Week 3 Business List part 1

The business type I have chosen is massage therapy. I am in the process of going full on out on my own. I am building my personal website and this is the perfect assignment for me right now.

Massage Envy, they did not have links on their site or if they did they were not easy to find because I didn't find any. I went directly to Facebook and found the local ME branches. I just clicked on the Vista one, it is closest to me.

The date on ME's last post was 7 hours ago. It looks like they just started using social media because the only had about 23 or 24 likes. They had a link on their FB for Pinterest and that seems to be all they have.

I do not think they are using social media too much yet and I am very surprised. They did have their own comments section on their own website and had mostly good comments. I was surprised to see they posted a negative one to, so that shows a little honesty to me.

San Diego Massage and Spa The only had clickable links to Yelp. They had links to FB and it did not work.

Their website is a WIX and it looks like they have not upgraded to one that is not advertising. They must have SEO though because they came up on a search I never knew of them.The website did look nice and if I had ti guess I think they are a newer business and things are still in progress.

What We Think We Were Doing....

What We Really Do...

Massage Green, they also did not have and social media links, or again if they did I did not find them.I went to Facebook and found the San Marcos branch, and I have also been a customer there.

MG's last post date was May 19th.. They have almost 1500 likes..

I did notice when I googled MG they had Yelp reviews. They do not seem to be usuing social media too much which to me is a surprise and I also think they should because they do not ever seem super busy. Also they offer so many services and specials I would think they would want to get that information out there.

Elements Massage they do not have links either on their site , maybe it is the norm for these chain type of massage places I do not know why.. They do have an FB and I know the chain is pretty new and they only had 52 likes and about 270 check ins. They had their own blog on their website with a post as recent at Sep 7th. Their Fb is pretty recent as well, not sure why they don't have links.

Karma Spa Same thing, no links but they have a FB with about 1000 likes and over 1000 check ins. They had recent posts on FB and I thought were informative and of quality. They too have their own blog on their site. I do not know much about Karma Spa, I have seen it in Carlsbad and it looks nice. 

I am very surprised that none of these businesses have links to any social media on their sites. They are obviously using social media but not to promote business I guess. I would think they would want to extend all resources as they all could use more traffic.When I build my website I will  link a FB at least and most likely a yelp, and take it from there. If I were a larger business I would have someone do the twitter and Instagram thing too. The more the better I would think..