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.

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Welcome to your TrainerBase update 271.

Over the years we at TrainerBase have had many conversations with purchasers about their actual and potential habits as visitors of www.trainerbase.co.uk . Along with statistical research into visitor numbers we can declare that there is significant benefit to having a Full enhanced profile on TrainerBase. Benefits include:

• up to 400% more visitors than the Basic profile

• purchasers say they look at Enhanced profile first

• search engine optimistation capability helps members own business web site rankings

• and more

With this in mind and to encourage more members to benefit from this type of profile, in the next few weeks I will outline how straightforward it is for you can set up a Full enhanced profile and start raising your presence on the TrainerBase web site.

The first step (once you have an Full membership to the Learning Practitioners' Association) is to Activate and start populating your profile. I have put a new article on this in our .info site in the Member tips section along with previous articles on;

• Trainer Profiles and
• Points and Ranking.

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

• 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 about which you would like an explanation, 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. Others 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 recent 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.

Discussion forums

Stephanie Milton has asked a question about working in Dubai on the Discuss page. Mike Morrison has posted a head up in 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

Joy Wilson and David Chesters have recently added some resources to the Downloads section.

Number of FREE downloads on the system: 1,698.

Downloads in the past 28 days: 474

Useful Stuff

Joy Wilson is writing a series of articles on Working in the Middle East.

Do you have contributions that would be of interest to visitors and raise your profile? Let us know.

User statistics

Current total number of active web site users: 5,915 of which 4,154 are UK based.

Currently signed up for the newsletter: 4,941

Currently signed up for offers and ads: 5,317

Current association members: 499. 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) 18
• Supplier 1
• Trainer 37

Profile views in the past 28 days; 4,134.

• Traceable: 372 (registered user on TrainerBase)
• Non traceable: 3,762 (unidentifiable visitor, search engine robot)

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

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

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, jobs, kolb, 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, learning styles, coaching exercises, project management, trainer, appraisal, tenders, presentation skills.