http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog Explorations in the Theory and Practice of Massage and Bodywork Sun, 11 May 2008 18:08:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the challenges of being a massage therapist is that you have to wear many hats. You are the massage therapist, the website designer, the bookkeeper, the janitor, the marketing and networking supervisor. You have to combine all of these skills and create a successful massage business. One ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/writing-sales-copy-for-your-massage-business/ One of my pet peeves in the massage profession has been this whole idea that medical massage is the future of the massage profession and that the massage profession should get involved with working with doctors and insurance companies as contracted providers. I am referring to working with HMO's ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/medical-massage-or-not/ No other webhosting company helps you create a website that gets results - gets the site to the top of the search engines and gets the reader to make the 'most wanted response' -whether it is to click on an ad, buy an ebook, buy an affiliate product or sell ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/does-your-website-get-results/ One of the things about having a website that works is about creating an additional source of income. Since I started talking about making money with Google Adsense, I have seen many massage therapists with Adsense ads on their home page as well as many other pages. There ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/let-your-massage-website-work-for-you/ The two best ways to get the clients you need to keep your massage business booming are getting referrals from current clients, physicians and other health care providers and Search Engine Optimization for your website. Getting referrals from others is about learning to ask for what you need. Lynn ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/keep-your-massage-business-booming/ I don't know if it is just me or if it's my writing or my sites, but I can't tell you the number of struggling massage therapists who contact me telling me how much they are struggling to build a massage practice. I know I struggled for most of ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/the-struggling-massage-therapist/ Have ever wished you had invested in Microsoft 1979? or wished that you bought $500 worth of Wal-Mart Shares in 1970? How about a recent example? If you bought Google stock at $85/share during it’s IPO in 2004 you would have made an 800% profit in just three years! Google is ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/google-adsense-for-massage-therapists/ The Dali Lama was just in town for the weekend promoting what he calls seeds of compassion. There were about 5 days of talks to mainly kids of all ages on compassion and how to be more compassionate toward others. I didn't get to go to any of ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/seeds-of-compassion/ I am doing quite an overhaul on my websites and have been finding some great articles and putting links to them from my site. I didn't have a place for these but they are timely since tax day is here. Even though these are a little outdated they are still ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/massage-therapy-business-and-taxes/ One of the ways I make additional income for myself is selling an Ebook called "The Truth about Becoming a Massage therapist" on www.massagetherapycareers.com. I started that site in about 2002 and wrote an earlier version of the ebook then and started selling it within about 2 months ... http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/ebooks-for-massage-therapists/