No Two Tanning Salons Are The Same –
Especially Wolff Tan of Tallahassee, Thomasville, and Crawfordville…
Ever find yourself flipping through the yellow pages, sometime in the month of January, looking for the best place to tan? Price is always on our mind, especially these days, as we do not want to overpay for any service. So we call each salon and ask the customer service representative, “How much do you charge for a month of tanning?” It is questionable how the prices may vary, but is less really the right choice?
I mean, I get it if we were comparing apples to apples, but, no salon can be compared to Wolff Tan! Anyone can give tanning away, but are you really getting the color for your hard earned dollars? If lamps are not maintained and changed, then what are you paying for? Yes, the price seems right, and the bed lamps turn on, but are they doing their job? Chances are they are not. At Wolff Tan, lamps are maintained regularly; they are switched out at approximately 75% of lamp life, so you have results with every exposure. They always maintain their equipment, reinvest in their stores, and provide top notch, professional services. Their hours of operation are accommodating to your needs, not their needs, and their salons are always clean and very well maintained. Their staff is extremely friendly and they know their stuff!
Wolff Tan is great about educating on the effects of UV exposure, explaining the differences between their equipment, and they are great at talking about the right products for you to use while in the tanning bed to make the most of your exposure time. If “I don’t know” is your current salon’s answer to these types of questions, then you should consider Wolff Tan.
So What Can Wolff Tan Offer Me?
If you want great, natural color quickly, then try the Mystic Tan UV-Free Spray Tan Booth found at most Wolff Tan locations. They even have a Mystic Cocktail that allows you to tan and use the Mystic Tan Booth in one visit. Getting married? Wolff Tan has a Bridal Registry program that provides discounts to the bridal party, months in advance to the wedding. They offer a Referral Program, to all of their current clients that will reward in them in Bonus Dollars for referring a friend to Wolff Tan. Oh, and each month they offer a new special on tanning services and product purchases. Wolff Tan offers a Sun Pass program where you can tan for as little as $24.99 per month, and an Email Program where you will receive emails for all of their incredible promotions and a special email for your birthday with great coupons for free services and a product sample of your choosing. November is Customer Appreciation Month and with January’s SampleFest, you get to try all of Wolff Tan’s newest products for that year at no charge.
Does your current salon offer these services? If not, come see Wolff Tan because it is, after all, all about you, the client!
Thanks for reading!! Shelly
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Proposed 10% Sales Tax Pending on Indoor Tanning Services!
Good morning and Happy New Year!
I wanted to take this opportunity to express, to each of you, sincere thanks for your continued patronage of your Wolff Tan locations. Without you, well, we wouldn't be here.
With that expressed, and because you have an interest in indoor tanning, I am asking that you consider reading the following information with hopes that you may take a few minutes and write your thoughts on the link at the end of this letter on the prospect of paying a 10% tax for indoor tanning services. The following sums up what was going on before the Holidays with the Proposed Health Reform Bill...
Legislative Alert -- 10% Federal Tax Proposed on Tanning Services
Situation -- Late Saturday, the Senate Democratic Leadership released the text of its version of the Healthcare Reform legislation. The bill included a 10% tax on tanning services -- services involving ultraviolet light – to pay for other costs incurred under the proposal. The Joint Committee on Taxation has scored the tax on tanning to raise $2.7 billion over the next 10 years or approximately $270,000,000 in revenues annually.
From a procedural standpoint, the Senate bill is currently being considered on the floor, with final passage likely to take place on Christmas Eve. Once the bill passes the Senate, the bill will have to be reconciled with another very different version of Healthcare Reform which passed the House of Representatives earlier and which does not contain the 10% tax on tanning.
The reconciliation of the two different bills takes place in a conference committee where a small group of House and Senate members draft a final bill which then has to pass both Houses of Congress in an identical form.
As this process of reconciliation will not happen overnight and will probably take at least several weeks to a month to play out, this gives us an opportunity to mobilize our biggest resource, the industry and all of our employees and customers to assist with our advocacy and communications efforts.
Background – Our team on Capitol Hill tells us this new tax was inserted at the last minute as an alternative to a proposed tax on elective cosmetic procedures contained in the original Senate bill at the behest of a coalition that included Allergen, (the company that manufactures Botox), the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and probably the American Medical Association. Allergen alone hired six lobbying firms and probably spent over $300,000 in the last month on the effort to knock out the ‘Botax”. The money spent on direct lobbying does not include its PAC contributions. The medical societies were willing accomplices in this effort and added their lobbying firms and PACs’ dollars in support of Allergen.
