Marketing Your Massage In Local Online Directories

Ok, so here’s a useful tip for marketing your massage business online, regardless of whether or not you have a website.

What you do is find some high ranking online directories that cover the area where you practice and create a listing about your practice.

Some directories are free and some will charge you a small fee, however it can be very well worthwhile.

For example, my partner Tania practices massage on the Gold Coast, here in Australia and a really great online directory the Gold Coast Directory (http://goldcoastdirectory.com).

There they let you create a free listing which can also include a link back to your website, if you have one.

If you don’t have a website, don’t worry. As long as you create a compelling webpage with a great massage offer, that’s all you need to potentially pick up some new clients.

However, if you have a website, the link from the directory to you will help to boost your ranking in the search engines.

Getting back to my listing in the Gold Coast Directory, I went a step further. If someone goes to this website and types in Massage, they are taken to a page with all of the massage businesses listed in the area.

The title of each listing is the business name and this is a hyperlink to the full page listing for that business.

Now, having done some keyword research using the free Google Adwords keyword tool, I discovered that the term ‘massage gold coast’ gets the most searches each month, within Australia out of all of the Massage On The Gold Coast related terms. So, I created a listing for my partner’s business using the keyword, ‘Massage Gold Coast‘.

Fast forward a week later and for the term ‘Massage Gold Coast’ the massage page with all the listings in the Gold Coast directory itself comes up in position 2 in Google on page 1 and then on the second page, the ‘individual’ listing I created for my partner also comes up in position 6. No other massage practitioner’s listing from that directory is anywhere to be found.

So now my partner’s website is getting traffic from both page 1 and page 2 of Google for her absolute best and most targeted keyword, ‘massage gold coast’. Pretty cool, huh.

If you want to check it out, go to Google.com.au and type in ‘Massage Gold Coast‘ and check page 1 and page 2 for the Gold Coast Directory listings (note: I’ve actually managed to get her 5 listings out of the top 20 results in Google.com.au for ‘Massage Gold Coast’. I wonder if you can find them).

Overall, she gets between 15 and 20 inquiries per week from the Internet (resulting in about 5-7 clients), which is really cheap and effective massage marketing.

The fact is, people are using the Internet more and more to look for products and services in their local area. You gotta have some kind of Internet presence or you’re going to get left behind!

This is just one of the many Internet Massage Marketing tips that I have coming up for you. Stay tuned.

Vanuatu Property

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven’t posted for a little while. My partner Tania’s parents are selling their Vanuatu Property and are moving back to Australia and they have asked me to market it on the Internet.

The site is almost finished and I thought I’d share it here to show you how quickly you can get a new site indexed in Google when you know what to do.

The site is clean, simple and personal and is now live and you can view it at: http://vanuatuproperty.net. Googlebot hasn’t been out to visit but I’ve been laying out some bait around the net, so I expect to be indexed sometime today. You can keep watching by typing site:vanuatuproperty.net.

Shortly I’ll tell you how I got the site indexed and high up in Google so quickly. I’ve got tonnes of Internet Marketing tips to share with you about marketing your massage practice online which I’ll get to over the next couple of weeks.

I just need to finish putting in the groundwork for Tania’s parent’s site so they can start ranking in high in Google and start getting visitors/enquiries.

Exciting stuff to come. Stay tuned.

P.S – On the backburner I’m working on a large scale massage marketing project – a website that will have sooo much great info on our to build your practice (proven, real strategies, not just fluff), I know you’ll just love it. Oh and it’ll be 100% free too!

Massage Marketing With Video

Hey Massage Marketers,

Just wanted to share with you an online massage marketing strategy that I’m testing out with my partner’s massage gold coast practice.

I’m using a short video demonstation, plus a free 30 minute massage voucher that visitors to the website can download.

This is basically a modified version of an offline strategy that has worked well – the free 30 minute massage for first time clients to build up a database quickly and then market to regularly at very low cost.

Actually, we just tried this recently as a Mother’s Day promotion where we made up special Gift Vouchers and gave them to a local florest to include with all orders over $50. This has resulted in a fabulous response and has added another 50 new clients to my partners practice.

The great part is that she was able to upsell over 60% of each ‘freebie’ into a full hour treatment and these clients just paid the extra $$.

