Networking…all businesses can benefit from positive networking and as practitioners, it is essential to meet with other practitioners and professionals that may help you with your growing business.

Why Network?

As a self-employed complementary therapist it was essential for me to network and meet other practitioners and professionals when I was first starting out. I would say that a lot of opportunities that have come my way have been as a direct result of networking, and being introduced to the right people at the right time. This has allowed me to expand my business in ways that I had not thought possible when I first started working.

As a practitioner, be clear who you are targeting your services/products towards, and then make contact with local centres and support groups within the target market for your business. I have a keen interest in supporting carers, so I made contact with my local carers centre and from there, I attended regular events and made my name known within the local carers community. I have since been approached to attend many local events and provide massage and reflexology referred to me by the local carers centre.

Are you a newly qualified practitioner or qualified a while ago but not yet started out in the field? Having set up Rose Holistic Treatments just under a year ago, complimentary therapist Anne-Marie Rose shares her top tips for running a successful therapy business.

With preparations well underway for camexpo 2016, we thought it was the perfect time to start another series of visitor Q&As. First up is with massage therapist Zuzana Krop from Inverness, who travels down from Scotland every year to the show! Here she talks about her most memorable work moment, and why CAM professionals should visit camexpo 2016.

Holistic health & skin specialist Gemma Clare has been visiting camexpo for 11 years. In the run up to this year’s show, she talks about her favourite seminar speakers, and what she is most looking forward to at camexpo 2015.

Do you offer complementary therapies to people with cancer? If not now, are you considering it in the future? Then we’d like to hear from you today…

camexpo’s ‘The C Word’ panel discussion, taking place at 3pm on Saturday 26 September, will focus on the relationship between complementary therapists and people with cancer.

Ahead of the session, we’ve launched a new survey inviting our visitors to share their views and formulate questions for the panel.

To participate, all you need to do is complete a short survey about your practice and the complementary therapies you offer. The results will then be announced at the show.

To complete the survey, please visit https://goo.gl/1dPzsZ.

Our next visitor Q&A is from Rashid Messoudi, medical herbalist from London. Here he talks about how he was influenced by his late mother’s traditional midwifery and herbal practice in his childhood.

The next post in our series of visitor Q&As is from Yelena Paul, founder of Mango Fitness – women’s/children’s health & wellness company, and contributing author at WatchFit.

Every year, camexpo welcomes thousands of talented CAM practitioners and therapists from all across the UK. With the 2015 show now just nine weekends away, we thought it was the perfect time to reveal the first in our new series of visitor Q&As.

We asked some of our visitors to tell us more about themselves and here’s what Anne-Marie Rose, a holistic and reflexology massage therapist from Bath, had to say.