I first heard about the concept of the “Ideal Massage Client” in one of my early sessions with my supervision group in about 2001. Creating a vision of who your ideal client is and working towards having a massage business that is filled with clients who are all ‘ideal massage clients’ is just another form […]
Starting Simply – Share office space
Starting a massage business on a shoestring budget is usually a good way to go when you are just starting your massage business. You don’t really have to find your own office space and take on all of the expenses of overhead. It is much easier to just find an office space that you can […]
Massage therapist guide to surviving and thriving during Coronavirus
Help is coming The Federal CARES bill has just passed and has been signed to create one of the largest recovery efforts ever seen. The bill will allow everyone working including people who are self employed to receive unemployment benefits in your state PLUS receive an additional $600 a week for 3 months. This is […]
Surviving and Thriving COVID-19 for Massage Therapists
** This was written before the call for social distancing ramped up this weekend. If you can stay home for 2 weeks do it now. If you really really can’t, be extra vigilant in your cleaning, screening and care. It may come a time within the next week or so that the Federal or your […]
Making sense of COVID-19
This is my attempt at trying to understand why this is really happening. After 2 1/2 weeks of this COVID-19 being around in the Seattle area, it still does not make any sense to me. I had to set that aside a few weeks ago because so much was happening so fast that I had […]
COVID-19 for massage therapists update
If you are one of the massage therapists still laughing about the thing that you see as a mass hysteria event or media hyped event — the COVID-19 pandemic will set you straight soon enough. Two and a half weeks ago, I was the same way. One of my clients said they went shopping and […]