Featured Report: Avoid These 5 Small-Business Scams

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Smart Blog on Leadership
How is your company measuring progress?
Oct,30,2013
by+ Ryan Smith
If you believe the stats, then most startups are doomed to fail. And depending on who you ask, there are a lot of reasons why most don’t make it. So, what’s the best way for a startup to measure its progress during those pivotal first couple of years?
Simple: customer growth and satisfaction.
To me, what’s always exciting about startups like Instagram for example is how many new customers they’re onboarding and how much users like the platform. And let’s face it, no one can argue with their stats.
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LinkedIn Blog
What Small Businesses Look Like on LinkedIn [INFOGRAPHIC]
Oct,28,2013
by:+Margeaux Brooks
Did you know that 59% of LinkedIn members who have worked for a small business, have never worked for a company larger than 200 employees? We recently had the pleasure of hosting 100 local small businesses in our Mountain View and New York offices with the goal of learning more about their unique business goals and challenges. We were so inspired by the amazing small business owners and entrepreneurs who attended that we decided to develop a snapshot of what small business looks like on LinkedIn.
This nifty infographic is a glimpse into what small businesses look like on LinkedIn – what they’re talking about, what sparks their interests and what inspires them.
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Small business Trends
Increase Your Website Credibility in the Age of Content Marketing
Oct,30,2013
by:+Drew Hendricks
As content marketing increasingly becomes the standard avenue for building trust and gaining credibility with customers, your website is going to have to keep up with the trend. Heavy-handed and ‘salesy’ strategies that may have worked a few years ago in order to get email opt-ins or conversions just aren’t going to cut it anymore. Consumers are looking for someone they can trust – period. And trust isn’t something you can fake.
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Intuit Small Business Blog
Avoid These 5 Small-Business Scams
Oct,28,2013
by:+Robert Moskowitz
Small businesses are the most common victims of fraud, at the highest rate — 31.8 percent — of any company-size category and with the largest median loss, Reuters reported in September.
“Small businesses are particularly susceptible to fraud because they have fewer resources. Yet, the impact of the resulting losses is usually much greater than for larger businesses,” Michelle DiGangi, an executive vice president at Bank of the West, told the news service. “Fortunately, there are precautions, which in many cases are fairly simple to execute, that owners can take to better protect themselves from being victimized.”
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Featured Report: Center for Body Computing uses Facebook, YouTube, Instagram for health

This Week's Healthcare Online News
MobiHealthNews
Center for Body Computing uses Facebook, YouTube, Instagram for health
Oct,24,2013
by+ Aditi Pai
Leslie Saxon, executive director of the Center for Body Computing at the University of Southern California, says there’s no better connected device on which to reach an audience than a mobile phone. And on that mobile phone, go to where the consumer is — social media. At the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium in Boston, Saxon highlighted four key ways that her team is reaching out consumers and patients through social platforms such as Facebook, gaming, YouTube and Instagram so that she can reach them online where they already exist.
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iHealthBeat
Unsolicited Data in EHRs Posing Workflow, Legal Challenges for Some Providers
Oct,28,2013
by:+Michelle Stuckey,
With the growing use of health information exchange technology and personal mobile health devices, patients' health records are being inundated with information that might not have been requested by their provider.
While such data can help make patient records more comprehensive, unsolicited information also can cause disruptions to providers' workflows and affect the usability of their EHR systems. Further, providers could be held liable if patient harm or misdiagnosis occurs that could have been prevented by more thoroughly reviewing such data, according to experts.
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FierceHealthIT
Clicks count: How to make your hospital's website work for you
Oct,29,2013
by:+Ashley Gold
By 2016, more than half of traffic to hospital websites will be on mobile devices. So, it may be a good time to make sure your hospital's site is optimized for mobile.
This statistic is among those explored by independent digital agency Primacy, which analyzed the traffic and paid search activity of five hospitals in 2012 and illustrated the findings in an infographic.
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Government Health IT
House proposes law to boost Medicare and Medicaid via telehealth
Oct,25,2013
by:+Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill this week that would strengthen Medicare and enhance Medicaid through expanded telemedicine coverage.
The “Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2013,” introduced by Reps. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Oct. 23, builds on existing payment innovations, according to a news release from Harper’s office. This proposal is the result of a months-long drafting process involving patients, providers, and other industry stakeholders, the bill sponsors say.
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Special Report: The State of Telemedicine in the U.S.

