Bottle Service-4 , Nightclub-3 , Bottle Locks-3
What separates a successful nightclub from your average bar scene? You need a great location, of course. You don’t want to open a new place in a bad part of town, or you’ll never get the place filled to capacity. People want to have a good time without worrying about being mugged when they leave or having their car broken into. Next you need an awesome DJ. You can’t just hire any guy off the street to spin; it has to be someone that is well-known and talented. Live music is always a great option as well. Another thing you should consider is bottle service. Yes, this is a VIP service and yes, it can be expensive for the patrons, but is it worth it? I’ll let you decide for yourself.
Average bar or nightclub: Everybody pays the same price and waits in the same general admission line for the doors to open. The people that get there first will get tables with chairs and the rest have to just settle for what they can find. Some will get isolated tables around the perimeter that have no chairs, but at least they have somewhere to sit their drinks down. That is, of course, after they have waited at the bar, fighting to get the attention of the bartender so they could order those drinks. If it is a busy night, the drinks can vary greatly. When the bartender starts getting tired or stressed out, they may start under or over pouring the cocktails. Everybody is treated with the same level of mediocre service.
A nightclub that offers bottle service: Whether they arrive at the time the doors open or they roll up around midnight, the group that got reservations for bottle service gets to bypass the line and go right in. They go straight to their designated table that is in a prime spot near the dance floor and has a great view of the live entertainment as well. Their table serves as their home base, so they have somewhere to put their stuff and they have seats for when they want to take a break from the dance floor. Their designated hostess brings them their prepaid top shelf liquors, mixers, ice and clean glasses right to their table, so there is no need to fight the crowd at the bar. When someone in the group is ready for a drink or a refill, the hostess comes over and removes the bottle lock and pours the drinks for them. (The bottles cannot be left unattended and open on the tables, so the bottle locks are necessary. But that keeps everyone safe.)
Bottle service offers your patrons a chance to feel like celebrities. The group will usually be splitting the cost which includes the table, a minimum number of bottles, and usually the gratuity. So they can feel cool and look like big spenders without really having to be rich. Whether you’re there to just get out of the house or there for to celebrate a promotion: everybody just wants to have fun and feel special. You show them a good time, keep them safe, and they will become loyal to your nightclub and they won’t go to your competition. Bottle service also helps your establishment avoid serving a minor. The hostess knows who is supposed to be at the table, so if someone new joins the party, she can check their ID before she removes the bottle locks for the next round of drinks. A busy, overworked bartender is less likely to check for proof of age every time, especially if they are swamped with people on all sides of the bar.
Get more information on Bottle Service. Contact us or call. 1.770.426.0547
What separates a successful nightclub from your average bar scene? You need a great location, of course. You don’t want to open a new place in a bad part of town, or you’ll never get the place filled to capacity. People want to have a good time without worrying about being mugged when they leave or having their car broken into. Next you need an awesome DJ. You can’t just hire any guy off the street to spin; it has to be someone that is well-known and talented. Live music is always a great option as well. Another thing you should consider is bottle service. Yes, this is a VIP service and yes, it can be expensive for the patrons, but is it worth it? I’ll let you decide for yourself.
Average bar or nightclub: Everybody pays the same price and waits in the same general admission line for the doors to open. The people that get there first will get tables with chairs and the rest have to just settle for what they can find. Some will get isolated tables around the perimeter that have no chairs, but at least they have somewhere to sit their drinks down. That is, of course, after they have waited at the bar, fighting to get the attention of the bartender so they could order those drinks. If it is a busy night, the drinks can vary greatly. When the bartender starts getting tired or stressed out, they may start under or over pouring the cocktails. Everybody is treated with the same level of mediocre service.
A nightclub that offers bottle service: Whether they arrive at the time the doors open or they roll up around midnight, the group that got reservations for bottle service gets to bypass the line and go right in. They go straight to their designated table that is in a prime spot near the dance floor and has a great view of the live entertainment as well. Their table serves as their home base, so they have somewhere to put their stuff and they have seats for when they want to take a break from the dance floor. Their designated hostess brings them their prepaid top shelf liquors, mixers, ice and clean glasses right to their table, so there is no need to fight the crowd at the bar. When someone in the group is ready for a drink or a refill, the hostess comes over and removes the bottle lock and pours the drinks for them. (The bottles cannot be left unattended and open on the tables, so the bottle locks are necessary. But that keeps everyone safe.)
Bottle service offers your patrons a chance to feel like celebrities. The group will usually be splitting the cost which includes the table, a minimum number of bottles, and usually the gratuity. So they can feel cool and look like big spenders without really having to be rich. Whether you’re there to just get out of the house or there for to celebrate a promotion: everybody just wants to have fun and feel special. You show them a good time, keep them safe, and they will become loyal to your nightclub and they won’t go to your competition. Bottle service also helps your establishment avoid serving a minor. The hostess knows who is supposed to be at the table, so if someone new joins the party, she can check their ID before she removes the bottle locks for the next round of drinks. A busy, overworked bartender is less likely to check for proof of age every time, especially if they are swamped with people on all sides of the bar.
