Featured Report: How to Use Social Strategies to Drive Business Goals

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Small Business Trends
Study Shows One “Like” Leads to Others in Social Media
Aug,15,2013
by+Joshua Sophy
If you want your content to be “liked” by others on social media, get a friend to “like” it first. Believe it or not, there is some scientific basis for this.In fact, researchers who recently published their findings in the journal of Science say giving your content a positive vote immediately after publication makes it 32 percent more likely others will do the same.Researchers also found this content scored 25 percent higher when calculating the total amount of positive votes than content that received no votes at all when it was first published.
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Convince and Convert
How to Use Social Strategies to Drive Business Goals
Aug,16,2013
by:+Jay Baer
Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the biggest challenge most businesses face when integrating social media and social business, plus his views on narcissism and how it affects businesses’ abilities to reach people.Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast.
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SCORE Small Business Blog
Why Every Startup Needs a Business Concept Statement
Aug,14,2013
By:+Bryan Janeczko
There is a lot of talk in entrepreneurial circles about the need to develop a business plan. And while I agree that a business plan is important for defining your strategy and the key deliverables for all stakeholders – including staff, investors, and strategic partners, I believe that way before you delve into the data, projections, and planning required of a full-blown business plan, it is important to crystallize your business idea. The best way to do that is to create a Business Concept Statement — a one-page document that defines the great idea that you’re turning into a business.
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Business News Daily
How Your Website Can Keep 'Em Coming Back
Aug,13,2013
by:+David Mielach
Nothing makes people leave your website faster than getting there and finding out you don't have relevant information to offer. Website visitors also say they are frustrated by slow load times of websites, the quality of the content on those sites and the trustworthiness of those sites. Visual appeal, ease of use and search ability are also important website features.
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Featured Report: Patients skipping waiting room in favor of visiting doctor online

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23 ABC News
Patients skipping waiting room in favor of visiting doctor online
Aug,03,2013
by+Liz Freeman
The prevalence of telemedicine interaction between medical providers, or between doctors and patients in remote settings, is expected to move into the mainstream. It could include using Skype or some other video system between doctors and patients for a new generation of house calls.
"Most office visits don't need to be face to face," said Dr. Allen Weiss, president and chief executive officer of the NCH Healthcare System in Florida. "Instead of someone running for an office visit, a quick electronic visit can take less time."
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ModernHealthcare.com
Half who now buy own health coverage to get aid, study finds
Aug,14,2013
by:+Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
About half the people who now buy their own health insurance—and potentially would face higher premiums next year under President Barack Obama's healthcare law—would qualify for federal tax credits to offset rate shock, according to a new private study.Many other people, however, earn too much money to be eligible for help, and could end up paying more
The estimate, released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, tries to answer one of the biggest remaining questions about the impact of Obama's law on American families: Will consumers wince — or even balk — when they see the premiums for the new plans?
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Med City News
Counting sheep doesn’t cut it any more: 1 in 3 Americans not getting a full night’s rest
Aug,12,2013
By:+ Shah, Allie
Most nights, Thomas Copenhaver finds himself sleepless in Richfield. So, he used a sleep-monitoring device to find out how bad it was: While he was in bed for six hours and 42 minutes one night, he woke up 14 times, and slept only two hours and 46 minutes.
"It's kind of like the night before a vacation -- you don't sleep because you worry that you'll oversleep and miss your flight," he said. "That's just me in a nutshell every day."
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New York Times
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law
Aug,12,2013
by:+ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care. The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some costs, in 2014.
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Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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Featured Report:Insurers increase their Twitter presence to manage image

