“Our Online Massage Appointment Scheduler, Has Been a Time and Stress Saver”

Our massage business has seen a dramatic increase in our massage services, which is great, but I could not help to think, “wow, what if we did not have our online scheduler? Would we be able to keep up with the massage appointments?” And I know that answer is, “no we could not.” I recently wrote a blog post about the 7 essential things a massage therapist needs in their massage business. I briefly mentioned the online massage scheduler within it.

Before my partner and I signed up with Appointment-Plus offer of a free 30 day trial, we were making all our massage appointments by phone and re-booking after each session. This was driving us crazy as you may imagine. When you don’t have a receptionist, you cannot answer the phone when you are working on clients. So in between massage clients we went to our phones to check messages, return calls, schedule existing clients, canceling massage appointments and rescheduling them, as well as getting new clients on our massage schedule. This will also eliminate phone tag. If that sounds like allot of work and time, you’re right. Time that could have been spent taking an extra client; time spent that could have been used for resting up for our next massage client; time being spent that could have been used to grab a bite to eat, stretch or emotionally disconnect from your last client.

If you are a massage therapist and/or bodyworker and taking on all that responsibility after each massage session you cannot, nor will not, give your body the proper downtime that it needs emotionally or physically. You will wear yourself out prematurely. Also what about all those missed calls? How many of them do you think were missed potential massage appointments?

Appointment-Plus (30 day free trial)

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Appointment plus has been such a time saver for us. It has allowed us to book our existing massage clients online as well as book new clients without us having to answer the phone. The other great thing for us is that Appointment-Plus also requires new clients to sign in with their information (pre-screens clients for you):

• Name

• Address

• Phone Number

• Email address (great for building your list to send future promotions and specials)

• Date of birth (great for sending out birthday cards)

• How they heard about us (great for tracking marketing efforts)

Appointment-Plus more than pays for itself, it saves paperwork. Like mentioned above, it does the pre-screening process for you. Clients with wrong intentions will NOT go through the registration process. This also means less paperwork for your clients to fill out when they come in for their massage appointments. It sends out appointment reminders. It will notify your clients that have not been in for some time to come back and book another massage appointment with you. You can keep notes on each client as well as each massage session to track their progress and when your massage clients booked their massage they could inform you via the bookings of any “issues” which gives you time to prepare yourself accordingly or refresh your knowledge of that “issue”.

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I am sure if you had done any research into internet marketing, you may have heard this many times before. Yes, this is true, the money is in the list but do not abuse this or your list will just opt-out or just completely ignore you, as I do.

During this last year learning internet marketing, I will say that, it has been like riding on the Bart or a Subway and trying to read the signs that are passing before your eyes. There are so many signs on the wall and you are moving so fast that you cannot take in everything. It get to the point where you start to see only the the bold big buzz words, and that is exactly that these internet marketing gurus want. They do not want you to read the fine print because if you do you will realize that, there next best thing that they are trying to sell you is already old or it is just a small portion of a bigger thing that will not help very much. That is of course you buy their next “make money online easy course”. Not knowing anything about this internet marketing industry, I felt like I had to learn a little bit about everything, so that I could choose the best path to mastering this industry.

Do to this drive to take in as much as I could, as you are probably doing right now, I joined every mailing list that had something for me to learn, especially if they were giving away something for free. Wait did I say free, nothing is free. And this is what I am experiencing right now, my time is not free, but it is this time, that these “internet Guru’s” now take up pounding my inbox with every gotta have ebook or software program available. It seems like they all wait for each other to come out with a new product so that they can offer it to their list through an affiliation program.

It’s funny to receive in 1 day several individuals all promoting the product with some special offer that you can get through them, yeah right. Wait several days and you find it online for free. The money is the list, only if you list pays attention to you, don’t abuse this right or you will turn off your audience, or they will become more knowledgeable and stop listening.

You may be thinking to ask well, did you buy? And if yes, then the money is in the list!

Maybe for a time being but if you want to sub-stain anything meaningful and not just put out there crap, to see if it sells; mentality. Respect your list and your business, take the time, to generate your own ebooks or services, repackage if necessary. Do JV partners with individuals that will have quality content for your list, and then, you begin to make money with your list, because your list will not ignore you and may even refer you, these guru’s are becoming predictable with each email blast and I don’t know of any business that can survive predictability.