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November 2010 Blog Posts (27)

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Click here: Camu Gold Health Facts – Part 1

I wanted to share this link to our wonderful product. A part of each purchase helps in rainforest projects and land rights. Our last stand to help promote the beauty of this precious resource . Our new camu camu success pack comes with the business and lots of camu gold ! i see so many energy drinks out there full of stuff ! Our product is one…

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Added by Peter Metz on November 7, 2010 at 10:41am — No Comments

Massage Therapists at Work: An Era of Change and Challenge

A new working model for massage therapists is emerging rapidly and perhaps insidiously. In the first of this two-part post, we’ll examine critical factors changing the way massage therapists work. Part II will examine the changes and challenges the new work environment will provide.

Since the distinct separation from the physiotherapy and nursing professions, massage therapists have largely been self employed working from home or renting space from another RMT, chiropractor or…

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Added by Don Dillon, RMT on November 5, 2010 at 3:04pm — 1 Comment

Massage Therapists: Marketing and Building Your Practice

When you graduate from massage school and pass your certification exams, you are finally ready to join other massage therapists out in the world of spas, chiropractors' offices, cruise ships, or in your very own practice. But as a novice, you need to make a name for yourself with effective marketing practices. As a beginner, it can be confusing to understand best practices about marketing and massage, but if you follow some tried and true methods, you will be able to maintain integrity while… Continue

Added by Laurie Craig on November 5, 2010 at 11:32am — 1 Comment

The 3 R's: Research, Regulation, and Raising Standards

Yesterday, I had shared on my FB a post from Ruth Werner, President of the Massage Therapy Foundation, entitled “Who Needs Research Literacy?“. I commented on that that all massage schools need to ramp it up and start including research literacy as part…

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Added by Laura Allen on November 4, 2010 at 3:00am — 6 Comments

Following Up

Working on my online prerequisite course for becoming a Certified Injury Prevention Instructor threw me off my usual activities last week, so this blog is coming a few days late.…

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Added by Rachel Sheard, LMT, NCTMB, CIPI on November 2, 2010 at 9:27pm — No Comments

How Your Brand Affects Your Business

Branding is an important element for your business; it is the image that you present to the world. What type of image do you intend to present – a serious therapeutic and medically oriented style, more laid back and relaxed or perhaps elegant and elite? You can develop your brand from your business vision, your archetype style or just refine your current style into something more cohesive, definable and polished.

Whether you realize it or not your…

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Added by Shelene Taylor on November 2, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Alliance Conducts Survey on Educational Standards

The Professional Standards Committee of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education is working to carry out one of the organization's key goals: to develop standards that guide and inform the effective teaching of massage therapy. This is being examined in the spectrum from entry-level training programs through post-graduate studies.

To guide this process, the Alliance is conducing a brief survey that is open to everyone in the massage… Continue

Added by Rick Rosen on November 1, 2010 at 2:58pm — No Comments