Anyway, go and check out the webpage I’ve set up for her and see if it gives you any ideas for your massage business. I’ll post again and let you know how this test goes.

Massage Gold Coast

Til then, happy massaging!

Look Phone Reverse

Have you ever had someone call you from a number you don’t recognize?

I know I have lots of times and usually I don’t answer unless I know who is calling. I’ll wait to see if they leave a message. If it’s a client of mine I will call them right back.

However, it can be expensive to keep calling my message bank and retrieve my messages so I was delighted when I discovered a tool that would instantly tell me who the number belonged to and would in fact give me their name, address and a map to their address. Pretty impressive huh?

Anyway, you can go and try out this neat little tool for yourself at: Look Phone Reverse.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your day!

Intuition Zone Review

The feedback from the Intuition Zone program is just awesome!

People are loving it and have been getting ’stuck in’ and having some incredible experiences. I’ve been working my way through the material too including the meditations and all I can say is, “WOW!”

This truly is a phenominal program that has been put together with great care and attention to detail.

If you haven’t yet downloaded your copy, go and get it now while it’s still 50% off. You won’t regret it!

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When it comes to the meditations, ‘blissful’ is coming up a lot! (check out some of the comments below), but the meditations are a lot more than a blissful experience.

They are totally ALCHEMICAL. Transformation happens just by listening to them!

One moving example is Victoria’s story at the website who had a massive emotional clearing experience.

I also love Shelley’s account on the EXPERIENCE of the meditations! She describes the transcendental nature beautifully, especially as it’s kinda hard to describe!

Check out their stories at the link below (scroll down the webpage and you’ll spot them):

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I’ve also added some of what other people have been saying about the meditations at the bottom of this email. Wow!

The meditations go way beyond unlocking your intuition and flexing your six-sensory perception! They raise your vibration in profound ways!

The Earth Light meditation, for example, is a clearing and aligning meditation, and can be used general clearing at any time, or as a daily exercise for connecting to source, accessing your highest vibration and bathing in the healing and cleansing energy of unconditional love.

What’s so ideal is that you can listen to them again and again to continue reaping rewards forever more! They actually get better each time you listen to them, and your intuitive senses get stronger! More details of the meditations – Earth-Light, Gifts of Insight, Inner Realm and Release & Integration – are at the website:

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This is not to be missed!

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To your greater health, wealth and happiness,

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Massage Therapist & Life/Business Coach

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Free Massage Marketing eBook!

Just found a site that it is giving away a great Massage Marketing eBook that teaches you how to generate lots of new clients via ‘word of mouth’ advertising instead of the more commonly used methods (Yellow Pages, Classified Ads etc).

I’ve downloaded and read it a couple of times and I can say that it is definitely a great resource. That fact that it’s FREE is just icing on the cake.

Anyway, if you’re struggling to get all the massage clients you need right now as many MTs are (we are in a recession afterall), I highly recommend you go and grab a copy of this ebook while they’re still giving it away.

I’ve been told that the offer is just a marketing test and will be getting pulled any day now, so go and get your copy now at:

MassageMarketingMastery.com

To your thriving and successful massage practice!

P.S – I’ll keep an eye out for more free stuff for you.

How To Survive A Recession

Just read a great article about how to survive a recession.

Some great tips you may not have considered there. Definitely worth the read if you have a couple of minutes.

This is a challenging time to be a massage therapist but if we’re savvy and determined we can be successful and ride it out.

Hot Stone Therapy Video – Hot Stone Therapy Demo

http://www.touchofaloha.org/learn-hot-stone-massage.html – Hot Stone Therapy – A short Hot Stone Therapy video demonstration by Tania Hodder – Touch Of Aloha.

Lomi Lomi Massage – Lomi Lomi Massage Video Presentation

Lomi Lomi Massage – A Lomi Lomi Massage Video Presentation Of Photos From Our Lomi Lomi / Kahuna Massage Courses & What Our Graduates Are Saying…

Lomi Lomi & Hot Stone Massage

We have completely updated our Touch Of Aloha website at: http://www.touchofaloha.org. For more information on Lomi Lomi and Hot Stone Massage please come and visit any time.

We’d love to answer your Lomi Lomi and Hot Stone Massage questions!

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