Hello, I’m Physician Alan Weidner from Therapeutic massage Chair Aid, and right this moment is our bi-weekly therapeutic massage chair. Trade replace for Monday, January eighth, 2024. It’s an entire new 12 months. The final time I talked to you was on the tail finish of December. And now we now have quite a lot of hopes and objectives for 2024. I hope it’s a great 12 months for you all and myself and our firm as properly. Tomorrow I’m heading to Las Vegas for the Client Electronics Present, which is an enormous deal yearly in January in Las Vegas. And firms come from around the globe to showcase their merchandise.
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Now, once I go there, it’s a madhouse, it’s simply shoulder-to-shoulder folks. And I don’t go there to have a look at what different industries are doing. All I’m going to have a look at is what the therapeutic massage chair trade is doing. And I’ll be visiting with Human Touch®, who has a sales space there. I’ll be visiting with Daiwa, who has a sales space there. They really have two cubicles there I shall be visiting with SYNCA-Wellness and my pal Nicholas Beese who’s there. He’s the man who runs the entire US distribution of therapeutic massage chairs for SYNCA. SYNCA is the corporate identify, however Johnson Tech is the mum or dad firm.
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Beneath the Johnson Tech umbrella is SYNCA, which is a model of therapeutic massage chairs. It’s an enormous worldwide firm. They produce other healthcare merchandise like treadmills, and so on. however SYNCA is their flagship therapeutic massage chair firm. And the manufacturing facility during which these chairs are constructed is known as Fujiiryoki. And that manufacturing facility was purchased by Johnson Tech two, three, 4 years in the past. A product of that union of Johnson Wellness and the Fujiiryoki manufacturing facility is the JP 3000, which was only recently launched final 12 months. And we now have it on our web site. And that chair is nearly 100% made in Japan.
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There are nonetheless elements which might be made in different international locations, however the majority of it, 80% plus, perhaps much more is made in Japan now at that manufacturing facility. We have now that chair at our Northern California retailer in Fremont, California. However once I go there tomorrow, I’m seeking to see what else you’ve received cooking. I do know Nicholas, who’s going to be our visitor on our dwell streaming sooner or later, and I’ll speak about that in a second. He says they’ve received some fairly cool issues in retailer. So I don’t know what they’re going to have tomorrow. Or we’ll have to attend until perhaps the top of February or no matter once I go to go to him.
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However anyway, they’ll be there and so they have a sales space additionally. And there are a few different corporations that I’m going to be visiting. Bodyfriend is one in every of them. They’re a Korean retailer. They’re enormous within the Far East in Asia. They’re sort of in america. They’ve been right here for a variety of years, however they’re not likely taking off the best way that they had initially deliberate. Possibly they underestimated the market right here. I’m unsure. However they do make good chairs. These chairs are made within the Rotai manufacturing facility, which is similar manufacturing facility that builds Human Contact® chairs, some Osaki chairs, Daiwa chairs, and Infinity chairs.
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It’s a really, excellent manufacturing facility. And I’ve been to that manufacturing facility, and it’s one spectacular manufacturing facility, I’ll inform you. They’re going to be there. There’s a chair there that I’m to hold and turn out to be a supplier for. We had an association by Furnishings for Life the place we may retail Physique Buddy chairs, however that association ended just a few years in the past. However we did promote just a few of their chairs. They usually’re nice-looking chairs. They appear loads like among the Infinity chairs and among the Daiwa chairs, however they’ve a few of their very own innovation in among the options, and I’m wanting to see what they’ve received cooking.
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Additionally, there’s an organization known as CERAGEM, and I’ve heard of CERAGEM years and years in the past. And you could have even been conversant in that. That they had a flatbed that folks may come and check out at a showroom. And in case you wished to purchase a chair, they instructed you the way you can purchase it. Or it wasn’t a chair, it was a mattress, and you can purchase it. However that firm on the time, I understood was out of enterprise. Now, the guy who has reached out to me from them is the man I’m going to be seeing there, and he says they’re now beginning to do some therapeutic massage chairs. So, I’m curious to see.
