Internet Marketing For Dummies (or Just People Who Want To Make Money)

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Home Based Business Program
Mar,6,2013
by+Allen and Roganne Johnstone
Welcome to the world of Internet marketing! As you can see, it is a very big world, complete with all kinds of strategies, tools, and more. The fact that Internet marketing is so diverse in application, can make it seem a bit impossible to find what will work for you. The tips below can help give you some suggestions.

To find interesting products, you can use sites like CB Engine. CB Engine lists new products from Clickbank and ranks the best-selling products. Clickbank has a huge selection of products: browse through it to find something to get started with and then, additional products to sell to the same niche.Think about what sets you apart from the other marketers in your area. This is considered your unique selling proposition. If there are other marketers doing the same thing that you are doing, think about how you could improve that thing that you do and make it better than the other marketers have.
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Small Business Newz
Business Networking The “Right Way” Will Grow Your Business Quicker
Mar,7,2013
by:+Denise OBerry
Do your palms get sweaty and does your stomach start to churn at the thought of attending a face-to-face business networking function or meetup? You’re not alone. More people than not get nervous when it comes to meeting strangers in this type of setting.

But why does that happen?We talk to strangers all the time (well, at least I do!) when we’re out and about just living our life. Isn’t it the same thing?Well, not really.At a networking function we’re meeting people who could be a potential business connection that can help us grow our business — via a joint venture, as a connector to a key prospect, or as a customer.

And most of us don’t like to sell, so it sets up this really nerve wracking situation that we’re all uncomfortable with. Ugh!
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Entrepreneur
The Marketer's Guide to Instagram
Mar,6,2013
By:+AJ Kumar
Despite facing plenty of controversy over its proposed Terms of Service changes, Instagram remains a hot site for both users and the marketers who want to capitalize on its popularity. If you've never used it before, Instagram is one part Flickr and one part Twitter: essentially a community in which users take and share photos with one another.

From a marketing perspective, the community's enthusiastic fan base and built-in social aspects make it an ideal place to connect with potential customers and build brand recognition. Here's how your business can take advantage of Instagram's potential:
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Forbes
Why Business Plans Don't Work And 'Pivoting' Is Nonsense
Mar,6,2013
by:+Kathy Caprino
A few weeks ago, I had the total pleasure of chatting with Mike Michalowicz, an entrepreneurial expert dedicated to putting the life (and authenticity) back into business, and helping small businesses grow exponentially. He’s the author of a helpful and insightful new book for entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow A Remarkable Business In Any Field.
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UnitedHealth reaps rewards of incentivizing members in diabetes program

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Fierce Health IT
Poll: Patients should be allowed to make EHR updates, but not have full access
Mar,5, 2013 by+Susan D. Hall
Most U.S. doctors believe patients should be able to update their electronic health records, but only 31 percent say patients should have access to their full health record, according to a new poll by Accenture.
While the survey results were largely consistent across 3,700 doctors surveyed by Accenture in eight countries, including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States--U.S. physicians were the most open to patients updating their own records.
The U.S. physicians said patients should be able to add into their records demographic information (95 percent), family medical history (88 percent), medications (86 percent) and allergies (85 percent). And 81 percent said patients should be able to add some clinical updates, such as new symptoms and self-measured metrics, including blood pressure and glucose levels. Forty-seven percent, however, believe patients should not be able to update their lab test results.
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Med City News
Health IT leaders initiate alliance to better track patients and their healthcare encounters
Mar,04,2013
by:+ Stephanie Baum
The announcement by McKesson, Cerner, athenahealth and Allscripts that they have formed an alliance to advance the exchange of patient information with two other health IT companies was greeted with a mixture of optimism, bemusement and skepticism from an industry accustomed to the spectacle of splashy announcements at the annual healthcare IT conference HIMSS.
The goal of the CommonWell Health Alliance, which also includes Greenway and RelayHealth, is to take what these electronic medical record vendors are doing in different parts of the country and bring it to a national level. It sets out to help developers and providers link and match patients as they move through the healthcare system. It will also get patients’ permissions to share data in and adhere to HIPAA requirements.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Study ties employer wellness initiatives to steep drop in hospital stays
Mar,4, 2013
By:+ Melanie Evans
One of Missouri's largest employers saw a sharp, rapid drop in hospital visits by workers and their families for costly and chronic conditions after insisting employees in its most popular, generous health plan enroll in wellness initiatives. Outpatient costs, meanwhile, increased almost as much as hospital costs fell.
The results, published in the journal Health Affairs, found an estimated 41% drop in hospital stays between January 2004 and December 2006 for stroke, heart disease (hypertensive and ischemic), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute pulmonary infections among employees and dependents with health benefits from BJC HealthCare.
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UnitedHealth reaps rewards of incentivizing members in diabetes program
Mar,01,2013
by:+Dina Overland
UnitedHealth has found success through its Diabetes Health Plan, which has helped the nation's largest insurer improve the health of members with diabetes while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs.
For the diabetes program, UnitedHealth has applied its value-based purchasing approach, plus added incentive payments, modernized the benefit design and included next-generation care management. "We put all this together for a more holistic approach," Sam Ho, UnitedHealth's executive vice president and chief medical officer, told AIS Health.
And that approach is working--healthcare costs for members participating in UnitedHealth's diabetes program increased at a 4 percent slower pace than for a control group of non-participants.
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Health care social media needs rules, says mHealth Summit 2012 expert