As many of you may know, this measure passed the Senate and is now in negotiation with the House. The following is the email I just received from the Indoor Tanning Association...
Legislative Alert – January 4, 2010
This will be a crucial week in Washington for the Tan Tax. Lawmakers will return to the Capitol today to begin putting together the final healthcare reform bill. It will be a closed process, with a select group of approximately a dozen House and Senate members, deciding how the bill will be financed and we have to make sure our industry is heard.
The good news is that we have made tremendous progress with our grassroots campaign with a total of over 98,000 emails sent to the Congress since the campaign started on December 22. We have to keep up the pressure. Our goal is to double that number by week’s end. Thus far, customers are by far the biggest source of messages to the Hill comprising over 80% of the emails sent. Please log onto www.theita.com/home/healthcarereformbill.htm to sign a petition to help fight this unnecessary tax.
Best Always...
Shelly
I wanted to take this opportunity to express, to each of you, sincere thanks for your continued patronage of your Wolff Tan locations. Without you, well, we wouldn't be here.
With that expressed, and because you have an interest in indoor tanning, I am asking that you consider reading the following information with hopes that you may take a few minutes and write your thoughts on the link at the end of this letter on the prospect of paying a 10% tax for indoor tanning services. The following sums up what was going on before the Holidays with the Proposed Health Reform Bill...
Legislative Alert -- 10% Federal Tax Proposed on Tanning Services
Situation -- Late Saturday, the Senate Democratic Leadership released the text of its version of the Healthcare Reform legislation. The bill included a 10% tax on tanning services -- services involving ultraviolet light – to pay for other costs incurred under the proposal. The Joint Committee on Taxation has scored the tax on tanning to raise $2.7 billion over the next 10 years or approximately $270,000,000 in revenues annually.
From a procedural standpoint, the Senate bill is currently being considered on the floor, with final passage likely to take place on Christmas Eve. Once the bill passes the Senate, the bill will have to be reconciled with another very different version of Healthcare Reform which passed the House of Representatives earlier and which does not contain the 10% tax on tanning.
The reconciliation of the two different bills takes place in a conference committee where a small group of House and Senate members draft a final bill which then has to pass both Houses of Congress in an identical form.
As this process of reconciliation will not happen overnight and will probably take at least several weeks to a month to play out, this gives us an opportunity to mobilize our biggest resource, the industry and all of our employees and customers to assist with our advocacy and communications efforts.
Background – Our team on Capitol Hill tells us this new tax was inserted at the last minute as an alternative to a proposed tax on elective cosmetic procedures contained in the original Senate bill at the behest of a coalition that included Allergen, (the company that manufactures Botox), the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and probably the American Medical Association. Allergen alone hired six lobbying firms and probably spent over $300,000 in the last month on the effort to knock out the ‘Botax”. The money spent on direct lobbying does not include its PAC contributions. The medical societies were willing accomplices in this effort and added their lobbying firms and PACs’ dollars in support of Allergen.
As many of you may know, this measure passed the Senate and is now in negotiation with the House. The following is the email I just received from the Indoor Tanning Association...
Legislative Alert – January 4, 2010
This will be a crucial week in Washington for the Tan Tax. Lawmakers will return to the Capitol today to begin putting together the final healthcare reform bill. It will be a closed process, with a select group of approximately a dozen House and Senate members, deciding how the bill will be financed and we have to make sure our industry is heard.
The good news is that we have made tremendous progress with our grassroots campaign with a total of over 98,000 emails sent to the Congress since the campaign started on December 22. We have to keep up the pressure. Our goal is to double that number by week’s end. Thus far, customers are by far the biggest source of messages to the Hill comprising over 80% of the emails sent. Please log onto www.theita.com/home/healthcarereformbill.htm to sign a petition to help fight this unnecessary tax.
Best Always...
Shelly
Friday, October 2, 2009
My Tampa Experience...
So... I am on the road to Tampa for the Annual Open Indoor Tanning Association meeting, and was completely excited as this was a first for me. After all of these years, I had never attended one of these meetings?! I need to get out more! The Monday evening I got there, I attended a lovely dinner at the home of one of our industry's members and spent time speaking with owners of distributing companies, fellow salon owners, and indoor tanning product manufacturers. Actually, it was more like the Shelly Griffin - let me ask a 1000 questions - interrogation (sorry to each of you I cornered!) Oh, and did I fail to mention that I was only one of four females amongst all of these fine gentleman? I never realized that in an industry predominately owned by females, and in an industry that serves a greater quantity of females to males, there would be so many men in key postitions. But as I type this and really think about what I just wrote, "DUH" comes to mind!
