Successful Massage Businesses
While the statistics for massage professionals look bleak with these statistics reported by ABMP at www.massagetherapy.com Total earnings by massage therapists, including their earnings from other employment, were $32,506 (2005 ABMP Member Survey).First-year practice average income was $9,589, reflecting the challenges of establishing a professional-service practice (2005 ABMP Member Survey). 65.6 percent wish they had more clients — 21.2 percent indicated that (more clients) was the one change they would most like to make to their practice. # Nearly half of the respondents (51 percent) report supplementing their income with another job, a job at which they spend an average of 25 hours per week. The top five second occupations include: office/secretary/clerks; massage instructor; medical, including nurses; teacher/education; and sales/retail. The thing is that it can be a different way. Part of the problem I think is that massage schools are telling students to do things like undercharge for their services, take low paying jobs and don't quit your day job thereby creating the thought that it is difficult to start a massage practice. If you think it is difficult to start a practice - it will be. If you think it will be easy to start a practice- it will be. Here are some stories of successful massage businesses that I am collecting. Please add your own too!
Share your thoughts or stories on being/becoming a Massage Therapist
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Antalgic Posture Pain Specialist
Hans Albert Quistorff, LMP
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Born in 1940. Started in the Christian ministry of Jehovah's witnesses in 1960.
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20 years as a Massage Therapist
I decided to go to massage school after working for 12 years in the photography profession where everyone needed everything yesterday and the owner was ...
from nursing to massage
I decided to become a nurse on the massage table. And 21 years later, I decided to become a massage therapist on the massage table. Nursing has disappointed ...
Licensed Massage Therapist
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I found it was easy and beneficial to find employment at day spas or hair salons when I initially began my career in massage therapy. I learned how to ...
Just Beginning
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Actually, my start towards a career in massage began when I was fourteen years old (I am now 33). As a teen and a male, I got into weightlifting and sports ...
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