ollieninh said:
ONE THING that successful nail techs need is a person in the supply business who Number one knows their stuff, and Number two is honest with them. Good people in nail supply are about as common as good people in nail techs, hey, think of that.
Well I have read this long post and it is obvious you know your stuff stateside! We have been distributors for CND in the UK for hmmm let's see, full distributors since 1992 and subs from 1988 to 1992. We built our business on honesty and integrity and guess what :?: , Geeg was a nail tek to begin with - a great and respected one! (still is). We are still the only company in the UK that would not sell direct to teks (and still do not) and insisted on teks going through top education
before they could buy products (imagine that... I guess if we had been greedy, we would have just sold to anyone). So in essence, we put restrictions on ourselves as a company to grow and maintain an industry standard that we set, because there simply wasn't one! We (as most companies importing from the US) have
massive import taxes and
massive custom taxes - we have
not had to put our prices up in 3 years but if we did, it would be due to necessity, not because we were being greedy
I will bend over backwards if I can, to help someone and we make sure that our employees are the same... so even though we
used to be little, and we are now a large company, we still haven't lost our original sights of being honest, kind, knowledgeable, helpful, insightful and inspiring...and hopefully down-to-earth. I would take your quote at the top and turn it around to say that number one, we are still and always have been
honest and number two, we definitely
do know our stuff!! I guess Creative Nail Design (USA) taught us well; who could fail when following in the footsteps of amazing and inspirational people like Jan Arnold, Jim Nordstrom and Rhonda Stockhaus!!! :!:
Just wanted to let you know, you're not the only one!!!