Getting The Most out of Your Nitrogen Tank
Your nitrogen supply is essential for your business.
How can you get the most out of your liquid nitrogen tank? Liquid nitrogen is a perishable product. If you don't use your nitrogen tank for awhile it will literally evaporate. If you don't use it wisely you can be wasting valuable nitrogen. How can a business owner train their staff to use this resource responsibly? First and foremost it is imperative to choose a chamber that uses the least amount of nitrogen. Some chambers operate efficiently (3-4 liters per session) and some do not (11-13 liters per session). Cryo Innovations has researched the material and consulted with the experts to provide you the following tips.
Precool to Get the Most out of your Nitrogen Tank
Precooling can make you think you are wasting nitrogen in your tank. Or at the least, you cannot get the most out of your tank. Effective precooling of your chamber can take the same amount of nitrogen as a full 3 minute session. Everyone knows that if you can use one precool for multiple sessions you will save nitrogen. But many employees are not able to do this when cryo is scheduled for random times throughout the day. How can businesses get more out of their precool?
Schedule cryo for appointments only during specific times. Review your past 90 days of cryotherapy. Are there peak times and slow times? Scheduling your cryotherapy appointments can help you save liters of nitrogen simply by booking appointments all within a short time window.
Offer discounted cryo time. Many businesses have adopted a system such as "Free Cryo Friday" or "Chill Out Hour" to concentrate their appointments into smaller time frames. Free Cryo Friday is a popular program wherein paying clients can bring in a friend for a free introductory session. After the first free session they are still offered a Friday discount if they arrive within a specific time frame. This leverages your existing clientele to do your marketing for you.
Price your cryo accordingly. By offering your clients a better price for specific appointments you might be able to drive more people towards your best cooling times.
Team Up With A Team
The most efficient use of nitrogen is in back-to-back sessions. Because of this many successful cryo entrepreneurs have developed packages with teams and schools. The key to team cryo is to offer scheduled cryo for after practice or after games. This allows the players to all arrive together. In fact, you can require everyone doing cryo to show up at the same time, and even require a minimum of 3 or 4 people. Successful businesses have leveraged this by discounting athletes who arrive in a group and charging full price for individuals who arrive outside of the team window. Ironically it is the individuals teammates who are often converted into customers who purchase a bundle of services.
Nitrogen and Pressure
A common misunderstanding when shopping for a chamber is that lower pressure machines will use less nitrogen. But pressure is not relative to performance. For example, the Juka cryosauna operates at 22 psi but uses about 11 liters per session after precool. In contrast the XR cryosauna operates at 35 psi and consumes only 3-4 liters of nitrogen. Further comparing the two shows that the Polish-made Juka is not mobile, requires professional installation, is significantly larger and must be moved in two pieces, and has no fingerprint authentication. The USA-made XR is smaller, easily moved on wheels that can lock, has 8+ safety features, and uses less nitrogen per session.
The XR is the only chamber with fingerprint authorization.
Security of Your Nitrogen
A major source of nitrogen drain is theft of cryo sessions by staff members who give away or share passwords. Each session given away by unscrupulous staff requires a precool and the session itself. That could be almost 10 liters of liquid nitrogen. But advanced cryo chambers have fingerprint authorization to prevent password sharing. This also allows for accountability for the fingerprint-holder as they know they are accountable for each session.
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