By offering a service to come to people's homes or businesses to give foot massages, this business idea should make you really popular.
Who could turn down a chance to relieve sore feet, and also experience added benefits such as increased circulation and stress reduction if they have the money?
If you are already a trained massage therapist this could be an extra income opportunity for you.
And if you are not you could learn this skill very easily in your own home through some online resources, and with some practice.
Now if you prefer to manage a business you could hire people to do the massages for you and you would book the appointments and get a percentage of the fee.
It would be easy to find massage therapy students to do this, and they would be grateful for the extra income and experience.
Since you will be offering this as a mobile service you will need to make sure that you charge enough to cover your transportation expenses.
You could also offer to give a discounts for others at the same address if they are interested in a foot massage too.
You want to be smart about managing appointments, and try to get clients in the same locality booked close together.
Each appointment should take you about 45-50 minutes to do.
Make sure when you schedule the appointments that you give yourself plenty of time to arrive at each appointment.
If you are charging approximately $50 per massage, you should be able to make good money daily even with just a few appointments.
You may start out at first with a few customers but eventually you will be busy all day every day if you choose to be.
This is one of those creative small business ideas that can provide a part or full time income depending on how much you want to work.
Once established and booking many appointments, you will be able to pick-and-choose your own hours and customers.Those customers that you may not want to keep for various reasons, you can pass on to others that may like to join you in your business.
Charge them a percentage of their profits for giving them new customers.
Just explain to your customers that you are overbooked and would like to offer the skills of another qualified massage technician.
Your business could grow very quickly with many people working with you eventually.
This business idea can be started with minimal cost too.
You will need a small seat or stool for yourself, a cushion for your customer's feet, a foot tub, soft towels, and various scented lotions and oils.
Make sure that you know how to give an excellent foot massage, also make sure that anyone that you may send your customers to will do a good job.
It's also a business idea that offers you a lot of flexibility, you can schedule appointments around your family's needs and other commitments.
It would also be good to be familiar with reflexology.
If you became skilled at this you could offer this as an added service to your clients, or you could just incorporate it into the massage.
As you are talking with your clients during the massage they may mention some health complaints and you could work on the corresponding areas of the foot to help their conditions.
Do not try to diagnose or treat in any way, just say that it’s something that might help and you will put some extra attention on those areas.
Be sure and check your local laws on starting this type of business idea in your area.
And if required have a business license and include it somewhere where your customers can see it, such as showing through a pocket on your bag or on front of a binder that you can set out.
Before you leave each massage session, try to book your customers next appointment.
This will assure that you keep a steady booking schedule.
This will also make it easier for your customer to make the appointment and possibly save a favorite slot of time just for their message on a regular basis.
This is a great service to offer to people while they are still at work.
In fact you will probably find that the majority of your business could be from professionals and service workers who really need a break during the day and would love to have some relief for their sore feet.
Offer shorter massage sessions if need be, to work with their scheduled work breaks.
Many corporate business people schedule massages in their offices, for health reasons and because of the many hours they work there.
This shouldn't be an unusual thing to offer workers. You may even be able to talk to businesses and see if they would like to sponsor foot massages for their employees.
This could bring you close to many customers in close proximity to each other.
You might also offer gift certificates for your services, these make great gifts for people that are not sure what to purchase for some one.
It’s certainly a gift that would appeal to just about anyone.
And a very unique twist on this idea would be to offer this service to dental patients while they were having major dental work done.
Really, a foot massage is one of the best ways to help a person stay relaxed and distracted from the discomfort of dental work (especially if they cannot tolerate laughing gas).
This can be especially effective for children, to help them alleviate not only discomfort, but their fears too.
I actually did this for my daughter when she had to have a root canal after an accident when she was 9 years old.
The procedure took almost an hour and I sat at the foot of the chair and massaged her feet the whole time. She was able to stay relaxed during the procedure and even the dentist was amazed at how well everything went.
Now if you are a trained massage therapist you could expand this idea to provide other massages such as scalp, shoulders and neck.
For some good ideas on how to get started marketing this business idea see my article
How To Promote Your Business.
You'll also find some other good marketing ideas in Business Idea #61 -
Mobile Facial Service.
One thing mentioned in that business idea is to add a unique twist to your service by specializing in a certain type of massage such as Chinese or Thai Foot Massage, (see the recommended Amazon books down the right of this page.)
This would give you an added marketing angle, and give you and your services a more exotic persona, which will certainly increase your demand and help you stand out from your competition.
