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 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.

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

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!

Are you? A student straight out of massage therapy school who wants to start his/her own business immediately? A massage therapist that is currently working for a spa or another health practitioner that is not happy with their current employment. A massage therapist that wants to be their own boss, but has no idea where to begin? A massage therapist that has already started their own business, but they are struggling to find and retain clients. A massage therapist that started their own business, but is not getting enough revenue to pay the bills. I would love for you to learn from my mistakes and years of experience. This book is for the benefits of all those massage therapists that want to be their own boss, but just do not know where to begin. Why Go into Business for Yourself There are so many good reasons to become a entrepreneur and go into business for yourself. Below are just a few. Be your own boss Create your own hours Never have to ask for time off You create your own services and specialties To charge what you are worth To keep as much profit as possible You can fire your own clients, when necessary Scale your business, have employees and even other locations You can sell your business Franchise your business What You Will Get Out of This Book Below are just a few of the key concepts you will get out of this book: You will find specialty that is right for you. You will figure out who your ideal client is and how to market to them directly. You will know what your start-up and operational costs (monthly budget) will be before opening your doors. You will know how to set up a website and create outreach materials that convert into loyal customers. You will get a checklist for finding the ideal location for your office. You will get a scripts for all aspects of communication including: voicemail messages, phone conversations, direct messages, text and email. You will learn how to increase your revenue with retail products. You will learn multiple self care techniques to keep you from burnout. Please check out our website for additional resources at StartMassageBiz.com. We look forward to serving you.