Health Tools for Business and Business Tools for Health.

This section splits into two distinct paths:

• workplace wellness tools for businesses wanting to bring healthy habits into the workplace,
• and the second is tools for business owners in the health and wellness field.

Workplace Wellness for HR and Business Owners

On the workplace wellness front, we have a wide range of tools and information available here on NaturalHealthcare.ca, but we have also created a line of workplace wellness tools under our new brand: Wellergize.

On this site, you can find:

• What is a Wellness Program?
• Benefits of a Wellness Program
• Starting a Wellness Program
• Wellness Program Questionnaire (Short Version)
• Fitness Programs in the Workplace
• Healthy Snacking in the Workplace
• On site Healthcare (ideas for practitioners you can bring into your workplace)
• First Aid Courses
• Repetitive Strain Injury
• Workplace Wellness Download Centre
• or visit: Wellergize Workplace Wellness Programs

Helping, Healing, and Holistic Businesses

For Healthy Business Owners (Practitioners, Store Owners, Distributors) we have a variety of content, including free B2B classified ads, event listings where you can promote your workshops and sessions (we developed the Canada Events Calendar in response to demand here), and coming in the next couple of weeks is the Practitioner Service Exchange. This new feature allows you to find other people in your area who want to exchange services or even products - a mini-bartering network only much more casual than the big formal ones - and targeted to the health and wellness sector.

Social Media

If you use Twitter, we are also big fans of forwarding (retweeting) your news and event information. Just notify us @NHCnews or @NHCGigi. (If you follow the NHCnews account, expect the NHCGigi account to follow you back - everything the main account says turns up on the site, so we instituted the second account to send any messages that we don't want turning up here.)

You can also join us on Facebook (yes we hate the term "fan page" too - it just has more functionality than the groups option). Perhaps you will be able to answer questions from potential clients and demonstrate your expertise.

We'll also be reinstating the discussion forum here in the coming weeks. The software available has advanced enough to not have the spammers flood the content with ads for v1@gara or whatnot.

Getting Listed

You may have noticed the new enhanced profiles (here's an example) with multimedia options. The basic listing now has a link to your website, and the enhanced listing lets you use a full range of tools to speak to your audience - literally and figuratively.

In addition to the basic listing contents, the enhanced listing has:

• Preferred placement above the basic listings
• Profile photo and short introduction on the directory page
• Extended Profile page - with up to five photos or slides
• Embedded Audio content - you can either record a custom introduction or give a sample (files up to 5 Megabytes)
• Embedded Video content (hosted on Youtube or Vimeo)

You can find out more about the new listings here.

Information on this website is for informational purposes only.
Please consult a qualified health practitioner before taking any course of action.