My name is Darin Penner, I live in Nashville, TN, USA. I am a licensed massage therapist in Tennessee and I have been doing corporate massage for businesses on a part-time basis. I want to take it to the next level and advertise to more, larger businesses as part of their wellness programs. I have been taking some small business courses but I still do not feel like I know what I’m doing as far as getting the business started/off the ground.
Can you point me in the right direction as to where to start? I know I need a website, business cards, a way to advertise (which I’m still not sure how except maybe direct mail to the businesses) and general contracts between me (I am the only therapist at this point but I would like to eventually expand to more) and the company but I don’t know where to turn to really get it going. Prior to being a massage therapist I was in the corporate world for many years. I am an entrepreneur at heart and I would like to turn this into my own business, to be able to make my own schedule and make people in the corporate world less stressed in their environment.
Any advice you can give will be greatly, greatly appreciated.
P.S. I accidentally found you by doing a lot of searches on how to market chair massage and ended up on your site (http://chairmassagebiz.wordpress.com/). You seem to have a very positive and upbeat personality!
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Darin // December 6, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Hi Irene,
My name is Darin Penner, I live in Nashville, TN, USA. I am a licensed massage therapist in Tennessee and I have been doing corporate massage for businesses on a part-time basis. I want to take it to the next level and advertise to more, larger businesses as part of their wellness programs. I have been taking some small business courses but I still do not feel like I know what I’m doing as far as getting the business started/off the ground.
Can you point me in the right direction as to where to start? I know I need a website, business cards, a way to advertise (which I’m still not sure how except maybe direct mail to the businesses) and general contracts between me (I am the only therapist at this point but I would like to eventually expand to more) and the company but I don’t know where to turn to really get it going. Prior to being a massage therapist I was in the corporate world for many years. I am an entrepreneur at heart and I would like to turn this into my own business, to be able to make my own schedule and make people in the corporate world less stressed in their environment.
Any advice you can give will be greatly, greatly appreciated.
P.S. I accidentally found you by doing a lot of searches on how to market chair massage and ended up on your site (http://chairmassagebiz.wordpress.com/). You seem to have a very positive and upbeat personality!