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Qigong Symposium Ohlone College Newark Center for Health, Science & Technology Saturday, October 11 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Sunday, October 12 8:00 am – 6:30 pm.
 
Registration available for one or both days Qigong Grandmasters from China visit Ohlone College for a two-day symposium to instruct participants in the life balancing health care methods of Qigong. A traditional, movement-based therapeutic exercise technique that harnesses one’s “qi” or life force,

Qigong plays an active role in stress reduction and improving the immune system. The symposium is open to all skill levels. Registration is limited so reserve your spot early.

Ohlone College Newark Center 39399 Cherry Street, Newark, CA 94560.
 
For more info, contact rkurotori@ohlone.edu or click here to learn more today.

October 17-19, 2008; NANP Annual Conference in Santa Rosa, CA
- Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

Don't miss this exciting event.

Topics and speakers include:

• Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS: Weight Loss Coaching
• Mikell Parsons, DC, CCN, DACBN: Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
• JJ Virgin, PhD,CNS: Public Speaking
• David Brady: Understanding the Complicated Client
• and much more........

Click here to view the flyer
Click here to register

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The National Association of Nutrition Professionals is a non-profit business league of nutrition professionals...
originally founded in 1985 as the Society of Certified Nutritionists. The NANP represents holistically trained nutrition professionals. 

Okay – so you have created a great article for your altMD Community Website’s Blog.  Bravo!  One more thing to do...

Final Targeting Opportunity!  The final decision one makes after writing a blog/article is where should it be targeted? To Consumers or Wellness Professionals?

Helpful Hints:

 

Your blog post/article immediately displays on your altMD site AND in place 1 or place 2, below…

1. If your post is consumer-oriented, it will also immediately display here: http://www.altmd.com/Blogs - for all the world to see - immediately, and in real time.
2. If it is about one of your business-to-business products or services or seminars or events that will be valuable to Wellness Professionals, it should display here in our altMD ProCenter. 

If targeting consumers, you need not do anything – the altMD system will handle this for you.

If targeting other altMD Specialist Members, you need to select ‘Wellness Professionals’ which opens a new ‘tab’ and then please select the right categories which are relevant to the particular post. See below...



That's it!  Now you and your great blog article are good to go!

Want to make sure you are staying current on your nutrition information?  Stay Home!  You read it right!  Now you can learn wherever you have an internet connection and whenever it suits your schedule!

HealthProVT.com, the brainchild of JJ Virgin, PhD, CNS, now offers you an incredible online seminar system that makes learning fun and memorable.  Dr. Ed Bauman who created most of the terrific Holistic Nutrition content in altMD is also involved.

Here’s how it works. After you sign up for the course you will be given a unique password to sign onto the website and download the lecture notes. Now you are ready to start learning!  The whole experience is comparable to watching a live lecture-you will see the speaker and their PowerPoint slides on your computer screen and you can easily follow along with your notes. 

Feel free to stop and start your seminar whenever you want!  Unlike a live lecture, HealthProVT courses are broken down into 5 minute segments.  At the end of each section you are tested to ensure your full comprehension on the subject. When you pass with flying colors you can go onto the next section.

When you complete the entire course you will receive a certificate of completion that you can forward to their CEU partner, Proevity.com, and they will provide the CEUs for your course.

To view the course catalog, watch a demo video and read about the faculty, including Bauman College’s own Ed Bauman, check out www.healthprovt.com. While you are there be sure to sign up for their Practice Matters ezine, full of great ideas to help you grow your health care business!

Introducing HealthProVT!

 

Save hundreds of dollars in travel costs.

Experience the seminar experience virtually.

Download the syllabus, watch and listen to the speaker, view the slides...just like you would at a “live” seminar.

Learn in "bite size" pieces for an optimal educational experience.

Test your comprehension; answer core competency questions before advancing to the next section.

Listen to top educators who are both experienced clinicians and in-demand speakers.

Receive signed certificates of completion suitable for framing.

Earn CEUs through Proevity Continuing Education Group (www.proevity.com).

