The Uber business strategy gets intimate + MORE Oct 4th

Soothe clients get massage done at their home. (Soothe)
For 18 years, Parisa Carello has worked as a massage therapist in Toronto. She spent years in-house at a spa, which isn’t as glamorous as it seems: “You’re in a little dark room all day, where people come to you but you never leave,” says the 43-year-old. She operated her own clinic once, which brought too much admin work, so in recent years her main practice has been mobile calls (that is, at-home massages) secured via word-of-mouth. Then she found Soothe.
Called “Uber for Massages,” the L.A.-based app works just as it sounds: Users in 49 cities electronically book a massage therapist to appear on their doorstep in as little as an hour. Users can choose their therapists’ gender and specify their choice of 60, 90 or 120 minutes of Swedish, deep tissue, sports or pre-natal massage. A fixed fee ($100-$229) is charged to their credit card, so no cash is exchanged. For quality control, clients rate the massage and therapists rate the client…

Soothe clients get massage done at their home. (Soothe)
For 18 years, Parisa Carello has worked as a massage therapist in Toronto. She spent years in-house at a spa, which isn’t as glamorous as it seems: “You’re in a little dark room all day, where people come to you but you never leave,” says the 43-year-old. She operated her own clinic once, which brought too much admin work, so in recent years her main practice has been mobile calls (that is, at-home massages) secured via word-of-mouth. Then she found Soothe.
Called “Uber for Massages,” the L.A.-based app works just as it sounds: Users in 49 cities electronically book a massage therapist to appear on their doorstep in as little as an hour. Users can choose their therapists’ gender and specify their choice of 60, 90 or 120 minutes of Swedish, deep tissue, sports or pre-natal massage. A fixed fee ($100-$229) is charged to their credit card, so no cash is exchanged. For quality control, clients rate the massage and therapists rate the client…

Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of October! This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the sign up bonus, but when most or all of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when not taking into account insurance packages and other non-reward benefits. In fact all of the cards on this list for October are first year free so you can try them all at no cost, get over $800 in rewards and decide later on if the card is right for you. All the while earning the sign up bonus which can be used to subsidize your travels!  Just ensure you drop any cards you don’t like before your 1st year anniversary.    This month we once again go with an all no fee in the first year or ever selection of cards. The only change is the drop of the BMO AIR MILES MasterCard (still 800 miles and free so it is a good offer) for the MBNA Best Western Rewards MasterCard new 40,000 point offer…

We have a new Aeroplan bonus for Accor Hotel stays to let you know about! This time you can earn triple Aeroplan miles on all Accor stays Worldwide (over 3,000 hotels, 8 in Canada excluding Fairmont) until December 15th. After that date until January 5th the bonus is boosted to four times the miles.Offer details Earn up to Quadruple Aeroplan Miles for stays at participating Accor hotels Worldwide. Earn 3x miles until Dec 15 and 4x Miles from Dec 16 to Jan 5. Full Details, registration and Online Booking (Registration is required) Book by Dec 31 for stays until Jan 5, 17 Select automatic conversion to convert your Le Club AccorHotels points into Aeroplan in your Le Club AccorHotels account preferences