The Value of the Web-Friendly Features of Diet Software

The Value of the Web-Friendly Features of Diet Software More and more, nutrition and fitness professionals are using the Internet and email to conduct their business and to communicate with their clients. This is a trend that shows no sign of abating. For this reason, it makes sense to select nutrition and fitness software that takes advantage of the Internet and all its capabilities. Here are some of the Web-friendly features: Any report generated by the diet software can be saved as a text file, RTF (word processor) file, or HTML (web page) format. Formatted reports can be saved as PDF files. This means you can save a report as a text file and embed it into the body of your email... you can open a rich text formatted file in MS Word (or any other word processor) and save is as a doc file to attach to your email... or you can save the report as an HTML web page and post it on your own web site. This facilitates the sharing of information over the Web and via email. The software allows you to save your Formatted Reports in PDF format. This format can be displayed on your web site or sent as an email attachment to your clients. The software package can support a questionnaire on your web site. It can capture your visitor's contact information (name, email address, phone number, etc.) and "log-on" information (name, gender, age, height, weight, desired weight, etc.) . This facilitates the sharing of information over the Web. (Pat Parker sells these Assessment reports on her web site at Diet4Uonline.com.) Captured contact information helps facilitate a periodic email newsletter. A hundred visitors a day is 700 email addresses a week or 36,000 potential customers a year... a good starting point for building a web-based newsletter. And with this system, you can adjust your newsletter (and services offered) to the client. If the client is 5' tall and weighs 500 lbs, he would get a different newsletter from the person who is training for a marathon. This is a marketable service. Automatically adding your visitors as clients ("Logging them on") facilitates the generation of dozens of nutrition and fitness reports for these visitors. The software helps you deliver these reports electronically across the Internet via email or as pages on your own web site. This is a marketable service. You can put the Client Intake Module on your web site for your customers to download. Your clients can then install the software, record their own intakes, and click a button to email you the results. You can then perform an in-depth analysis for them and include your recommendations. Deliver your report back to your client via email or web site. This is a marketable service. You can export any recipe, meal, Meal Plan or personal food item and email it to any associate or customer who has any version of your diet software. Your clients or associates can import the item and use it as if they had created it themselves. If you are a nutrition professional, you can sell or recommend a consumer version of your software to your clients, then sell them Meal Plans, recipes, etc. Nutrition professionals can sell their Meal Plans on their web sites. You can generate analyses in a spreadsheet format that is compatible with spreadsheets (like Excel) or databases (like Access) and email your results to associates or clients. This ability makes it easy to share research data with colleagues. The recipients can open this data in their own spreadsheet or database and benefit from your work. This feature is popular for research studies involving many participants (some diet software can generate reports for hundreds of simultaneous participants.) This facilitates the sharing of information. Your diet software lets you make a backup of your entire system and email it a partner's computer. The recipient can restore the backup and have a virtual clone of your diet software's setup on their computer. You can also use this ability to mail your own diet software's backup to yourself at work so that it's waiting for you when you get there. This improves the efficiency of your work. Your diet software lets you customize a recipe report as a web page for your web site (or anyone else's web site). One click on a button generates a recipe that is ready to upload to your web site. It looks exactly like every other recipe on your web site. It can use the any of the images, navigation bars, etc. that you use on your web site if you sell your recipes for use on other sites). This capability facilitates the convenient and rapid implementation of a Recipe-A-Day Web Page for yourself or for hundreds of web sites who subscribe to your service.... remember, one recipe can be formatted to fit perfectly into as many different web sites as you wish. This is a marketable service.

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