Nails At The Hat Hire Company
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Ok that sounds quite bad - and believe me i feel bad - but i am involved in the guild of professional beauty therapists ovaltine and andrex voucher offer - ie clients can have a free taster of manicure or pedicure - however most have been travelling for over 20 miles to get a freebie - even though i explain on the telephone it is a 'taster'.
now recently - i have moaned that after two years i have no regular clients exept for a man manicure client x 2 (they come every 6 weeks or so) and a toe nail art client again 6 weeks or so.
but i get on average of 3-4 clients - some weeks zilch some more (have ad going in yellow pages in june) i am in a sleepy village just outside a town called Bicester - ever heard of bicester village the designer outlet shopping place- anyway we have no nail only salons but about 5 beauty salons in the town and a few hairdressers now offer beauty treatment too. anyway i digress - people are always turning up late or not showing at all so this morning a lady was coming from about 18 miles away for a taster. I called her this morning x3 but could not contact her on the contact number she had given!!! (this is my new policy to ring if i can b4 to confirm appointment) however she arrived at 11.15. FIFTEEN mins past her appointment. so i told her in the nicest possible way i could not do her as it would have a knock on effect on the rest of my day! Now i feel really bad - i guess my hormones took over and made me really strong - normally i am a door mat and do people even if they are 1/2 hr late. but i felt really annoyed and thought i should put my foot down and as with the other tasters that have travelled from witney etc and all over oxfordshire i expect she wouldnt have been back anyway!
so as well as being a crap l & P technician i'm now a crap business woman too!
I only use creative plus fabric# (which is my only enhancement systme at present - as my l & p is too awful) so now im worried she will slag me off to everyone! not that the andrex voucher says im creative.
now recently - i have moaned that after two years i have no regular clients exept for a man manicure client x 2 (they come every 6 weeks or so) and a toe nail art client again 6 weeks or so.
but i get on average of 3-4 clients - some weeks zilch some more (have ad going in yellow pages in june) i am in a sleepy village just outside a town called Bicester - ever heard of bicester village the designer outlet shopping place- anyway we have no nail only salons but about 5 beauty salons in the town and a few hairdressers now offer beauty treatment too. anyway i digress - people are always turning up late or not showing at all so this morning a lady was coming from about 18 miles away for a taster. I called her this morning x3 but could not contact her on the contact number she had given!!! (this is my new policy to ring if i can b4 to confirm appointment) however she arrived at 11.15. FIFTEEN mins past her appointment. so i told her in the nicest possible way i could not do her as it would have a knock on effect on the rest of my day! Now i feel really bad - i guess my hormones took over and made me really strong - normally i am a door mat and do people even if they are 1/2 hr late. but i felt really annoyed and thought i should put my foot down and as with the other tasters that have travelled from witney etc and all over oxfordshire i expect she wouldnt have been back anyway!
so as well as being a crap l & P technician i'm now a crap business woman too!
I only use creative plus fabric# (which is my only enhancement systme at present - as my l & p is too awful) so now im worried she will slag me off to everyone! not that the andrex voucher says im creative.