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[Candace Craw-Goldman]

Hi Elizabeth

May I ask why you have not chosen past life regression/future life regression as a modality you practice? Apparently no one in Norway has chosen to list that general service either. (Maybe a good idea to do so)

When I simply put NORWAY into the search box…and press enter, I got a list of all of our Norwegian Quantum Healing practitioners and then, practitioners from nearby countries after that. All in that list then list what they offer.

Did you see the box at the bottom where it says, “Need some help deciding? We’e got you covered.”

The public makes great use of that box on a daily basis and I find myself answering questions and referring practitioners from those inquiries constantly.

If you mean articles/videos/information on modalities we are creating those as we can and most go on our blog. We can change some features of our Directory but not the main platform. Its a service that has limits….but hope to be able to move to a more expansive/receptive service to host us in a year or so.

We are always happy to improve our Directory design and service (if it is possible or feasible) and love to have suggestions on how to do that, from you or ANYONE who has ideas.

Sometimes we can tweak things, sometimes we just can’t.

How would you imagine we could make it easier for our clients?

Thanks!

Candace

[Elisabeth Sørlie]

I have no idea why I haven’t LOL. I never thought it was an option, I went with the name for what I do.
I did try to only search on country and I found us. I hope clients use that the most and I will change some options on my page and maybe others will look into it also.

Thanks Candace!

[Lauren Goldman]

You have discovered the very problem we spent weeks agonizing over before launching the Directory…and still continually revisit.

From the practitioner side, it’s ideal to display ALL the varied skills. Some modalities which seem so different to us as practitioners have no obvious difference to clients, especially those who are just discovering this ‘world’ so to speak.

We’ve had now more than 120 different modality requests to list on the Directory and that doesnt include the ones we know can be broken down further and haven’t been – like hypnosis, or EFT. Right now we have 37 categories…which yes, can still feel overwhelming to clients, but doesn’t nearly cover the breadth of skills of our practitioners.

It’s a conundrum.

We are working on a way to make the display easier, something much more akin to say, how Udemy.com s selection works, where you start with larger broad categories and as the menu opens navigate to something more specific. But that’s a custom code project – read time consuming – and will take some time to create.

It would be ideal to have a sort of “hey are you new to this? Here’s a handy guide to what these different modalities mean” kind of page – except then we run into another problem of not everyone agrees on how to label/classify/explain different modalities, nor even on how they should be generally grouped.

If you, or anyone, has any ideas on how to better address this ‘there are hundreds of modalities, but lets not overwhelm the client with those options, but still display our varied skill-sets’ problem, I would LOVE to hear it. Send me a message or email me at [email protected].

We are actively working on diagramming updated functionality options with our developer and would love to hear any and all suggestions. Not everything we want is possible, since we’re working with 0s and 1s in computer-land, but we’d still like to hear what’s important to y’all as practitioners.

[Elisabeth Sørlie]

I have to admit I did not see the past life/future life category when I chose my practice. Thank you for making me aware of it.
I have selected it now, maybe others will do the same.
The thing is that I started at the “Select a healing practice” first and that is where I got confused and thought about the new clients who don’t have the names and terms.

Thank you for clearing this up!

[Irina Nola]

It would make sense to have quick descriptions of main modalities IMHO… Sure, there are articles, but they are in the blog in chronological order. There is all this space on the right with the flower, it could have some pictures with descriptions of the main categories like QHHT, BQH, PLR/FLP, Reiki, EFT, Hypnosis, Readings, Dreamwork etc. – chosen by how many practitioners are in each category. Unique modalities might be represented just by blog articles, as they are well…unique.

[Lauren Goldman]

Thank you Irina, we’re very much hoping to implement tooltips in many many places for our next upgrade – those little help and question mark icons next to elements that open into a small window when hovered over or clicked that displays info. This is a tooltip:

About 52% of our users on the site are on mobile devices, when you view the homepage on a mobile device there is no space for additional info, the flower collapses because the page is reactive to screen size. That screen size issue is why we’re leaning towards tooltips which will format to whatever screensize is being used

I think we would like to make additional information available beyond what a tooltip can provide though, and would like to add a link to the text in the tooltip that goes to an article that explains more in depth whatever has been clicked on – which means we’ll need articles on EVERY modality if possible to provide even greater explanation for those who want it. So anyone who’s interested in writing original content articles about a specific modality we’d love to hear from you!

[Irina Nola]

I can write about PLR and FLP, how long shall it be? Shall we go through the history of the method and current schools or just brief description of what it is?

