Monday, August 9
9 a.m. Pacific/Noon Eastern
About 70 minutes; a live encore presentation
$99
Your biggest moment of truth in a spa or salon takes place, not in a treatment room or at an employee’s station, but when a client is checking out. This is the moment you must ascertain whether a guest is satisfied, when your guest is invited to reschedule, and when they are invited to make home care purchases. Your challenge? To do all this while checking out guests as quickly and as accurately as possible.
Because your reschedule/retention rate is the most critical metric in business success, this “moment” must consistently ensure the best possible outcome. Being friendly and efficient is important, but it’s only the beginning.
Join us for this webinar, the third in our series for front desk employees and their managers. Presenters Lisa M. Starr and Peggy Wynne Borgman of Wynne business, veteran spa consultants and educators, pack the hour of instruction full of use-it-tomorrow, down to earth content. Jessica Zike of Coyle Hospitality Group, the premier mystery shopping company for the hospitality industry, will kick off the session by providing eye opening real-world performance data from their Mystery Shoppers, as well as anecdotes about front-desk experiences that missed the mark.
Participants will learn:
- The importance of the front desk team in building the business
- The hidden opportunities of checkout
- Who is supposed to do what? Understanding roles and responsibilities in this transitional zone
- Recognizing the guest at checkout; what to do when you don’t know their name
- Creating a smooth “handoff” from a service provider to the front desk
- Creating a smooth transition from the locker room to the front desk
- How to effectively gauge guest satisfaction at checkout
- The most inspiring home care recommendation strategies
- What to do when you’re asked a question you can’t answer!
- How to respond to “objections” such as “I already have something like this at home”
- Building the sale with “bumps”
- The recipe for persuasive invitations to return
- What to say when the guest says, “I need to check my calendar”
- The most neglected step in the checkout process
The webinar includes an hour long presentation and concludes with a Q & A session.
$99
Visit our Webex site to register and click on the “upcoming” tab.
Can’t make it live? Download an archived version of this webinar. On our Webex Training Center, click “Recorded Sessions” in the menu on the left of the screen. You’ll be prompted with instructions for purchasing the webinar. Once downloaded, you can use your webinar perpetually.
August 22-25, 2010, San Francisco Bay Area
If you own, manage, or plan to invest in a spa, this program is a must!
Co-taught by Peggy Wynne Borgman and Lisa M. Starr of Wynne Business Spa Consulting
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A one day class with Lisa M. Starr of Wynne Business Spa Consulting
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Sponsored in part by
The Banyan Tree, Hainan
Competition is increasing! Are you ready?
The rapid growth of the spa industry in China requires managers to be at the top of their game. Attention to detail in every aspect of the spa operation is essential to its success. A beautifully designed spa is just the beginning. Making sure that your spa can attract customers, make a profit, and operate smoothly is the truly challenging part.
If you are a spa director, manager or owner, you can’t afford to miss this outstanding program, which emphasizes practical and proven methods for improving spa performance. International spa consultant Lisa Starr, a former GM of a group of spas herself, will share advanced techniques for mastering the four pillars of spa growth and success:
- Advanced financial management skills
- Spa Marketing Strategies and Tactics
- Selecting, training and retaining the top employees
- Building an efficient operating infrastructure
This outstanding professional education will be presented at the luxurious Banyan Tree Resort. Admission includes lunch and tea breaks as well as your course text. Attendees will also receive a certificate of completion. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the class begins at 9:30 a.m., ending at 5 p.m.
Tuition discounts are available for attendees of the SpaChina Summit, and members of the China Spa Association.
Questions? Prefer bank transfer payment? Contact us at seminars@wynnebusiness.com
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Wynne Business Senior Consultant Lisa M. Starr has almost 30 years of experience in the spa industry. An accomplished instructor, Lisa leads Wynne Business educational seminars for spa owners and managers. Her consulting clients throughout the U.S. and in Asia include day spa start-ups and turnarounds, medi-spas and hotel spas, hospitals, fitness clubs, and salons offering spa services. She is a popular speaker at industry events, including IECSC, ISPA, Spa & Resort Expo, and the Spa Asia Wellness Summit. Lisa is a regular columnist at American Spa Magazine and is Director of Community for SpaTrade.com, a top spa business portal.
Monday, May 24th: 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern
Did you miss our 5/17 webinar? Register for this live encore presentation.
FREE with advance registration. If you can’t attend live, you can still register to receive a copy of the webinar recording via e mail.
A great public relations program is more important than ever, and there are more outlets for public relations than ever before–including online review sites, Facebook and Twitter! But which modalities are working best for spas in the era of social media? Which are a waste of time? Are you in control of your brand’s reputation, or is it careening out of control? Kim Marshall, a veteran public relations professional who specializes in spa, hospitality and wellness businesses, takes you on a journey through this fast-changing, sometimes hair-raising, and highly competitive landscape.
This fun, fast-paced webinar, designed to help you separate urban myth from reality, will help you to focus on the marketing tools that “move the needle” and to avoid wasteful experiments. Find out what editors really want–including the topics that travel and beauty editors are interested (and not interested) in right now. Kim has the ear of a diverse array of media professionals, and will share with us exactly what they’re telling her! Gain a valuable understanding of the key components of a compelling public relations campaign–and an insider’s perspective on how public relations actually works–from one of the pioneers of the spa industry.
Moderated by Peggy Wynne Borgman
Lisa and I had a great time–as always–delivering our latest online training this week. Thanks to everyone who joined us live. We hope this was an inspiring and informative session for you and your team, and we’d love to hear from you if something really hit home (or when a new tactic has been particularly successful.) We love to hear your success stories.
If our webinar wasn’t at a convenient time for you, don’t despair. (I know a lot of you were en route back from IECSC in Las Vegas!) The recording is now available in the Wynne Business Webex Training Library. Just click on the left-hand menu, “recorded sessions.” Once you’ve downloaded it, you’ll be able to use in in perpetuity, making the cost per employee trained probably close to the price of a Starbucks. That’s the kind of return on investment your spa needs to succeed!
