If you listened to last week’s episode, get ready to zoom out, spin around, and question it all. Blood, sweat, and tears. It’s all here because it’s pretty amazing what can happen in a week, salty friends. The crew, along with Sanda (Dylan’s  amazing partner at The Float Shoppe and in life) comes back together to hash out what they’re feeling, what they’re doing, and how they’re handling the way events have unfolded in the last week with the COVID-19 virus. If you’re debating closing, you’ll hear the thought process each person went through in order to arrive at the decision to stay open or close their center – from the size of the center, number of employees, and how people get to work. 

[Read more…] about Zooming out on COVID-19

The rising pandemic of Coronavirus and it’s associated disease, COVID-19, has much of the world on edge. Small businesses are already starting to see the economic impacts as quarantines are enforced, schools are cancelled, and corporations encourage employees to work from home.

For float center owners, clients want to know that they’ll be safe in a float tank without having to worry that surfaces in the rooms might be contaminated with the virus. As owners, you know that float tanks are incredibly safe, and with a little extra cleaning of hard surfaces between floats, there’s little concern for viral transmission.

To make it easier to communicate the safety of floating and to provide helpful tips to your clients for avoiding the spread of the virus , we’ve prepared a series of graphics that you can use in social media posts and stories. Just click the link below to download them in a zip file or visit our Facebook Page for an album of those same graphics.

[Read more…] about Floating In A Time Of Coronavirus

Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 – it has so many names, and just as many stances to take. Are you a prepper? Avoider? Non-believer? Or just a float center owner who needs to be prepared to handle your business in this uncertain time?

In this episode, we invited a special guest, Jason MacDonald to join us to talk about what we, as owners, should and shouldn’t do. Jason is an industry advocate who has spoken at past Float Conferences, and he is a Health inspector in Canada.

Jason dispels some misinformation and shares his general perspective about how the virus is spread and how float centers are already well-equipped to keep the public safe. (He even drops a few one liners that you could use for marketing campaigns!) While there’s a lot of uncharted territory with COVID-19, Jason sheds light on what to look for in your cleaning and disinfecting products to make sure you’re doing just that. Tip: contact/dwell times matter.

Dylan, Gloria, Drew, and Kim then chat about what they’re each doing onsite for their cleaning routines, staff communications, and public messaging. Some are holding out, and some are shouting from the rooftops. In which camp will you fall after hearing it all here?

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The crew discuss the pitfalls of employee management and brainstorm ways to improve morale, employee output and overall cohesion.