Featured Report:What Every Business Owner Needs To Know About Fear

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e-Marketer
Smartphones, Tablets Drive Faster Growth in Ecommerce Sales
Apr,24,2013
by+ Staff
Mobile will take a greater percentage of total ecommerce retail sales Mobile shopping—particularly on tablet devices—is having an outsize impact on the ecommerce world, contributing to an increasing share of US retail ecommerce sales and exerting more influence on overall retail sales, according to new estimates from eMarketer.
This year, 15% of online retail sales will take place via mobile devices, according to eMarketer, up from 11% in 2012. By 2017, the percentage will rise to 25%.
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Small Business Technology
Three Things Every Business Owner Should Be Thinking About!
Apr,22,2013
by:+Ramon Ray
I recently had a call with Shashi Bellamkonda, VP of Digital Marketing at The Bozzuto Group. Shashi, who recently left Network Solutions after twenty years, talked with me about his previous role and what his new role will entail. He also shared three things that he focused on as he prepared to enter his new role – three things that he feels every business owner should be thinking about.
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New York Times: Small Business Day
Putting a Dollar Value on a Facebook Fan
Apr,23,2013
by:+GENE MARKS
As noted in Monday’s Dashboard summary of the week’s small-business news, a social media marketing firm, Syncapse, has published a report that says the average value of a Facebook fan is $174.17. Seeking further details about the calculation and its potential impact on a small-business owner’s social media investment, we reached out to the company’s chief executive, Michael Scissons, and had the following conversation, which has been edited and condensed.
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Small Business Newz
What Every Business Owner Needs To Know About Fear
Apr,23,2013
by:+Jim Connolly
Fear is a major stumbling block for many business owners. It causes them to make decisions, which seriously sabotage their chances of success. The business implications of fearHere are just some of the ways that fear changes the decisions and actions of small business owners: It causes them to do what’s safe, rather than do what’s right.
It causes them to stay predictable, rather than express their unique worth.
It causes them to join a group, rather than lead a group.
It causes them to watch, rather than ‘do’.
It causes them to look for excuses, rather than look for answers.
It causes them to set puny goals, rather than goals that inspire them.
It causes them to wonder ‘what if it fails?’, rather than ‘what if it works?
‘ It causes them to blame others, rather than accept responsibility.
It causes them to prepare for failure, rather than plan for success.

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Feature Report: Social Media as a Tool in Medicine

This Week's Healthcare Online News
Circulation
Social Media as a Tool in Medicine
Apr,24,2013
by+Katherine C. Chretien, MD; Terry Kind, MD, MPH
It is an exciting time to practice medicine during our digital “coming of age.” Social media, the freely available Web-based platforms that facilitate information sharing of user-generated content, such as social networking sites, media-sharing sites, blogs, microblogs, and wikis, have transformed the way we communicate as a society. Through community building, message amplification, rapid dissemination, and engagement, social media has changed our interactions with others and, by direct consequence, our relationships. For health care, this represents a veritable social revolution. 1
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Med City News
Where do consumer reviews fit into medical providers & product makers’ strategies?
Apr,23,2013
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
In the absence of a Yelp or Tripadvisor kind of go-to site for ratings and reviews, the healthcare industry admittedly hasn’t seen the same kind of adoption of online consumer feedback. But the theory goes that as healthcare consumers are presented with more choices through insurance exchanges, and as care providers see patient satisfaction tethered to Medicare payments, that kind of consumer feedback is going to become more frequent and important.
In “Scoring healthcare: Navigating customer experience ratings,” PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 1,000 people online and interviewed 25 health industry leaders to determine how the industry could make the most existing consumer feedback.
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ModerHealthcare.com
Dual-eligible dilemma States test managed care, but critics question if approach is cost-effective
Apr,20,2013
By:+Jonathan Block
Policymakers are hoping moving Medicare- and Medicaid-eligible seniors and the disabled into managed-care plans will save taxpayers a lot of money through better coordination of care. But as a few state demonstration programs get off the ground, critics are beginning to question just how cost-effective the strategy will be.
“I think they will struggle in the beginning, (but) they will definitely save money, but not the giant projections” some are making, said Charlene Frizzera, a senior adviser with consultancy Leavitt Partners and a former acting administrator for the CMS.
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Fierce Health IT
HHS seeks to amend HIPAA to strengthen background checks
Apr,23,2013
by:+Susan D. Hall
Though a Senate bill to expand background checks on firearms sales was defeated last week, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is examining how HIPAA regulations may keep states from reporting dangerous mental patients to a database used in background checks.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights has issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that seeks public input on how the privacy regulations prevent reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS). OCR is looking to address these barriers without discouraging mental health patients from seeking treatment, reports HealthcareInfoSecurity.com.
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Featured Report:26M people eligible for health exchange tax credits

