Your opinion needed, free online directory listing in return.

Dear Holistic Service Provider,

The answer is getting mainstream consumers to demand integrated healthcare from doctors, insurance companies, elected officials and more. To do that, we have to provide the resource that will help mainstreamers understand why they must demand it.

In a nutshell, this email is offering you a free six-month online directory listing complete with photo (for holistic practitioners only) and requesting your opinion/feedback on an Integrated Health website prototype (www.unitedhpa.org) that will have several of the features of WebMD and more when complete. We are also offering a limited time opportunity to buy a banner ad for only $100 for six months (approx. $16/month), a price you won't find anywhere else in any media. Interested? Please read on.

Do you think there should be an integrated health answer to WebMD? So do we, and we've already begun. Although we have a wealth of talent working on this $100,000 project, it would be a mistake to not include your voice, as an integrated health practitioner, in the process. This website must serve your needs as well as consumer needs - so before we launch a finished website to the nation, we are reaching out to you and your colleagues for your feedback.

You are cordially invited to register your holistic practice in the online directory AT NO COST for six months. You may include:

• your photo or logo,
• your website link if you have one,
• the modalities that you practice and
• your contact information.
• Our web developer is also working on a bio section in the directory, so you can enter your credentials, testimonials, or anything else that you would like. That bio section should be live within the month.

Simply go to our prototype, http://www.unitedhpa.org/, and scroll down slightly to sign up for our enewsletter on the left of the home page (so I can generate questions for your feedback as to the look and feel of the site and the directory. What is working, what is not working, what modalities are missing, etc.).

Then go back up the page to click the Register link near the login area, and put your practice information in the directory. You must be signed up for the enewsletter in order to be listed in the directory. None of this costs you a single penny.

The prototype of our new website is live and already getting over 100,000 hits a month since May even though the site is not yet complete. We had a 60% increase in unique site visits in June over May, so registration in the directory is going to give you additional exposure to your practice.

If you would like to have a banner ad on the website, we are offering them for as little as $100 for six months if it is in .jpg format and ONLY in response to this email. To see our normal prices and the ads already sold, please visit http://www.unitedhpa.org/store.php?pageId=2.

Our goal is to appeal to the mainstream consumer and become a strong, national integrated health resource like WebMD is for allopathic medicine. The unique database shell has been constructed to help mainstreamers drill down from a condition to their holistic options to a local service provider, something not offered by WebMD. We are in process of entering the data into that database.

This is a huge endeavor that takes huge amounts of time and money to complete - but we are already almost there. Soon the website will have video streaming for testimonials, and a private forum for practitioners to discuss and refer client condition concerns with each other nationally 24/7 - an important resource in our ever-changing field. We anticipate launching the completed site nationally by the New Year.

You don't have to pay for any of it. Simply register in the directory AND sign up for our enewsletter, so I can contact you with questions about the site on a group basis (the enewsletters are broken down by time zone).

Please forward this email to all the holistic practitioners in every modality that you know. There is room in the directory for several thousand practitioners nationwide - and it is very important to show consumers how prevalent and accessible integrated health really is, so the bigger the directory, the stronger the message that integrated health is a viable and important option for everyone.

Again, if you would like to have a banner ad on the website for as little as $100 for six months, simply drop me an email expressing your interest and we'll go from there. You cannot get an ad in any media, much less online, for that price anywhere else, and given our audience is your target, this is a wonderful opportunity and I encourage you to take it.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Be well, be wise, be ready,

Norreida
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