Get more information on Bottle Service. Contact us or call. 1.770.426.0547
AST-3 , Wardrobing-3 , Return Fraud-3
Knock Out Wardrobing With Alpha Shark Tags
I have a couple of customers that I dread seeing come through the door. One or two in particular are just habitual returners. Our store offers a rewards program that gives coupons based on the purchase of certain items you buy. So they buy those things just to get the coupons and then they come back later claiming they needed to return it for some ridiculous reason. And I’m not allowed to ask for the return of the coupon. They get away with this blatant return fraud and it drives me crazy. Although it is not really considered wardrobing because they are not using the item before bringing it back, there are times I have to take a markdown on the item. I can’t be sure they didn’t leave a cosmetic item like lipstick in a hot car all day, so I have had to just throw it out sometimes.
It’s bad enough to buy something with the intention of returning it for a full refund, but I just read about a much worse trend. Now there are people that go in and buy high end merchandise, then come back later and return a knock-off or counterfeit item that looks similar. For example, a lady went and bought a super high priced designer hand bag for about $500. She waited a couple of days and came back to return the purse claiming buyer’s remorse. Of course, she had her original receipt and the sales lady recognized her from the original purchase. What the clerk did not realize was that she was actually refunding a very well made fake that the lady had bought for around $20 at a local flea market. This takes return fraud to a whole new level, folks.
There is a solution though, and it is the same one that stores use to combat wardrobing. Alpha Shark Tags were introduced to the market many years ago to solve that problem and they can be used to stop this as well. Many clothing retailers have suffered losses from return fraud for years. The shopper comes in and purchases a party dress along with shoes and some other accessories. A couple days later they come back with the receipt and expect a full refund because that was all the store policy required. Take a moment and just imagine the sweat stains in the armpits, the cigarette smoke smell, the makeup ring around the collar, and even the scuffs on the shoes. And this clown is now standing in front of you claiming she just doesn’t want the stuff anymore and you are supposed to give a full refund with a smile. That’s wardrobing in a nutshell and that is exactly why Alpha Shark Tags were invented. Now store staff just clips the tag right on the front of the dress (sometimes with a copy of the store’s return policy) and if the tag is removed, the item is not eligible to be returned.
If your store is going to sell merchandise that is known for being copied and sold at deep discounts, you need to know how to identify the authentic stuff and weed out the knock-offs. It can be difficult. Sometimes the police that raid these flea market booths have trouble telling the difference. One way you can tell if the stuff is real or at least really sold by your store is use Alpha Shark Tags. Clip one inside all your designer hand bags and before a return can be processed, you open the bag and inspect it. If the tag is not intact and in the bag, then you send them back out the door and on their merry way.
Get more information on Alpha Shark Tags. Contact us or call today: 1.770.426.0547
I have a couple of customers that I dread seeing come through the door. One or two in particular are just habitual returners. Our store offers a rewards program that gives coupons based on the purchase of certain items you buy. So they buy those things just to get the coupons and then they come back later claiming they needed to return it for some ridiculous reason. And I’m not allowed to ask for the return of the coupon. They get away with this blatant return fraud and it drives me crazy. Although it is not really considered wardrobing because they are not using the item before bringing it back, there are times I have to take a markdown on the item. I can’t be sure they didn’t leave a cosmetic item like lipstick in a hot car all day, so I have had to just throw it out sometimes.
It’s bad enough to buy something with the intention of returning it for a full refund, but I just read about a much worse trend. Now there are people that go in and buy high end merchandise, then come back later and return a knock-off or counterfeit item that looks similar. For example, a lady went and bought a super high priced designer hand bag for about $500. She waited a couple of days and came back to return the purse claiming buyer’s remorse. Of course, she had her original receipt and the sales lady recognized her from the original purchase. What the clerk did not realize was that she was actually refunding a very well made fake that the lady had bought for around $20 at a local flea market. This takes return fraud to a whole new level, folks.
There is a solution though, and it is the same one that stores use to combat wardrobing. Alpha Shark Tags were introduced to the market many years ago to solve that problem and they can be used to stop this as well. Many clothing retailers have suffered losses from return fraud for years. The shopper comes in and purchases a party dress along with shoes and some other accessories. A couple days later they come back with the receipt and expect a full refund because that was all the store policy required. Take a moment and just imagine the sweat stains in the armpits, the cigarette smoke smell, the makeup ring around the collar, and even the scuffs on the shoes. And this clown is now standing in front of you claiming she just doesn’t want the stuff anymore and you are supposed to give a full refund with a smile. That’s wardrobing in a nutshell and that is exactly why Alpha Shark Tags were invented. Now store staff just clips the tag right on the front of the dress (sometimes with a copy of the store’s return policy) and if the tag is removed, the item is not eligible to be returned.
If your store is going to sell merchandise that is known for being copied and sold at deep discounts, you need to know how to identify the authentic stuff and weed out the knock-offs. It can be difficult. Sometimes the police that raid these flea market booths have trouble telling the difference. One way you can tell if the stuff is real or at least really sold by your store is use Alpha Shark Tags. Clip one inside all your designer hand bags and before a return can be processed, you open the bag and inspect it. If the tag is not intact and in the bag, then you send them back out the door and on their merry way.
