Increase Business by Squashing Your Fear of Phones

Written by Trent Brownrigg


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Increase Business by Squashing Your Fear of Phones

Phone skills are very important when you have your own home business. If you are like me, when I started out, then you may think you are going to work entirely online and not userepparttar 104529 phone. However, there will come times in your business when you must talk onrepparttar 104530 phone. In fact, you will probably talk onrepparttar 104531 phone a lot when you have an “online” home business.

There are times when you will need to call prospects, talk to business partners, answer questions that someone has, or some other business task that requiresrepparttar 104532 phone. You may be saying, “No matter what I guarantee I will never call anyone” but what if someone calls you? You will need phone skills then too!

The problem with this phone fact is that most people are scared to talk business onrepparttar 104533 phone. We have a fear of failure or rejection onrepparttar 104534 phone that causes us to make mistakes in our speech, forget what we want to say, or just totally freeze up. Don’t let this fear stop you or slow you down. You can actually develop great phone skills rather quickly.

If you want to reap allrepparttar 104535 benefits of being your own boss then you will have to overcome your fear sooner or later. In order to complete this task you must develop a strong desire to have good phone skills and let nothing stand in your way.

Think about it, when you are onrepparttar 104536 phonerepparttar 104537 other person can’t see you. They don’t know if you have messed up or said something wrong. They don’t know that you haven’t showered today. They can’t see that you are nervous or scared. Also, if you really get bogged down, and need to get out, all you have to do is hang-up. So, what are you really scared of? If it’s still rejection then get used to it! You will get rejected more times than not. We all do!

Don’t know how to start? Here are five basic techniques to help you in acquiring your new phone skills:

1) The Opening-If you arerepparttar 104538 one doingrepparttar 104539 calling then you must have a good way to open uprepparttar 104540 conversation. You really only have a few seconds beforerepparttar 104541 person onrepparttar 104542 other end decides whether they are going to listen or not. There are a few things in your opening that you need to have; your name,repparttar 104543 reason forrepparttar 104544 call, and why they should care about what you have to say. You should also be prepared with some basic opening information in case someone calls you out ofrepparttar 104545 blue. Rehearse all of your openings often so it becomes like second nature to you.

Are you HIPAA Compliant?

Written by Matt Sears


A closer look at HIPAA By - Matt Sears, Senior Vice President Athens Benefits Insurance Services, Inc. A division of The Jenkins Athens Group

HIPAA. Perhaps one ofrepparttar most significant laws in recent memory; certainly one ofrepparttar 104527 most complex. While this short article won't make anyone an expert, it will, hopefully, demystify this wide ranging set of laws and put you onrepparttar 104528 path towards compliance.

First, let's answerrepparttar 104529 question; "What is HIPAA?" HIPAA stands forrepparttar 104530 Health Insurance Portability and Protection Act of 1996. Although it purports to regulate health insurance, HIPAA provisions extend far beyond insurance. HIPAA introduced broad disclosure and privacy requirements. It also established civil and criminal penalties for each violation (up to $25,000 per person per year in civil penalties and up to $250,000 in criminal fines - along with imprisonment).

Title I of HIPAA deals with portability and special enrollment rights for health plans. Those conditions must have been incorporated into your plans by now (original compliance date was 1997). Title II of HIPAA governs a wide ranging set of conditions called, "Administrative Simplification". For those charged with compliance,repparttar 104531 notion that HIPAA simplifies anything qualifies as "dark humor". Administrative simplification attempts to create a uniform system for processing and retention of health information and ensuringrepparttar 104532 security of that information.

Forrepparttar 104533 purposes of this article, we're only concerned with those portions ofrepparttar 104534 law impacting most employers...privacy. Notablyrepparttar 104535 privacy of personal data defined by HIPAA as "Protected Health Information" or "PHI" - information that is personally identifiable. Inrepparttar 104536 broadest summary possible, key components of HIPAA privacy requirements for a plan sponsor are fairly straightforward:

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