Featured Report: 5 Free Content Tools to Enhance Your Social Media Marketing

The Telegraph
Twitter has got to change, says co-founder Biz Stone
June,20,2014
by: Louise Armitstead

Twitter must innovate to survive, one of its founders has said, even offering to return to the company to help.Biz Stone, who set up the micro-blogging phenomenon in 2006 but left five years later, has echoed investor concerns that Twitter is in need of “creative vision”. Shares in Twitter, which listed in New York last year, have plunged 40pc this year, wiping billions of dollars off a company that was worth $41.2bn at its peak. Read More  

Social Media Examiner

5 Free Content Tools to Enhance Your Social Media Marketing

June,19,2014
by: Kiera Stein
Are you looking for new ways to grab your fans’ attention? When was the last time you changed the way you share news and updates? When you present your content in new, engaging and interactive ways, it stands out in a constant stream of competing information.In this article you’ll discover five free tools to help you avoid the same tired ways of sharing content Read More

Mobile Marketing Watch

Op-Ed: 5 Content Syndication Mistakes to Avoid

June,20,2014

by:Michael Essany

For starters, it’s targeted (you can typically filter on basic demographic criteria at little to no cost). Also, it guarantees performance (most publishers will negotiate deals on a cost per lead basis.) But content syndication is no slam dunk (is anything?). Sure, a marketer can “buy” leads that meet demographic criteria for a fixed price – but the price paid, the quality of those leads, and the pace at which they arrive all vary widely. Read More

Web Pro News

Facebook Says Your Organic Reach Would Be Worse If It Showed Everything In The News Feed

June,05,2014

by: Chris Crum 

Facebook’s Brian Boland wrote a lengthy blog post about the much talked about decline in organic reach of Facebook Page posts. It’s happening for two main reasons, he said: more and more content is created and shared every day and News Feed is designed to show users content that’s most relevant to them.It’s not about money, according to Facebook. Do you buy that? Read More

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Featured Report: Using telehealth the right way

Modern Healthcare

Using telehealth the right way June,18,2014 By: Darius Tahir  Ateev Mehrotra, an adjunct policy analyst for RAND Corp. and a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School, likes telehealth but has a critical concern: how it's paid for. It won't work unless it's got the right incentives, he's said in testimony and in an interview. During his testimony to the House Energy & Commerce Committee earlier this year on how payment reform and telehealth can support each other, Mehrotra pointed out that as the care system shifts toward addressing chronic conditions, the potential benefits of telehealth increase commensurately. Read More MobiHealthNews Senate asks healthcare groups to weigh in on transparency data June,18,2014 By: Brian Dolan Last week the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to a wide assortment of healthcare stakeholders to source input on how the federal government could improve “the availability and utility of health care data” so that patients could more easily shop for doctors that suit their needs, providers could deliver higher quality care, and payers could design more effective care delivery models. Read More HealthDataManagement Georgia Regents Works to Make Telemed Network Sustainable June,19,2014 By:Joseph Goedert In 2003, two-hospital Georgia Regents Health System in Augusta began offering remote stroke teleconsultations with mid-sized and smaller hospitals in the region. Today, it serves 29 hospitals and has conducted nearly 4,000 examinations. The delivery system now is expanding to offer a range of other teleconsultations that include other neurological conditions, as well as pulmonary, psychiatry and pediatric care. Lessons learned from stroke consultations often apply to other remote examinations, say Steve McGraw, CEO at telemedicine vendor REACH Health and Jeffrey Switzer, D.O., a Georgia Regents neurologist who has conducted teleconsultations since 2006. Read More FierceHealthIT Feds, AMA look to telemedicine, health IT to treat hepatitis C June,19,2014 by:Katie Dvorak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the American Medical Association to use health IT and telemedicine to treat patients with hepatitis C. The CDC is working to help patients who live in remote areas and have limited access to care. The lack of provider expertise in treatment of HCV--and limited access to providers who do--poses a challenge to care, according to a Health IT Buzz blog post by John Ward, director of the division of viral hepatitis at the CDC, and Amy Helwig, medical officer at the ONC. Read More KaratBars International Welcome to Karatbars Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.

