Business mentoring: experienced practitioners share what they have learned
Linda Roisum has started a video/blog project so that experienced MTs can pass on their hard-won experience to students and MTs just starting out. The project takes the form of naming three things...
View ArticleLaura Allen reports on the Form 990s she reads
In her continuing series on "The Financial Health of Our Organizations", Laura Allen reviews the publicly-disclosed information submitted by major massage non-profit organizations on their tax forms,...
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Foundational concepts: Steps in starting a business
Other MTs and allies have written good books and web posts on business; Laura Allen, Larry Swanson, Julie Onofrio, and Cherie Sohnen-Moe are some names which come immediately to mind, and there are...
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Foundational concepts: Worst business start-up mistakes
The following is taken from a booklet I received at a free training put on by Community Capital Development, a Seattle-area non-profit that works to help entrepreneurs find and develop funding sources...
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Next week's #massagechat: Setting financial goals
If you have a Twitter account, you're invited to join the #massagechat sessions on Sunday nights at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. Recent sessions have focused on networking, and on what makes for good (and...
View ArticleThe spirit of open access in massage: AMTA publishes educational handouts...
The timing for these links could not be any more appropriate--in the middle of both Massage Therapy Awareness Week and Open Access Week is the perfect time to call attention to these links made...
View ArticleRisks and benefits to the MT of taking a client in a personal-injury case
Laura Allen has published a video at the Massage Learning Network detailing the financial risks and benefits to the MT of taking on a client involved in a personal-injury suit. I can't embed the video...
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Changes are coming
But for the purpose of getting information at POEM, you shouldn't see any difference. The changes will be logistic in nature, not informational. If you read the POEM Report Card, you saw that the...
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Finding your space: Anatomical reasoning and our relationship to realism
There are at least three ways, maybe even many more, to approach the practice of massage--as healthcare profession, as self-expression, and as business. Of course, no one approaches it exclusively one...
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