Conference Education

Smart Solutions: Indoor Tanning’s New Business Model

Completely redesigned to meet your ever-changing business needs, The 2006 Tanning World Expo and Smart Tan Educational Conference, brought to you by the Indoor Tanning Association, tackles your biggest business challenges with high-level workshops and more-specific-than-ever take-home material. Thriving in the tanning business today is a whole-new ball game, and we’ve re-invented our commitment to you to meet your needs.

GENERAL SESSION SERIES

Friday: The Indoor Tanning Industry’s New Business Model
A four-hour mega-workshop tackling the tanning industry’s #1 issue this year: The new business model for success. Smart Tan combined expert speakers with salon veterans to produce this revolutionary “conference within a conference” opening day program with more tangible take-home material than ever. Literally a program you can’t afford to miss.

Saturday: Vitamin D and Tanning’s New Message
Your mid-conference general session addresses this issue in a whole-new way: This two-hour program combines three speakers to give you an all-new perspective on the skyrocketing vitamin D issue: What the new science says, what you need to know and how you can address it. You walk away with new take-home material for you to implement in your community.

Sunday: Alpha Dogs: How Your Tanning Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack
Donna Fenn is author of the best-selling business book, Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack. In her session you'll meet entrepreneurs in a variety of industries from all over the United States whose companies appear quite ordinary, even mundane, but who have moved to the head of the pack. Fenn's theory: they have more to teach us than the high-tech and high-glitz companies we so often read about in the business press.

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SERIES

All-New Workshop Suites
Smart Tan has re-invented the seminar workshop this year, with concurrent 90-minute programs Saturday and Sunday that each combine expert speakers with veteran expert salons who actually helped shape and direct the content presented by the expert speakers. These are the topics you told us you wanted, and your workshops will be customized this year with real-world perspective like never before!

Masters Certification Track:
Basic Technical Certification isn’t enough anymore – that’s just the beginning. Created specifically for managers and employees, Smart Tan’s Masters Certification Track schools your staff beyond fundamental technical certification in the key elements of the business: skin care, sales and service, sanitation and first impressions and spray-on Tanning.

Technical Certification:
Indoor tanning’s staple course, Smart Tan offers two opportunities to complete your entry level Technical Operator Certification – a full-day class on Thursday, and a half-day express class on Sunday.

Welcome to the Indoor Tanning Industry:
Created for salon owners in their first year of business and those attending their first conference, Smart Tan’s Welcome to the Indoor Tanning Industry class Thursday evening is an excellent primer on the tanning business for success-minded newcomers.