Latisse As A Profit Center?

Is Latisse a money maker for your medical spa?

I got an email asking me about the group buy Latisse on Medical Spa RX and to be honest I don't know that much about it.

It seems that your clinic is now getting in to the hair growth industry through something of a circuitous route.

From the Latisse website;

LATISSE solution is a prescription treatment for hypotrichosis used to grow eyelashes, making them longer, thicker and darker.
Eyelash hypotrichosis is another name for having inadequate or not enough eyelashes.

 Latisse Important Safety Information

If you are using, or have used, prescription products for any eye pressure problems, only use Latisse under close doctor care.

Latisse use may cause increased brown pigmentation of the colored part of the eye which is likely permanent. Eyelid skin darkening may occur which may be reversible. Only apply at the base of the upper eyelashes. DO NOT APPLY to the lower eyelid. Hair growth may occur in other skin areas that Latisse solution frequently touches.

The most common side effects after using Latisse solution are itchy eyes and/or eye redness. If discontinued, lashes will gradually return to their previous appearance.

So you'll want to be careful where you're putting it so you don't grow hair on the tip of your nose and it may darken the iris. However, it seems that if it works, it's a temporary treatment that means that the patient who likes it is going to be coming back in... and that's a good thing.

Allergan's making money and promoting it heavily (I just saw another TV add) but is anyone having success with Latisse? Is it flying off of the shelf or just another of the lotions and potions that you have sitting on a shelf somewhere?

Any comments from clinics that are already selling Latisse welcome.

The Latisse home page

Latisse Group Buy Program From Medical Spa RX

Medical Spa MD: Partnership updates

I wanted to post a quick update about how our Select Partner Program works since we've got a number of new Partners that are about to launch.

Medical Spa MD allows premier technology, product, and service providers who sell to the cosmetic medical industry to partner with Medspa MD and provide discounts or special marketing opportunities to our Members. Select Members are able to list their product or service on this site as well as making it available directly to Medical Spa MD Members by including it in our direct to member newsletter and promotions. Members receive tremendous savings and exceptional support, backed up by Medical Spa MD and access to our active community forums.

This program has been so succesfull that we've had a great deal of trouble keeping up with the number of companies who would like to be included. But we're trying. In fact there will be a number of new companies launching in addition to our current Partners. Before that happens I wanted to outline how our Select Partner Program works and encourage everyone who's not yet given one of our Partners a try, to do so.

We've also changed the main navitation above to give easier access to our Partners, so Members can access current and special offers easier.

Here are some of our current Partners. We'll be announcing more Select Partners and deals for our Members in the next few weeks that include Sciton, Healthy Aging Magazine, Freelance MD and others. I'll be going through this in detail with each Partner but I wanted to provide this quick overview.

MedicalSpaRx.com is a leading international wholesaler of pharmaceuticals and medical devices that supplies lower pricing to its clients than they would receive from their local distributor. Medical Spa RX is able to offer these products to Medical Spa MD members worldwide by leveraging the power of this incredible community.

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Shine Teeth Whitening gives every aesthetic practice a way to participate in revenue and profit of the burgeoning $300M teeth whitening industry with no training and no equipment required. Shine is an outsourced lab that provides custom teeth whitening kits and professional strength whitening products.

Only Medical Spa MD Select Partners
are allowed to display this badge.

IPL & laser technology companies, service providers, publications, content providers and other businesses that sell to cosmetic medical practices and medical spas are partnering with Medical Spa MD to gain access to the tremendous buying power of our physician community. And our Members get special pricing and the trust that comes from the fact that Medical Spa MD stands behind every Select Member.

What makes a Medical Spa MD Select Partner?

• Amazing Products & Services our Members want: To be included as a Medical Spa MD Select Partner, there has to be real value available to our world-wide community.
• Exclusive Member Pricing: All Select Partners offer reduced, exclusive pricing to Members. In some cases our Select Members will build out entire new websites to keep this pricing from their existing clients.
• Fantastic Customer Service: Select Partners must provide exceptional customer service to Members. Medical Spa MD is an active community and Members can complain directly to us.
• Transparency: While we consider our Select Partners as just that, partners, our reputation comes first. When our Members buy from a Select Partner they know that we're standing behind that business.

Become a Medical Spa MD Select Partner.

If you meet the above criteria, let Medical Spa MD help you make the most of your marketing efforts. Consider joining the Medical Spa MD Select Partner Program — a way for you to access our incredible physician community. Or propose your own creative plan for partnering with Medical Spa MD. Apply here.

Medical Spa RX: Botox sales through November.

