Healers in Business Network Event Launch in Vancouver, BC
I attended a great event on the weekend–the launch event for the newly formed, Healers in Business Network based here in Vancouver, BC (they will be launching other networks in cities across North America in the next year).
As stated on their website, the Healers in Business network is "devoted to ethical business growth and success for complimentary or alternative health practitioners, product suppliers and support services".
I was totally impressed with the event and the vision of the co-founders, Angel La Liberte’ and Bill Cozzens. It was extremely well organized, the physical location and overall ambiance was awesome, speakers were informative, and the food was fantastic! I also met some great people and hope to connect with many of them again soon.
Some interesting statistics:
- 1990 an estimated 60 million Americans used complimentary and alternative medicine at an estimated cost of $13.7 billion USD in 1997 the figure rose to $27 billion USD
- In 1999 nearly three quarters of Canadians reported using complimentary and alternative medicine at some point in their lives.
- Current Canadian spending on CAM is nearly $4 billion and growing by 15% annually.
This is indeed good news for all complimentary and alternative health practitioners/therapists.
This is a long overdue and brilliant move on the part of Angel and Bill. Congratulations to them in the huge success of this event.
The Healers in Business Network has reduced their membership fee by 50% until June 30th in case you want to join.
By the way, I will be speaking at the Healers in Business event in November on Mastering Fears of Marketing. More on this later. In the meantime, you can read more about it at their website.
