pamper parties/evening

missy01

Just having had a fantastic responce to my last thread "NABO" I am trying to work out what would be the most wanted experiences on a pamper event. I can provide the normal massage, beauty, and reiki but i was wondering about using a medium as well. Any thought or other ideas. All input welcome :T :A :j

Savvy_Sue

Please don't use a medium. It would put me off mega big time.

Savvy_Sue

Just to explain why: it is so much against my religious beliefs that I would be unable to attend a pamper evening if I knew a medium would be present. It's not even that I might attend but opt out of that part. I just would not feel able to attend.

And I'm not that weird in my beliefs either.

And if I wanted to arrange a pamper evening, I wouldn't consider inviting someone who was advertising 'medium' as an option or an add-on.

So I feel that you're seriously limiting your market.

Charityworker

I've done a couple of these. We hire a room in a community centre for about £30 and then sell tickets for £10 each. For this they get a make over, manicure, reiki and a tarot card reading. They are extremely popular and you can easily get 10 people to buy a ticket at least.

I wouldnt worry about the god botherers. You dont need them to make a profit.

Savvy_Sue

Charityworker wrote: »

I wouldnt worry about the god botherers. You dont need them to make a profit.

But the OP might make a better profit, and have a wider scope of rooms to hire, if she did worry about those who hold sincere beliefs.

antrobus

missy01 wrote: »

... I can provide the normal massage, beauty, and reiki but i was wondering about using a medium as well. Any thought or other ideas. ...

So a spot of massage, make up, and the opportunity for a conversation with your dead Aunt Flo?

You're weird.

LianneCarlaS

PMSL at antrobus.

That said if there is a market for it then there is a market for it. A business formn might not be the best place to judge that though.

Charityworker

antrobus wrote: »

So a spot of massage, make up, and the opportunity for a conversation with your dead Aunt Flo?

You're weird.

Yes the talk with great aunt flo is the main selling point. Theres no shortage of people willing to pay for this. The make up, nails etc is just a side order.

I've recently been doing stalls at Mind Body and Spirit Events and believe me they draw in more people than your regular craft fair or car boot.

Theres no shortage of people at spiritualist churches.

missy01

charityworker you have hit the nail on the head. The main reason i want a medium is to sell the tickets as just massage/beauty wont do it. I do more Reiki treatments than anything else.

Really interested in what you sell on your stalls if you attend mind body & spirit events. Am i allowed to ask that on a forum.

And antrobus I am weird always have been

Annisele

I think if you offer too many things, you risk having a hotch potch of stuff that just doesn't hang together.

I can see doing massage and beauty together as a pamper event. I can see putting Reiki and mediums together as some sort of "mind body and spirit" event. But I think there are lot of people who'd be happy to pay for the beauty who'd run a mile at the suggestion of the medium. Not all of the running people would be religious; I'm an atheist and I'm deeply uncomfortable about the idea of taking money from people so they can speak to their dead loved ones.

Savvy_Sue

antrobus wrote: »

So a spot of massage, make up, and the opportunity for a conversation with your dead Aunt Flo?

You're weird.

I wouldn't have gone quite that far, but it does help me articulate a bit better why it bothers me even on non-religious grounds, actually.

Massage and make-up are very definite 'feel-good' things.

Now, I realise that most 'conversations' conducted through a medium are deeply affirming and encouraging. At least, that's what I think. Who's going to pay to be told by Aunt Flo "Your mother never wanted you, she always thought it would have been better if you'd never been born / she'd had you adopted / she'd miscarried."

Which means, either the only dead people who can be contacted are lovely affirming and encouraging people. Or, the only messages the medium will pass on are affirming and encouraging. Or there's a risk of someone being deeply upset by something non-affirming. Or ... it's a load of old baloney.

It's just not a combination I'd feel comfortable with on any grounds.