Here's a chart showing the number of wholesale Botox, Dysport, Restylane, Juvederm and Sculptra orders through MedicalSpaRX.com since the site was launched. You'll see immediately that the number of individual orders per month is growing dramatically.

The numbers above show just how good physicians are finding Medical Spa RX's service and pricing. Almost everyone who's placed a 'test order' of a single vial of Botox as I've suggested before has come back within the next 30 days and placed additional orders, adding to a growing number of physicians who are using RX for the majority of their filler and Botox. (308 orders in November and 87% growth over October.)

I've received some email questions about Medical Spa RX and how it works. Here's some info.

Medical Spa RX is a Select Partner of Medical Spa MD. The RX site an exclusive portal made available exclusively for Medical Spa MD Members to harness the collective buying power of a community of more than 4,000 physicians worldwide.

This exclusive arrangement means that Medical Spa RX has access to a large community of Medspa MD Physician Members, and those same physicians have collective buying power that they don't have by themselves. This large community means that RX can price 100mu of Botox at wholesale prices, much lower than they normally sell it for.

And we've been extremely diligent in makeing sure that Medical Spa MD Members are being taken care of. As far as I'm aware we've never had a single complaint about Medical Spa RXs service or products.

I should note here that Medical Spa RX and Medical Spa MD are completely different entities. Medical Spa RX is a Select Partner who offers exclusive services to our Members. (Any technology provider or service company who can provide meaningfull value to our Members is welcome to apply.)

For those physician or medical spa Members who have not yet ordered your Botox through Medical Spa RX and are in a position to do so, I'd highly recommend giving them a chance by placing a small test order of whatever you use most, Botox, Restylane, Juvederm of Dysport. You can see clearly from the chart above that physicians are obviously ordering more and more.

We're ecstatic that Medical Spa RX is doing so well for our Members and hope that other technology and service providers will make their offerings available to our community. We're actively seeking additional parthers to help. If you're a reputable company who would like to apply to become a Select Partner, please contact us using this form. (You'll need to provide significant benefits to our Members.)

Note: Any post mentioning Botox on Medspa MD is a spam magnet. Spam will be ruthlessly deleted and the spammer reported and blocked.

Medical Spa MD + Others

It's been an interesting last few weeks for us at Medical Spa MD.

We've seen in increase in the number of inquires around partnering with Medical Spa MD. While I'd normally guess it had something to do with the successes that our current partners are having... but I don't think that information is public knowledge.

In the last three weeks we've been approached by or talked to a number of consumer facing websites, medical publications, potential authors, and even some technology providers and pharmacies.

We're also launching a number of internal iniatives. We've emailed a few of our Members to ask what would be of the greatest benefit. (If you've received an email please give us your thoughts.)

We'll see how this pans out for Medical Spa MD but I'm hopeful that we'll be able to work out some additional deals and benefits for Medspa MD Members.

Medical Spa RX: Canada Botox hits a new milestone.

Medical Spa RX has had it's first physician who has reordered Botox 5 times. In fact, there are a number of them. Woot!

Oddly enough, I consider 5 reoders of Botox significantly significanly more impressive than only 4. (I don't know why. Perhaps because Medical Spa RX has only been offering Botox for the last 4 months so 5 orders would be more than monthly.)

Medical Spa RX has been shipping orders for something on the order of 4 months now so 5 orders is telling me that we've got a number of physicians who switched to Medical Spa RX very shortly after we launched it and have been using it exclusively. (My clincs usually orded Botox or Restyland monthly so that's where my logic lies.)

We've been extremely diligent in makeing sure that Medical Spa MD Members are being taken care of by Medical Spa RX and as far as I'm aware we've never yet had a single complaint about the service or product.

I should note here that Medical Spa RX and Medical Spa MD are completely different. Medical Spa RX is Select Partner who offers exclusive services to our Members. (Any technology provider or service company who can provide meaningfull value to our Members is welcome to apply.)

For those physician or medical spa Members who have not yet ordered your Botox through Medical Spa RX and are in a position to do so, I'd highly recommend giving them a chance by placing a small test order of whatever you use most, Botox, Restylane, Juvederm of Dysport.

Also, if you haven't heard about the group buy option, there's nothing like it to harness buying power.

Update on 10-11-2009 by Medical Spa MD

Just a heads up. Many of these posts attract a huge number of spam comments. As such, posts are monitored daily. Any specific and identified comments are welcome but all spam comments or anonymous flaming comments are removed and IP addresses identified and/or blocked.

Medical Spa Training Manuals Launched!

We've successfully launched the Medical Spa Training Manuals... finally.

It was something of a struggle for the last few weeks trying to get everything edited and designed but the result is extrordinary. I'd like to congratulate Paula for excellent work and Melissa for the final editing and the very long days getting everything together. We couldn't be happier being given the opportunity to publish them.

