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Financial Serenity: Mastering the Balance Sheet

September 26, 2024

Understanding your spa’s balance sheet is akin to conducting a comprehensive wellness assessment. This financial statement offers a clear snapshot of your spa’s assets, liabilities and owner’s equity, providing insight into the resources at your disposal and the financial obligations you must meet. By regularly reviewing your balance sheet, you can ensure your business remains in peak financial condition, ready to thrive in a competitive market.

 

Financial Tranquility: Mastering the Statement of Equity

December 16, 2024

Maintaining a strong equity position brings peace of mind to business shareholders. Understanding and managing equity helps spa owners make strategic decisions that not only enhance their financial stability but also empower them to invest in new treatments, expand their offerings and continue providing outstanding care.

Fish Pedicure

A treatment that involves patrons dipping their feet in a tub of water filled with small Garra Rufa fish that eat away the dead skin found on people’s feet

Fitness Assessment

This is an overall evaluation of the body’s state, measuring such aspects as flexibility, aerobic capacity, muscular fitness and body composition.

Five Tips to Increase Spa Retail Sales

June 21, 2017

When I consult with spa managers in the United States they often tell me that their number one problem is getting their staff to sell retail products. The past three years spent working in Asia has shown me that the same challenges exist.

Float Therapy

Floating, also known by the clinical name R.E.S.T. (Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy/Treatment/Technique), is an experience of weightlessness that is acquired by lying quietly in a dark tank, suspended in a warm solution of water and Epsom salt. The solution is about 10″ deep and so dense that you float effortlessly.

Foot Bath

A bath for cleansing, warming, soothing or disinfecting the feet.

Forbes Five Star Q&A

September 5, 2023

The Forbes Five-Star criteria for spas has undergone major changes recently. Michael Conte, Forbes Travel Guide’s senior executive trainer, recently joined an ISPA Town Hall to discuss what those changes are, and to offer advice on how to ensure our spas provide extraordinary and extremely personalized services to obtain or keep those Five-Star ratings. ISPA Chair Patrick Huey moderated the event.

Four Takeaways from Shine On with Dr. Cindy Geyer

March 16, 2021

IN DECEMBER OF 2020, Dr. Cindy Geyer joined the ISPA community to share with us her professional insights regarding holistic wellness in the spa workplace. A veteran clinician with more than 20 years’ experience at Canyon Ranch Lenox, in Lenox, Massachusetts, Dr. Geyer spoke to ISPA Chairman Patrick Huey about building up resilience to stress and supporting your team’s mental well-being along the way.

From Burnout to Brilliance: Town Hall panelists offer tips for celebrating an incentivizing employee success

October 3, 2024

Keeping employees engaged and energized leads to lower staff turnover rates and a positive work environment. During a midsummer ISPA Town Hall, panelists Christina Cabrera, Gigi Guiette, Cassie Sampson and John VanEron shared how they celebrate and incentivize employee success.

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