 

Master Course: Foundations of Whole Foods Nutrition

Instructor: Ed Bauman, PhD

Three courses available individually:

• Nutrition Bandits
• Eating for Health
• Cooking for Health

 

Master Course: Implementing Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice

Instructor: David Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN

Three courses available individually:

• Comprehensive Metabolic Profiling of the Complicated Patient
• Functional Endocrinology: Thyroid & Adrenal Disorders
• Stress, Insulin and the Metabolic Syndrome

 

Master Course: Overcoming Weight Loss Resistance

Master Course: Customized Nutrition

Instructor: JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFI

Four courses available individually:

• 8 Areas of Weight Loss Resistance
• The Basics
• Total Metabolism Testing
• Putting the Program Together

 

Turn off that TV, and get enterTRAINED instead!  HealthProVT.com, the brainchild of health expert, JJ Virgin, is now available exclusively to health care practitioners, letting you advance your knowledge at your own pace in your own environment.   Endorsed by Bauman College , HealthProVT.com is an online learning tool, providing cutting edge technology that allows you access to convenient, clinically relevant, cost effective virtual seminars taught by health industry experts like Dr. Ed Bauman, Dr. David Brady, and JJ Virgin, PhD, CNS.  In just minutes a day, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional travel and time out of pocket, HealthProVT.com can keep you up to speed in your area of specialty, 24/7.  Check out www.healthprovt.com, and entertrain yourself with our online demo.  There has never been an easier way to stay ahead of the learning curve!

 

For more information please connect with edb@baumancollege.org or joel@altMD.com.  

 

New members have asked us to further organize our Marketing Mentor blog articles.  Here goes:

 

Final step after writing your blog: Marketing 101: Selecting your 'Target' for your Blog Article

What’s in it for you to become an altMD V!P: Marketing 101: Why become an altMD V!P

 

The altMD ‘Getting Started’ Program: Marketing 101: Discovery Day

Basic marketing skills: Marketing 101: What is Marketing 101?

Get help with your website makeover: Marketing 101: Before and After 

Defining terms: Marketing 101: Marketing Objectives, Strategies and Tactics

Learn more about what’s in a name: Marketing 101: Naming your Brand. Branding your Name.

Learn more about ‘Getting Started’ with altMD: Marketing 101: The Basics - 29 Points in 29 Minutes

Join the online health care community and conversation: Marketing 101: Growing Your Practice Online

Learn about the importance of fine-tuning your Keywords: Marketing 201: Leveraging Your Keywords in altMD

'How to' blog and stand-out as an Expert within your sweet spot: Marketing 201: Blog on What You Know!

The opportunity and value of blogging on altMD: Marketing 201: Blog-blog-blog to Get Ahead on altMD!

Use client feedback today: Marketing 201: Customer "Reviews" - Testimonials in Today's Interactive Web 2.0 World! 

 

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Please connect if you would like additional help with your specific needs. 
We love to help s-a-v-v-y specialists grow and get more s-a-v-v-y!

 

altMD is a valuable resource for consumers to connect with wellness professionals.  We have noticed that some companies out there are using our site to solicit our Members.  Please do not do that. We politely ask that you stop sending these messages using our system.

 

At the same time, please know that if you do have a product or service of interest and value to our Members, we recommend that you create a free listing in our ProCenter.  And we will help you achieve your goals.

 

Please connect with me and I will help you.  Thank you for your support!

 

Have you seen all of the great content in altMD on Holistic Nutrition?   Dr. Ed Bauman prepared the majority of our Holistic Nutrition articles and we are proud that he is an important part of altMD.

 

Ed’s most recent article titled Nutrition for Inflammation has a lot of terrific information and covers nutrition-based recommendations for managing Inflammation and related disorders. 

 

Please visit Ed’s altMD site and Bauman Nutrition and Bauman College.    

Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D. (University of New Mexico), is the Executive Director of Bauman College. He is a ground-breaking leader in the field of whole foods nutrition, holistic health, and community health promotion.

