My understanding from the distributors is that nail products sit on the shelf and don't really move. Then you have the nail pros saying I hate going to the store they never have what I want. So most either order online, via catalog, or through a sales rep. Different areas of the country seem to vary with what and who they carry, even different areas of a state can vary!
Holly L. Schippers CND Education Ambassador [email protected] c Visit cnd.com for the latest in products, education and nail fashion! Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:19:30 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: NailTech:: So...... To: [email protected] Thanks for sharing your perspective, Holly! OPI is just about the only company left standing in my corner of the world. I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg but there is less and less for nail techs on the shelves of both our supply houses. Is it because of internet sales interfering or because there is too much to choose from, so pare it down to a couple of manufacturers? Everyone is suffering from the economy, I suppose. Marsha Rubino Gimme Nails @ Skin Envy Day Spa 38 First Ave E. Ste. E Kalispell, MT 59901 406-755-3771 From: Holly L. Schippers <[email protected]> To: BeautyTech E-List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 8:29:33 AM Subject: RE: NailTech:: So...... Some companies do train the educators extensively to educate, with no training on sales. Sometimes it isn't about what company they rep it is about the person teaching the class. Same as some people in the salon are passionate, to some its a job, and to others they are so over it and just don't know how to move on. Don't give up on attending classes, that's what makes them so hard to find. If you found a class more about sales and not enough about technique write the company, you can't fix something if you don't know it's broken ;o) Holly L. Schippers CND Education Ambassador [email protected] c Visit cnd.com for the latest in products, education and nail fashion! To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NailTech:: So...... Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 01:25:52 -0400 From: [email protected] Funny I was an educator for EZ Flow for 2 years and when people tell me how great it must of been I tell them...No not really I was basicly a glorified sales person not really an educator per say...They would send me out to schools and show students how to do tricks with the products and sell kits making sure that the schools had enough of their products and if not that they needed to up their orders....in order to become an educator I had a 4 day course and WHALA I was an educator! The only real purk out of the deal was I got 50% off all my products and a vacation away from work and home for 4 days...Oh and I got to drive to Lake Havasue to have those students jack my products from my kit! LOL All in all it was a great learning experience and now I can say I was an educator on my resume! :) Anna Creations by Anna Z-James www.annazjames.com -----Original Message----- From: Marsha Rubino <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 7:14 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: So...... Non product related educators are definately where it's at! And I don't know that I've had a class with a small company......I probably have but......oh, I just remembered! A company called maybe Premiere or Premium came to Missoula to teach us about their acrylic product. I may have still been in school....1997ish. I think they have disappeared. I haven't seen them around for a long time. But you are right about small companies. That educator stayed here for 2 days and we went to class at least 6 hours on both days. I learned lots! Marsha Rubino Gimme Nails @ Skin Envy Day Spa 38 First Ave E. Ste. E Kalispell, MT 59901 406-755-3771 From: Diana Bonn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 5:17:27 AM Subject: Re: NailTech:: So...... think we have all been thru it Marsha, frustrating. I think the smaller companies and the non product related educators are the best classes!!!!!!! diana from indiana At 09:12 PM 10/5/2010, you wrote: > .....I enrolled in an Axxium class which I attended on Sunday. It's been a > while since I went to such a thing...now, I remember why I stopped going. We > sat for 3 hours listening to why OPI's products are so wonderful (this, on MY > $30/dime). I learned that NAS99 is 99% alcohol and the other 1% was thymol > but they discontinued it's use because it was causing problems, blah, blah, > blah. I learned they have a new product which does both santizing and > disinfecting of the pedicure spa foot tubs. No need to scrub! There were lots > of other > products I leaned about too, but the frosting on the cake was their $249.00, > 2 - 9 watt bulb UV light. And it was necessary for them to design a special > surface for the client to place their hand inorder for the light from those 2 > bulbs to shine directly over the four nails. I was told the thumbs must be > cured separately because, even with bulbs on the sides of the lamp, the nails > won't cure evenly. REALLY?!! In all fairness, I did get good information > about the product and how to apply it, but that took M-A-Y-B-E and hour! I so > wish they'd leave the advertising on a table outside the door and get on with > the education. > > > Marsha Rubino > Gimme Nails @ Skin Envy Day Spa > 38 First Ave E. Ste. 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