I decided I was destined to start my own business when<\/strong> a restaurant in town bought their entire staff gift certificates to see me and I had no choice but to quit my full-time job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our special sauce is\u2026 <\/strong>we are the strongest, deepest, and most anatomy focused massage studio in the city!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The biggest challenge in my first year of business was<\/strong> getting used to all the technology! I was so used to only needing my hands and knowledge of anatomy! I never thought I would need to have too much knowledge of the interwebs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My biggest challenge now is<\/strong> keeping up with business! We\u2019re fortunate enough to always have a full schedule thanks too Schedulista. I\u2019m trying to get more space and fill it with more therapists so we can meet our demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If I had more time I would<\/strong> open up a walk-in specific practice. We would always have therapists available and the clients could pay for whatever amount of time they want to devote to feeling better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The one piece of advice I\u2019d give to someone just starting out in this field is<\/strong> the internet will run your business for you. Piece together your own system and let it go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The impact of Schedulista on my business is<\/strong> huge. I went from being a sole practitioner in a single office to having multiple therapists in a 2000 sf space! And we\u2019re still growing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most inspirational quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. Then find someone who\u2019s life has given them vodka and have a party.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Unknown.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Find out more about Mantis Massage at\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Austin based Massage therapist Kyra Gerhard founded her own practice Mantis Massage in 2010. She now has 4 employees and is still growing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-massage-therapists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.schedulista.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/headshot-Mantis-Massage.gif\")
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