How healthy is the UK? 32% of people still don’t value health as a priority
I did some research at the British Library the other day to find out how people’s attitudes are changing to health and wellbeing in the UK. Unfortunately it’s not an easy undertaking as you can well imagine. In fact after having only found arbitrary statistics from a plethora of different sources I realised I wasn’t [...]
Introduction to Booking Bug: How you can accept bookings and appointments online
There’s a great new company I want to introduce you to. It’s called BookingBug.com. In summary, BookingBug allows you to take bookings online. For a small fee you can create a small widget that enables your customers to quickly and simply select an appointment time and make payment withoug you having to raise a finger. [...]
DOs and DON’Ts when creating a customer satisfaction survey
Do you use the internet to gain insights into the satisfaction of your customers? The most important thing you can do when building and managing a website is to listen to your userbase. It’s all too easy to get carried away with cool designs and unnecessarily complicated new features. As a rule web designers and [...]
Cocoon Health is getting ready for an upgrade
At Cocoon Health we’re planning for the next big push in the network’s development to make the experience for all our users the very best it can be. We’ve now finished defining the next phase of development which will see the introduction of an advertising and blogging system for health professionals. So, for a small [...]
Search Engine Optimisation Best Practices for Therapists
This post is for those of you building a website for your health practice or own a website already and want to get the most out of it via Google’s organic search. I suggest you audit your site using this checklist to ensure that you’re site adheres to Google’s best SEO practices. Your goal is [...]
Half of UK GPs either provide or recommend alternative therapies
How we can help complementary and alternative therapists increase referrals from GPs It’s our goal at Cocoon Health to build the perfect referral network for all types of health care professionals. We want to see thousands of GPs recommending the very best complementary and alternative therapists to their patients. GPs will be able to perform [...]
Number of people in the UK searching for natural and alternative health on Google drops 30% since 2004
It’s true, people aren’t searching on Google for natural and alternative medicine the way they were in 2004. But don’t panic – it’s not as bad as it looks! And I’ll tell you why. First of all I though I’d introduce you Google Insights. It may well turn out to be your new best friend. [...]
