I am a massage therapist who also owns a small massage business in San Jose, Ca. I started my blog 6 months ago, and I can honestly say that, I am very please with my results so far, especially not knowing a damn thing before I became a blogger. But I can honestly say that it has been very hard and at times very stressful. I started this blogging thing with no money to invest so I was forced to learn through trial and error, and as part of that trial and error I am looking to try something new for my massage blog.

My Premium Wordpress blog recently hit a small milestone, my Think Diagonal Massage Blog achieved a Google PageRank of 3 and Alexa rating of 288,283. And the amazing thing for me is, it achieved this GoogleRank and Alexa rating while my blog has seen a decrease in activity. I do not want to lose momentum here and I am having a hard time currently finding the time to write, due to my other massage projects that I am working on and managing a small massage business. I have decide that I need some help writing massage related material for my blog.

So I am looking for guest writers to write blog post for my blog, if you are massage therapist or bodyworker who would like to get a couple massage links pointing to your website or blog, I would be interested in talking with you. Here is what I am looking for…

• Massage related material between 300 and 550 words in length
• Massage topics will be of your choice ( but I may after reviewing you article ask you to make some minor changes, if necessary)
• Articles may not be about your massage business or service BUT can be about a massage product that you offer. But I will point the links back to you website or blog. You may include a short bio about yourself.
• Massage articles need to provide interesting, well written material relating to our massage industry, current events or massage techniques.

What you get….

1. Two anchor text (your keywords) links pointing back to your website or blog within the article.
2. A link in my blogroll for a period of 30 days.
3. Each article submitted by you will get another 30 days on my blogroll and two more anchor text links pointing to your website or blog
4. Incoming link juice from my blog to your website or blog ( this will help you achieve higher Google pagerank) and get more web traffic.

I would like to see this be a start to a group of massage therapists and bodyworkers banding together to establishing a community of us linking to each other and guest writing on each others blogs. This is important, as more of us get involved, we will be able to help each other out, by positioning our websites and blogs for more web traffic and Google Ranking. I don’t want to get into the details on how this works, to our favor, but maybe someone out there can comment on it here. If you would be so kind, a link back to my blog would also be appreciated, I am open to link exchanges as well, just ask.

Please contact me by either leaving a comment here letting me know that you are interested, and at that time, I will send you more details, thank you fellow massage therapists and bodyworkers.

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I am in favor of massage therapist blogging, the more I learn about marketing on the internet, it becomes even more clear to me that the longer you wait only hurts you.

Recently, I posted on a few massage forums the question, “Are you using a blog for you massage business?” I was quite surprise but then, I am not that surprise of the replies that I received and I will share with you why. Here are a few of the comments…

• I don’t like the idea of a blog, as I personally think it adds to a more personal feel than a business feel

• I wish I could give you some profound reason as to why I don’t, but I don’t have any off the top of my head. I have found that referrals (from existing clients) are the single most effective way to gather new clients. If I feel the need to update or educate my existing list I send out a typewritten newsletter.

• I also agree with pueppi (if I think I understand what she was saying) that writing an authenic blog might be too personal for me to want to use for marketing purposes. I think having a blog can be fun…but I’d rather not use mine for my marketing.

• I don’t blog because it’s too far removed from the core face-to-face aspects of my work

What I am finding here in the massage industry is that most massage therapist are not internet/tech savvy if anything they are more anti-technology than pro-technology. And it is for these reasons why they do not see the benefits of blogging or implementing tech into their massage business models. Tradition is a factor here as well, traditionally the massage industry is and was built on a one-to-one personal interaction, lets face it massage is a hands on business model we make new clients and money by the art of touching.

We are in a service industry and in a service industry building relationships should be the corner stone of your massage business in order to be successful here. People in general refer and talk about other people, that they know and like. What I am suggesting here is that a blog is a great tool for building that relationship, staying connected to your clients well after their massage session. What can be wrong with sharing your personal experiences within your massage business to your clients and potential clients?

Also another key note here before I sign off, a blog for your massage business gives you a platform for sharing, teaching and educating your clients and potential clients about the type of bodywork that you do, a well informed client can now more accurately talk about your services and give them a greater awareness of the benefits that your massage business/work provides them.

I would suggest for the majority of massage therapist to consider a blog, while I do know it is not for everyone but if you are passionate about the work that you do and love how your work affects change for your clients, share this with all your clients and potential clients. Think about it, that is why we got into this business, to help others right?

I wrote this blog post mostly because of a great resource that came across my laptop recently, it is from a highly successful blogging consultant name Chris Garrett, he has put together 12 FREE resources that will help you in your blogging endeavors, many of these free resources I am seeing for the first time, check em out!

• 10 free guides to building a better blog
• 2 more free blog boosting resources

Thanks Chris G.