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It’s a Korean firm. And naturally, although they’re Korean corporations like Physique Buddy, the chairs are sometimes all inbuilt China. However the query is, which manufacturing facility is constructing them? There are quite a lot of therapeutic massage chair factories in China. Not all of them are nice. There are actually a whole lot of them. And it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what they’ve received, perhaps discover out what manufacturing facility they’re inbuilt. They’re sort of venturing into some therapeutic massage chairs, so could also be a little bit iffy. I don’t know but. The chairs are totally different than the beds, in fact
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And I’ll take a video of these things. I’m charging my digital camera now. I’m charging the microphone and all that stuff for the go to tomorrow. What else about CES? I feel that’s nearly it. Anyway, I’m trying ahead to it. I’m going to be visiting with Cliff Levin. He’s the CEO and president of Furnishings for Life, whose chairs we represented ever since they began. Earlier than that, when he owned Household Inada USA, the US distributor for Inada. we grew to become excellent mates. And although they’ve modified their enterprise mannequin, the place they promote strictly by their very own shops and never by third-party shops like mine, we now have maintained a great friendship. We’re going to be chit-chatting and having dinner collectively.
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And naturally, we’ll discuss in regards to the trade and speak about therapeutic massage chairs. He has quite a lot of fairly cool insights into the trade. Their chairs are inbuilt China, however quite a lot of their chairs they’ve designed themselves from the bottom up. He at all times has some fairly attention-grabbing views that perhaps among the different corporations don’t have that don’t frequent China or simply order their chairs from China and so they are available in. However he actually does have some cool insights, so I’m going to be choosing his mind a bit too and I’ll share. If there’s one thing there to be discovered and one thing there to be shared, I’ll share it with you.
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And on the finish of the month, I’m going to the Furnishings Market, additionally in Las Vegas. And the Furnishings Market is a little bit totally different. CES is the place folks convey modern applied sciences to the market. The Furnishings Market is extra furnishings, so therapeutic massage chairs shall be there, however you’ll additionally see sofas, tables, beds, and every little thing furnishings. Whereas CES is extra technological. So, the therapeutic massage chairs cross the obstacles of each. Usually we’ll see Osaki there and Cozzia. Cozzia and Ogawa are the identical firm. We’ll go to them. And anyone else that’s exhibiting up there, we’ll examine them out and see what’s cooking.
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However I’ll additionally let you understand what’s occurring from what I discovered on the Las Vegas Furnishings Market. Additionally they have a Furnishings Market in Excessive Level, South Carolina. I imagine it’s South Carolina. And that’s the opposite massive furnishings market. So, there’s one on both facet of the nation. And it’s actually fairly spectacular. Except you’re a retailer or a distributor of furnishings, you may’t get into the present a lot or there’s not an ideal probability of entering into the present. However whenever you’re in there, let me inform you, it’s simply three monolithic buildings in Vegas. They’re enormous.
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They usually’re simply full to the brim of furnishings distributors and producers. It’s unbelievable. I convey my spouse to that one once I go. And naturally, she’s not taking a look at therapeutic massage chairs. She’s trying extra at different stuff. But it surely’s outstanding. Each of these reveals are outstanding. In any case, I’ve talked sufficient about that. Now, dwell stream on the seventeenth at 3:00 Jap time. Our visitor goes to be Christy Kim, who’s the proprietor of Tru Therapeutic massage Chairs. That’s T-R-U. We promote just a few of their fashions and have a few them in a few of our showrooms. She’s going to be our visitor on January seventeenth.
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After which in February tentatively, we now have John Cribbs, who’s the VP of Cozzia. He’s going to be our visitor in February. After which in March, the beforehand talked about Nicholas Beast from SYNCA goes to be on our dwell stream, our present. And all of you who’re watching shall be invited to attend. You may be on the dwell stream and ask questions and inquire about our friends. We broadcast on our Fb web page. We broadcast on our YouTube channel. And now they’ve built-in Twitter, so we’ll have the ability to have some interplay on Twitter additionally once we broadcast.
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So, in March we hope to have Nicholas Beese from SYNCA. After which in April, we hope to have Michael Olpin, with whom years in the past we grew to become mates. He’s the top of the stress administration clinic at Weber State College in northern Utah. And he purchased some chairs for me. And so, we received to actually know one another, properly, and someday we had lunch collectively, and I pitched the thought of him perhaps doing a research about therapeutic massage chairs and the way they assist well being. As a result of that’s a stress administration clinic the place the employees and college students go to take a seat on therapeutic massage chairs or no matter.