[Lauren Goldman]

@Irina_Nola can I get back to you about guidelines? Frankly you could write a whole series on both and that’d be awesome. Since we hope to have an article link for every type of modality, I need to talk with mom about what points should be mentioned for each, so that if you do decide to write multiple articles with different focus points, that we’ll know which to link to as the main basic info article.

I just sent myself an email about this so I won’t forget to get an answer for you, moms in Utah, I’m traveling back to Monterrey here in a few days so it might be a week or so til I get back to you, but because it’s in my email, which is my to-do list, this won’t get overlooked.

[Irina Nola]

Yes, sure, no rush, I think it would be good for the site to have descriptions of different methods, especially not widespread ones.

[Stephanie Shek]

Thank you Candace and Lauren for making everything so transparent for us. It helps us understand what can be done or not and why. You have become so technical! I find myself learning something new from reading your answers to our many questions and sometimes give me things to improve my own website too. Thank you!

[Tom Arild Waagbø]

@Candace_CrawGoldman
@Directory_Admin

Candace wrote:

When I simply put NORWAY into the search box…and press enter, I got a list of all of our Norwegian Quantum Healing practitioners and then, practitioners from nearby countries after that. All in that list then list what they offer.

This isn’t the case. I did the exact same thing today and to my surprise, I get listed AFTER two practitioners from other scandinavian countries. The names get listed in chronological order, overriding “country” which should be the main parameter for showing the result for this particular search. Maybe there could be a separate search option where it is possible to search for practitioners whithin a certain distance?

[Lauren Goldman]

Hi Tom,

The short answer is this: Candace’s answer was correct until about a week ago. We had a better search engine built than the native one on the platform – the parent platform pushed an update to the search engine to all sites, which overrode ours, breaking it, causing this and more problems, and the engine has been in the process of being rebuilt again last week – it’s nearly fixed again.

The longer answer is – the search results are correct but in the wrong order. Actually Antje does belong semi early on in the list because of her service ares. She’s active in Berlin AND Oslo – she shows up because of the service area Oslo.

Prior to launching the site we realized we’d need to customize the search engine. The native platform simply didn’t allow unbounded searches for countries. That means when you’d search something, all searches ended at a country border – this was obviously a problem. So – we had a custom engine built for us that made everything a radius search and unbounded countries. As regards a search for just ‘Norway’ with no additional parameters or narrowing of location, the system brings up every practitioner in that radius.

The last problem that is being worked from the mother platform update is that it removed the distance parameter when just countries were searched – which is why the results are out of distance order and listed alphabetically since that’s how the parent platform designed their engine to work. We need to reimplement telling the engine to pick the center of the country as a start point for searches so that it has a distance parameter to apply and doesnt default to alphabetical order. This isn’t a problem when given smaller areas like cities and postal codes because those have well established center points for radius searches to be based on and everyone expects results to be distance based. The unique issue here is that we are searching an entire country without giving the engine any kind of start point to base it’s search on – like your current location.

I also just confirmed without our developer that he expects that to be fixed by end of the week.

About adding a search within distance parameter – this would work only if members actually filled in their postal codes or exact locations. The problem is that most people haven’t. A search engine working on distance without exact coordinates can only make a guess at where a member actually lives – and it picks the middle of whatever it’s given.

We have a few people who have only provided the state – or even large cities as their smallest location – big problem. The engine can only then associate that member’s account with the center of that large area.

So say someone picks New York City and doesn’t give a postal code – and lives right on the edge of the city near say New Jersey. This practitioner will lose all kinds of client opportunities because the search engine can only assume he’s actually dead center of the city, very few people will realize this person is actually close to them in New Jersey and wont find him because he neglected to add postal code info. If we give people the option to limit searches by distance that will inadvertently remove people from search results they should appear in.

Unfortunately I cant make people add that information and without it…well the search options given distance parameters selected by clients aren’t as good. We are working on a way to fix this kind of issue, and hopefully it can be addressed in one of the modules are having built for the site. We are working on a way to combine everything under one site to make it all less confusing and more convenient. To make that goal a reality a lot of new modules are being designed and built right now which will better address issues like this and remove us from being at the mercy of a parent platform pushing updates we don’t want.

I hope that answers your question, please let me know if you need any more clarification!

[Tom Arild Waagbø]

Thanks for the update and explanation. It’s good to know that you are working to solve this and build better functionality. Keep up the good work! 🙂 In my post I meant alphabetical and not chronological order.

[Noel Lockwood]

are there any QHHT practitioners in New Hampshire ?

[Gogo yubari]

Hi Noel,

If you head over to our Practitioner Directory https://www.quantumhealingpractitioners.com you can search by location. I do know we have several practitioners in NH and close surrounding states.

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