client service / dealing with clients

Serchers Cant Spel – Let’s Make That Fact Work for Us!

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As someone who was raised on the importance of spelling, the fact that correct spelling seems to have gone the way of the dinosaurs is a frustration! Further: We work in a world of medical words which can challenge the ability to spell. Everyone is in a hurry, so rarely do people spell check their own writing. (And yes, I’m as guilty of that as anyone.) Device text – meaning tiny keyboards and/or autocorrect – makes some communications impossible to […]

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A Creepy, but Useful, Time and Payment Tip (in Time for Halloween!)

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Sometimes it’s really tough to be able to estimate exactly how long work with a client will take. Especially in the early years of your practice, and in particular when a client contacts you asking you to do something you know is within your competency, but you’ve never done for a (paid) client before, it’s almost impossible to assign an accurate amount of time to the project in front of you. Without the accurate amount of time, you will probably

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Let Others Sing Your Praises

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When I have a good meal at a restaurant, I leave a good tip. I remember back to my college days when I waited tables between classes and studying… I know how much a good tip meant to me then. You may have had the same experience! When we work with clients to provide life, health, and money-saving service, they don’t leave us a tip, of course. We bill them, and they pay us. But for most, their gratitude goes

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Use the Calendar for Your Marketing

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This is October. It appears the world has turned PINK in the name of breast cancer… as if someone spilled a lifetime supply of Pepto Bismol and it coated the world. The breast cancer PWB (powers that be) have done a remarkable job with this branding of pink and breast cancer since their first year of pink in 1985. All that PINK does an extraordinary job of raising awareness for breast cancer research and its fundraising. And thus – October

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