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They usually produce other modalities there, like a hydro therapeutic massage mattress. They’ve some meditative music and chromotherapy and issues like that. Anyway, I instructed to him, that he ought to do a research on these items as a result of there are not any therapeutic massage chair research on the market. There are therapeutic massage research, however not therapeutic massage chair research. Regardless that there’s crossover and so they’re each doing therapeutic massage, there’s by no means been something to point out that robotic therapeutic massage chairs truly do something. Regardless that everyone knows they do as a result of we see it with our prospects on a regular basis.
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Nicely, he took that to coronary heart, and with some college students of their grasp’s program there at Weber State, began to do a research and quantify the outcomes that that they had. They measured ache ranges 1 to 10, stress ranges 1 to 10, and blood strain and pulse charges. They usually measured that for over 4000 contributors. They measured them earlier than and after the research. The outcomes have been statistically important, which suggests it wasn’t only a slight distinction with evaluating to a placebo or one other modality or no matter. This was statistically important.
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It was a major sufficient distinction within the outcomes that it merited the publishing of the research. They usually did publish. They revealed three research. And Physician Olpin has now created a relaxed software program. It’s software program that lets you calm down and handle stress. But it surely’s not only a factor that’s like an app that you just take heed to music on to calm down you or have folks speaking stress-free issues or telling tales. And I’ve used these. These are very, excellent apps. His is extra of a course about stress and leisure, coping with stress, stopping stress, and managing stress.
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It’s not simply music with a voice talking soothing phrases. In his program, he truly teaches you how one can keep away from stretch stress and how one can handle stress. And naturally, they’ve elements of this system that you should use in your earbuds or your EarPods, and take heed to in your telephone whenever you’re making an attempt to calm down. We’re going to have him come and converse after which hopefully in Could. And I simply broached this topic with Justin Milne. He’s our primary technician in Utah. And in case you ever noticed the video that I did years in the past evaluating a low-brand low-cost Amazon chair that’s $500 versus, at the moment, it was the Infiniti Genesis.
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Earlier than, it was a Genesis Max. And he took the again off of them and confirmed you the variations between a high-quality chair and a lower-quality chair. On the time, we felt that was an vital video to do as a result of we have been getting inundated with folks saying, ‘Hey, I can get a chair for 500 bucks or $1,000 from Amazon.’ Nicely, you understand what? We received a $500 chair from Amazon, we opened it up and Justin went by them and in contrast them between the premium chair and the low-brand or the low-cost no-brand therapeutic massage chair. And the variations have been profound.
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And you’ll return and watch that on the YouTube channel. By the best way, our YouTube channel is youtube.com/massagechairrelief. Fairly straightforward to recollect. I’ve requested Justin to be my visitor within the spring, and I’m hoping we will have him in Could. I feel he can be very attention-grabbing to speak to as a result of he’s excellent at fixing our therapeutic massage chairs. He’s implausible. However he’s additionally made some feedback not too long ago that stunned me. He mentioned when he first began working with us, which was years in the past, it was perhaps 1 or 2 chairs every week to some chairs a month that he was repairing.
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And he says, now there’s perhaps one to three or 4 a day that they must restore. So, therapeutic massage chairs have gotten an increasing number of part of the wellness panorama in america. And he does a implausible job in caring for our prospects right here in Utah. We have now totally different technicians, in fact, that work across the nation. And you understand that we now have a lifetime labor guarantee, so we’re linked with dozens of technicians across the nation to be sure that we get people who find themselves near you and individuals who know what they’re doing. Anyway, Justin goes to be a visitor and he’ll be out there.
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I feel that’d be a very good one to take heed to as a result of he could have some opinions about some chairs that perhaps are extra problematic, or what kinds of chairs have extra issues, or what among the frequent issues are that you may anticipate to see. And so, we’ve received tentative scheduling by Could. And naturally, in my weekly digital e-newsletter, The Therapeutic massage Chair Advisor, I’ll publish the dates and the instances, who’s talking, and who our visitor is. And you might be welcome to attend any of these. That’s open to anybody who needs to go to and take part.
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You don’t even must take part, simply be there and pay attention and listen to what they must say. It’s great things and it’s all stuff that’s about product, therapeutic massage care, therapeutic massage consideration, and something within the therapeutic massage trade we wish to have on that dwell stream. I might like to have somebody from one of many factories in China. And there’s a man that that that I met once I was there a variety of years in the past, and I want to discuss to perhaps somebody like him who’s fluent in English that may come and converse on their manufacturing facility, what makes their manufacturing facility distinctive and what the manufacturing and manufacturing of therapeutic massage chairs in China is actually like. As a result of it’s by no means what I had anticipated.
