How much revenue are you losing by turning away customers? Probably more than you think You know the pain: you can’t accommodate people for any number of reasons – the client requested a specific therapist or gender that you don’t have available, or all the hot stones are booked – so you have to turn them away.
Then what happens? Roger Sholanki, CEO of Book4Time says, “An average spa loses about 15 per cent of a day’s business from turning away clients. Out of 100 appointments a day, that’s 15 appointments at $150 (£123, €140) on average.”
If you’re open year-round and closed only for Christmas and New Year’s, that’s a total revenue loss of $816,750 (£670,000, €770,000).
“A regular will probably call back,” says Sholanki, “but several studies have shown that first-time potential customers who are turned away will never call back, and that’s where you will lose the most – possibly to a local competitor.”
Current methods for dealing with this problem are ineffective: busy staff try to take notes and/or manually log the reasons for turning away customers, then management uses these logs to try to make changes to staff scheduling or facilities. This process is cumbersome and relies heavily on trial and error, leaving high potential for failure.
Imagine simplifying this process and recapturing that lost revenue.
Book4Time makes it easy to optimise your scheduling and facilities to accommodate as much business as possible in two easy steps.
1. Collect the data Book4Time’s turn-away tracking removes the guesswork by automatically logging the reasons for every turn away. The system then creates an analytics report where managers can see exactly what’s happening.
2. Optimise Knowledge is power. Once you know why you’re turning people away, you can optimise your scheduling and facilities to accommodate the clients you’re currently losing.
Sholanki says, “With Turn-Away tracking, spas know exactly how much facial or massage business they lost last month, for example, and the system will quantify that in dollars based on services requested. So when creating your schedules, you can staff more facialists or male massage therapists, and fill that demand.”
It really is that simple.
Book4Time makes maximising your revenue a simple and painless process. You’ll never have to guess again.
For more information visit www.book4time.com
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How much revenue are you losing by turning away customers? Probably more than you think You know the pain: you can’t accommodate people for any number of reasons – the client requested a specific therapist or gender that you don’t have available, or all the hot stones are booked – so you have to turn them away.
Then what happens? Roger Sholanki, CEO of Book4Time says, “An average spa loses about 15 per cent of a day’s business from turning away clients. Out of 100 appointments a day, that’s 15 appointments at $150 (£123, €140) on average.”
If you’re open year-round and closed only for Christmas and New Year’s, that’s a total revenue loss of $816,750 (£670,000, €770,000).
“A regular will probably call back,” says Sholanki, “but several studies have shown that first-time potential customers who are turned away will never call back, and that’s where you will lose the most – possibly to a local competitor.”
Current methods for dealing with this problem are ineffective: busy staff try to take notes and/or manually log the reasons for turning away customers, then management uses these logs to try to make changes to staff scheduling or facilities. This process is cumbersome and relies heavily on trial and error, leaving high potential for failure.
Imagine simplifying this process and recapturing that lost revenue.
Book4Time makes it easy to optimise your scheduling and facilities to accommodate as much business as possible in two easy steps.
1. Collect the data Book4Time’s turn-away tracking removes the guesswork by automatically logging the reasons for every turn away. The system then creates an analytics report where managers can see exactly what’s happening.
2. Optimise Knowledge is power. Once you know why you’re turning people away, you can optimise your scheduling and facilities to accommodate the clients you’re currently losing.
Sholanki says, “With Turn-Away tracking, spas know exactly how much facial or massage business they lost last month, for example, and the system will quantify that in dollars based on services requested. So when creating your schedules, you can staff more facialists or male massage therapists, and fill that demand.”
It really is that simple.
Book4Time makes maximising your revenue a simple and painless process. You’ll never have to guess again.
For more information visit www.book4time.com
Read more from this issue of Attractions Management magazine
View contents of Attractions Management 2017 issue 2
Wellness communities: Europe
Part 2 of our series explores some of
the most exciting European wellness
communities in development
Promotional feature: Babor
CEO Michael Schummert explains how the
company’s expertise in results-driven treatments makes its precision
‘Made in Germany’ products more relevant than ever before
A new immersive attraction designed to transport visitors into the final hours of ancient Pompeii
is preparing to open near the world-famous archaeological site in southern Italy.
Experience design company, BRC Imagination Arts, has completed a transition that sees founder
Bob Rogers pass ownership of the business to four long-serving senior executives, while
remaining actively involved with the company.
Movie Park Germany has opened a new Paramount Pictures-themed attraction as part of its 30th
anniversary celebrations, using immersive storytelling and adaptive reuse to reinforce the park’s
longstanding “Hollywood in Germany” positioning.
Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions
that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world once
complete, according to prof David Russell, CEO of Therme UK.
Efteling has opened Hooghmoed, a new family drop tower designed to broaden the appeal of its
recently launched Sirene Island themed area and introduce younger visitors to thrill attractions.
A proposed Puy du Fou development near Bicester and Universal Destinations and Experiences’
planned resort in Bedford are emerging as part of a wider transformation of the Oxford–
Cambridge Growth Corridor into a major centre for UK leisure and tourism inv
Shedd Aquarium has opened the Immersion Theater developed in partnership with SimEx-
Iwerks, as part of a wider strategy to enhance the guest experience and create additional
revenue opportunities.
The UK government has announced a temporary reduction in VAT on visitor attractions and
children’s meals as part of a summer cost-of-living support package designed to stimulate the
visitor economy and encourage family days out.
As designer Yinka Ilori prepares for his first solo gallery show in London, he speaks exclusively
to CLADmag about his mission to spread joy, the power of play, and his bold approach to using
colour (including the colours you won’t see in his work).
The government of Thailand is exploring plans for a THB300bn (£6.3bn, US$8.3bn)
entertainment complex in the country’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), with officials
proposing a large-scale theme park and sports destination as part of a broader tourism and
economic development strategy.
An opportunity to reimagine one of the UK’s most recognisable towers has been formally
opened by Rivington Hark, as St Johns Beacon invites operators and partners to shape its
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