Featured Report: Google study: Branding takes on larger role in search ads

Ad Week Google study: Branding takes on larger role in search ads  June,16,2014 by: Staff   A study released from Google today reveals that marketers are moving towards search campaigns that build top-of-mind awareness. The search giant’s new report with Ipsos MediaCT finds that branding-focused ads elevate awareness by an average of 6.6 percentage points. "What’s interesting is we found recently that some advertisers are starting to use search in new ways. Specifically, brand marketers are starting to take a fresh look at search and view it through a lens that they never have before," said Matt Lawson, Google’s director of performance marketing. Read More

Social Media Examiner How to Create Highly Shareable Blog Content Using Facebook June,18,2014 by: John Haydon Do you want to create blog posts people can’t help but share?
Have you used Facebook to find content that’s most appealing to your readers?
You can write shareable blog posts by taking the time to understand what your audience really wants from you. In this article you’ll discover four ways to find the ideas your fans want to discuss and share.   Read More 

The Drum The measure of success: The struggle to prove ROI on branded content June,17,2014
by: ANGELA HAGGERTY
Measurement is the latest challenge for brands investing in content, as Angela Haggerty discovers. With marketing budgets being pushed and pulled in a myriad of directions, increasing attention is turning towards how brands can be absolutely sure that they are gaining adequate ROI to justify spend through respective methods. Read More

Convince and Convert

The Best Way to Keep Up With Marketing Technology and Trends

June,18,2014

by: Mitch Causey

Since the days of yore, marketing strategy has been designed for the same purpose: sell more stuff. Marketing tactics, on the other hand, are a different kind of animal. This beast is in a constant state of flux, whether you’re heads-down in social, search, or any ad space with more than a smidgen of competition. Read More

KaratBars International

Welcome to Karatbars

Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.

Featured Report: 5 Social Media Dashboard Benefits to Help Marketers

Social Media Examiner

5 Social Media Dashboard Benefits to Help Marketers

June,16,2014
By: Dan Virgillito

Are you using the right social media dashboard? Do you know which tools you need? In this article you’ll discover five benefits of social media dashboards to get the best return on your efforts. Managing your social media accounts can be a time- and resource-intensive endeavor. Those companies that don’t recognize and accommodate the time it takes to manage social media efforts end up turning their social accounts into ghost towns. Don’t let that happen to you. 
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Fox Small Business Center
Should you make your business an LLC? 

June,13,2014
by: Bonnie Lee

If you're thinking of structuring your business as a limited liability company, seek out advice from lawyers and tax experts before moving ahead, writes Bonnie Lee, owner of Taxpertise. Forming an LLC may help you to protect your personal assets, but there are also costs involved, Lee writes Read More

Telecompetitor

iGR: Increased Spending by Customers Using Free Wi-Fi Seen by 50% of Retailers

June,11,2014

by: Andrew Burger

Retailers and other consumer-facing businesses are seeing the benefits of offering complimentary, so-called amenity Wi-Fi, according to a market research report from Devicescape, which calls itself the “operator of the world’s largest Wi-Fi service platform.”

Results of a survey of over “400 small, consumer-facing businesses across the U.S.” offering complimentary Wi-Fi showed improvements in foot traffic, time on premises and customer spending, among other key metrics, according to a Devicescape news release.  Read More

Ad Week
Social and Native Ads Are More Effective Than Email, Study Says
June,10, 2014
by: Christopher Heine
Marketers say that social media ads and native promotions are better for brands than email, according to Millward Brown Digital's study for MediaBrix. When asked what ad types "meet their digital branding objectives," those surveyed—who could make multiple selections—answered with the following frequency: social (51 percent); native (46 percent); email (36 percent); paid search (23 percent); mobile Web (23 percent); "emotionally targeted" in-game (20 percent); mobile in-app (20 percent); programmatic (18 percent); regular in-game (14 percent); text messaging (12 percent); and ads purchased directly from websites and blogs (11 percent).

KaratBars International

Welcome to Karatbars

Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.

Featured Report: 1.7 million Americans stuck in Medicaid limbo from backlogged applications

Med City News

1.7 million Americans stuck in Medicaid limbo from backlogged applications

June,09,2014
by: Phil Galewitz 

While an unprecedented 6 million people have gained Medicaid coverage since September, mostly as a result of the Affordable Care Act, more than 1.7 million more are still waiting for their applications to be processed—with some stuck in limbo for as long as eight months, according to officials in 15 large states. The scope of the problem varies widely. California, the most populous state to implement the health law’s expansion of Medicaid, accounts for a lion’s share of the backlog with 900,000 applications still pending as of early June. The next biggest pileup is in Illinois, with 283,000 cases, while New York has no backlog at all.Read more: 

HealthDataManagement
AMA Pushes Telemedicine Payment Guidelines


June,12,2014
By:Greg Slabodkin

At its annual meeting, the American Medical Association approved a list of guiding principles for ensuring the “appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services.”

