Mentorship
Why a Massage Therapist Needs a Business Coach
Top Reasons to Get the Assistance you Need
You may be a caring and healing massage therapist. You have been trained well, enjoy your client base and your work, and your existing clients benefit from your treatments. So, you may ask yourself, why then is your business staggering? There are many reasons why a massage therapist needs a business coach. If you are feeling discouraged or frustrated, tired of seeing limited results or afraid of insecurity in your new business, then a business coach may be just what your successful new business needs.
Typical massage school training programs will teach you the most effective and safest way to deliver manual therapy treatments. However, very few teach the basics of starting and owning a business. But, if you do indeed enjoy working independently, would like to grow your business and make a full time living delivering effective therapy, but are still struggling, than you may already know that you need a business coach. Business coaches specialize in assessing and analyzing your current strengths, your market base and your business goals to develop a plan that will grow your business. All of this is provided in the way, the style, that fits your personal style .You get to be you and still do better. That will reduce the stress of doing like everyone else and leave you with more energy to focus on what you do best, deliver great therapy.
Successful and proven marketing tips, development of business plans, identification and assessment of short and long term goals, as well as targeted and measurable ways to achieve them are all and in your own way, are reasons why a massage therapist needs a business coach. Business coaches can also prove to be excellent motivators to help keep you and your business on track. It is so much easier to be accountable to the steps that you yourself decide are important.
The final reason why a massage therapist needs a business coach is to help prevent burnout. Starting a new business, keeping it running, improving market base and clientele, while also performing your regular massage therapy can keep a new business owner busy from day to night. Business coaches can help you to refocus, and offload some of the monotonous daily operational business tasks so you can focus on your strengths and what you really love to do.