The Learning Practitioners Association: representing all individuals substantially engaged in or actively working towards consultancy, design, development and delivery of training interventions whose recipients are outside statutory education.

The perfect place for trainers, learning developers & training advisers

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Welcome to your TrainerBase update 270.

The TrainerBase web site is a long standing and increasingly well known facility for finding trainers on the Internet. But as with any search facility, where you come in the list of potentially thousands of other trainers is an important factor. Last time I explained the foundation of having a presence on the TrainerBase web site; having a Basic of Full enhanced Profile (being a member). This week I am going to explain how the ranking in the search results on the Find a Trainer page actually works. This is about how you can get into those important top pages in the search results.

You can read the full article on the Points and Ranking page on our TrainerBase.info web site. In brief, getting up the ranking is all about:

• increasing your score and/or
• reducing the number of subjects.

And the quickest way to find out where you are in the search results is to search for yourself. Do check out your position in Edit Profile by clicking on the 'View your Profile Position and purchase points.' link.

In later updates I will explain some more intricacies of the TrainerBase web site and how to increase your chances of getting work including:

• Activating and populating a Full enhanced profile (and how to help your own web site)
• Sharing resources (without giving away your stock in trade)
• Who been looking at your profile (how popular are you)
• Networking (making contacts in a virtual world)
• Applying for opportunities (how not to get yourself eliminated before you start)

If there are other topics that you would like an explanation about, please feel free to get in touch.

And do remember that the ability to find work via the site is just one of a number of benefits of being part of the Learning Practitioners Association. Other include:

• discount insurance
• free copies of TJ

What other benefits would you be interested in?

Top

Of course there is the usual activity taking place on the site and you should visit regularly to ensure you do not miss out.

Opportunities

Contract opportunities are being posted at a current rate of 1 per day. Have you seen if your next job has been posted?

News stories

We are always keen to receive news stories from members; this is great FREE advertising. Go on; showcase yourself; Charlotte Mannion has.

Discussion forums

Charlotte Mannion and Jan Brause have posted messages on the Discuss page.
Andrew Miller has asked a question on the Members only forum.

The World of Learning Conference & Exhibition is the premier event to discover the essential suppliers, skills, inspiration, ideas and advice to ensure you are delivering the L&D solutions your organisation needs to stay ahead.

New members

New members of the Association include: Jane Walshe, Jane Cousins,
Martin Quiery, Nicki Davey,
Steve Craig, Paul Wilson, Giovanni Trolese, Peter Mayes.

Downloads

Shea Heer, Jan Brause and Valerie Fawcett have recently added some resources to the Downloads section.

Number of FREE downloads on the system: 1,694.

Downloads in the past 28 days: 474

Benefits of membership

Check out the Business Case for membership of the Learning Practitioners' Association.

Are you receiving FREE copies of TJ?

Are you getting discount insurance?

User statistics

Current total number of active web site users: 5,906 of which 4,149 are UK based.

Currently signed up for the newsletter: 4,937

Currently signed up for offers and ads: 5,313

Current association members: 509. Is this the economic climate hitting. The number and value of opportunities contracted via the site is holding up, if not improving.

Number of new member types in the past 28 days;

• Basic user (potential purchaser) 17
• Supplier 1
• Trainer 46

Profile views in the past 28 days; 5,019.

• Traceable: 490 (registered user on TrainerBase)
• Non traceable: 4,529 (unidentifiable visitor, search engine robot)

The top searched for subject in the past 28 days out of a total of 139 different subjects are:

• Sales, Leadership, Health and Safety, Management Development, Project Management

And what are the top keyword searches being used in the general Search filed on the site: well here they are:

• invoice, tna, time management, coaching, opportunities, training needs analysis, kolb, jobs, trainers, assertiveness, proposal, resources, open and closed questions, open questions, managers guide to tna, export, sample invoice, insurance, evaluation, questioning, train the trainer, pdp, appraisal forms, first aid, customer service, coaching, exercises, project management, trainer, learning styles, presentation skills.