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iHealthBeat
CMS Seeks Public Comments on Disclosure of Physician Payments
Aug,09,2013
by+Staff
This week, CMS issued a request for public comment, asking for feedback on how the agency should shape its policies for disclosing individual physician payment data. The notice comes after a judge in May lifted a 33-year-old injunction that barred the government from giving the public access to a Medicare payment database. HealthLeaders Media.
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Fierce Health Payer
Insurers increase their Twitter presence to manage image
Aug,09,2013
by:+ Dina Overland
As consumers take more frequently to social media, particularly Twitter, insurers are adjusting their customer service approach to include a greater social media presence, hoping to market products and communicate with consumers, reported Kaiser Health News.
Maintaining a strong social media presence also lets insurers proactively manage their brand and image while taking quick action to remedy any complaints aired publicly. Aetna's own CEO, Mark Bertolini, responded directly to one member's public complaints that the insurer wouldn't fully cover his cancer treatments. Just one day after Arijit Guha posted on Twitter, Bertolini used his personal Twitter account to ensure him that Aetna would pay the cancer bills, FierceHealthPayer previously reported.
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Med City News
Readmission penalty rates for hospitals on the rise
Aug,10,2013
By:+Skinner, Curtis
Nearly all of the region's hospitals will again see penalties to their vital Medicare payments come October, due to having too many patients return within 30 days, new federal data show.
Forty-one of 43 hospitals across the region will see cuts of up to 1.25 percent of their Medicare payments, as penalties are applied for performance between July 2009 and June 2012, federal data analyzed by Kaiser Health News revealed.
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Modern Healthcare
The new normal? Shift to outpatient care, payer pressure hit hospitals
Aug,10,2013
by:+Beth Kutscher and Melanie Evans
Three years ago, Henry Ford Health System began to overhaul how its doctors and nurses care for patients outside the Detroit-based system's six hospitals. Now it must face the economic strains of its own success, as fewer patients turn up to fill hospital beds.
Since January, the number of patients admitted to Henry Ford hospitals has declined 6%, compared with a 2.5% inpatient decline overall in Southeast Michigan; Medicare patients who returned to the hospital within 30 days after discharge fell 19% during the same period. A boom in births has offset fewer patients who need cardiac, pulmonary or kidney care—but only partially.
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Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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Featured Report: 5 Videos You Must Watch Before Starting a Business

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Smart Blog on Social Media
How to ensure Facebook likes are influencing purchase decisions
Aug,09,2013
by+Ava Beck
With 67% of all American adults using Facebook, according to Pew, marketers are missing out if they don’t tap into the social media juggernaut as a vehicle for creating engagement with, and loyalty for, their brands. Smart advertisers have done this, which is why there are currently more than 15 million brands with a Facebook page. Surely, you’ve logged into your personal Facebook account and seen a business page for yourself. Do you click that famous little “like” button? Well, what if you see a page one of your friends has liked? Do you click it then?
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Social Media Examiner
Social Media Tools: How to Simplify Your Social Media Marketing
Aug,09,2013
by:+Michael Stelzner
Are you looking for a better way to manage your social activities? Are you wondering what tools can help your social media marketing? To discover free or low-cost tools to simplify your social media marketing, I interview Ian Cleary for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.
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INC.com
5 Videos You Must Watch Before Starting a Business
Aug,06,2013
By:+ Francesca Fenzi
As any seasoned entrepreneur can tell you, starting a business is not always easy. From leadership to fundraising to recruiting, there are plenty of potholes in which you can get stuck as a fledgling founder.Luckily, you can learn from the experiences of successful entrepreneurs who were once in your shoes. Here are five videos to check out before launching your own business.
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Fox Business Small Business Center
Is TMI Killing Your Marketing Campaign?
Aug,07,2013
by:+
We’ve all been there – that moment when someone you barely know begins to share unsolicited, awkward details of their life. These kinds of experiences are enough to make you want to crawl out of your skin, right? For some reason, it appears that certain people have no filter; whatever shows up in their head, shows up in conversation.
I’m using this example, of course, as a backdrop for what I’ve observed in small business marketing and advertising – an unrestrained tendency to express way too much.
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Do you remember When you could talk to a doctor Day or Night? There was a time when talking to your doctor was as simple as picking up the phone. Back then your doctor who talk to you about your minor problems and prescribe treatment without a visit to the office. That was then but now even minor problems requires and office visit and a long wait that drives up Your healthcare cost. There must be a better WAY? Well There is, I'd like to take a minute and introduce you to  We believe being healthy should be a natural right that everyone is entitled to, and now, access to physicians is only a mouse click away. We provide our members unlimited real time, immediate interaction with a national network of physicians via web cam, phone or secure email, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Our physicians can consult, diagnose, treat, write prescriptions, and order labs for non-emergency medical conditions.        In addition to immediate access to health professionals, we provide a financial opportunity that is truly life changing for our members. We have created the most lucrative and generous compensation plan in the industry.         "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE"  zero cost profitable business. YOU WILL BE PROFITABLE FROM MONTH ONE...!!! Watch this WebDocsNetwork  4 Minute Overview Video

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As an affiliate once you sign up three people your services are FREE
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