Best Tanning Lotions For 2009
Some of the best tanning lotions ever were released in 2009. As most tanners know using tanning lotion makes your skin tan faster and more evenly. Ingredients have been refined to the extreme and the results are here for indoor tanners everywhere.
Bellezza couples 7 bronzers with a clean feeling moisture with a fragrance that relaxes. Lover Perfect is a great aloe vera based tanning lotion with tanning beads that burst as you apply the lotion. Gorgeous Gams is designed specifically as a leg tanner and brings out great color in your hard to tan calves. Paramour is a paraben free option that gets you great results. Kiss Kiss Bronze Bronze is the best selling new lotion for this year. Incredibly Black has been the sleeper hit of the year.
Supre Salon Signup Promotion
New Member Promo Pack
New Tanning Buyers Group members will receive FREE the Supre Value Pack of retail Tanning Lotions valued over $200*.
This retail pre-pack features some of the new Supre tanning lotion line for 2009. Lotions like Hooked, Iconic, Girly Girl, Love Struck, Bronze Candy , Bottles, Packets and more.
This pre-pack is perfect for your salon to sample or sell. You will find that Supre is leading the way in 2009 with some amazing and exciting new lotions for your customers.
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*to be eligible new member must comply with the following guidelines;
Salon must be approved for membership
Salon agrees to abide by TBGs stated membership rules and terms of service
Only new applicants as of 3/1/09 are eligible
Ships with your first $200.00 TBG lotion order
Limited to one pre-pack per salon
Supre pre-pack retail value exceeds $200.00
Limited time promotion based on availability
Order must be placed during program availability
Expanding Your Business
Many salons around the country are in the midst of planning and executing expansion plans.
With all the talk of a downturn in the luxury services market (such as tanning) there are thousands of salons bucking that trend.
How do you know when to expand?
Deciding when and how much to expand your business is a tricky question. To some extent it will always be a leap of faith. Faith that you know what the future holds and can make a proper decision. Your faith in your business future must be based on current trends.
If your business is trending up and your capacity to satisfy customer need is strained and impacting customer satisfaction levels. It is time to consider expanding your business by either using more existing space for equipment, exploring options to expand your current footprint, or perhaps moving completely to a new facility to allow for your continued growth.
Tanning Lotions 2009
Golden Ceremony Paramour Monarchy Phoenician Toffee Butter Metro 365 Polaris
Bronze Voyage Tanning LotionPure Brilliance Dark Innocence Tanning LotionDangerously Darker Aloe There Soy Dark Tanning LotionVintage Gold
Bronze Minerals Tanning LotionNo Worries Kiss Kiss Code Saint Sinner Tanning LotionHenna Sent Retro Couture
Posh Couture Tanning LotionBleeding Love Couture Sport Vertu Tanning LotionSurFace A Beautiful You Tanning LotionTotal Luxury Moisturizer Flex Hybrid Sync Iconic Bronze Number 9 Tanning LotionKimono Silk Tanning LotionBronze Republic Tanning LotionMarquis Tanning LotionLove Struck Tanning LotionGirly Girl Hooked Tanning LotionDark Angel LA Ink Tanning LotionMiami Ink
Salon Experience - The Core
You can walk into your local convenience store and you will immediately accept the dirt and grime associated with heavy use. You will accept the disorganized mess and the half filled racks. The bad customer service. The smell.
BUT when you walk into a salon you will expect a pristine and inviting environment. You will not tolerate clutter or mess. It is only natural. Going for a haircut or a tan puts you in a vulnerable position. If you plan to get a tan or lean back into a sink you want to be completely comfortable with your surroundings.
It is essential to keep a fresh eye. Here are a few tips for salon owners to keep things fresh
Step 1Go to work early and park across the street and look at your salon. Bring a notebook. Note anything that you would like to change or looks dirty disheveled.
Step 2
Hit the front door and reassess your observations from across the street. Are any signs faded or tattered or torn?
Step 3
Enter the front lobby and assess the waiting areas. Is the front lobby an inviting place you would be comfortable sitting in for 20 minutes? Are any of the chairs, magazines, posters, floors, paint, etc. worn-out, faded or broken or poorly positioned?
Step 4
Front counter areas. Same assessment, is your front counter uncluttered and does it nudge people to checkin at the correct spot? Is it spotless and well merchandised with plenty of products? Is any out of place, cluttered, worn-out, broken or otherwise should not be there?
Step 5
Behind the counter. Same routine. can customer see your "system"? I am sure it works great for you but is the area organized? Is private information out of reach? Is it clean? Are items there that can be removed stowed away or otherwise eliminated?
Step 6
Salon customer areas. Is each room or workstation clean neat and organized using the principals stated above? Can you remove clutter and make things neater, cleaner, easier for the customer?
Step 7
Vanity and Bathroom areas. If these areas are not spotless 100% of the time you are overlooking an essential part of a salon.
Step 8
Ceiling. Don't forget the ceiling. Is it clean? Are all the tiles in-place and clean, are all the lights working, are the HVAC vents and other things clean neat and organized?
OK lets see how you did... Get your list of problems and issues and see how many are fixable and how many can be solved using common sense. Your business depends on your ability to satisfy the customer.
If moving things around a bit makes your life more difficult but the customers happy. TOUGH. The customer pays your salary.
If you didn't come away with a list longer than 10 items you did this wrong. Ask someone else to do this exercise for you. Ask your customers. Respond to every complaint.
