{"id":8177,"date":"2012-02-14T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T01:11:28","slug":"are-clients-visiting-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-clients-visiting-more-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Clients Visiting More Often?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nearly 4 out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say their average client visits their stores more often than they did two years ago, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in February.<\/p>\n<p>About the same number say just the opposite \u2014 that the average client visits less often, while just about 1 out of 4 reported no change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can look at this poll a lot of ways. Certainly some tanning businesses have found ways to increase traffic, while others are still struggling either with their business model or with the economy in general,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cThis poll by itself doesn\u2019t tell the whole story, but it is interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A SmartTan.com poll in January reported that 49 percent of salons said their business performance was up from a year ago, with 33 percent reporting lower numbers. In a December poll, 71  percent of salons reported feeling more positive about the future of the market than they did at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s increasing traffic, or increasing per-person averages, there are success stories in the tanning market right now, and the general sense of optimism in the tanning community seems to reflect that.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8179\" href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/index.php\/are-clients-visiting-more-often\/2012-02-14-poll\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8179\" title=\"2012-02-14-Poll\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-14-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4 out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say their average client visits their stores more often than they did two years ago, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in February. About the same number say just the opposite \u2014 that the average client visits less often, while just about 1 out of 4 reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8177","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>Are Clients Visiting More Often? - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nearly 4 out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say their average client visits their stores more often than they did two years ago, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in February.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/are-clients-visiting-more-often\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are Clients Visiting More Often? 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