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SF Bay Area Massage Therapist Starts Social Networking Massage Site

Posted on 23 March 2008 by Robert Vignoli

San Jose Massage Therapist Robert Vignoli, Starts A Social Networking Website, Called Massage and Bodywork. Now San Francisco Massage Therapists And Bodyworkers Can Make New Friends, Share Business and Marketing Idea’s, As Well As Massage Techniques With Other Massage And Bodyworker Professionals.

If you love Myspace and enjoy making connections and building relationships through social networking, this website is for you. As you may have heard social media websites are huge right now for many different reasons, but mostly social networking websites allow for you to “connect” with other people, who share the same likes as you, Massage and Bodywork has all the features that make social networking so fun.

Click Here To Join, Its Free!

  • Members can invite new members, meet new people, and make new friends on your network.
  • Full message center with address book importing from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail.
  • See which members of your network are online now.
  • Customizable profile pages.
  • Photo slideshows, video players, music players, and network badges, that can be embedded anywhere on the Internet, seamlessly funneling new people to your network.
  • Members can set different privacy settings for every photo, video, group, or blog post they contribute.
  • RSS feeds of your network’s features, such as members, discussions, photos, videos, music/podcasts, and blog posts.

“I started Massage and Bodywork as a simple and easy way for San Francisco Bay Area massage therapists to learn and to connect with each other, locally”, says Robert. I am a massage therapist who understands the power of technology and relationship building and there is a huge population of bodyworkers here. My goal is to bring this platform to other bodyworkers so that, they will have a place to interact with each other th, like that of a Meetup, Myspace or Facebook.

Photo Sharing

  • Upload photos from a computer, mobile phone, or Flickr account.
  • Add photo comments, ratings, tags, locations, favorites, and share via email.
  • Create, organize, and view albums.
  • Create, view and “embed” photo slideshows branded for your network.
  • View all photos across the social network.

Video Sharing

  • Upload videos from a computer, mobile phone, or any video service on the web.
  • Add video comments, ratings, tags, locations, favorites, and share via email.
  • Create, view and “embed” Flash video players.
  • View all videos across the social network.

Discussion Forum

  • Start and tag a discussion.
  • Add discussion posts and reply to those posts.
  • Organize discussions by categories.
  • Click through the personal profile pages of other members engaged in the discussion.
  • View all discussions across your social network.

Groups

  • Enable members of your network to create groups.
  • Enable members of your network to make groups public or private.
  • Add group descriptions, images, discussions, and members.

Music & Podcasting

  • Create music and podcast playlists for both the network as well as for each individual member of your network.
  • Create, view and “embed” Flash music and podcast players.

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San Jose Massage Therapist Considers a $3600 Offer

Posted on 16 March 2008 by Robert Vignoli

To advertise on Yelp.com,

Ok be honest how of many of you thought this would be an offer for sex?

Yelp.com is a great service our massage business has seen a tremendous increase in business in the last 2 months. I recently wrote a blog post personally thanking everyone on yelp.com for all their great comments. I was recently contacted by a representative from yelp.com, with an offer of $3600 for the year to advertise with them.

So my question is this, is anyone paying this rate right now and what kind of returns are seeing to your business?

At $300 a month minimum for their annual contract, it is not easy just to write a check, I will be locked in that contract for a whole year whether it is working or not. Especially when all the free stuff is doing so well for us, I say free but honestly it is not free, we work very hard for the positive comments on yelp.com. As far as I know we are the first massage business in the Bay Area with a 100% guarantee on all their therapeutic massage services. And we also take most of our competitors gift certificates, and donate them to individuals who cannot afford to get a massage and really need one. Yes you read it correctly we do accept gift certificates from other massage businesses, in trade for getting your massage work from us.

In these times where foreclosures are at an all time high, gas prices sky rocketing at almost $4.00 a gallon, and talks of us hitting a recession daily in the media. I would like to hear from someone who has some experiences with the pay options on yelp, please share with us.

P.S. Please if you have some time create a free acct. it only take a couple of minutes and if you look below you will see a place to stumble, del.icio.us and add us to mixx we would appreciate it if you choose 1 or 2 of them and bookmark us, thank you.

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