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How Do You Get to (the Advocate’s Version of) Carnegie Hall?

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As the punchline goes…. Practice, practice, practice! It should not surprise you when I tell you that convincing a potential client to sign a contract to work with you requires the same thing: practice, practice, practice. I hear from so many new, wannabe advocates that they just can’t get a client to sign a contract, or they just hate asking for money and oh – yes! I do understand that!  Making those requests can be quite uncomfortable when doing so […]

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Does Your Phone Number Match Your Location?

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We are a mobile society, aren’t we? “They” say (yes, I often wonder who “they” are!) that Americans move an average of 7 times in their adult lifetimes. Personally I’ve skewed the averages myself, having lived in 9 states, with 19 moves. I know moving! One of the big tasks we have to manage when we move is to change addresses on everything from bank accounts and bills to magazine subscriptions to holiday greeting cards. That done, most of us

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More Professional Email Tips

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A few months ago, we looked at creating a professional email address – just the address itself, and not the practicality of how it might be used. Today’s tip fills in that practicality gap, because there have been a handful of times in the past couple of weeks where email addresses became a headache to deal with! Whether you are just beginning to develop your practice, or you’ve been working in advocacy for a while and think a change is

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Rubbing Elbows

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As a patient advocate in private practice, especially if you are a solo practitioner, it can get lonely to be the only one who really understands what your work life is like. Believe me – I know this!  I’ve been self-employed, working from home, since 2001. No coffee pot convergence early in the morning. No water cooler chat. No one in the employee break room, or popping over to my desk to say, “Let’s grab lunch!” No distractions (welcome or

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Case Matters

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Aha! I am guessing that you, as a health or patient advocate or care or even CASE manager, think this tip will address just that – case management – how you plan, handle, and track the work you do throughout a single patient’s case. True? Aha again! No! That’s not it. Not that those things aren’t important – they most certainly are. In fact, all that planning, handling, and tracking is vitally important to the success of your work, and

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