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The Cost of Health Insurance and the Answer NO ONE Has
02.26.10
By Stuart Prescott
There are immediate and controllable things we can all do to impact our health care and health insurance system. Included are Consumerism, learning the best use of our medical insurance benefits, use of generic drugs, inquiring about and comparing price of services. Real tort reform, preventing defensive medicine, eliminating fraud and the overuse of imaging and lab facilities for extra profit would be huge contributors to reducing extraneous costs in our system. These ...
posted by Rachel Meador on 02.26.10 • comments (0) • Employee Benefits
You Are What They Tweet
02.26.10
Extracted from MasonBaronet’s GoodThinking Newsletter
How do you manage your brand when customers aren’t just talking about your brand — they’re helping to define it?
The old axiom, “The customer is always right”, has never been truer or more relevant than today, when fickle, agile consumers are wielding massive influence over brands.
Businesses are increasingly focused on delivering a strong, consistent brand experience. At the same time, newly empowered consumers ...
posted by Rachel Meador on 02.26.10 • comments (0) • Advertising
The Need for Blended Learning in Corporate IT Environments
02.10.10
With the myriad layoffs and company shut downs of 2009, the unemployed are biting at the bit to return to stable work environments. The companies affected by the recession are now also ready and willing to reinvest in the future. But, as a result of the economic turmoil, there exists another hurdle to salvation: retraining a workforce for new jobs while backfilling leadership and skill gaps of retiring baby boomer workers.
Most of the Fortune 500 ...
posted by Rachel Meador on 02.10.10 • comments (0) • IT Technology Training
Six Local Business Review Sites Influencing Your New Customers
02.02.10
Dry cleaners, auto mechanics, accounting firms, moving companies, restaurants, doctors, law firms, and other brick (click) and mortar businesses win and lose new customers every day before the potential customer even picks up the phone. This decision is based solely on past and current customers’ opinions he or she read has online. With so many businesses to choose from, being number one on Google is nearly never the only deciding credibility or trust factor. You’re dealing with an educated customer ...
posted by Shama Kabani on 02.02.10 • comments (0) • Core24
Why Even (Especially!) Executives Need to Blog
02.02.10
If you don't already have a blog, you're missing out on a prime opportunity to meet your customers and clients.
That's right: blogging is not about introducing yourself or your company, but rather about introducing yourself to your customers.
If you've been under the assumption that blogging is simply an online extension of your current marketing efforts, you're not alone. Many companies regard blogging as yet another means by which they can blast ...
posted by Shama Kabani on 02.02.10 • comments (2) • Core24
