Websites -Social Networking
Can it help your massage practice?
Social Networking can be used to make connections and get new massage
clients. There are now some professional massage social networking sits
such as
Massagenerd.com and also
massagespace.net
If you use social networking sites like myspace.com and facebook.com the
thing is that you have to make professional pages on these various sites.
Social networking can help connect you with others at a low cost (None for
the most part except for time.) It also provides back links to your
website which helps increase the page rank of your website.
Tips for making social networking work for you!
- Create a simple, professional looking profile
- Don't put mix family life with your professional life (create a separate
one for your family/friends if you want.)
- Don't add all of your friends with dark, scary pictures or lounging in
their bathing suits in less than favorable positions
- Don't put music on your pages as it is annoying and distracts readers
from your message
- Add other massage therapists to your networks and keep in touch with
your profession
- Add other health care providers to your network.
- Refer to good websites on health related conditions.
- Don't just add that list of never-ending 'benefits
of massage' that tell nothing about what you really do or that means
nothing to people really.
- Make the site about the client/potential client not about you.
- Learn to write information to promote yourself by reading this free
Ebook "Make
Your Words Sell" by Ken Evoy
Take social networking for what it is. Spend time setting up your
professional profile and checking in once in awhile.
For the most part Social networking can be fun but it is much more beneficial
to be writing content for your website on various topics about massage and what
you can do with massage to educate potential customers and help show them what
solution you can provide for them. That is really what they are looking
for.
Let me know if you get some good results from social networking.