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Fierce Health Payer
26M people eligible for health exchange tax credits
Apr,19,2013
by+ Dina Overland
A new report from advocacy group Families USA shows that almost 26 million people will be eligible for tax credits, which will help offset the cost of premiums and enable more consumers to buy health insurance through the new online marketplaces, The Hill's Healthwatch reported. That means more business for insurers when the health insurance exchanges go live later this year. "The tax credit subsidies are a game changer," Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack said during a conference call with reporters. "They will make health coverage affordable for a huge number of uninsured families who would have been priced out of the coverage they need
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ModernHealthcare.com
Fallout for states rejecting Medicaid expansion
April 22, 2013
by:+Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as "Obamacare."
It could mean exposing businesses to Internal Revenue Service penalties and leaving low-income citizens unable to afford coverage even as legal immigrants get financial aid for their premiums. For the poorest people, it could virtually guarantee that they will remain uninsured and dependent on the emergency room at local hospitals that already face federal cutbacks.
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Med City News
So many apps, so little adoption: Docs say most patients who track data do it the old-fashioned way
Apr,19,2013
By:+Deanna Pogorelc
The good news for mobile health app developers is that physicians seem to be open to the idea of reviewing data that patients have tracked themselves. The bad news is that 30 percent of doctors say they don’t have patients who track, and those that do say most patients do it the old-fashioned way.
Manhattan Research’s annual Taking the Pulse survey, conducted online with nearly 3,000 physicians in the first quarter of the year, delivered some interesting insights. First, 70 percent of surveyed physicians said they had at least one patient sharing health measurement data with them.
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ModernHealthcare.com
Advocates fear long delay for rule on home-care worker pay
Apr,18,2013
by:+Ashok Selvam
Those awaiting the Obama administration's decision on whether to guarantee home-care workers at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay could be in for a long summer.
The Office of Management and Budget's 90-day window to review a final rule on the matter passed without action on April 15. It has been more than a year since President Barack Obama announced he would work toward ensuring workers in the $84 billion-a-year home-care business would receive minimum wage and overtime protections.
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Featured Report: Change the Rules: 5 Ways to Bring Mission Into Your Business

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Word of Mouth.org
50 Small Things You Can Do To Improve Your Customer Service
Apr,18,2013
by+ Greg Meyer
“The Thank You Effect” is an example of a small action that prompts meaningful next steps to measurably improve service in any company. In my experience, there are a number of these small actions that, when evangelized through a support team or through the larger company, can really make a difference on the customer experience.
So I made a list of 50 small things that you can do to measurably improve customer service in your company. I’m not a purist, so some of these things might be “bigger than a bread box” — or need to be broken down into component steps — and aren’t quite ready to be measured on their own. And I do believe that adding only some of these steps will really improve the service culture at your company.
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Inc. Magazine
Why Customer Reviews Trump Social-Media Marketing
Apr,18,2013
by:+Michael Fertik
More and more businesses are pouring time and money into tweeting and posting on Facebook. But there's a better way. Sometimes, it seems like it's all social, all the time. But are companies really getting everything they need from the social-media conversation? Absolutely not.
There's ample customer engagement in the social scene, but for many organizations, it's also a loud and noisy cocktail party, with lots of guests all clamoring for the host's attention. It's hard to hear precisely what's important--and there's little mechanism for aggregating information into usable intelligence.
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Entrepreneur.com
Change the Rules: 5 Ways to Bring Mission Into Your Business
Apr,17,2013
By:+Yanik Silver
In his book "Maverick Startup," serial entrepreneur Yanik Silver lays out his strategies for turning your big idea into a profitable business, without taking on debt, partners or even a business plan. In the following excerpt, Silver focuses on strategies for building a meaningful mission that can also boost your bottom line. What if you could combine making more in your business with creating a bigger impact on the world?
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Social Media Examiner
How to Boost Engagement on Your LinkedIn Company Page
Apr,18,2013
by:+Mike Delgado
Are you leveraging your LinkedIn Company Page as best you can? In a recent LinkedIn study, 50% of current company followers stated they are more likely to purchase products and services from a business they engage with on LinkedIn. This means that an active LinkedIn presence could help your business. And you’ll likely want to improve engagement on LinkedIn.
Here are five simple ways to boost engagement with your LinkedIn followers
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