Spray tanners-how many clients booked in before you say you're fully booked?

[Lush-Lash]

Hello, Just wondering this, I've been looking on other spray tan pages on facebook lately & seen a lot of spray tan girls putting 'fully booked' so this has got me wondering - what do you class as fully booked in a day?
5 clients? 10 clients?

Also do you 'try' do a minimum amount of spray tans a week, like work towards a target number?

What is the average number of tans per week you have been doing lately? X

 

[Steph86]

It depends on what hours people are available to work, some of these may only be able to work 2-3 hours per eve, if mobile you then have driving times to include.

Me personally I will work til 10pm if the demand is there (unless I have plans) i can be fully booked for nails quite quickly as it takes me alot longer to do the treatment. My latest nail appt is 7.30pm- so i can still do a tan or two on my way home.

Must admit last week i lost 5 clients... Well didn't loose but they cancelled due to the weather I did 9 tans but should have had 14.

I find tanning hit & miss some weeks.

This week i have 6 booked in so far, not bad but not busy either.

Id happily fit more in. I am not full time mobile, I have a day job 4 hours per day so i have evenings free & can also do morning appts if a client requests.

Xx

 

[souz]

as steph said it depends on what your working hours are, whether you are happy to work all hours or if you have set hours to work. I have set hours Tues to friday 2 eves to late, only do occasional saturdays but will extend my hours if need be and if i can around family. I rarely do tans, its all nails for me and to be honest i dont push the tans xx

 

[Bombalurina]

I also run my own business part time around a teaching job. So for me to be fully booked is not that difficult..!!

I used to book clients from 5.45pm until 10pm at night 5 nights a week...but I was burning myself out. Now, I work from 5.45pm with my last appointment being around 8pm. I want to be home for 9pm!!!

DOo't forget that a therapist putting "fully booked" could all be a marketing ploy too....they might be availble for 1 hour a night, but we all assume that they're working full time...! Also, it might be a complete lie in the hope of generating more business... "Oooh, she's almost fully booked, she must be good, I'll try to make an appointment for that party I'm going to"....!

 

[Lush-Lash]

Bombarulina I see what you mean about a marketing ploy, people pretending they are fully booked etc.. But it's just I have seen lots of therapists recently say they are fully booked so I doubt they are all doing the same?

My hours are 9am-2pm & 6pm-8.30pm (Monday to Friday) ive been doing this (spray tanning) 2 years now & have never once been fully booked.. X

 

[gems-gem's]

I'm not sure about fully booked or spaces available messages. As mentioned its not necessarily an important indicator and I find people will ask if they want an appointment even when they don't think they will get it in any case, I've had a ten pm tan request at 3pm the same day- she was really chuffed when I said yes!