Massage Therapy Gift Certificates

Massage therapy gift certificates may be the perfect solution to your clients' gift-giving dilemma! You hold the answer to their most perplexing question this holiday season--What should I get for ________? And not only for Christmas and Hannukah but for birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions where gifts are appropriate.

By selling them to your clients, you are helping them and yourself. You help your clients by meeting a real need. Many people are absolutely stumped when it comes to buying gifts. A massage really is the perfect gift for everyone. Table and/or chair massage is great for everybody. It promotes general health, takes away stress and pain, and makes you feel better about yourself and the world.

Selling massage therapy gift certificates benefits you, the therapist, by generating extra income so you can purchase gifts for those all-important people in your life! You are getting paid, yet you still have time to shop because you do not have bookings.

And later on, when the gift certificate recipients call for appointments, you will accomodate them and many will love your work so much that they will book additional appointments on their own. Also, they will tell their friends and family and you will get even more clients. Word of mouth advertising is powerful stuff!

You can purchase attractive gift certificates online or at a local massage supply store. You can go to your neighborhood printer and have a nice supply printed up in the design of your choice. You can even buy some software for your computer that allows you to design and print your own gift certificates.

They say that presentation is everything so let's make it that way, especially during the Christmas season. You can place festive massage therapy gift certificates in matching attractive envelopes.

Consider going up to the next level. Purchase some pretty sparkly small gift boxes at your local dollar store that are roughly the size of your gift certificates. Place a little raffia or tinsel in the box and put your gift certificate on top of that.

For additional sparkle or if you found plain boxes, you can add a ribbon or a bow to the box top. Or you can buy some inexpensive little baskets at the dollar store. Place tinsel or raffia in it, along with a sample box of chocolates, a small candle, a bar of soap, or a sample size bottle of lotion along with your gift certificate. Add a bow and you have given that little extra with your massage therapy gift certificates that other therapists will not give.

Your clients will appreciate this more than they can say. They will remember your presentation and are sure to purchase additional certificates throughout the year and for the next year's holiday season.

If you want to increase your business, put an expiration date on the certificate of six to nine months from the date of issue. This will make the recipient feel that he/she needs to use it soon or lose it. It will also give you more time throughout the year to give them additional massages after they loved the first one.

But if someone calls you about an expired gift certificate or brings one in, honor it anyway. After all, you did get paid for it and this is a great way to show new clients that you are willing to work with them and that their health is important to you, more important than the almighty dollar!

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