is long classes with too much information. I would only want a detailed, hands on seminar with the product that I use in the salon everyday. I do not want a 4 hour class on a product that I do not use in the salon. I want a 1 hour class for me to see if I'm interested in looking into and trying the product out. After I've tried it for a few months, then I might want a 4 hour class. I like the trade shows because of all the variety, I can sit in a class or walk around on the floor, leave whenever I want, even come back later. Completely submerging myself in a full day of education flips my A.D.D. button. I just can't take it. I start to zone out. I have to go watch a pirate ship sink or some fountains dance or eat at Wolfgang Pucks..... great food is half the fun of going to Vegas, I just eat my way across town. I'm disappointed at the low attendance and poor turn out at the nail classes in Vegas. I look forward to the Vegas show every year with such eagerness, it's better than Christmas! I guess that no one else does Vegas the way I do. It's my education opportunity and my get -a- way all rolled into one. Katherine St.Louis, MO ________________________________ From: Dayna - Days of Beauty <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 7:48:53 AM Subject: RE: NailTech:: why support large trade shows when they don't support us nail techs? I agree with Maggie. We need to let these companies know that we will support them if we see them at shows. However it is frustrating for companies to spend thousands of dollars, and plenty of time for these trade shows, and NO ONE attends their classes or visits their booth. Too many times have I seen empty booths at the trade shows, yet we are upset that they are not at the next show, how can we blame them? Dayna From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maggie in Visalia Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NailTech:: why support large trade shows when they don't support us nail techs? Problem is, I'm willing to bet our frustration has NOTHING to do with the show or show organizers. Our nail industry companies have every bit the same opportunity to exhibit at these shows that companies from the hair and skin industries have. For reasons that range widely, more and more nail industry companies are choosing NOT to participate at these shows. It's not the SHOWS that we need to take our torches and pitchforks to-- it's the companies that we want to see at the shows. Start writing letters and let these companies know you miss them at the shows. I've told my TT rep numerous times when he calls just before or just after a big tradeshow that I am "saving my money for the show" or that I "have to recover from" the show I just went to. Then I demand to know why they don't do any westcoast shows? Then I make a disapproving Wookie noise and tell him "that sucks." I admit, TT hasn't shown up at a west coast tradeshow because of this yet, and I have not-- as yet-- switch products... but I keep seriously considering doing so. I don't get why nail companies are so busy complaining about the cost of tradeshows when it seems that hair companies still find the expense worthwhile? Maggie Franklin: Attitudes Salon; Visalia, CA "Visionary rebel dreamer; obviously way ahead of my time." Art of Nailz Maggie Rants [and rav...@nails Magazine Facebook --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Jill in Ky <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jill in Ky <[email protected]> Subject: NailTech:: why support large trade shows when they don't support us nail techs? To: "NailTech" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 6:00 PM That's the burning question.........why give your money, time, and effort to support a system that mainly caters to hair? Why do techs continually go out of their way to attend large trade shows, then come back and complain about the few nail classes and nail booths? My philosophy is that anyone can work without hair, but try letting them work without hands and feet! Perhaps we need a "bus boycott" or a "restaurant counter boycott"? What about our rights as nail techs to be treated equally with respect? Or perhaps respect begins by respecting oneself first? After all these years of routinely being referred to as "the nail girl", are we content to own that title? As a small business owners, we routinely support businesses that treat us right. If we're treated rudely or indifferently by a company, then we do not give them our repeat business. Why should choosing a location to receive nail tech education be any different? The grassroots efforts by nail techs to create networking events are gaining momentum, with new ones popping up all over the country, mainly because nail techs are frustrated by the steady decline in nail education at the large industry shows (with the exception of the Orlando show and kudos to Debbie Doerrlamm for organizing the corresponding nail tech BBQ). So if you're contemplating going to a large trade show, please consider supporting the networking events, too! What large trade show gives you lunch? None! You feel lucky to find a spot to sit on the floor to eat your $5 pizza slice with drink your $4 soda. No floor sitting at the Smoky Mountain Event, with all the comfy chairs and massive oak tables! Wander out thru the wall of french doors onto the tree-shaded balconey overlooking the stream, or rest in an adirondack chair in front of the Event Center while you eat your lunch and visit with like-minded nail techs (see photos on my Facebook page showing techs doing just that). When was the last time you received a goodie bag of nail products at a large trade show? Never! You're shocked just to get a sample, and then it's usually of a hair product. What a let down! Ever win a door prize at a large trade show? Nope! With only 100 guest reservations accepted, your chances of winning one of the many fabulous door prizes are extremely good. Everyone at the 1st Smoky Mountain Event went home with a prize, and the majority of the people at the 2nd Event did, too! Getting tired of milling through the crowd at a large trade show, trying to find the few nail booths? At the networking events, it's ALL about the nail techs. Nail techs' are the divas, so we celebrate our uniqueness by only featuring nail products demo'd by the rock stars of the nail world! Why support an industry that doesn't support you as a nail tech? Curious to see how you can make a difference? Support your nearest nail tech networking event now! 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