Get more information on Alpha Shark Tags. Contact us or call today: 1.770.426.0547
BITE DOWN ON THEFT WITH THUNDER TAGS
It’s been about 11 years since I’ve been in the chair. It’s not that I’m afraid of the chair itself or the accompanying bill really. I don’t know what it is; I quite can’t put my finger on it. But that chair, oh that chair makes my cringe. It brings up a host of thoughts in my head (mostly irrational ones) and memories back to my childhood where this illogical fear seems to have its origin. Not that I’ve had any particular negative experience in the chair, I still avoid it as if it were rigged with electricity. But no more could I avoid its leathery grip; the pain to great. So I summoned my inner strength, mustered up all the courage I could find, picked up the phone… and called my dentist. Little did I know my dentist and I would have something very similar in common; the need for Thunder Tags.
I’m sitting in the chair when the dental assistant comes in. She starts the usual battery of questions, asking about allergies, wanting to know how often I floss, etc. Surprisingly enough, she was not jotting these down on some chart for the good doctor to read when he entered, but rather punching the info into an iPad. I remark on how cool that is and the assistant seems shocked that I even care. She finishes up with 20 questions and heads to the door. While she was in, she did mention that they’ve had a few iPads stolen over the last few years. Before I could mention any product protection devices, like the Thunder Tag, the doctor was in and had begun cleaning my chompers.
Of course, he makes the usual dentist conversation (which is so one-sided really). He asked what I did for a living, to which I replied “I waa is wass rerenso.” I guess over the years, dentists become fluent in this language and he remarks how he used to do the work in college on the weekends for a large company. We swapped a few shoplifting stories and he patched my tooth right up. As we were wrapping up, I asked him about the theft of his tablets and if he was doing anything to stop it from happening again. Just like I hadn’t kept up with the latest in dental practices, the doctor hadn’t kept up with the advances in LP. I took out my phone and showed him the Thunder tag.
We talked for a good while about using the Thunder tag in conjunction with an N10 tower to prevent people from stealing his tablets. I even showed him how small the N10 was and that it could easily fit in his waiting room and his patients would more than likely never know it was there, or for what purpose it served. Obviously the doc had to get back to his patients and I had a bill to pay, so I shook his hand and headed on home.
I went back a month later for a follow up and noticed the N10 as soon as I walked through the doors. He took my advice and I couldn’t have been more pleased. After my work was done, we talked a bit about it and not only did he say that the day after I left, a patient had stolen another iPad. That was his wake-up call. It wasn’t so much the cost of replacing each one, but the peace of mind he had that his patient data was physically secured inside his building.
Thunder Tag is important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
It’s been about 11 years since I’ve been in the chair. It’s not that I’m afraid of the chair itself or the accompanying bill really. I don’t know what it is; I quite can’t put my finger on it. But that chair, oh that chair makes my cringe. It brings up a host of thoughts in my head (mostly irrational ones) and memories back to my childhood where this illogical fear seems to have its origin. Not that I’ve had any particular negative experience in the chair, I still avoid it as if it were rigged with electricity. But no more could I avoid its leathery grip; the pain to great. So I summoned my inner strength, mustered up all the courage I could find, picked up the phone… and called my dentist. Little did I know my dentist and I would have something very similar in common; the need for Thunder Tags.
I’m sitting in the chair when the dental assistant comes in. She starts the usual battery of questions, asking about allergies, wanting to know how often I floss, etc. Surprisingly enough, she was not jotting these down on some chart for the good doctor to read when he entered, but rather punching the info into an iPad. I remark on how cool that is and the assistant seems shocked that I even care. She finishes up with 20 questions and heads to the door. While she was in, she did mention that they’ve had a few iPads stolen over the last few years. Before I could mention any product protection devices, like the Thunder Tag, the doctor was in and had begun cleaning my chompers.
Of course, he makes the usual dentist conversation (which is so one-sided really). He asked what I did for a living, to which I replied “I waa is wass rerenso.” I guess over the years, dentists become fluent in this language and he remarks how he used to do the work in college on the weekends for a large company. We swapped a few shoplifting stories and he patched my tooth right up. As we were wrapping up, I asked him about the theft of his tablets and if he was doing anything to stop it from happening again. Just like I hadn’t kept up with the latest in dental practices, the doctor hadn’t kept up with the advances in LP. I took out my phone and showed him the Thunder tag.
We talked for a good while about using the Thunder tag in conjunction with an N10 tower to prevent people from stealing his tablets. I even showed him how small the N10 was and that it could easily fit in his waiting room and his patients would more than likely never know it was there, or for what purpose it served. Obviously the doc had to get back to his patients and I had a bill to pay, so I shook his hand and headed on home.
I went back a month later for a follow up and noticed the N10 as soon as I walked through the doors. He took my advice and I couldn’t have been more pleased. After my work was done, we talked a bit about it and not only did he say that the day after I left, a patient had stolen another iPad. That was his wake-up call. It wasn’t so much the cost of replacing each one, but the peace of mind he had that his patient data was physically secured inside his building.
Thunder Tag is important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
