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How to Reach Customers Across the Board

BY George Dennis
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Over the years, I’ve learned that business is not just about reaching one type of customer through a single channel, but rather, digging deeper and uncovering multiple opportunities to attract various types of consumers. Successful ...READ»

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IBM's Hottest New Cell Phone Market: Senior Citizens (and the Illiterate)

BY Dan Macsai
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Among cell-phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is...people over the age of 65?READ»

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Norton Law Group

BY Norton Law Group
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Health Insurance Quotes Reform Obamacare & Buying Individual Health Insurance

BY Chad Levin
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Following the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusetts State Senate last week and the resulting loss of Senate Democrats' supermajority, lawmakers continue to pave the way for health care reform - with limited progress. In addition, polls indicate that the public would rather lawmakers focus more on the economy than on health care.READ»

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Health Insurance Exchange Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), may just reach his goal of getting a health care reform package approved by the Senate by ChristmasREAD»

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Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
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On November 21st Senate lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with a floor debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's READ»

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Seniors Need to be Cautious About Medicare Ads

BY Richard Cantu
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Despite what you may get in the mail, read everything you get with a grain of salt and lots of caution.READ»

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EasyToInsureME Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weekly

BY Chad Levin
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This week's debate focused on last Saturday's approval of health care reform legislation by the House of Representatives.READ»

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Best Digital Practices in the Health Industry

BY David Capece
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Healthcare insurance, reform, H1N1, food contamination and countless stories that pull on our heartstrings are daily discussion topics in newsrooms, blogs and dining room tables across the nation. It should come as no surprise that many of the top 50 digital social-cause influencers are related to health. Health is clearly on the American mind. Now the question is why have...READ»

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Philips DirectLife Review: A Tamagotchi for Calorie Counters

BY Jennifer Vilaga
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My fitness regime just got a whole lot easier to manage. Or at least that's the promise implicit in Philips' DirectLife program. The idea seems simple enough: Carry around a small piece of plastic every day for the next 12 weeks, ...READ»

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Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

BY Ray Williams
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Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ»

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Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

BY Sam Ford
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With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of "branded entertainment," I'm amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was ...READ»

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NPR's New Wi-Fi Radio is a Baby Boomer's Boombox

BY Erica Westly
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NPR may have spent the better part of this year making itself into a leader in digital broadcasting, but with its new dedicated Internet radio, the organization is reaching out to its core audience--baby boomers. "We had been ...READ»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

BY Chad Levin
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This Week in Health Care ReformREAD»

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Health Insurance Quote Reform : EasyToInsureME : 7/21/09

BY Chad Levin
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EasyToInsureME offers clients the easiest way to buy individual health insurance. Free services include instant online health insurance quotes, custom proposals for each client, free phone consultations, and 10-minute application by phone. Nobody does what we do for our clients!READ»

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Reduced Prescription Costs for Seniors Soon a Reality

BY Richard Cantu
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The good news for seniors in America is that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to cut the prices of prescription drugs for seniors.READ»

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Baby Boomers A Key To Economic Recovery

BY Ray Williams
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Much has been written and discussed about the massive number of Baby Boomers who are retiring or about to retire, and the impact on the workplace. What are Boomers going to do with their lives? Here's two developing trends that may have a significant impact on the workplace and our economy: Temp workers and entrepreneurial start ups.READ»

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How Do You Serve?

BY Chris Jarvis
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  Michelle Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington, and Bon Jovi all told us how they serve yesterday at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the world's largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the government, non-profits, entertainment, academia, business and the media.   READ»

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Living for Social Networks, Literally

BY Chris Dannen
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More and more elderly people are joining social networks, according to The New York Times, and it may be saving them from death by boredom. Among senior citizens who ventured online in 2008, the number that visited social ...READ»

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Service Nation

BY Brian Reich
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Richard Stengel, the Managing Editor of Time Magazine, opened this week's issue with a very exciting announcement. See below: To Our Readers The Service Agenda. Time is helping to lead a major push to make national ...READ»

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Boomer Bailout

BY Beverly Kaye
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This topic is a hot one. Why? Look at the facts. Run the numbers. You'll see you might, indeed, have a problem. Every 40 seconds a Baby Boomer turns 50. (Good excuse for more office parties.) They represent 60% of the workforce aged ...READ»

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A 12-Step Program for Job-Seekers

BY Jay Tatum
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I joined the ranks of the so many people this past year when I gave up a very good position in a small health system in Ohio to pursue some new career interests. My wife graduated with her second master's degree and was pursuing ...READ»

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Project Parse It Up: Bravo vs. Lifetime

BY Danielle Sacks
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Tim Gunn, our favorite sartorial critic, is in the eye of the storm--again. As I chronicled in Fast Company's April issue profile "Project Rehab," the former head of Parsons' Fashion program has had a dizzying career ...READ»

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Not ready for the AARP, 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' panel at South by Southwest Interactive

BY Serge Lescouarnec
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Want to know what's out there on the web for those of us who are Just Over 50 and Not Ready for the AARP, join the conversation online or in person at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin on March 8. Check the Just Over 50 ...READ»

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Age Discrimination Gets Younger

BY Vince Winkel
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As the economy changes and the Baby Boomer generation ages, age discrimination is affecting more workers who are nowhere near the end of their careers.READ»

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