Would you like to take live, online, computer-based training but do not know where to start?
Many of our masssage therapist, cosmetology and bodywork students would like to train from home with a live instructor, but simply do not know how - given most of their work does not include using a computer.
As such, we provide free Welcome Webinars to helpensure a quality or complete live interactive webinar CE class training experience. Students will receive an invite to our welcome webinars AFTER they have registered for one of our live interactive webinar CE classes. Welcome webinars are FREE optional meetings that can help students learn how to view, operate and participate in our webinar program and are great for those who are new to online/webinar training.
Our next welcome webinar is available this Thursday evening, January 7, 2022! Please check your email within 5-minutes aAfter you register for your live webinar training to find your free welcome webinar registration invitation. We hope to see you there!
Suggested appointment prices for manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) services are difficult to develop for some practitioners, especially when they first get started in the modality.
In this brief 7-minute video, we'll review some tips to follow if you're trained in lymphatic drainage and wondering what to charge for your service. This video was primarily created for CE Institute LLC students who train in our MLD application - however some others may find it helpful.
Here is some basic info about setting prices in general for massage therapy and bodyworker services:
Here are some common questions, answers and tips about setting these massage prices:
What should I charge for a one-hour treatment or service? Look to your local peers and consider what they are charging? Consider their property amenities, training or years of experience with their one-hour price. Then, look to your own practice and try to determine if your service is the same, less or better than what they are providing and charge accordingly.
It is important to consider your market’s average price for viability of your own.
Should I charge more for specialized work more so than a "regular" appointment? This can be one of the most puzzling questions and situations in practice today.
One solution would be to charge a fairly high hourly rate and tell the client that they can have any type of service for this charge. Then, I may discount the service if it’s an easy appointment, or they book regularly, or whatever feels appropriate.
Sometimes I feel that massage therapists should charge a little more than their “average” market price so that there is room to offer discounts on slow days/seasons and for repeat/good clients.
Some customers may also be intrigued as to why you “costs” more than average, too. Keep in mind that good pricing involves providing your best possible service for the best possible charge.
How do I explain a price difference for different services? While I personally charge an “expensive” one-size-fits-all price for services, some therapists will have a low base price for massage, and charge more for additional modalities.
It’s perfectly acceptable to charge more for harder or complicated work. Here are three reasons why therapists can (and sometimes should) charge more:
Additional equipment and/or training was involved to provide the service; therefore, a higher price will recoup the financial investment for training and/or equipment. This is often applicable for prenatal, stone, aromatherapy, NMT and so forth.
The work is physically “harder,” which means you will not be able to provide as many appointments that day. This is often applicable for deep tissue and hot stone work.
Extra time is required to provide the service. This often applicable to mobile appointments, stone work, prenatal, shirodhara, etc. (Be sure to add any parking expenses to a mobile appointment price, too!)
What is the best practice to charge for add-on services? You should always charge for “add-ons” such as a foot scrub, paraffin or anything else that would not be normally added to the scheduled service.
If you do provide “add-ons,” it’s important to publicly post a detailed price list of these add-on services on your website, at the reception counter and/or in your service menu.
And, if a client requests an “add-on” during service, tell them the additional costs for the “add-on” before it is provided. While it’s never ideal to talk about money during a service, it could also be considered unethical to charge more than agreed without the client’s informed consent.
Setting your own appointment prices can often feel confusing and conflicting.
Using these guidelines will hopefully help make decisions about this important process. Be upfront, honest and clear about pricing. Regardless of what you charge, you should always provide a professional, reputable service that is reliable for your customers.
Good business usually provides good prices, so don’t be shy to charge what you’re worth, and let those cash registers ring!
We are pleased to announce that we will continue our live interactive webinar training without end.
We are continually updating our live interactive webinar program with best practices. These updates and our most updated practices are reflected in our new Quick Start Video.
Please review this quick 13-minute quick start video to learn what may be required and how to get the most out of our live interactive webinar, computer-based training. Thanks so much and we hope you enjoy the experience!
