Posted at July 31, 2013 11:11 AM in Agency
There’s an old saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and that may be sage advice for health care managed care organizations (MCOs) seeking to offer insurance plans on the “Obamacare” Health Insurance Marketplace in fall 2013. It seems that a key to the balancing act of insuring older policyholders (more likely to file claims for care) is attracting enough younger policyholders whose premiums and lack of claims will provide offset relief. The challenge for health care marketers is that these two different age groups learn and communicate differently, so MCOs must take this into account when developing their health care marketing and communications plans.
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Posted at July 29, 2013 10:23 AM in Agency
A June 2013 article written by Anna Gorman that appeared in the LA Times highlights the challenge facing managed care organizations (MCOs) across the United States as the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) enrollment opens in October. Specifically, the reluctance of young adults to enroll in a health care plan and how it makes health care marketing difficult.
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Posted at July 24, 2013 10:00 AM in Agency
Our recent Stephen King-inspired post about writing anything centered on one indispensable golden rule: Read and lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcuts. Last time, the feeding of your head -- reading anything and everything you can get your hands on (time permitting) -- was the primary goal of the successful marketing writer. Again, it's not nearly as sexy to most as the real work of writing, but it's so necessary if you want to be a good and resourceful scribe. Today's post takes the opposite tack with a list of eight actionable writing tips -- some unusual and others quite familiar -- that will inspire you to become a better writer right now.
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Posted at July 22, 2013 10:00 AM in Agency
Looking for pictures of Spain from before the year 1970 on Facebook? Graph Search can help you answer impossible searches like these. Facebook’s Graph Search rolled out earlier this year in March and it immediately hit the digital marketing world with a storm. With this new feature, marketers can now understand their customers and prospects better than ever before. What is Graph Search? It is essentially Facebook’s very own Google search network that allows users to find content within Facebook much more easily. By gathering data from billions of users and external sources, it is essentially a library of everything on Facebook. Looking at just how rich this database is, there are many creative ways we can use this to better our marketing efforts. Here are five ways to get started.
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Posted at July 19, 2013 02:42 PM in Breaking News

The Alzafar Shriners will be hosting their second annual Pulling 4 Kids Charity Clay Shoot event on Saturday, August 24, 2013. This event will support the Shriners Hospitals for Children, which provide care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries, and other special healthcare needs. The shoot...

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Posted at July 17, 2013 10:00 AM in Agency
The mission of social media is to create a vibrant community. Advertising on Facebook can really jumpstart this process. When seen from the surface, advertising on Facebook looks simple. You create an image, write the headline and ad copy, choose your target audience and budget, and you’re set. Right? Well, not quite, at least not with Power Editor. Facebook’s Power Editor is a Google Chrome add-on you can install to your Facebook account that can greatly improve the quality of your advertisements. You can view the installation guide on Facebook’s Help Center.
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Posted at July 15, 2013 12:09 PM in Agency
This is the second of a five-part series on how to repurpose content to save time and increase exposure. Today, we’re going to explore how to repackage content that originates with a blog post. Check out our last post about how to repurpose Facebook content. 
Creating stand-alone content for every medium is time-consuming and exhausting. There's no need to waste time generating separate ideas for dozens of different mediums. Using social content marketing to repackage this material across mediums increases your efficiency and multiplies your chances of earning exposure.
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Posted at July 11, 2013 09:54 AM in Breaking News

High-profile, luxury homebuilder Sitterle Homes held its official groundbreaking for Riverstone, a spacious master-planned community featuring luxury garden home living in Sugar Land, Texas, on June 19. Riverstone is the first Houston development for Sitterle, but its 22nd in Texas, with 14 in San Antonio...

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