Saturday, December 6, 2008

Best Massage Therapy Business Card Tips

By Janette Lindz

Most excited first time businessmen would probably have a massage therapy business card printed first. You should remember though that a massage therapy business card is around for a purpose.

Why You Need It

People can have business cards for various reasons. The most obvious reason for a massage therapy business card is to use it as a marketing tool. Aside from your ads, banners and targeted media marketing, your massage therapy business card can be a little tool that can go places. Let's get this straight though, not everyone agrees to using a business card as a marketing tool. For some a business card is simply a professional statement that they are reputable therapists and businessmen. In this day and age, a business card adds to the image of a business.

Why It's Useless Sometimes

In some cases, business cards can become a waste of money. You give your cards away only to be left forgotten in a drawer by a potential client. Most people these days receive a whole lot of cards from other businesses so your card will probably not receive special treatment and be carried around. Your card will end up useless whether you are using it as a marketing tool or an image builder.

Card Tips

You can improve the way your potential clients treat your massage therapy business card. You need to add more than just your name, business name and contact information. Here are some basic tips on how you can improve your card:

- As a marketing tool, your massage therapy business card should be more inviting and interesting enough to make potential clients call for an appointment. One classic way of doing that is to tell your clients why their life is so miserable with all that body pain and why they need you. Something simple like, "Is that muscle pain keeping you away from work and family? We'll help drive the pain away," might do the trick.

- As a marketing tool, your business card should also move a client to immediate action. One way to do that is to give a bold FREE offer on your card that they can't resist. You can offer a free service, a free online newsletter subscription or free oils or other items. Make sure you tell them that the offer is limited and not forever so that they'll scramble in line.

- Add a touch of personality into your card. You can put a lovely photo of yourself or a handwritten signature just to let people know that you are a real person and not just the name of a clinic. Some people respond better when they see evidence of personality and character.

- There is now an open debate on whether it matters if you have full colored glossy cards or a simple black and white one. A glossy well colored card would definitely tell people that you have a lot of class but others argue that a simple card can be redeemed by how well the card giver communicates. Just make sure though that you at least use good quality card paper and something more than just laser printer ink. - 15790

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ACN - Home Based Business Review

By Brian Turk

ACN was founded by the following four individuals, Robert Stevanovski, Mike Cupisz, Tony Cupisz and Greg Provenzano back in 1993. The ACN company headquarters is located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In their first year as a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) company they achieved revenues of nearly 2 million dollars.

The ACN telecommunications based company offers products like long distance phone service plans, digital phone service, wireless phone plans and Internet Services. The Internet services give you the option between dial-up, or DSL - high speed. However, most people today choose the DSL - high speed option over the dial-up. The business receives many great reviews, and testimonials with all of their products.

The ACN (MLM) business uses the traditional multi-level compensation plan. As soon as you acquire your first customer as an ACN Independent Representative, you will receive commissions from that customer as long as they continue to use ACN Telecommunications services. The ACN payout is roughly around 15 to 20% on every dollar spent on their products. Your income grows significantly as you recruit new customers and new Independent Representatives.

Some people do fine with this type of multi-level compensation plan, but many tend to struggle in order to maintain an attractive residual income. The ACN members sometimes have a difficult time, since this type of technology business have many competitors to overcome, in order to make a nice income.

In conclusion, the ACN business opportunity does have some very nice products. This business is like any other business though, meaning in order to be successful you would need to play full on and give it your 100%. However, I found it difficult to produce a healthy income, since there is so much competition with their products. Plus, it would take many sales in order to start seeing the money you could make with far less sales. - 15790

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