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Adding Alternative Health Treatments to Your Spa to Increase Revenue, 1st in SpaTx Series

By: Candace Silvasy, Spa Consultant

What do your spa and breakfast cereal have in common? Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,of Kellogg Cereal fame, pioneered including health services in the spa.

As a spa owner, your clients trust and rely upon you to help them look and feel their best. This relationship makes your spa ideally poised to become a beauty and wellness center that helps clients achieve their best selves from the inside out.

Grow your practice by helping your clients make the correlation between health and appearance by supplementing your menu with integrative health services.

I. Spa Clients From the Inside Out

Though your spa may attract a wide range of clientele, they possess common traits that make them ideal wellness consumers. For instance, they are interested in living optimally, are results oriented and are determined to age well. As a result, they are educated and well-informed about anti-aging strategies and voraciously seek out knowledge to help them achieve their goals.

Your clients may already be giving you signs that they are looking to you for more than fillers and facials. For instance, a woman with acne asks if her diet could help reduce breakouts. Your aesthetician could refer her to your nutrition counselor – whereas another spa must direct the client elsewhere.

Offering adjunct health services not only allows you to capture more of your client’s health dollar, but also strengthens client relationships by anticipating and meeting their needs. Plus, because health and appearance are inextricably joined, clients will look and feel better longer – which they will attribute to you and thus, return again and again and refer friends and family.

II. Selecting Your Alternative Health Repertoire

Deciding upon services can be overwhelming. You cannot read a magazine or pick up a newspaper without seeing a new anti-aging remedy or technique being touted.

Some of the most intriguing innovations are being made in diagnostics. For instance, Oprah recently devoted an entire show to the Toshiba 64 Slice, a scanner that reveals the physiological age of one’s heart and can indicate one’s risk for heart disease. This scan, coupled with lifestyle counseling, is a perfect example of how holistic services can be combined on your spa menu.

Before deciding upon a service, ensure it is safe, effective and can be performed correctly within your spa. Ask yourself, “Is this attractive to my clients?” For example, if your client base is mainly women in their 20’s – 30’s who are looking for preventative treatments, hormone replacement therapy would not be compatible. But, stress-reducing acupuncture will complement results from aesthetic treatments.

Be first to offer a service in your area. For example, being the only business offering psychodermatology will motivate new clients to make an appointment. Plus, it will attract brand building media attention.

Additionally, consider the profit margin, capital expenditures required and availability of certified or licensed practitioners.

Some ideas include:

Psychodermatology
Acupuncture
Rolfing
Nutrition Counseling
Reiki or Energy Healing
Hypnotherapy
Biofeedback
Reflexology
Sleep Counseling
Body/Heart Scans
Chiropractic

Research potential new therapies online by ailments common to your spa’s clientele or the words “complementary medicine.” WebMD.com and wholehealthmd.com are good starting places.

Watch for my next article in this series, adding wellness services to your spa.

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Candace Silvasy ensures spas excel, specializing in marketing & retail including creating SisterSpas to do spa treatment trades; retail liquidation on ebay; setting up club memberships. She wrote Art of the Spa. For a free marketing tune up email Candace@artofthespa.com

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