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I had anticipated some old-school, baby labor legal guidelines, all these items that you just hear about within the press you understand, little kids working round working for folks in a sweatshop the place there’s no home windows. And that is in my thoughts what? How I imagined it years in the past. And I went to the manufacturing facility there in Shanghai. I went to Shanghai, and I used to be picked up by a consultant of the manufacturing facility, and it was a 2.5-hour drive to go to the manufacturing facility. They took me on the market and it blew me away. It was essentially the most modern-looking facility I’d ever seen anyplace, not to mention within the therapeutic massage chair trade. It was unbelievable. And it was huge.
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And the capability was enormous. And the variety of chairs they have been pumping out was mind-boggling. Anyway, I might like to have a rep from one of many factories. And who is aware of, perhaps it’ll be a manufacturing facility in Japan. Possibly it’ll be a manufacturing facility in China. Nicely, we’ve already talked to the manufacturing facility for Luraco in Arlington Texas, so we’ve already received a taste for that. However the scale of their manufacturing is kind of a bit smaller than these factories that produce hundreds of chairs for a whole lot of corporations. And so, I feel that may be implausible.
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And if any of you’ve gotten any recommendations on folks you’d like me to ask to our livestream, please let me know. I’m open to recommendations. And naturally, I don’t know what the provision is of individuals. And issues change. Individuals will say, ‘Yeah, I’ll be there,” after which we now have to alter the date. And the dwell stream within the therapeutic massage chair trade is a brand new factor, and so I feel perhaps among the individuals are nonetheless making an attempt to know what precisely I’m doing. Lots of people marvel, I suppose, about that, particularly in my family. But when there’s anyone you’d like me to ask or a sort of place or an individual with a selected duty within the therapeutic massage chair trade, let me know, and I can discover somebody amongst the businesses that we signify.
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Anyway, let me know if that’s of curiosity to you, or if there’s anyone that you’re concerned with me making an attempt to succeed in out to. I’ve posted two movies not too long ago that I actually like. They’re good movies. One which I talked about is how therapeutic massage chairs enhance your well being. I feel I talked about this 1 or 2 episodes again, however the gist of it’s it’s not only for again ache. Therapeutic massage chairs can care for quite a lot of totally different points. They usually’re even issues that you’d by no means assume {that a} therapeutic massage chair may assist. And I’m not saying that it’ll assist each situation, however we now have seen some fairly attention-grabbing, nearly miraculous conditions the place individuals who had no cause to anticipate any assist from a therapeutic massage chair, by the way, helped them with one thing that they hadn’t even considered a therapeutic massage chair may assist with.
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So, I discuss a little bit bit about a few of these issues. After which the second video is an interview that I did with a girl named Gina Gilden from Idaho. And he or she purchased an Infiniti Luminary from us. And as chances are you’ll or might not know, I do interviews with prospects. I invite prospects to go on Zoom and do a video interview. And never many individuals take the chance to try this. I feel some individuals are simply uncomfortable in entrance of the digital camera. However Gina was very open to doing it. And he or she purchased the Luminary. And it was an ideal interview with some nice insights, not simply into the chair itself, however into the entire viewpoint of a purchaser searching for a therapeutic massage chair.
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And I might suggest that you just go to our web site or go on to our YouTube channel and try that. I feel you can additionally go to the Infiniti Luminary product web page on our web site, and it needs to be underneath the video part. Anyway, check out these movies. Good things. Not terribly lengthy movies, however good info in each of them. After which I wrote an article. This was proper round Christmas time when folks have been shopping for chairs for presents. I talked in regards to the variations between new, used, and refurbished chairs. Lots of people are misled as a result of they assume that after they purchase a used chair, like from Fb Market or Provide Up or no matter, assume as a result of the vendor of the chair says warranties, the remaining warranties can be found. It’s not!
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There’s not one firm that I’ve ever handled the place they mentioned the guarantee may switch in case you as a purchaser purchased the chair and also you wish to promote it privately. No! The guarantee doesn’t switch. The one time a guaranty transfers is that if an organization refurbishes a chair. Possibly they’ve a bunch of chairs that they had at a commerce present, and so they convey it again. And Infiniti does this. And I feel Osaki does it. I feel that Furnishings For Life does this. And they’re going to refurbish it, go over it, and grade it. There’s grade A, grade B, grade C, and so they’ll promote it and so they’ll embody a guaranty.
