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| "Tells them that with 4, maybe 5 visits they can get a great base tan in about 10-12 days max." |
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| I don't see that as being a SELLING POINT as ANY tanning bed should be able to do this. (well in my place at least) I can get people a base in 3-5 visits NO PROBLEM |
I think saying a base tan is just to protect your butt. Personaly, I go black with 4 sessions. never been as dark on a low pressure system . I'm skin type 2.
I brought in HP this year, and you don't have to go new to wow them I purchased an 818 for 2500.00 ( just saw an 812 sell on ebay for 500.00) I'm now doing in my SLOW season what i did in sales in my busiest months for my first 4 years of business! As far as wow factor, although the 818 doesnt hold a candle to the magic, I'm still supprised how WOW'd my customers are using it. $20-35 per session depending on the package they use. And its booked solid, even in slow season. In addition, you can acomidate so many more different customers per month on HP as once they do their 4-5 sessions in 10 days, they only need to maintain it about 2 times per month, unlike a low pressure system. I am located in an area that most would tell me is NOT a HP market. only 14,000 people and thats pushing it, and they are cheapo's. The income level is below the median for my province, below poverty. Infact one disty litteraly tried to talk me out of doing HP. Wrong market for you they say. Well, I'm showing them all now. I'm already feeling the need for a couple more HP units. All I can say is if you don't understand it, don't get it, but if you can grasp it, and the income potential, your into another level of income you never thought your salon could produce with minimal equipment and space needed.
I also see it this way, you would need a couple low pressure units, VHR's to every one HP unit to make the same dollars. In the end, you pay the same for the two units as you would for one HP unit, need more lease space to house 2 units, and the list goes on. It costs about the same to relamp my 818(actualy a bit less) than to relamp my one 40 lamp 160 watt bed. I get 1000 hours life from my HP lamps as to max if I'm lucky 500 hours on my vhr. Also, on my 818 i can bump up the transformer output to my unit as the lamps decrease in life, keeping the same lamp output from begining to end. Cant do that with a VHR.