This free 30-minute training video shares how to setup Massage Therapy Valentine's Day Appointment Specials. Creating Valentine's Day Specials can help massage therapists:
Diversify work
Boost income
Increase business exposure
Gain new clients
Valentine’s Day Appointment Specials Supplies Needed to Offer these Valentine's Day Specials Include:
ATTENTION: Massage Therapists! We have Florida Board of Massage Approvals to teach live hands-on/relevant to massage technique CE classes and issue CE credit to CE Broker via live interactive webinar until Aug 31, 2021!
Today, we saw a massage therapy social media post where a massage employer is trying to hire a massage therapist based on a select ethic/national origin decent.
CE Institute LLC does not provide legal advice. We also try to refrain from telling anyone how to operate their business. However, after seeing this today we thought it might be helpful to share these government website links from the US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, especially for those who might face federal prosecution for bad or illegal business practices in the massage employment industry:
For the past several years, CE Institute LLC has offered in-person training and trade show education, providing thousands of CE hours to students and trade show participants, until COVID19.
Today, much of our population continues to self-isolate, suffer or lose their lives to this horrible virus. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who suffer. We hope here will be an end to this soon.
At CE Institute LLC, we will not schedule any in-person training for the rest of 2021 due to the close personal contact our bodywork training entails for many hours at a time. With great effort and expense, we have successfully launched our live interactive webinars which have been a tremendous success. We hope to see old faces and new in any of these successful and discounted educational offerings.
Unfortunately, we are unable to plan future in-person training until we can better understand how to prevent the acquisition and/or transmission of this lethal contaminant. And while we've become better as a world in recognizing the symptoms and treating this illness, plus developing a vaccine to help prevent hospitalization, our goal would be to hold an in-person training that provides minimal to zero risk to all participants.
We will continue to monitor the progress of COVID19 prevention and treatment options and plan in-person training according to COVID19 prevention and treatment success. So the answer is yes, one day we will resume in-person training when it is safe to do so. We do not feel it is worth the risk to anyone's life to hold an in-person training, whether it be the student themself or someone else they could trasmit the virus to. As such, until minimal to zero risk to in-person class participants can be achieved, we will not schedule or hold any in-person classes.
Did you know that you could use select essential oils to make your own sanitation products? CE Institute LLC founder Selena Belisle explains in this aromatherapy article published by MASSAGE MAGAZINE!
Trigger Point Therapy is here to stay! According to the AMTA, a private business applied for exclusive use of the term "triggerpoint", which would have deprived many LMTs from applying/selling the therapy by it's proper name. The AMTA states they won this fight against the application so that we can all continue to practice and use the modality Trigger Point Therapy - BRAVO!
To learn more, please register for quality, affordable, professional training at: https://ceinstitute.com/
CE Institute LLC is offering $25 refresher classes for past students who would like to repeat one of their previous trainings. There are no certificates or CE credit provided with a refresher class (as of right now they are only available for live interactive webinars); however, it's a great resource for students who want to see the educational materials again, watch the instructor demonstrations and/or practice their hands-on skills.
There is EXTREMELY LIMITED availability in the refresher program - not all classes will have refresher seats available in them. Refresher seat availability will be posted on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter social media accounts.
The next 2 refresher classes we have with 3 available seats in each are:
6 Hour Lymphatic Drainage Basics REFRESHER course next week, April 27, 2021, 1:30 - 7:30 pm
6 Hour Advanced Foot Massage REFRESHER course this Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10 am - 4:30 pm
If you would like to take any of our posted refresher classes, please email us with your name and email address used to process your original class registration with which course you would like to repeat. We will email you an invoice for the refresher class if seats remain available. Please keep in mind refresher class seats are nonrefundable and are available on a 1st come 1st serve basis only. Sending an email or receiving an invoice does not guarantee a seat in a refresher class. Only paid reservations in the refresher class will reserve your seat and access. Thank you and we hope you enjoy this refresher trainng opportunity if and when needed!
