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		<title>Acara Grows and Expands its Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N E W S   R E L E A S E Acara, the leading US aesthetic medical practice and medspa consulting and marketing firm, announced the addition of several new team members. Branford, CT &#8211;  January 16, 2012 – Acara, the leading business team in the aesthetic medical practice and medical spa industries, announces the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2113&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Financing for Your Medspa or Aesthetic Medical Practice</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/26/financing-medspa-or-aesthetic-medical-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Tuesday I gave a webinar on securing financing for your Medspa or Aesthetic Medical Practice.  This webinar was sponsored by Eric Hansen, Financial Adviser at Merrill Lynch. I outlined the preliminary thought process for investing in a new medspa or aesthetic medical practice, for the purchase of capital equipment or for the acquisition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2101&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J.C. Penney&#8217;s New Policy a Lesson for Aesthetic Practices &amp; Medspas Considering Deep Discounting</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/26/j-c-penneys-new-policy-a-lesson-for-aesthetic-practices-medspas-considering-deep-discounting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Penney&#8221; for their thoughts that could be worth millions&#8230; J.C. Penney announced today that it is permanently marking down its prices by 40% and stopping its deep discounting strategy that has been the cornerstone of its marketing in the past.  Read this Wall Street Journal article to learn more. The Acara team has always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2070&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Financing for your Medical Spa or Aesthetic Medical Practice</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/19/securing-financing-for-your-medical-spa-or-aesthetic-medical-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are contemplating adding a new aesthetic laser to your cosmetic medical practice or if you are seeking financing to launch a medspa, join me on Tuesday, January 24 as I discuss how you can secure financing. Here is the information for the upcoming Webinar: SPONSORED BY: Eric Hanson, Financial Advisor – Merrill Lynch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2058&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acara Achieves Rapid Growth with Cutting Edge Marketing &amp; Business Development in Aesthetic Medicine</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/19/acara-achieves-rapid-growth-with-cutting-edge-marketing-business-development-in-aesthetic-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spabusinessmd.com/?p=2052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[N E W S   R E L E A S E Acara, the leading US aesthetic medical practice and medspa consulting and marketing firm, announced today sales doubled in 2011 over 2010. The Acara Team of aesthetic medical business leaders generated this success for their clients through targeted cosmetic medical marketing, sales, operations and business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2052&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Botox Tax Goes Under The Knife In New Jersey</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/19/cosmetic-procedures-tax-new-jersey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will soon cost you less to purchase your Botox and all other cosmetic procedures in New Jersey. N.J.&#8217;s &#8216;BoTax&#8217; falls as Gov. Christie signs repeal.  Trenton, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a bill that repeals and will phase out the state’s 6 percent “BoTax” — the nation’s first such tax [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2042&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Acara Blog Posts in 2011</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/16/top-10-acara-blog-posts-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone was reading about in 2011 so I pulled the statistics from my blog, SpaBusinessMD to find the top 10 most read posts.  To place this in perspective this year the blog had over 20,000 views.  Number 1 on the list was read over 3,000 times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2035&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Top Aesthetic Medical Trends Webinar</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/13/2012-top-aesthetic-medical-trends-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year I publish my top aesthetic medical trends.  These are the procedures and treatments that Acara believes will meet the following criteria in the upcoming year: Have high consumer demand Minimal patient downtime Offer visible results Profitable This year 9 aesthetic procedures/treatments met our criteria: 1. Fat Elimination 2. Fat Reduction 3. Fat Transfer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2023&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acara Announces Q1 2012 Complimentary Webinars for Cosmetic Physicians, Aesthetic Medical &amp; MedSpa Industry Professionals</title>
		<link>http://spabusinessmd.com/2012/01/13/acara-announces-q1-2012-complimentary-webinars-for-cosmetic-physicians-aesthetic-medical-medspa-industry-professionals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are six new Webinars in the Q1 series, and some are back by popular demand, including topics on development, management, marketing and sales.  Here are the new 2012 Q1 Webinars: 2012 Top Aesthetic Medical Trends Tuesday, January 10, 2012 &#8212; 1:00 pm, ET / 10:00 am, PT Join Francis Acunzo, cosmetic medical business visionary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Success and The Physician’s Role: It’s About Leadership Not Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis X Acunzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have successfully lead individual medical spas and cosmetic practices with teams of 10 to large multi-site organizations with 37 locations and teams of 1,000.  To be a great leader is very different than being a great manager.  Both are needed within a medical spa or cosmetic practice.   In benchmarking best practices I find that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spabusinessmd.com&amp;blog=761984&amp;post=1776&amp;subd=acaramedspadevelopment&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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