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However even then, the guarantee is often 90 days, perhaps a 12 months tops. Anyway, a pre-owned chair that you just purchase privately is not going to have any guarantee, it doesn’t matter what they are saying or it doesn’t matter what the vendor believes or what the vendor says, there shall be no guarantee. And it’s going to be horrible in case you pay a excessive value for a chair, you’ve gotten an issue, you name the corporate and there’s no guarantee on this. Nicely, you then’re going to must pay out of pocket. However you may nonetheless repair a great chair, a name-brand chair as a result of they in all probability nonetheless have components for lots of them. And naturally, there are technicians in all places. And you’ll at all times name us to get the identify of a technician in your space. However anyway, there’s a distinction.
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And the most important distinction is guarantee availability or not. After which the opposite massive distinction is the damage and tear on the chair. And typically, geez, you take a look at a chair and it seems to be pristine, and you then purchase the chair after which there’s an issue with the chair. You get a technician come out and the technician says there was there’s a rat nest or there’s a mouse nest beneath this chair and so they’ve chewed all of the wires. We have now seen that a variety of instances. Or every little thing’s rusted inside the heart of the chair. Possibly somebody who had their chair out on a patio or one thing on the coast or in a really humid atmosphere.
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Now they appear good, and also you sit on it and it feels effective, however 5 months later, bang, you bought bizarre stuff occurring, like wires that aren’t working or one thing’s completely rusted whenever you look beneath the bottom. And these are all issues that we now have seen. So, you don’t know. However then there are different instances once we’ll see a chair that appears fairly raggedy or, as my spouse says, ‘fairly janky.’ And also you assume, ‘Oh, this chair is a chunk of crap.’ And the one drawback is that the upholstery is a little bit shredded, a little bit torn, or a little bit light. And you purchase the chair and it’ll offer you one other 2 or 3, 4 years. So, it’s laborious to inform, however simply know that there’s a threat.
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You’re working a threat whenever you purchase used. You don’t know the historical past of the chair. The vendor will inform you no matter you wish to hear in lots of instances. And so, simply purchaser beware. You understand how I’m about purchaser beware. I’ve an entire bloody booklet written on it that you may obtain on the web site. However purchaser beware. There are issues on the market that you just don’t actually know and don’t perceive. And it may come again and chew you within the butt. And naturally, you may at all times attain out to us when you have any questions on a chair, perhaps a mannequin, or getting components for a mannequin.
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Possibly they inform you, ‘Oh yeah, there’s an issue with the curler mechanism, however you may get that from the provider.’ Nicely, tell us and we’ll discover out if the provider truly even has components for that chair anymore. Anyway, sufficient yakking. It looks as if I haven’t lined quite a lot of matters, however I’ve yacked like loopy. However that’s just about it for this week’s Therapeutic massage Chair Trade Replace. I haven’t received an excessive amount of info but about any new fashions which might be popping out within the instant future. However in fact, we’ll let you understand as we discover issues out. And once I go to CES or the Furnishings Market, I’ll let you understand what I discover out.
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I’ve a suspicion that SYNCA may need one thing cooking up their sleeve, however I’ll discover out, after which I’ll share it with you after they inform me I can share it with you. As a result of typically they’ll inform me ‘Hey, we received this new chair. Come strive it out, however don’t discuss to anyone about it but as a result of we’re not able to launch it.’ Anyway, I hope you discovered this video useful. Should you did, please be happy to thumbs up like us on our YouTube channel. Assist us share the information or the phrase about therapeutic massage chairs by sharing this video or any of our movies along with your family and friends in your social media platforms. We admire that.
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And at last, when you have any questions, you may be happy to provide us a name at 888-259-5380. Whoever solutions the telephone shall be in a position that will help you earlier than and after hours. I often get the calls if my employees is in mattress or they’ve one thing else occurring outdoors of labor. Imagine it or not, they really have a life. However as an proprietor, I don’t have a lot of a life outdoors of labor, so name anytime. Anyway, I’m Physician Alan Weidner from massagechairrelief.com, and I’ll see you once more in two weeks. Bye-bye.