Online Resources
General Business Startup Resources
Small Business and Self-Employed One-Stop Resource
By the Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.gov/businesses/small/
Small Business Planner
Information and resources for any stage of the business lifecycle.
www.sba.gov/starting_business/
Service Corps of Retired Executives
SCORE, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping small business owners.
www.score.org
Business Owner’s Toolkit
Small Business Guide: Information and tools to help you start, run and grow a successful small business.
www.toolkit.cch.com
Small Business Toolkits
From the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Center
www.uschamber.com/sb/toolkits.htm?n=f
My Own Business
A nonprofit organization helping people succeed in business. They offer a free course on how to start your own business as well as articles, tips and resource links.
www.myownbusiness.org
Evaluating Your Business Potential
ABMP: Massage Therapy Fact Sheet (2007)
Massage profession metrics from Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals.
www.massagetherapy.com/media/metricsgrowth.php
AMTA: Massage Therapy Industry Fact Sheet (2005)
A compilation of data gathered from U.S. government statistics, surveys of consumers and massage therapists and recent clinical studies on the efficacy of massage, from the American Massage Therapy Association
www.amtamassage.org/news/MTIndustryFactSheet.html
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Massage Therapists
From the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov/oco/ocos295.htm
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States 2002
Article from Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
http://nccam.nih.gov/news/report.pdf
Older Americans Not Discussing Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use with Doctors (includes statistics of CAM use)
AARP press release dated 1-18-07 www.aarp.org/research/press-center/presscurrentnews/
medicine_use.html
Quick statistics on the percentage of adults aged >18 years who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in 2001
From the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5411a6.htm
Sales Tax
Sales Tax Rates
State sales tax table
www.salestaxinstitute.com/sales_tax_rates.jsp
Credit Card Merchant Accounts
PayPal
PayPal merchant credit card services. Enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online.
www.PayPal.com
ChargeAmerica
ChargeAmerica merchant credit card services. Convenient, low-cost alternative to traditional merchant account services.
www.chargeamerica.com
CellCharge
CellCharge provides small businesses an easy to use method of accepting credit cards. The nationwide system lets you use a cell phone or touch tone phone to authorize approvals from customers credit card account.
www.cellcharge.com
MerchantSeek
Online database of providers who issue merchant accounts.
www.merchantseek.com
Cardservice International
Cardservice International, Inc. provides flexible and secure products and services that enable merchants across the nation to accept nearly all types of electronic payments.
www.cardservice.com
Business Plans
Business Plan Samples
Sample business plans and other useful resources from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
http://www.bplans.com/samples/sba.cfm
Sample massage therapy business plan
Use this sample for reference in writing your own plan, or actually open it in Business Plan Pro software and edit it to match your business.
www.bplans.com/sample_business_plans/Medical
_and_Health_Care
_Business_Plans/Physical_
Therapy_Massage_Business_Plan/Company_Summary.cfm
Fee Structures
Setting Massage Rates
Article by Larry Swanson
http://www.larryswanson.com/massage/setting-massage-rates.htm
Home Office Computing
Article: The essential way to set your fees: a step-by-step guide to calculating what you must charge - marketing your services, by Daniel P. Dern http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1563/is_n10_v9/
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