The principles are meant to foster innovation in the use of telemedicine, protect the patient-physician relationship and promote improved care coordination and communication with medical homes, according to the association. Read More

FierceHealthPayer AHIP Institute 2014: 'Unleash the power of consumers'

June,12,2014 by: Dina Overland

The health insurance industry must "unleash the power of consumers" to foster a real relationship between patients and their providers, Mark Ganz, CEO of Cambia Health Solutions, said during the AHIP Institute 2014 opening session today in Seattle. "Health insurance shouldn't be a necessary evil but a trusted partner," he said. To do that, Ganz added, insurers must "utterly transform healthcare" by completely focusing on customers.

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FierceHealthIT AMA telemedicine policy emphasizes in-state licensure, in-person visits

June,12,2014 by: Dan Bowman

Patient safety and care quality is a primary focus of a telemedicine policy adopted by the American Medical Association this week. It errs on the side of caution in its recommendations, calling for in-person consults in some cases, for example.

The policy calls for a "valid patient-physician relationship" by way of an in-person consultation for services that otherwise would require face-to-face examinations before continuing treatment via telemedicine. Additionally, the policy recommends that doctors delivering telemedicine be licensed in the state where a patient is receiving treatment.  Read More 

KaratBars International

Welcome to Karatbars

Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.

Feature Report: What Should My Business's Mobile App Include?

Small Biz Club

What Should My Business's Mobile App Include?

June,05,2014

by: Staff

Are you toying with the idea of developing a mobile app for your business? Do you think a mobile app would benefit your business but you're stuck as to what it should include?  With the rapid development of technology, more companies are utilizing multi-channel retailing in order to maximize their sales and exposure. Read More

Site Pro News

8 Powerful Tactics to Boost Your LinkedIn Presence

June,11,2014
By: Tina Courtney-Brown 

According to the LinkedIn blog, this social platform powerhouse now boasts over 300 million members. 187 million unique visitors access the site each month, from over 200 countries and territories. There are 3 million business pages, with over 1.2 million products or services showcased. Read More

HubSpot

How To Write Emails Prospects Want To Respond To [SlideShare]

June,10,2014
by: Michael Pici

When you write sales emails all day every day ... it's easy to get sloppy. 

So I started studying what was and wasn't working to help improve my own sales email strategy. I also read what "the experts" had to say to compare and contrast their pitches with my own experiments. I ended up gathering enough information to understand how to write my emails so that my prospects actually responded to them. Read More

Ad Week

Pinterest Users Don't Mind Ads—Up to a Point

June,03,2014
by: Staff
If you think the only people using Pinterest are moms and craft hobbyists, think again. While your typical Pinterest user is likely female (14 percent are men), they're a more tech-savvy audience that trends toward higher incomes—and they're using the site for shopping as well as DIY projects. When it comes to ads, Pinthusiasts said they were concerned that poor execution could damage the authentic, organic feel of the site—but if brands add value with their messaging, advertising would be OK. Read More 







KaratBars International

Welcome to Karatbars

Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.

Featured Report: Email Marketing: One good reason to segment your list

Marketing Sherpa Email Marketing: One good reason to segment your list

June,06,2014

by: Matthew Hertzman

I am a frequent shopper at J. Crew. It is a great brand and I even have one of the store credit cards with the absurd interest rate because I‘ve shopped there to the point that I’ve convinced myself the perks far outweigh the costs. After all of my online purchases and in-store interactions, I would love to think J. Crew has a tremendous amount of data on my purchase history. So when I recently received an email from J. Crew that challenged those beliefs, I wanted to share it in this MarketingSherpa Blog post as a great example of why segmentation is so vital in today’s marketplace. Read More

Social Media Examiner

7 Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Social Media Shares

June,06,2014 by: Jim Wang

Are your blog posts irresistibly sharable? Do you want more people sharing your content across social channels? Blog posts are the hub of your social media presence.In this article you’ll discover how to use your blog to improve social media shares on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Read More

Site Pro News

Master SEO Using Google’s Top Search Tricks

June,09,2014

by: Tina Courtney-Brown

Google has a few tricks up their sleeves, and you probably aren’t using them. If you want to master the game of SEO, you ought to also be an expert searcher. The more you know about how the search engine allows folks to access the content they’re looking for, the more you know about peoples’ search patterns. Put this all together, and you can see how your business measures up. Read More

Socially Stacked Why Organic Reach on Facebook is Declining: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth  June,06,2014 by: Staff
“*&^$)!!)&!! What has happened to my organic reach on Facebook?” is a question that many, if not most, Facebook Page admins have been asking themselves for months now. Turns out that they’ve also been asking Facebook. To help us all make sense of what’s been happening, Brian Boland, who leads the Ads Product Marketing Team at Facebook, answered users’ questions about the decline in organic reach. Read More

KaratBars International

Welcome to Karatbars

Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.