What do you all call your customers?

RE: What do you all call your customers?

always refer to my clients as....clients...:D

Tigs
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RE: What do you all call your customers?

Clients, also.

Lesley

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Patients sounds too clinical. Many people try out comp treatments as an alternative to GP so lets not remind them of it.

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Clients, for the reason Russ mentioned above.. less formal.. and yeah, first names..

RE: What do you all call your customers?

I call them my clients, or my people (gosh, that makes me sound like a head of state or something :D). I don't like to use the term patients because I'm not a doctor or nurse, though I know therapists who do use it. You have to watch it a bit calling people clients, because it does have exciting connotations. Oh well.

RE: What do you all call your customers?

ORIGINAL: At One

I call them my clients, or my people (gosh, that makes me sound like a head of state or something :D). I don't like to use the term patients because I'm not a doctor or nurse, though I know therapists who do use it. You have to watch it a bit calling people clients, because it does have exciting connotations. Oh well.

😀 About the excitement -- it helps to be 60-something -- or you might try posting a photo of one of the grand dames of reflexology, such as Eunice Ingham, perhaps 😀 Seriously, I never use the term "massage". In fact, in many places in the USA, massage therapists now have to be fingerprinted as well as licensed in order to distinguish them from, um, other vocations. Fortunately, for reflexology treatment there is no need to disrobe, so we usually can escape from that requirement!

As for the topic, here in the States we are very careful -- our FDA has persecuted people in the past for "practicing medicine without a license" and such. So "patients" is a no-no unless you're at least a chiropracter or within a government-licensed health treatment facility. I do hope the rest of the world doesn't import ALL our social issues 🙁

Love and Light,
Kathleen

RE: What do you all call your customers?

I'm still studying, so mine are called VICTIMS,.
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RE: What do you all call your customers?

ORIGINAL: la touche agreable

I'm still studying, so mine are called VICTIMS,.
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Kapish! (I won't tell yours if you won't tell mine!)
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RE: What do you all call your customers?

LOL 🙂

I also call mine clients, to call them patients does medicalise it a bit.

I allow my mum to call them my patients because I then can explain to her more easily that I really cant tell her all the info on them, (she is a very "interested in people" person) and doesn't quite get the confidentiality angle. 🙂 Bless.

Jan

RE: What do you all call your customers?

I find first names more personal, but to other people i would refer to them as clients.

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Clients as well as their names

Tizana x

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Thanks all for the replies, think this may have been a little misunderstood - obviously I call my customers by their names too 😮 but I was interested in what you called them when they are not in the rooom!
What I should have said was fill in the missing word
A _ _ _ _ has just made a booking for reflexology.

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Depends who I'm talking to. They're clients if I'm being "official" and punters if I'm not.

RE: What do you all call your customers?

Ooh, Lynne, you're so mercenary!

Lesley