I contacted Groupon and was concerned by several things , one was that the scale they were requesting was WAY beyond my means and financial capabilities. First of all.. they want you to discount your services by at least 50%. So.. I was going to have a spa manicure with paraffin treatment and a pedicure special. Total value, $58.00, groupon value $30.00. Wait, YOU don't get the $30 for providing the service, THEY get 50% of the $30, so $15 goes to them. Then, they wanted to charge ME 2.5% for the credit card fee on top of that! They told me that they were splitting the credit card fee with me 50/50. Dang! Why don't THEY get a Square and then it would only be half of 2.75%!? Hmmm? They also wanted me to offer 100 of the specials. So, calculating that I would need 3-4 hours to set up/clean up and do the service, then figure that I would only be collecting $14.63 for each service, minus the cost of products such as paraffin, files, soak, scrub, etc. I would be working for less than $5.00 an hour! I thought about it and decided that there was no way I could agree to such terms, since it is just ME and I would be the one responsible for honoring the 100 certificates requiring 4 hour blocks of my time over the next 9 months! It was a deal breaker for me, because of my standing appointments it is hard to find a 4 hour block of time to dedicate to this project. So.. it was a no go for me.. I will have to find another avenue in order to avoid working for half of minimum wage. I'm open to ideas.. I've got so many clients who went south for the winter then add in the weather with the snow and ice storms and its just financially killing me! Pam Nail Designs Ohio
-----Original Message----- From: Angela R Wingerter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 12:38 am Subject: Re: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Great ideas Anna! Angie From: Annazjames <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 9:30:36 PM Subject: Re: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Try contacting living social to run a special I did and got 65 certificates sold it was free and they did a 50/50 split I ended up with a lump sum check for 1250. I was tied but ended up with !t least 3 that have returned of course you get chair hopers but at least your name and business gets exposure and my web sit had over 500 hits the day it ran so I'm exposed for sure! Ther is crowd savings and groupon too...check with some local tv stations too cause I did the same type of deal with our channel 8 its called the daily deal....also can try to do a raffle and have your clients get their friends to fill out info cards with email address' and for every card they bring give them $1 off a service and then you have a data base to send out specials....best of luck! Anna Connected by MOTOBLUR™ on T-Mobile -----Original message----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: NailTech <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 19:18:53 PST Subject: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Hi there, I live in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Im deseperate to earn some clientele trafic, i know it is slow everywhere as the economy is hurting every body but, I love what i do, and i want to earn my living doing what i love to do. does any body knows what works, the best to attract new clientele in the nails part of the businesses? Im pretty new in the beauty businesses industry; need everybody advice, please sujest and advice. is the internet, the newspaper, flyers, around the neighboorhod, or what you guys think will work the best? i really dont want to give up on my dream. I do also offer therapeutic chair massage at my salon!! -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -----Original Message----- From: Angela R Wingerter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 12:38 am Subject: Re: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Great ideas Anna! Angie From: Annazjames <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 9:30:36 PM Subject: Re: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Try contacting living social to run a special I did and got 65 certificates sold it was free and they did a 50/50 split I ended up with a lump sum check for 1250. I was tied but ended up with !t least 3 that have returned of course you get chair hopers but at least your name and business gets exposure and my web sit had over 500 hits the day it ran so I'm exposed for sure! Ther is crowd savings and groupon too...check with some local tv stations too cause I did the same type of deal with our channel 8 its called the daily deal....also can try to do a raffle and have your clients get their friends to fill out info cards with email address' and for every card they bring give them $1 off a service and then you have a data base to send out specials....best of luck! Anna Connected by MOTOBLUR™ on T-Mobile -----Original message----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: NailTech <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 19:18:53 PST Subject: NailTech:: question, help, advertising Hi there, I live in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Im deseperate to earn some clientele trafic, i know it is slow everywhere as the economy is hurting every body but, I love what i do, and i want to earn my living doing what i love to do. does any body knows what works, the best to attract new clientele in the nails part of the businesses? Im pretty new in the beauty businesses industry; need everybody advice, please sujest and advice. is the internet, the newspaper, flyers, around the neighboorhod, or what you guys think will work the best? i really dont want to give up on my dream. I do also offer therapeutic chair massage at my salon!! -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
