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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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What is a Patient Care Coordinator?

As Jeff mentioned in his post entitled Your Medical Spas Front Desk, it is very important in the cosmetic industry to find a competent and friendly front desk person.  It is equally important to find a dynamic and motivated Patient Care Coordinator.

In most Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Centers, Patient Care Coordinators are few and far between. This is unfortunate because a motivated Patient Care Coordinator can exponentially increase your profits.

A first-rate Patient Care Coordinator usually possesses a business/marketing degree and can not only handle your website marketing, blogs, and Facebook, but can also field inquiry calls in a professional and effective manner.

Oftentimes Patient Care Coordinators will even start the initial consultation if they are “complimentary” in your office. Then when a patient is interested proceeding forward with a surgery, they are ushered in to meet with the Surgeon. This way, the Surgeon is not wasting his/her valuable time speaking to someone who is simply gathering information or price shopping. Also, if your Surgeon is not a “warm and fuzzy” type, the Patient Care Coordinator is a good go-between, and is able to relate to the patient on a more personal and friendly level. Patient Care Coordinator’s usually handle all aspects of patient financing and have the ability to help the patient choose which financing plan works best for them, sometimes calling in for the patient to seek approval.

In addition, if any areas are lacking in your practice, such as your employees taking lousy before and after pictures, A good Patient Care Coordinator does not mind stepping in to take over the picture taking or train the right person to handle this task because high-quality before and after pictures are crucial for marketing during a consultation and your photo gallery on the internet.

If you have an employee that you feel is up for the position of Patient Care Coordinator  but is unpolished, don’t worry because there is help out there. The best course I have attended is offered once every few months by Michele Tyler from Dr. Todd Malan’s office in Scottsdale, Arizona.  I myself was literally thrown into this course by my husband, who was taking a fat grafting course from Dr. Malan and wanted to make sure I had something to do while in Scottsdale (although I tried explaining to him there is much to do there!).

As I have been a Patient Care Coordinator for 5 years, I came to Michelle’s course with an overconfident attitude that I most likely knew all there was to know about this position and there was nothing I could be taught. Although I knew from both my own training and trial-and-error on the job training, much of the material being presented,  there were many excellent tricks and pointers that I learned that were worth their weight in gold and paid off many times over the relatively small price we had to pay for the course. One such topic was “What to do when a potential patient is calling and is asking how much a procedure costs?.” I’m not going to give away any of Michelle’s secrets but, if your Patient Care Coordinator or Receptionist does not know the answer to this question and consistently does not get patients into your office who ask questions such as these,  your employee probably needs to take the class!

If you are uncertain if your office employees are answering patient inquiry calls adequately and successfully, drop me an email and be sure to include your office phone number. I will “mystery shop” for you and give you a free of charge brief assessment of whether or not you need a Patient Care Coordinator in your practice.

Wendy Hovorka B.S.  M.L.A.  Valley Laser Surgical Solutions Vein Center,  McAllen, Texas

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It’s not always easy to stay motivated year after year. However, just because something isn’t easy doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. Honoring six beauty icons who have changed the industry in a positive way, Harms Software is featuring clients Robert Cromeans, John Paul DeJoria, Carmen DePasquale, Ted Gibson, Edward Tricomi, and Joel Warren in an upcoming ad campaign for Millennium SpaSalon software. The first ad, displaying all the icons together, is slated to debut next week. Intended to inspire beauty professionals everywhere to be their best, the campaign encourages you to dream big. “Do you ever feel burnt out or like you’re just going through the motions?” asks president John Harms. “It’s very easy to become complacent and mediocre, so we say, don’t just be…be legendary, be beautiful, be honorable, be inspirational, and be unstoppable!” Words we can all live by. As part of the campaign, each honoree will be featured individually and speak to a “be” word that describes and inspires them. For more on each icon and other stories from stylists across the country, check out www.harms-software.com/be in May. And feel free to submit your own story to marketing@harms-software.com. Everyone could use a bit of motivation from time to time.

The Little Luxury: Honest Tea

Relationship status: I told you about my old fling with Hint Water last week. Believe it or not, this is another beverage I quaffed with abandon during my first years of college (though it wasn’t stocked at the on-campus cafe, so I had to pay real money for it. The fact that I did so should just be another vote of confidence for how tasty it is) and just recently came back to when it was served at our media party earlier this month. So let’s call Honest Tea another old fling, too. If you’re reading this, Honest Tea: yeah, so I may have found it difficult to stick to just one beverage, but when it came to perfectly flavored, not-too-sweet tea, I only had eyes for you.

Honest Ade Lincoln One of the company’s new lines is Honest Ade – or, as I like to call it, juice for people who have sworn off the sticky-sweet liquid diabetes juice they drank as a child. The Ades have organic fruit extract and just the right amount of natural sweeteners. They come in tart, grown-up flavors like Limeade, Mangosteen, and Superfruit Punch – I’ve sampled Cranberry Lemonade, Pomegranate Blue, and Limeade, and found them all equally refreshing.

But…no tea?: As you might have gathered from the fact that this blog has mostly turned into a chronicle of things I drank that I love, I am a big fan of tea. Love the stuff. Can’t get enough. 3-cup a day habit, etc. So having never had an Ade before, I was a little disappointed when we served the Ades instead of the flagship Honest Tea line at our party. Still, I kept an open mind and tested one during a break, and was very pleasantly surprised by Honest Ade – I wasn’t choked by sugar and empty calories. It’s juice for adults, and it’s delicious – it might be the juice that makes me like juice again.

Goody-Two-Shoes: Honest Tea uses organic products and recyclable bottles made out of eco-friendly plastic and glass. They also use fair trade tea and kombucha. So your Honest Tea habit isn’t bad for you or for the world. Honest!

