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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Miss a week. Miss a lot!
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Link & Learn
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Don't forget: 
you'll need to be logged into the APHA membership site to access most of these links:
www.myAPHA.org
bullet new Confessions of a Failure (from the APHA Blog)
   
bullet archive Teaching Your Clients to Fish Starts by Leaving the Rod and Reel at Home (APHA Blog)
   
bullet archive When You Just Can't Pull the Trigger: Strategies for Overcoming the Paralysis of Analysis  (CE logo 1 CE for BCPA is available to APHA members)
   
bullet ORB Free download, You Bet Your Life! The Top 10 Reasons You Need a Professional Patient Advocate by Your Side
 
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Schedule & Attend
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Link to the
Advocacy Master Calendar
of Events
 
APHA Expert Call-in
Guerrilla Marketing Tactics Advocates and Care Managers Will Love


Tuesday, September 8

CE logo One (1) CE for BCPAs will be available for this call-in. (Free to APHA members, not available to non-members.)

Once you understand marketing basics – audiences, messaging, and tools – then it’s time to begin letting the world of potential clients know you are available to help them, and how to find you.

Easier said than done, of course! Where do you begin? How do you decide what to do? And then, how do you do it?
 
  Often we look to traditional service marketing tactics like building a website, sending a regular newsletter, doing some public speaking, or running an ad in your community newspaper. They are a great start! But sometimes we need something “more.”

“Guerrilla Marketing” describes more non-traditional marketing tactics; steps you can take to get your target audiences to take notice, perhaps to be pleasantly surprised, and which should, ultimately, make your phone ring more frequently with potential business.

Nancy Ruffner, APHA member, has been in advocacy practice for seven years. When she started, she didn’t know much about marketing, but knew she needed potential clients to think of her when they needed the services she could provide. Today she has a thriving advocacy practice – with a few interesting twists to her approach, and to her marketing.

Trisha Torrey, director of APHA, and author of two marketing books for advocates and care managers, has also employed some more guerrilla-like marketing tactics over the years.

Listen in on this conversation with Nancy and Trisha to better understand the guerrilla thinking process and how to get started with promoting your practice using these more unusual tactics.
 
     
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Combating Burnout


Thursday, September 10


Our norms are in jeopardy, while patients are being held responsible for their care and the cost of their care resources are limited causing the emotional intensity of our work to escalate. All of these factors can lead many to experience burnout. Connect with Anne to discuss what burnout is, how to recognize it and strategies to help you can put into place to address it.

Meet Anne, and learn more about Connect! with Anne calls.
 
     
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Registration will close as soon as we reach capacity.


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100 Days to Launch Your Practice
All Online Learning  •  Begins September 8

Learn More and Register Here


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Celebrating
Five Star Reviews!
 
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members:

Find instructions for asking your clients to submit their reviews.
 
 
 
 
 
Congratulations to these AdvoConnection Directory-Listed members who have achieved and received 5 star reviews for their work!

These stars were awarded by clients for whom they have saved lives, health, or money, and improved the quality of life for the person who provided the review.
star Barbara Abruzzo
star Dana Hutson
   
A job very well done. Congratulations!
 
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BCPA
Certification Corner
 
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Now is the time to take the
BCPA certification exam...
 
You, too, can become a Board Certified Patient Advocate!  The next exam is scheduled to begin in late September. Choose your date and venue.  Pre-registration is required.

Register by September 10th.  
 
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Members in the News!
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See the master list of APHA and member news mentions, located at the APHA Blog.
 
bullet Martine Brousse, APHA member, was featured in Woman’s World Magazine’s Ask America’s Ultimate Experts Help me lower my medical bills! (pdf)
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APHA Premium +ADL members: Want to respond to requests
for advocate expertise? Find them in your +ADL Connect! Discussion Forum - see the list of recent requests below.
If you are a Premium +ADL member featured in the news,
please submit the link to us.
 
         
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Updates
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Online Courses for Advocates
 
PracticeUP! online is a sister site to APHA. APHA members may take courses for free or at a discount.

www.PracticeUPOnline.com
 
Coming This Week!
New Course:
Overcoming Objections
 
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1.5 CEs for BCPA
will be available for this course.
 
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for ADL members
 
A special section for AdvoConnection
Directory Listed members.
 
Reminders for +ADL members:
bullet  Are you a new BCPA with a listing in the directory? Submit this request form, and we will add the logo to your listing.  
   
bullet  July directory profile stats are available! Here's how to retrieve yours.
   
bullet Monitor requests for help!  Patients need you! Recent requests have come from:
Virginia Illinois (x2) Texas
Washington South Carolina  New York
... and other states and provinces!
 
bullet Reminder!  It's always a good time to ask former clients for a testimonial for your AdvoConnection listing.  Here's how to make it easy.
 
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Reviews found on Amazon:
 
This is a great marketing book that is exceptionally organized, easy to understand and includes exceptional advice. The specific marketing strategies on public relations, creative ideas on developing and defining your brand and the wonderful resource list at the end of the book are just a few reasons why I love and recommend this book.
     
  While the information in the book is basic - good for someone with no business experience - it also lays out a concrete path of 'must do' tasks for anyone starting a private healthcare advocate business and keeps you on track.
 
  This book is well written, well organized, and contains valuable information for businesses in this field. I recommend it without reservation.   
 
  Learn more about
The Health Advocate's Basic Marketing Handbook


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*Note:  No Agenda Next Week
 
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Just a heads up... 

We'll be in the office, and working, and here to help you if you need help.


But the Agenda will take a vacation, as will the blogs and other new materials....

Instead we're working hard to prepare for our upcoming APHA Academy program.

The Agenda will be back in your inbox
August 25.
         
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