The first conversation that I had with a massage therapist didn’t go well. I was 20-something, working out like crazy, and was dinged up with some overuse injuries. I really wanted to try massage, but massage in the 1980s wasn’t main stream, and finding a legitimate massage person in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs required some [...]
How do I market myself as a massage therapist? You take your number one work skill—massage—and use that to sell massage. Wait, it’s that easy, Mark? I didn’t say it was easy. You still have to have a plan and put in the time, but by using a skill that you already have, you streamline [...]
If you have iffy shoulders, elbow or thumbs, then try short stroke massage. Yep, I made up the name “short stroke massage”. Think of it as a strategy. Basically, you’re going to cover less distance in a stroke—a lot less distance. WTF, Mark, that’s going to be the choppiest massage ever! Not after you make [...]
I built my practice on massage for pain relief. You can, too. And you don’t need to shell out thousands of dollars to learn how to do it. Why? Because on some level with every massage you do now, you’re already doing pain relief massage. You can make pain relief massage your signature massage by [...]