If you haven't yet taken a look you can download the tables of content for both the Advanced IPL & Laser Training for Non-Physicians and the Advanced Medical Spa Aesthetics Training Manual & Study Guide.

If there are cudos, and there are certainly going to be, the're most correcty directed at Paula, who has done a fantastic job on the content, from differences in technology to a fantastic sense of what's the needed amount of information in each areas.

Of note: a number of our first orders have been made by medical spa consultants and trainers who know how important training your laser clinc or med spa staff actually is.

Medica Spa RX: Thank you for your Botox, Juvederm, Dysport & Restylane orders!

We would like to thank Medical Spa MD and all of its members for helping to make Medical Spa RX such a success. To date we have filled over a thousand member orders and have received nothing but great feedback on our pricing and service.

We ship all of our orders overnight when it has a temperature controlled product in it. The remainder are shipped 3 day service. Of course if you wish to take advantage of the huge savings available by becoming part of a group buy, it may take longer than 3 days to receive your order, but the savings are incomparable.

We hope that if you have not purchased from us yet, that you try us out. We do not have order minimums on any product. If you wish to order just 1 vial of Botox, Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm, or Dysport / Reloxin as a test... your order will be shipped immediately.

If you do order from Medical Spa RX, please keep in mind that we only sell to licensed medical professionals with prescriptive authority. We do not sell to individuals with a prescription, as we are licensed pharmaceutical wholesalers and not a pharmacy for individuals.

Thank you again to Medical Spa MD and its members for making this venture such a  success.

Regards,

Michael

The Medical Spa RX Team

Medical Spa RX: Wholesale Botox, Restylane, and Juvederm

Medical Spa RX Beta is now online!

We've just launched our new international medical spa pharmacy program with the release of Medical Spa RX, a wholesale pharmacy in Canada that has the lowest price for Botox, Restylane, Juvederm and general products.

Please take a look and consider a test order. We're anxious to provide the very best service and quality through all of our partners and we'll welcome feedback around any issue as we look to imporve the quality of services and make Medical Spa MD the portal for physicians in cosmetic medicine. As part of the innovative services we're offering is the ability to lean on the more than 3500 medical provider members of Medical Spa MD for pricing breaks and special offers.

Among the many unique offerings is the ability to participate in a 'group buy' with group discounting... but wihout the need to organize or oversee the group. I'll be discussing this in detail as it grows.

Anyway, please take a look and consider a small order to test the performance and value. If you've got  thoughts on ways to improve either site, please leave a comment below.

Black Market Botox....A Better Buy?

Botox: $50 for 100mu?

Thought that would grab your attention.  I've heard you can find Botox on the internet for that price.  I wouldn't recommend it.

Occasionally a patient will ask me to explain why those people in Florida "died from Botox."  They are referring to a story that was widely publicized in early 2005 about some people in Florida who were sent to the hospital after receiving phony Botox injections and becoming paralyzed.  There was another story around the same time of a woman in California who died from Botox injections done by a hair stylist.  Hair stylist?  Yes, you read that right.  The very important distinction is that they didn't actually ever have Botox injected into them.  They were duped and actually had raw-grade Botulinum toxin type A used on them. 

Right about now you might be thinking, well that would certainly never happen to me.  My vials all say Botox and have the purple, red, orange colors on the box.  Matter of fact, I'm guessing that the guy in Florida thought his product was safe since he used it on himself.  I actually know a physician who had ordered, but never used, this killer Botox that he ordered from the same source. He thought he'd found a better source to get the real thing at a cheaper price.

Botox is a trademarked name for a substance that is made by Allergan. Anything else is phony and potentially very dangerous and most certainly not worth the savings that might be had.  This bootleg industry has become so prolific that I wanted to be sure everyone knew what to look for and what to avoid.  Fake Botox is frequently made in China or Korea. Authentic Botox is made and distributed world wide by Allergan and has a hologram indicating it's credibility.

(Note: Authentic Botox is available to physicians world-wide through one of Medical Spa MD's select partners, Medical Spa RX. Medical Spa RX is a licensed Canadian pharmacy who deals exclusively with authentic Botox, Dysport, Restylane, Perlane, Scuptra and other injectables.)

To view the hologram on a vial of Botox:

1) Examine the vial under a desk lamp or fluorescent light source
2) Rotate the vial back and forth between your fingers; look for horizontal lines of rainbow color on the label
3) Confirm that the name "ALLERGAN" appears within the rainbow lines.

I'm guessing that this black market industry will soon learn how to counterfeit the hologram as well.