{"id":4667,"date":"2010-10-06T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/staff-service-top-smart-tan-survey\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:00:47","slug":"staff-service-top-smart-tan-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/staff-service-top-smart-tan-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff, Service Top Smart Tan Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Indoor tanning facility owners say customers choose Smart Tan tanning facilities primarily for the service and staff at the salons, according to a SmartTan.com survey conducted in October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-06-Great-Staff-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4668\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2010-10-06 Great Staff copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-06-Great-Staff-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-06 Great Staff copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to the survey, 65 percent of of professional indoor tanning facility owners say the staff and service at their tanning businesses are what their clients like best \u2014 more than double the number (24 percent) who said they think the equipment is what their clients like best. Only 9 percent in the survey said their clients liked their prices best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis survey underscores the Smart Tan philosophies \u2014 primarily that indoor tanning is a service, not a product, and that while equipment is important to the success of your stores, how your staff performs is the key to your success,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cWe\u2019ve always promoted this, and more and more professional tanning facilities have developed programs to fully market the service of tanning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-06-Poll.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4669 alignnone\" title=\"2010-10-06-Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-10-06-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-06-Poll\" width=\"383\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indoor tanning facility owners say customers choose Smart Tan tanning facilities primarily for the service and staff at the salons, according to a SmartTan.com survey conducted in October. According to the survey, 65 percent of of professional indoor tanning facility owners say the staff and service at their tanning businesses are what their clients like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Staff, Service Top Smart Tan Survey - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Indoor tanning facility owners say customers choose Smart Tan tanning facilities primarily for the service and staff at the salons, according to a SmartTan.com survey conducted in October. 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