Rely on Success from the Start for the inspiration and practical business guidance you need to enjoy a long and rewarding career in massage therapy. Business naiveté is one of the primary reasons massage therapists leave the profession. The author has written this text to provide you with the business skills you need to envision and then launch a successful career. Set yourself on your path to success—right from the start.

Massage therapists need basic, practical business advice such as low to mid-cost marketing techniques, taxes, and recordkeeping, but there is also no denying the benefits of “been there, done that” information that can only come from someone else’s experience. How to Start a Home-based Massage Therapy Business offers a gold mine of tips and ideas that can lessen the learning curve, stimulate thinking outside-the-box, and increase the odds of having a wildly successful practice.

This is the premiere guide to managing a successful massage career and running a successful holistic business. Written by veteran massage therapist and holistic business coach Jessica Abegg (LMT, MBA, MSIB), this visual, hands-on book contains all the tools readers need. It focuses on both practical concerns (such as finance and legal organization), and intangible elements of success (reflection, balance, and self-care). It also includes vital information on marketing and the Internet: knowledge often absent in the high-touch, low-tech world of massage. Throughout, it reflects the growing recognition that it is urgently important to help practitioners manage businesses and careers more successfully, as reflected in the inclusion of Business Practices in the new Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge.

Massage therapists are millionaires waiting to happen. Each and every massage therapist has the capability of becoming a millionaire through various business opportunities. This book, "How to Make a Million Dollars as a Massage Therapist" depicts the opportunities available to massage therapists that compliment their core business services. This book does NOT promote MLM opportunities, rather, additional forms of social, promotional and income-generating activities that promote incredible wealth and ongoing income every single month - even while a massage therapist sleeps. This book shows you EXACTLY how to accomplish all of that, while making a million dollars in a reasonably short amount of time (1-2 years). Learn about how to start collecting email addresses on your website, branding, identifying your ideal client, advertising on a budget, ways you can advertise your site for free, how to increase traffic to your website, the millionaire formula (chapter 3) that shows all the different avenues of income available to you that you should be taking advantage of, time management and delegation so you only work a reasonable number of hours per week, word of mouth advertising, referral networks, business to business advertising, how to make money while educating other people, how to expand on your current service and product offering, staying efficient and productive, how to benefit charities while making a lot of money in the process, how to write an eBook, pay-per-click advertising and how to keep your ad costs to a minimum, secrets and tips (best practices) to using each social media channel like Pinterest and Instagram, creating the best videos for your business, app development, making a membership-only section of your website, self-care, unique selling propositions, how to sell, cross-selling and upsetting, how to get people to share your posts, how to sell to women specifically and how men choose to buy things, and much more. Learn about what you, as a massage therapist, need to do to correct your marketing plans, how you are leaving money on the table with each and every service, how you can educate others and earn thousands of dollars even if you're in a massage session or sleeping, how to promote your business without discounting services, how to drive traffic to your website without spending a fortune, and much, much more. This book focuses on diversification of income-generating opportunities, including how to be efficient, delegate and be incredibly productive. You can make money through self-care, too! Build expertise, improve your reputation dramatically, build an unbelievable following on social media, and be a creator of amazing materials and avenues of media for your clients and the world to benefit from. Pick and choose which channels of income work best for your business in the formula initially while you get other creative elements ready for sale to compliment your business!

Creating & Marketing Your Animal Massage Business will put you in the vanguard of the new animal health care vocation spreading around the world?that is, providing the service of holistic care for animals through the medium of massage. Every culture since the dawn of time has developed and used some form of massage for purposes both therapeutic and pleasurable?for humans. Massage helps animals, too. Dogs, cats, horses, ferrets, birds and reptiles all benefit from enhanced circulation, flexibility and body awareness. With massage, all animals can enjoy greater progress overcoming and correcting current physical issues. They can also connect with past issues that have resulted in behaviors associated with fear, abuse, and grieving. Pet guardians are demanding more holistic forms of wellnesscare for their pets. Massage, as the cornerstone of hands-on holistic care, helps them maintain pet wellness, recover from traumas, and transition more easily from this life plane to thenext.. More and more, veterinarians see the value of massage and incorporate qualified animal massage practitioners in their pre- and post surgical rehabilitation programs. Photo by Cheryl Hall PhotographyIn this book, Jonathan Rudinger, the founder of The PetMassageTM Training & Research Institute, expands upon the marketing course taught in the PetMassageTM workshops. This how-to-market book is unlike any other you?ve seen. It synthesizes concepts of T?ai Ch?i, Feng Shui, Ancient Folk Wisdom; current business strategies and PetMassageTM theory to create a useful and supportive course in developing the first stages of your animal massage business.

Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business By Jay Conrad Levinson

Reclaim the magic of massage. If you're feeling burned out, we can beat it. If you're worried about starting your own business, we can conquer those fears. If you think you suck at massage, you're wrong. Massage is weird. There, I said it, and I'd say it again. Whether it's communicating with first time clients, figuring out how the puzzle of pain works (and why it sometimes seems impossible to solve), or creeper-proofing your practice, it can be a lot for one person to figure out all on their own. That's why we'll figure it out together! Take the leap of faith with me and we'll demystify the mysterious, bust a few massage myths, and learn how to drop the worries and start focusing on outcomes. We'll get through it together, one chapter at a time.