April 2012 Blog Posts (32)

I believe curiosity is one of the strongest assets that make a therapist successful. But, curiosity on the part of my patients can reap even bigger outcomes.

I have an acquaintance who is a mental health therapist. In her office she keeps a toy magic wand. Among others things, she will often give it to a client, often a child, and ask them if they could do anything, what would they do to fix things. Not an uncommon approach in mental health, and it often gives the client freedom to…

From the title, you might think this blog is about The Client List, the trashy new show on the Lifetime Channel that gives massage therapy a black eye. No such luck; the event I am referring to is the upcoming Leadership Summit #2, set to take place next week in Chicago.

The first Leadership Summit (to clarify: there were summits in 2003-04 before AFMTE and FSMTB existed) took place last September in St. Louis, with the executive directors and chairs of…

Mother's Day is only a couple of weeks away...  but it's not too late to ramp up some marketing for your massage business!



Here's a great idea from Essential Massage Therapy:



They sent out an e-newsletter to all of their clients that included this Mother's Day Contest. 

Come Back! - Start by asking.

Have you noticed that when you search for yourself on Google, your site is pretty high up on the list?  Google customizes our search results when we are signed in to any Google account.  Sites you have visited often will appear higher in the search results. 



It used to be the easiest way to turn off that personal search was to type in &pws=0 at the end of the URL search results.  This turns off the personal search results and will show you…

Don't you just hate it when your schedule is full of clients and you're in demand?



Here's a quick tutorial on how to thin out your schedule so those pesky clients will leave you alone.

1. When a client asks for deep tissue. give them reiki.  Or, when they ask for a relaxing Swedish massage, try for "death by effleurage".
2. Keep your massage room at a refreshing 64 degrees.  (this will feel especially great on bare skin with…

Last week, Massage Today President Donald Peterson published an article entitled The CAMTC Money Grab. It cast the CAMTC in a very unfavorable light; to make a long story short, it appeared to expose excessive financial wrongdoing at the organization by stating that the CAMTC was paying the expenses and per diem for no less than 14 board members to attend the American Massage Conference. The AMC is a moveable event that is held each year in a different location, and this year’s event was…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Integrity:  the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/integrity?region=us&q=integrity). 

The adoption of a business name is an important one.  It can tell lots of things about a business, including the kind of business, whose business it is and even where the business is. …

ELECTROMAGNETIC FREQUENCY SHIELD FOR IPHONE 4/4S

My friends, Kai and Randy gave me my dream job...take a look!…

I want to buy health insurance. but the personal insurance is too expensive. i don't know if massage therapists have a group, like labor union, everyone can buy insurance in a big group. if anyone has information about it, let me know. email to chineserelax2007@yahoo.com. thanks. J. Zhao

I’ve been criticizing the Maintenance of Core Competency (MOCC) proposal from the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards since the moment it landed on my radar, and I haven’t changed my mind. I think it’s a terrible plan that doesn’t serve any good purpose other than increasing the coffers of the FSMTB. In its present form, it appears to be a blatant move to put…

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