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When It Rains It Pours
Earlier this week I was adjusting a filter pump when a fountain of water shot into the air. It was just a few minutes before opening as I kneeled in front of my tank’s filtration system, watching water cover the floor. I was fortunate enough that my love and partner was nearby and I immediately…
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Dylan’s Salty Mailbag
This week I’m dipping into the ‘ol mailbag! This week we received a question regarding wooden bath mats, which strangely I have a lot of thoughts on. Hello, Dylan, When we visited after the conference, I remember looking at the bamboo grate/mat things you had on your floor and thinking that looked like a good…
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Maintaining Float Tank Water
Today I would like to take you on an overview of our water maintenance routine. I’ve also included a spreadsheet so that you can download and use it yourself to keep track of readings for your business. Please note that this is the system we use, but it can be modified to fit your own…
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Float Conference 2013 – A Blossoming Community
I couldn’t give a better review of the conference than Nashville Float’s. Today’s post is my own personal insight on what I got out of the conference. On more than one occasion Sandra has brought up to me how few times she’s seen me cry. I cried twice at this year’s float conference; both times becoming overwhelmed…
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Still Processing…
I have had the goal of releasing a blog post every Wednesday since this project’s inception. My goal this week was to reflect on the float conference that occurred over the weekend. These two goals are contradicting each other today as I am still overwhelmed with processing an incredibly dense few days. Because of this,…
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The Wellness Center Aproach: Integrating Float Tanks with Additional Modalities
Income benefits? One of the most common questions I get asked is “Do you make more money with massage and acupuncture being part of your business?” The very simple answer to that is no; and no-matter what combination of how much you charge for massage, charge for floats and pay your practitioners, float rooms will…
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Float Room Essentials (video)
Today I want to walk you through some of the items found in our float rooms. When Sandra and I first decided to open the Float Shoppe, we would buy floats at various float centers simply to investigate their float rooms. Of course having a float was a very nice perk. While in the rooms…
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The Biggest Hurdle
Yesterday I was enjoying the summer weather, laying in the sun at a local park. Dogs filled their designated play area, a pickup game of frisbee golf had formed near me, and I was just falling asleep when I received a call from a Kentucky area code. I was pleased to learn upon answering the…
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A Chance to Breathe
Note: I decided to postpone today’s planned blog post until next week. Instead I am posting an unedited cathartic writing I did the night we announced the Float Shoppe expansion next door, a community and yoga space that will open October 1st. This writing doesn’t have the normal flow of my other posts as it…
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Groupon – Bringing more customers back to your business
Daily Deals (sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, and local equivalents) are a popular offering from float tank centers, and consumers tend to gobble them up. When a float center runs a Groupon or other daily deal we are able to profit immediately and do not feel a strain on our resources when customers redeem them. After…
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Opening Day, Opening Year
In my mind I was surrounded by my failures. Sandra was still working full time as nurse while spending every free moment working on the Shoppe, and I felt the weight of completing construction on my shoulders. All around me I saw walls without sheetrock, unfinished tiling and rooms with no electrical; literal physical representations…
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No Stopping
As I drove Sandra home the night of my second float I turned to her and said, “Why don’t we do this? Why don’t we open a float center?”. She looked at me and nodded. “Absolutely”. Our minds were working in such unison that to this day I don’t think we even needed to exchange…
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My Second Float
I had been working in IT for about 5 years and was absolutely sick of it. I would listen to podcasts throughout most of my day to stay sane. One of those podcasts was The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe Rogan would talk about this sound and light isolated “float tank” he owned that was filled…
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The Love Story
Years ago I had moved several times within a year and a half and I was getting sick of it. I was in my mid twenties and I felt like I didn’t have stability. I decided I wanted to find a living situation that was permanent, or at least one that would work for a…
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