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		<title>Do You Sell Retail Products?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Offering retail products is a growing trend for massage therapists. Our recent reader survey proves that out! If you are one of the growing number of massage therapists who sells products in his or her practice, I would love to speak to you for an article I&#8217;m writing for MASSAGE Magazine. Please send me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About those New Mass-Marketing Services?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just bought my first half-price facial. For the low price of $37, I&#8217;ll soon be slathered in a glycolic peel product, and I can&#8217;t wait. I have gotten quite a few offers from what I&#8217;m calling mass-marketing services, or local-deal websites, lately, things like Groupon and Living Social. These companies, and others like them, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2010/05/21/what-about-those-new-mass-marketing-services-2/</link>
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		<title>Fibromyalgia Patients Need Your Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine suffers from fibromyalgia, and I don&#8217;t use the word &#8220;suffer&#8221; lightly. Her body oftentimes feels like its in a vise, she&#8217;s told me. She is stiff, fatigued and in pain much of the time. May is National Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month. You can use the publicity in place for this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2010/04/26/fibromyalgia-patients-need-your-touch/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Proven: Massage is Better than a New TV!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In consumer-research news, academic researchers have found that purchasing a massage brings more satisfaction than buying products. But then, we already knew that, right? Perhaps this report can be spun in massage marketing materials, to help confused clients know where their money is best spent. A new report out of Cornell University shows that consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Green?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am seeking massage therapists to interview for a feature article on green/environmentally friendly practices. To participate, send me an email at kmenehan@massagemag.com. Thanks! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fmassagemag.com%2Fmassage-blog%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F01%2Fare-you-green%2F'; addthis_title = 'Are+You+Green%3F'; addthis_pub = '';]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2010/02/01/are-you-green/</link>
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		<title>Massage Therapists Reach Out to Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel inspired and touched, as I so often do, by the caring people in the massage profession. I just posted a news article about the outreach underway to help the people of Haiti. &#8220;Massage therapists are traditionally quick to help people in need. The tragic events in Haiti, following a 7.0 earthquake, are no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2010/01/22/massage-therapists-reach-out-to-haiti/</link>
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		<title>What Are Your New Year&#8217;s Resolutions? (Here Are Ours)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It often feels like there aren&#8217;t enough hours in the day to keep up on all the news and developments in the massage field. Still, our editors often take time to reflect on the jobs we&#8217;re doing and how we might do them better. Today we each created two New Year&#8217;s Resolutions: One specific to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2010/01/07/what-are-your-new-years-resolutions-here-are-ours/</link>
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		<title>Do You Facebook?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just begun researching an article on how social networking can help massage therapists (market, reach clients, connect with colleagues). If you would like to be included in the article, please send me an email at kmenehan@massagemag.com and we can set up an interview. Whether you&#8217;re already a social networker or not, be sure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2009/11/19/do-you-facebook/</link>
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		<title>NCCAM Invites Your Input</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wrote up a news story for our website, and wanted to give it an extra push out to the massage-o-sphere. Here goes. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health is inviting input from the public to assist the creation of its long-range plan. This input [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/blog/2009/11/05/38/</link>
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		<title>But Don&#8217;t Touch the Hippos!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my years reporting on this field, I&#8217;ve learned about massage and spa therapies done in at-first-unimaginable venues—from airports to backstage at circuses. I used to react with no little amazement to these stories. But now I realize: Wherever there are people, there&#8217;s a need for healthy touch. So it was with surprise tempered with [...]]]></description>
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