After three decades of in-depth study of worldwide health and nutrition systems, Dr. Bauman created the 'Eating for Health' nutrition system which is the foundation of the Bauman College Nutrition and Natural Chef Training Programs. In addition to his Director responsibilities, Ed works closely with the Academic Dean on ongoing curriculum updates. He also facilitates the bi-annual Bauman College Vitality Rejuvenation Retreats in Northern California.

Ed is the Director of Bauman Nutrition, a natural health clinic in Sonoma County, California, where he and his staff provide nutritional consultation to individuals, families and business groups. Their work includes a wide range of functional metabolic assessments and health research for serious health problems.  Dr. Bauman is also an adjunct faculty member at JFK University

Jane Fecteau is an amazing healer with gifts galore who lives and works in beautiful Southern Maine. 

 

She is an intuitive and has been practicing and perfecting the Jane Fecteau Method over the last many years. 

 

In addition, she is a wonderful teacher and trainer in the field of Energy Medicine.  She works with Holistic Practitioners across the country and teaches the Jane Fecteau Method so these specialists can add Energy Healing as a new service for their businesses and practices and help more of their current clients as well as attract new clients – and isn’t that the goal?  Help more people and provide more healing services to current patients??

Success Story:  Jane has just announced her energizing Fall Schedule and the opening of...
The New England Institute of Energy Medicine Training

 

For more information about her classes and courses starting soon, please connect with Jane today!

David Essel is my friend and Founder of TalkDavid.com

 

While he is an amazing Author, Speaker, Life and Business Coach he has also just been appointed Adjunct Professor at Edison State College in SW Florida where he will teach his Master Life Coach course as a Certification Program.  

This is a terrific opportunity for local Wellness Pros to train personally with one of the most respected and successful Life and Business Coaches in America.  If you know David or have taken one of his dynamic courses, you already know that he delivers all the tools you will need. 

In this particular course, you will graduate with the wisdom and confidence to be able to create your own personal life coaching system and business success - perhaps as an adjunct to your current practice or as a completely new venture.  

 

David is getting this recognition today @ altMD because he is the best at what he does and we wish to encourage Health & Wellness people everywhere to check out all David's courses, books and all of his other terrific programs.

Congrats to you David - you are altMD's Person of the Week!

Every day at altMD we are mentoring our Members on the importance of fine-tuning your Keywords – and we offer expert personalized assistance to our Members, every day!  Why so?

• As you may know, Keywords are online “tags” that make sure you come out on top of the search results for your specialty, conditions and target patients that you treat. 
• And… Keywords are a very important aspect of your Listing and help promote your brand, services and increase potential referrals. 

We track everything at altMD, including how new visitors – especially consumers – find us.  As you might expect, Google dominates where people find us – find you!

Here are some what are called “Referral Source Queries” from just the last few hours showing how people found us and YOU.  Click on any/all the Queries below (with commentary) and simulate the experience of the Visitor…

 

Query:

 

Google: how to treat tight muscles and knots in your back: Many visitors are looking for health information.  The altMD search result is #5 from the top.  After they typed in the above Query into Google, the individual clicked on the altMD search result and not only found a great expert article on treating tight muscles and knots, but found specialists in their local area that can help them. Click on the altMD link in Google when you get there!!

Google: what is needed for pilates: This person wants to know about the equipment needed for Pilates. After they typed this Query into Google they found the altMD result #1, then clicked it to not only find a great expert video on the subject, but also where to get that equipment in their local area.  
Google: meditation for impulse control: Found an expert article and several local altMD specialists that can help! 

As an altMD Specialist, you will be happy to learn that most altMD visitors are consumers actually looking for YOU or someone like you.

Query: 

Google: vim pilates, exposition: altMD #1

Google: reflexology garden: altMD #2

Google: don vacca: altMD #1

Google: nurse practitioner phone hornone consult: altMD #2 on this page and Googler even spelled hormone wrong!!
Google: beverly hills transcendental meditation: altMD #4

Google: alexander technique teachers in portland: altMD #4 – this search was done in Hebrew!!!!

Google: colon hydrotherapy chico california: altMD #1

 

Keywords are a very important aspect of your Listing and help promote your brand, services and increase potential referrals. 

 

Please connect if you want help fine-tuning your Keywords!!!