Leverage the power of global presence by collaborating with other practitioners in other countries with parallel interests. Exploit email for patient follow up, reminders and feedback. Use group email to send newsletters and updates to your database. Use online discussion facilities to foster peer communication. Form Interstate Alliances.
Distance is no longer a tyranny.
The Internet is FREE This law was ignored by Netscape when they expected to maintain market dominance with their shareware 'Navigator' browser while Microsoft was giving theirs away as freeware. Netscape will probably never regain that opportunity. This law was ignored by The New York Times and Slate Magazine who both aborted attempts to charge users to read their Magazines online. The key to the long term popularity of web surfing is that once you're online you can go anywhere and do almost anything for free. Whether it's free newswire access, email, chat, or web pages, or searching for consumer information or health tips, the websites that succeed online are those which are perceived as delivering the greatest value for free.