03/01/2020
Saw this in another post and decided to share with you. Please let's support each other without trying to steal clients. That is totally not necessary. If you're helping a fellow therapist and the client asks for your info, just give them the business card of the business you're helping. Never pass out your card in the business of another! You cannot prosper that way.
Maggie Gibson-Bostic, LMT
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The post:
I asked a massage therapist that I trade with if she wanted to do a back to back massage in my office for a new client couple, that wanted a massage on my day off, for a commission split and she could keep the tips. She agreed. We also discussed that this was a trial to see if we would both want to continue a working relationship by signing a contract so she could work out of my business filling in with my overflow and building a clientele out of my business as I am actively seeking another therapist. I spent probably 30 minutes on the phone arranging and coordinating the sessions. I then needed to take another 40 minute round trip drive to my office to let her in since she doesn’t have a key. I turned my heat up to heat the building, she used my supplies, lotions, linens etc, my electricity, gas and water and I will be laundering the linens. These new clients found my business through my efforts and marketing expenses. This was a trial to see if she would want to do this on a regular basis to make some extra income. She would then get a key to my building and fill in when she chooses with my overflow. She has her own practice 20 minutes from mine in a neighboring town. I was shocked to find out that she gave her business card to my clients and asked them to reschedule with her at her business. I assumed it would go without saying that she can’t steal my clients from my business to take to hers and they could reschedule with me or with her at my business, but not to hand out her card. When I told her this and that this was for her to make some extra side income while helping me out in my business and not to recruit my clients away from my business, she said they could choose to go where they wanted to go. Wow. Obviously, I told her this was not going to work out. Then all I’m doing is working for her by marketing and recruiting new clients for her business through my efforts and expense and loosing money and time to bring her new clients. Does anyone else find this unbelievable that she would think this was okay?