This Week's Healthcare Online News
FierceHealthIT
UCLA telemedicine program helps rebuild wounded warrior's bodies--and lives
Oct,25,2013
by+Annette M. Boyle
For the last six years, military personnel who have sustained severe facial and other injuries have had access to some of the nation's best plastic and reconstructive surgeons while receiving ongoing care at home through telemedicine. The program, called Operation Mend, initially focused on secondary facial reconstruction of severely burned soldiers, who often must undergo dozens of surgeries.
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Med City News
The after-hours doctor visit of the future arrives in Ohio via telemedicine kiosks
Oct,24,2013
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
Step right up and take a look at a 5-by-8-foot device Ohio healthcare providers are hoping will keep non-urgent patients from clogging up emergency rooms and urgent care centers. University Hospitals is one of three health systems in Cleveland working with telemedicine company HealthSpot to expand the system’s reach and give patients better, cheaper access to medical care after hours.
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Health Data Management
Verizon Mobile Health Platform Links Docs with Patients
Oct,25,2013
by:+Joseph Goedert
The Enterprise Solutions unit of Verizon Communications has introduced a remote patient-monitoring platform to enable collaboration among physicians and patients between office visits.
Called Converged Health Management, the platform enables patients to use biometric devices to collect various health status indicators, such as weight, blood pressure and oxygen saturation and glucose levels, and wirelessly transmit the data to a Version server that clinicians can access.
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iHealthBeat
Maryland Expands Medicaid Reimbursement for Telehealth Services
Oct,25,2013
by:+Staff
Maryland's Medicaid program is expanding its coverage of telehealth services, the Baltimore Sun's "Picture of Health" reports. Previously, the state reimbursed only for mental health care services provided through telehealth technology (Walker, "Picture of Health," Baltimore Sun, 10/23).
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is expanding its Telemental Health Program, which was implemented in 2010, to boost Medicaid beneficiaries' access to specialists.
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By following this simple but powerful system, this team concept can and does allow for explosive growth of the whole team by providing everyone the same opportunity to give away, in essence, a FREE 30 day head start position for up to 15 people they would want as business partners on their team. In addition, each of those teammates would have the same opportunity.

New enrollees will be responsible for their monthly Consultant's fee starting with their second month and every month thereafter. The Only exception is when a Consultant qualifies for our "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE". You do have the option to cancel your position at any point. You are not obligated to remain active for any length of time.

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Featured Report: Consumers Click on Marketing Emails Most on Friday

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Bloomberg
LinkedIn Says Half of Users to Come Via Mobile Next Year
Oct,23,2013
by+Mark Milian
LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the professional-networking site with more than 238 million members, expects half its users to access the service from mobile devices next year, up from 38 percent today. To increase the mobile-user base, the company updated the design of its applications and added a feature that integrates LinkedIn with Apple’s mobile e-mail program, the company said at a press conference today.
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Social Media Examiner
How to Get Employees to Embrace Social Media
Oct,24,2013
by:+Stephanie Shkolnik
Are you struggling to get your social media activities off the ground? Do you want to get more people inside your organization to support your social media activities? If so, you’re not alone. Small businesses to Fortune 500 companies find themselves facing these challenges. In this article, I’ll show you how to create an internal social media structure that will help you develop an effective long-term social media presence.
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e-Marketers
Consumers Click on Marketing Emails Most on Friday
Oct,,2013
by:+Staff
Friday’s worldwide marketing email click rate is 4.9% Email inboxes worldwide receive the largest influx of email marketing material on Tuesdays, according to an October 2013 study by GetResponse. The email marketing software company found that 17.9% of a week’s worldwide marketing emails were sent on Tuesday, followed by 17.3% on Thursday and 16.6% on Monday.
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Small Business Newz
How Can I Get My Local Business to Rank Higher in Search?
Oct,24,2013
by:+John Jantsch
It’s “Question of the Week” day at Duct Tape Marketing. I’ll now tackle a specific question I received via readers or in places where I’m speaking. For today’s answer I wish I could say there was some magic pixie dust, but the fact is getting your local business to show up high in the search results takes some work. For the local business the goal must be to move into what is referred to as the Google Local Pack – those 6-8 listing that show up for a local search. This is particularly important on mobile devices that are often pinpointing local only.
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By following this simple but powerful system, this team concept can and does allow for explosive growth of the whole team by providing everyone the same opportunity to give away, in essence, a FREE 30 day head start position for up to 15 people they would want as business partners on their team. In addition, each of those teammates would have the same opportunity.

New enrollees will be responsible for their monthly Consultant's fee starting with their second month and every month thereafter. The Only exception is when a Consultant qualifies for our "Refer 3 and Yours is FREE". You do have the option to cancel your position at any point. You are not obligated to remain active for any length of time.

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