Business At A Glance
Startup Costs: $50,000 – $100,000
Home Based: Can be operated from home.
Part Time: Can be operated part-time.
Online Operation? No
Business Overview
Starting a massage salon or a career as anindependent masseuse requires professional certification or staffmembers with professional certification. However, the training tobecome a certified masseuse generally takes less than one year andcosts less than $10,000. There are a couple of ways to operate amassage therapy business.
The first is to work from a fixed location ormassage salon, and the second way is to operate the business on amobile basis, where you go to the client. Both approaches to operatingthe business have their pros and cons. A mobile massage therapybusiness is by far less costly to establish and operate, but alsogenerates less revenue than a salon.