This Week's Healthcare News



Serach Health IT
Health care social media needs rules, says mHealth Summit 2012 expert
Feb,11,2013
by:+Staff
As mobile devices and the use of mHealth increases, so too does the use of health care social media. Today's medical students and young physicians have grown up in the Facebook and Twitter world, and they expect to carry the use of social media into their medical practices. Patients as well have turned to their peers to share medical information and learn more about their conditions and treatments.
For it's crucial that health organizations jump on the social media bandwagon with thoughtful, meaningful policies that protect private health information while satisfying the expectations of both patients and providers, according to Joe Kim, president of MCM Education. Speaking before an audience during a SearchHealthIT panel at the mHealth Summit 2012, Kim discussed the importance of HIPAA protections and bring-your-own-device policies. Listen to his ideas in this webcast, the final of a three-part series.
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MobiHealthNews
What the Air Force’s PHR efforts reveal about patient adoption
Feb,27,2013
By:+Jonah Comstock
The failure of Google Health in 2011 pointed to a critical question about patient health records (PHRs): do people want them? If a giant like Google couldn’t get enough people interested in their own health records to continue offering the service, what hope was there for mass market penetration. With Meaningful Use Stage 2 requiring hospitals to not only offer patient access to their records, but that at least 5 percent of patients actually access them, the question has never been more salient. -
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Med City News
CVS Caremark readies for swell of newly insured
Feb,27,2013
by:+Nixon,Alex
PITTSBURGH - CVS Caremark Corp. is positioning itself as a primary access point for many uninsured people who will be getting health insurance for the first time next year under health care reform, the company's CEO said on Tuesday in Pittsburgh. Larry Merlo, a Charleroi native and graduate of University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy, said the nation's largest drugstore chain can have a critical part in improving access to health services while improving quality and reducing costs. "Pharmacy will be on the leading edge of addressing the quality, cost, access conundrum," the CEO told about 100 people attending a meeting of the Economic Club of Pittsburgh in the Omni William Penn hotel, Downtown.
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Fierce Health Payer
HHS rejects insurers' call to delay age-rating restrictions
Feb,27,2013
By:+Dina Overland
Despite strong pleas from insurance execs and industry lobbyists, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services went ahead with its plans to implement strict age-rating requirements in a new rule published Friday. Under the final rule, which largely resembles the proposed version published last November, insurers can only charge their older members up to three times as much as younger members, MedPage Today reported. America's Health Insurance Plans, though, pushed back on the new rules. "The new restrictions on age rating will result in an overnight increase in healthcare costs for people in their 20s, 30s and early 40s," AHIP CEO Karen Ignani said in a statement. "This increases the likelihood that younger, healthier people forgo purchasing insurance until they are sick or injured. When this happens, costs go up for everyone, young and old." Read More

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Featured Report: Get Started: Small business caucus, family leave

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Get Started: Small business caucus, family leave
Feb,11,2013
by+ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — SMALL BUSINESS CAUCUS
Twenty-one House members have formed the Congressional Small Business Caucus with the aim of raising awareness of small business issues and to gather input from small business owners.
The group includes lawmakers from both political parties and is being chaired by Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine. The two lawmakers said in a statement that the caucus was formed to raise awareness of small business issues including access to financing and technology, regulations and taxes. It's also designed as a forum to gather input from small business owners about the issues that Congress needs address.
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The Wall Street Journal
Mobile Payments Brighten Cash Flow for Small Business
Feb,27,2013
by:+ANGUS LOTEN and EMILY MALTBY
One of the biggest worries for small-business owners is dealing with fluctuations in cash flow. Nathan Perry's five-year-old New York City catering business has had to operate with up to $30,000 in unpaid customer invoices at any given time, for instance.
Such gaps in cash flow—or so-called "lumpy money"—can make it difficult for business owners to focus on expansion rather than, say, managing payrolls or paying other bills.
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Business News Daily
7 Tips for a Great Elevator Pitch
Feb,28,2013
By:+David Mielach
With just precious seconds to make an impression, nailing an "elevator pitch," can come down to what you do and don’t say. However, striking the balance of deciding what to include and what to leave out presents an interesting and difficult dilemma for most people when delivering the brief summation of what your company is about. To help, BusinessNewsDaily spoke with business professionals to see what every elevator pitch must include.
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The New York Times
Yahoo Orders Home Workers Back to the Office
Feb,25,2013
by:+ CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and CATHERINE RAMPELL
Since Marissa Mayer became chief executive of Yahoo, she has been working hard to get the Internet pioneer off its deathbed and make it an innovator once again She started with free food and new smartphones for every employee, borrowing from the playbook of Google, her employer until last year. Now, though, Yahoo has made a surprise move: abolishing its work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to work in the office.
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