Thanks Tom,

Thanks for bringing an inside look on how the profession seems to be
doing. I am pleased to see that business seems to be doing OK for
your graduates and the school. It also perhaps indicates a more
general economical tendency, very welcome in these hard times...

I am not sure how much idaprolf.org actually contributes to
increasing business. I would welcome any measure of idaprolf.org's
influence on the market, and I understand it is probably not an easy
measure to get. It seems that it is when our professionals actually
promote idaprolf.org in their community, that in return, idaprolf.org
seems to help them locally. That the maximum impact is when
professionals are active in promoting idaprolf.org as well as their
own school is definitely something to think about.
For reference, if you visit idaprolf.org's site statistics (first
page, bottom left, click on the left square, usually green with
vertical bars), you will notice that the tiny country of Ireland is
#2-3 in traffic, with only a handful of practitioners present
locally. Israel, with a comparable number of local practitioners is
not showing on my charts (25 top counrties). Practitioners in Ireland
are doing a good local promotion, and I was told it has been good to
them.

Promoting idaprolf.org locally is something I cannot do well; the
world is simply too big. Therefore a regional promotion, talking to
everyone about the site, submitting to local search engines, web
health resources etc, is very important if practitioners and schools
want to capitalize on it. When the database is ready (6 months / up
to a year or so), local promotion will be facilitated with the
possibility of creating regional practitioners search tools and a
list of local trainings; such a subsection has more chances of being
listed locally in search engines local sections and local web health
resources.

I wrote the previous message in response to the other topic, your
call for a professional society. I am already working on some
building blocks? Well, as much as such a concept can exist without
members, without participating schools, and without funding, as you
will see there (my previous posting). I am the first one positively
surprised about how much can be done with only bits and pieces (and
work!), and therefore I am still rather optimistic about the future,
including about a future professional society, should members decide
to create it.

Sincerely,

Reda