The customer experience is ever so important. People that enjoy the visit will tell other people and some of those people will visit you. If your customer has a bad experience those that are told will never come to visit you. Think about it. No matter how large your town is negatives are impact-full and lasting
Salon Supply Purchasing at or Below Wholesale and other ways to increase Profits
Purchasing discounted tanning salon supplies like tanning lotion and tanning lamps from wholesale tanning suppliers can dramatically impact salon profitability. While sticking with one tanning salon supplier may be the easiest way to run a business it is often not the most profitable. To truly maximize your profits your need to go line item by line item on your Profit and Loss statement and evaluate each spend. Find ways to pay less for tanning lamps and tanning equipment. Spend less on your tanning lotion orders buying them at the most aggressive discount possible. Tanning Buyers Group members have found savings of two thousand or more per year simply by sourcing all their tanning lamps and tanning lotions using the buyers group discount.
"I don't believe I have had anyone come to me with a price that couldn't be beaten soundly." says David Kenney - TBG Founder "Just the other day, we sourced an entire salons re-lamp. Took them from a budget brand lamp to the premiere brand at a dramatically lower price compared to their long standing supplier prices. Most salons can find some fat in places there should not be any fat."
Wholesale Salon supplies represent a large line item that can really add up each year. Many tanning salons purchase from one supplier all the time. This can be more costly than you think. Tanning Buyers Group members HERE gain access to a wide range of tanning salon suppliers that are highly motivated to keep costs down.
Wholesale Tanning Lotion Discount Savings
How do independent tanning salons save money and pay wholesale or below wholesale on tanning lotions? Tanning Buyers Group members become part of a large group of salons now able to get lowest pricing on wholesale tanning lotions. Members a shipped their tanning lotion orders directly from any one of several of the top 5 industry suppliers. As a result, the tanning lotions and supplies shipped are backed not only by Tanning Buyers Group policies but also by the distributor partners.
There truly is Power In Numbers when it comes to salon discounts and salon wholesale. Being treated as part of an over 500 store chain has tremendous value. All of the major manufacturers are readily available within 2 business days to most of the United States. Australian Gold, Designer Skin & Devoted Creations are the top tanning lotion brands nationwide. We also proudly support and supply Swedish Beauty, Fiji Blend and Supre tanning lotions.Tanning Buyers Group
June Top Tanning Lotion
1) Black - Designer Skin2) 14 Karat Gold - DS3) Born to be Bronze - DS4) Secret Stash - DS 5) Cheeky Brown - Australian Gold6) Thrust - AG 7) Devoted to Couture - Devoted Creations8) Hemphatic -DS9) Melt - DS
10) Ultra Dark Intensifier - Epifany
May tanning lotion Best Sellers
1) Black - Designer Skin2) Born To Be Bronze - DS3) 14 Karat Gold - DS4) Dangerously Dark - Swedish Beauty5) Thrust - Australian Gold6) Bottoms Up - Carib Gold7) Sex Kitten - CG8) Bearly Legal - AG9) Espresso - AG10) Cheeky Brown - AG
Lotion Sales and Retail Products
LOTIONS & SALON RETAIL PRODUCTS
Are you maximizing your front-end retail space?
Have you ever been to Walgreens™ or CVS™ and found empty shelves? These companies know what they are doing. It is the supermarket mentality and it works. They constantly fill every space and wait for the sales to happen… and they do.
Your salon has a regular flow of customers that are already at your store spending money. You have broken down that barrier of trust. This customer is ready and willing to buy if they are presented with the right opportunity.
1 ) Are your retail sales items in full view of your customers?Having your items in clear view and easy reach of your customers is essential to selling products. All retail items must be positioned directly in the traffic pattern of your salon. People buy on see and feel. It works! If you have a theft problem spend the $200.00 on a locking hexagonal display cabinet and put it at the front of your hallway. If you need more space spend a little more. That money will be made back within days or weeks.
2) Do you have enough stock to get the sale?
There is a reason the supermarket has tons of stuff on their shelves. The reason is that as you and I walk down their aisles we see things and buy them. Despite the fact that we didn’t go there to get that item… we bought it. Happens all day every day. Low inventory levels with 1 or 2 bottles of this or that just do not sell as well. Proven by the biggest retailers in the world.
3) Is your display well merchandised and constantly updated?
Another tip to take from the majors. Develop a purely visual system to display your retail items. Discuss your methods with several friends and/or customers. Now that you have a working method use it. Constantly rotate your selection so that when customers come in they will always find a “new” display. Again this draws the eye to your displays which feeds into the see and feel which plays into the sale.
4) Are your products different from the competition?
Salon retail is a very specific business. You will need to research what sells and bring in those items. You also need to be willing to mark slow sellers down, move them out & make room for fresh new items. Implement a dating system so that you know when items come in. Use this data to control inventory levels and keep thing fresh.
You should routinely visit area salons to get a feel for what lotions & salon retail products they offer, but don’t always assume they know what they are doing. Lotions and Salon Retail Product sales are an important revenue stream. The right choices on what to inventory can mean thousands to your bottom line.
Buyers group membership can help you make better decisions about your lotion & salon retail products.
Salon Management Matters
MANAGEMENT MATTERS!
Customers that have an “average” or worse experience are 15 times more likely to seek alternatives then customers that have a “good” or better experience.
This statistic proves that front-end management is the single most important aspect to operating any retail business.
If you are able to create a pleasant, well-run environment that provides for all the customers needs, you are well on your way to success.
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