Tuesday morning gets here and I am ready for a great and informative meeting, whereby I can bring a wealth of information back to Tallahassee on the status of our industry. Well, I have to tell you, that I became horrified with all of the pending legislation in our country in reference to minors and indoor tanning. This legislative year was especially active country-wide, as I came to understand, and included was the state of Florida. Just FYI, a Senator out of South Florida was trying to ban indoor tanning for minors 16 years of age and under. I was grateful to be a part of that legislative process, and, having a great lobbyist was certainly to our benefit. The happy ending for the State of Florida was that the bill died in committee, but I don't believe for a moment that this ugly bill will be gone forever. The biggest issue with all of the proposed legislation is that the politicians only see their prize: to ban indoor tanning. They could care less and have no idea of what legislation is currently in place, or what responsible salon owners do to ahere to the rules of this State. They don't care that responsible salon owners educate on the effects of UV exposure and your skin , whether indoors or out, as a daily practice. Legislation is always a tough battle to fight, but, like a salmon swimming upstream, we will continue to fight and eventually reach our goal. My drive home gave me much to think about and I hope that this blog will provide me an open forum to speak candidly, and at times with humor, to those of you that take time out of your day to read it.
By this time next week, I will be in Downtown Nashville at our annual trade show. There will be much discussion about what I have shared, but there will be even more discussion about Vitamin D and the positive effects of UV exposure in moderation. The unfortunate part is that as a salon owner, I am not permitted to speak about the positive effects of UV exposure in moderation...I am only required to warn you of possible consequences when it is abused.
I certainly look forward to sharing when I return. Until then...
Tuesday morning gets here and I am ready for a great and informative meeting, whereby I can bring a wealth of information back to Tallahassee on the status of our industry. Well, I have to tell you, that I became horrified with all of the pending legislation in our country in reference to minors and indoor tanning. This legislative year was especially active country-wide, as I came to understand, and included was the state of Florida. Just FYI, a Senator out of South Florida was trying to ban indoor tanning for minors 16 years of age and under. I was grateful to be a part of that legislative process, and, having a great lobbyist was certainly to our benefit. The happy ending for the State of Florida was that the bill died in committee, but I don't believe for a moment that this ugly bill will be gone forever. The biggest issue with all of the proposed legislation is that the politicians only see their prize: to ban indoor tanning. They could care less and have no idea of what legislation is currently in place, or what responsible salon owners do to ahere to the rules of this State. They don't care that responsible salon owners educate on the effects of UV exposure and your skin , whether indoors or out, as a daily practice. Legislation is always a tough battle to fight, but, like a salmon swimming upstream, we will continue to fight and eventually reach our goal. My drive home gave me much to think about and I hope that this blog will provide me an open forum to speak candidly, and at times with humor, to those of you that take time out of your day to read it.
By this time next week, I will be in Downtown Nashville at our annual trade show. There will be much discussion about what I have shared, but there will be even more discussion about Vitamin D and the positive effects of UV exposure in moderation. The unfortunate part is that as a salon owner, I am not permitted to speak about the positive effects of UV exposure in moderation...I am only required to warn you of possible consequences when it is abused.
I certainly look forward to sharing when I return. Until then...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Come On In!
Welcome to Wolff Tan's newest opportunity to get all of the latest and greatest information in the world of indoor tanning to you, and a great opportunity for you to talk back. This will be a weekly blog written by me, Shelly Griffin, but I will reserve the right to blog more frequently if just the right topic comes this way.
Next week, I will be heading down to Tampa for an Indoor Tanning Association meeting, along with many other salon owners, to talk about, well, indoor tanning and I look forward to sharing this information with each of you. I always enjoy meeting with other minds in the industry to "borrow" their great ideas for promotions and to always find better ways to take care of you.
Until then...
Next week, I will be heading down to Tampa for an Indoor Tanning Association meeting, along with many other salon owners, to talk about, well, indoor tanning and I look forward to sharing this information with each of you. I always enjoy meeting with other minds in the industry to "borrow" their great ideas for promotions and to always find better ways to take care of you.
Until then...
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