Kerrymarie
Well-Known Member
So you've probably all read my blogs and saw all the arguing, well,my livingsocial deal didn't go down very well.. i only sold 49 which means when i get paid that money in 3 weeks, it's all going for my rent of the room as i owe them 2 months! I'm lucky they're so nice and understand what its like, but i cant go on like this forever, my rent is only £80 a week and most week i'm not even making that!!
Things are sort of getting better.. this week if all my appointments turn up i will have made around 160 so thats better than 50 like normal, i've also had about 3 people say they found me on google and rang up and booked in. but i heard August is always a slow month? Is this what you've found?
I know everyone told me these deals were bad but to start with my kgb made my whole 'income' increase by 200%, so that was good, however livingsocial has been a bit of a fail.
I've tried doing the deals myself, i have a board outside and i group text my deals to everyone, but the area im in there is NO footfall at all, maybe the odd man but nothing to really get people in. I should be about 500 yards up the road, so i don't know how to get those people down to me?
A few people have rebooked from my deals but yeah they're only looking for cheap deals and many don't rebook.
I'm going to do another deal for october i think, but by myself, through group texting all my clients, probably a manicure for £9 or something?!
I guess i just pinned all my hopes on selling 300 vouchers through livingsocial like they thought i would, and 49 is big disappointment!! Now i will have no money to do proper advertising!
I've done leaflets dropping, group texts, handing out leaflets in the streets, got my website, twitter, Facebook page, on most of the free listings, done my kgb which was good, contacted local businesses about raffle prizes etc but no-one seems interested and i'm just looking into the bristol evening post and doing 'coupon tuesday' where you offer either buy 1 get 1 free, or 50% off all treatments and then you get in for free i think.
Does anyone have any (nice) advice of which i haven't tried? I have read the thread on promoting your business and tried pretty much all of it!
Things are sort of getting better.. this week if all my appointments turn up i will have made around 160 so thats better than 50 like normal, i've also had about 3 people say they found me on google and rang up and booked in. but i heard August is always a slow month? Is this what you've found?
I know everyone told me these deals were bad but to start with my kgb made my whole 'income' increase by 200%, so that was good, however livingsocial has been a bit of a fail.
I've tried doing the deals myself, i have a board outside and i group text my deals to everyone, but the area im in there is NO footfall at all, maybe the odd man but nothing to really get people in. I should be about 500 yards up the road, so i don't know how to get those people down to me?
A few people have rebooked from my deals but yeah they're only looking for cheap deals and many don't rebook.
I'm going to do another deal for october i think, but by myself, through group texting all my clients, probably a manicure for £9 or something?!
I guess i just pinned all my hopes on selling 300 vouchers through livingsocial like they thought i would, and 49 is big disappointment!! Now i will have no money to do proper advertising!
I've done leaflets dropping, group texts, handing out leaflets in the streets, got my website, twitter, Facebook page, on most of the free listings, done my kgb which was good, contacted local businesses about raffle prizes etc but no-one seems interested and i'm just looking into the bristol evening post and doing 'coupon tuesday' where you offer either buy 1 get 1 free, or 50% off all treatments and then you get in for free i think.
Does anyone have any (nice) advice of which i haven't tried? I have read the thread on promoting your business and tried pretty much all of it!