May 09
25
I finally got time to sit down and read this new book:
The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a Massage Therapist
This post is for those who do want to learn how to make $100,000 a year as a massage therapist and those who are just interested in making more than you are currently making as a massage therapist. If you are happy making what you are making and have enough to live if the economy gets bad or you get sick and you have a retirement account that is just flooded with extra cash then you can stop reading right now. And congratulations! You are one of the few very successful massage therapists out there in the US!
The rest of you run on over to amazon.com and get this book – The Magic Touch : How to make $100,000 per year as a Massage Therapist and be a part of the next revolution of massage therapists who want something more than struggling to get by and are tired of not having the clients you need to make ends meet and save.
It is packed with simple information that most massage schools somehow to forget to tell you before you graduate. They forget to mention the fact that you can make that much first of all. Most will tell you not to quit your day job. The limited amount of time you spend in massage school does not allow them to teach you everything you need to know about building a massage business.
Meagan Holub, author of the Magic Touch has it figured out and she wants to share it with you. Her basic message is to start taking control of your future and your income. You do not have to sacrifice your healing qualities but rather you can expand on them and learn to use them to the best of your abilities. Making more money does not mean you have to give up anything that is important to you.
You can take a look at the table of contents and think you might know what is included in each chapter. I could easily by 10 copies and give it to the various massage therapists I have been to in the past few years because none of them are doing any of the simplest things to get and keep clients. I can’t tell you the number of therapists I have been to that don’t know how to do a deep tissue massage even though they say they do or the number of massage therapists who don’t listen to me when I tell them the area of my body I want worked on. I had one massage where I kept telling they guy about 5 times that my hip needed work and he proceeded to spend the whole massage on my back saying that it was tight and needed work. That was his opinion and met his needs – not mine. Her simple advice to listen to people’s needs can not be emphasized enough. This is just one of the many things that she talks about in her book The Magic Touch.
The first thing she talks about is Self Care which I have been also talking about all along. What good are if you are working on people for long hours and weeks on end without any breaks or vacations? I also say that being financially stable is the highest form of self care.
What exactly is your time worth to you? How can you use your skills and intuition and while getting paid nicely for your time?
While part of the book is about how to set up your own buiness traveling to upscale hotels, there are also many other ways to do it. If this book doesn’t get you thinking about your work and what is important to you and start breaking down your resistance to making and having money which so many massage therapists have, maybe it is time for another career.
The Magic Touch: How to make 00,000 per year as a Massage Therapist
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