{"id":15157,"date":"2014-07-24T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2014-07-24T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:17:07","slug":"member-of-the-month-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/member-of-the-month-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Member of the Month, August"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">Modesty Labbe, Endless Summer Tanning &amp; Wellness<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15159\" src=\"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_110744-1-1024x782.jpg\" alt=\"20140707_110744-1\" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_110744-1-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_110744-1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">She may have only opened her salon in 2012, but Modesty Labbe is no stranger to business. After many years managing a veterinary hospital, she\u2019s brought her business savvy to the industry and is already enjoying success. Modesty prides herself on following the beat of her own drummer, which has allowed her to escape the confines of more corporate environments. Now that she has a business of her own, she loves making people feel like valued participants in her business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Q: What makes your salon stand out among competitors?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15160 \" src=\"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_111613-e1406222120306-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20140707_111613\" width=\"394\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_111613-e1406222120306-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140707_111613-e1406222120306-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A:<\/strong> Scout, our little mascot! We have a dog at the salon, and he is trained as a therapy dog. Everyone loves to cuddle up with him. Sometimes customers will pop by just to visit with Scout! We have so many pictures of people just lying on the couch with him \u2013 I\u2019m serious when I say he has a following! Because he\u2019s a service dog, we have to keep him up to date on his training, but clients were very upset when they came in and the dog wasn\u2019t there. He is a very important part of our salon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Q: How do you keep your employees motivated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A:<\/strong> So far, the team is so excited to help lift this place up. We don\u2019t rely on commissions to motivate people into high pressure sales because that\u2019s not what\u2019s good for the client; our employees are happy that they can relax and talk about options without ulterior motives. We also include the team members in our plans for the business and take their input seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15161\" src=\"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20130322_142246-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"20130322_142246\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20130322_142246-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20130322_142246-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the employees recently mentioned that we have unlimited memberships for tanning but not for\u00a0the spa services in our salon. She was so right! Now we do unlimited monthly memberships on the hydro massage and hydration station. We implemented it, and it\u2019s a great example of how our employees pay attention to what customers need. Now we have this awesome option for customers to keep supporting us even if they don\u2019t tan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modesty Labbe, Endless Summer Tanning &amp; Wellness She may have only opened her salon in 2012, but Modesty Labbe is no stranger to business. After many years managing a veterinary hospital, she\u2019s brought her business savvy to the industry and is already enjoying success. Modesty prides herself on following the beat of her own drummer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine-web-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Member of the Month, August - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Modesty Labbe, Endless Summer Tanning &amp; Wellness  She may have only opened her salon in 2012, but Modesty Labbe is no stranger to business. After many years managing a veterinary hospital, she\u2019s brought her business savvy to the industry and is already enjoying success. 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