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		<title>Licensing Portability: Not in My Lifetime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While moving is a choice for most people, I feel particularly bad for those therapists who are moving with a military spouse and not able to get licensed in their new state without jumping through a lot of hoops and going to a lot of expense. READ MORE...]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2012/02/06/licensing-portability-not-in-my-lifetime/</link>
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		<title>Proposed Legislation Takes MTs Out of Insurance Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Tennessee, HB 2387/SB2249 seeks to remove the massage therapy board from under the auspices of the Department of Health Related Boards and move them to the Department of Commerce and Insurance. What this does is basically reclassify massage therapy from being a health profession to a “trade.” Insurance companies don’t pay tradespeople; they pay health care professionals.You can find your TN legislators here.]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2012/01/30/proposed-legislation-takes-mts-out-of-insurance-loop/</link>
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		<title>Legislative Hullabaloos in WV and TN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“NCBTMB commends the Public Employees Insurance Agency for providing their employees with access to nationally certified massage therapists who commit to a code of ethics, standards of practice and pass a national credentialing exam,” said NCBTMB CEO Mike Williams. “We see this as a win-win situation for both PEIA employees and Nationally Certified Massage Therapists in the state of West Virginia.”]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2012/01/21/legislative-hullabaloos-in-wv-and-tn/</link>
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		<title>E-mail Etiquette 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to ASK me in order to be added to any of my mailing lists. My websites have the little click-on feature for that, if you want to be added, but just visiting my websites is not going to cause you to receive any e-mail from me.]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2012/01/17/e-mail-etiquette-101/</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s the Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t have all you need or want, and it’s because you’re just sitting there waiting for the owner to do it all for you, you’re missing the boat. You still need to market yourself. That doesn’t mean taking out a big ad in the paper. It means you are actively engaged in trying to increase your client base on a daily basis, by networking, giving out business cards, getting yourself out there by performing community service, introducing yourself to people and telling them about the benefits of massage. Instead of blaming the owner for your lack of business, look at what you could be doing to increase it. ]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2012/01/08/heres-the-plan/</link>
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		<title>Ethics Violation, or Communication Breakdown?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My question to myself at those hearings was always this: “Did this person have an intent to do something evil, or was this a communication breakdown or simple mistake that could have happened to you or me?”]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2011/12/31/ethics-violation-or-communication-breakdown/</link>
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		<title>The Ghosts of Christmas Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started to take the day off from doing my usual Sunday blogging…it is, after all, Christmas, and no one expects me to work on Christmas, do they? I don’t really consider it work–maybe because I don’t get paid for it :) and anyway, it’s therapeutic.  I need a little therapy today. This blog isn’t about massage, so consider yourself warned.]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2011/12/25/the-ghosts-of-christmas-past/</link>
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		<title>It Was a Very Good Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was honored at the American Massage Conference this year as the Massage Therapist of the Year…and that wasn’t even the highlight of the conference. Getting up to play a few tunes with Errol N Schroeder at the dinner dance was the high point for me. I had a blast! Scott Dartnall and the rest of those Canadians came out of the gate running and made their first American event a resounding success.]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2011/12/18/it-was-a-very-good-year/</link>
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		<title>Problem Solving in Your Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my traveling around and getting massage in different places, I’ve had massage that’s mediocre, and unfortunately had some that was downright bad….then again, massage is a subjective experience. The massage that I thought was unskilled and sloppy might suit another person just fine. So how do you know?]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2011/12/11/problem-solving-in-your-practice/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Ownership&#8221; of Clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run things differently in my office. Nearly all of the half-dozen therapists who work at my clinic as independent contractors have the phone numbers of their regular clients in their cell phones (remember, my friend's staff members are employees). It's our procedure to ask clients if they would like a reminder call or a text message, and it's my own desire for the therapists to make those calls personally instead of depending on me to do it. I'm the office manager and chief bottle-washer at my place of business, and in addition to the therapists, I also have an acupuncturist, a chiropractor, a clinical herbalist, and an aesthetic nurse there. I make the reminder calls for the chiropractor. I expect everyone else to make their own.]]></description>
		<link>http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2011/12/06/ownership-of-clients/</link>
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