Where to get it: You can find a store stocking Honest Tea near you here.

Hot Stone Scale: 6 out of 6

disclaimer

This might sound like beating a dead horse, because Photoshop, celebs, and magazine covers go hand in hand, but we couldn’t allow this one to slide by. We understand the cover of Harper’s Bazaar has to look flawless for newsstand sales, but do we really need our politicians looking any younger or more glamorous? According to the Washington Examiner, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appears on the latest cover of D.C.’s May/June issue of Capitol File not looking too much like herself. In fact, years of life have been erased away with either Botox or by the magic of Photoshop. According to the celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ayman Hakki, “There is airbrushing around her eyes, her upper lid has been airbrushed to make it look like there is less fat on the inside,” Hakki told the reporters. “And there is airbrushing on the line of her jaw.” He also noted her neck has been blended, and the lines on her face are very subtle. Pelosi’s camp denies the claims and Capitol File made no comment. We didn’t think Photoshop 101 was a required med school course, but these days you never know.

Of course your know we don’t think there’s anything wrong with a little Botox here and there (we’ve seen Botox success stories and have experienced Botox firsthand) but it should never be used to alter a person’s natural look. The jury’s still out, but judging from the split screen what do you think? Botox or Photoshop? Do you think it’s important for politicians to keep up their image as celebrities do?

Images Courtesy of the Washington Examiner and Time Magazine

Damn! That was a lot of work but we now have a special website SEO reporting tool installed directly in Medical Spa MD.

Frontdesk SEO is a Select Partner and the uber-cool Frontdesk SEO reporting tool is now available directly from this site.

For those of you who have not yet run one of Frontdesk’s website report on your site, you’ll want to ASAP. It’s somthing akin to a credit check for your website and gives you a look at your Page Rank, links, SEO, competion, trends, and lets yo knowwhat Google, Yahoo, and Bing think of your website.

The report is free of course, but you’ll undoubtedly receive an email at some time in the future about Frontdesk’s do-it-yourself SEO software or outsourcing services (Which are fantasitc by the way and we use them ourselves). That’s the trade of course, which is fine. After all, we’re all capitalists here.

Healthy Aging Magazine is now a Select Partner. Welcome!

Healthy Aging has a pretty well-stocked store choc-a-block full of the kinds of stuff that makes my eyes glaze over, but is a veritable playground for whoever does the ordering in your clinic.

If you go to the Healthy Aging Magazine page, you’ll find a code that will give you an additional 10% off of any purchase you make.

Healthy Aging also has a number of sites and blogs as well as their general publication online. Here are a couple of tidbits from their site.

Evidence-Based Practice Medical Spa

Implementing an evidence-based practice (EBP) change with health care professionals in a medical setting can be daunting, but implementing it in a practice where some staff members are not medical clinicians presents unique challenges. This article discusses an EBP change for the treatment of acne in adult women by nonmedical clinicians in a medical spa setting.
 
With organized team processes, documented plans for intervention and ongoing evaluation, evidence-based practice intervention should be sustainable. Nonmedical clinicians can learn that not all studies are scientifically strong. They can learn to carefully consider study details to determine scientific validity. And they can follow and use evidence-based treatment protocols. Read more.

HGH: Safe or Not

A recent editorial in the journal Aging Healthy (not to be confused with Healthy Aging www.advanceweb.com/healthyaging) reignited the debate of Human Growth Hormone as an anti-aging supplement. Last year the AMA came out against HGH, citing a lack of clinical evidence, yet physicians argue with that claim and continue to endorse its use.  Read more.

The infamous twice-a-year Manolo Blahnik sample sale is back in New York! This sale is on the short list of occasions when women are encouraged to be less than lady-like, yet are willing to pleasantly wait on really, really long lines for hours. This year the shoe company has added a fashionable element to help speed up the wait from sales floor to register: Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley will be serving as the Master of Ceremonies. According to the press release, the editor ”will be playing the role of Prince Charming and help women slip into their perfect shoe.”

The “private” sale is taking place tomorrow, Thursday, April 29th, at the Warwick Hotel in NYC, 65 West 54th Street, New York, NY. The morning is reserved for VIPs, and at 11:00 AM, they’ll open it up to the masses. Shoes will start at just $100… and the line will undoubtedly start 7 blocks away.

To relieve some of that sample sale stress, Spa Week Daily will be there to pamper the ladies in waiting, giving out raffle tickets to win a $100 Spa Week Gift Card. If you’re there, look for us (Michelle and Candace) for a chance to win!

For those of you not in New York to battle it out at the buzz-iest shoe sale of the year, there’s still time to enter our Manolo Blahnik giveaway. Win a pair of Manolos or a case of Rioja Wine! Click below, contest ends tomorrow, April 30th.

Image Courtesy of Ephemerist

Stonewater Cove Resort & Club (Shell Knob, MO) is offering moms a chance to relax this Mother’s Day amid the clear waters of Table Rock Lake and nearly 500 acres of wilderness of the Mark Twain Nation Forest with its “Happy Mother’s Day” package ($1,078.50 per night). Available April 30 through May 16, the package includes accommodations; all meals and non-alcoholic beverages; a 40-minute Deluxe Lemongrass Foot Treatment that includes a foot soak, microplane exfoliation, mud wrap, foot scrub, and foot massage; a 90-minute Hot Stone/Aromatherapy Massage that delivers heat deep into the muscles; a pre-treatment spa basket with bath salts, slippers, fresh fruit, and a chocolate bar; and access to recreation activities like hikes, swimming, canoeing, and mountain biking.