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    Most Popular Articles on the Nurse Entrepreneur Network (NeN) site

    The following is a list of the most widely read articles on the Nurse Entrepreneur Network (NeN) site.

    1. Business opportunities for nurses
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      There are many of options for nurses who want to be in business and the number of options keeps growing every day. While there are many business opportunities for anyone who wants to be in business, the options listed here are business opportunities for which nurses are uniquely prepared. . . . Keep reading

    2. Postage increase and the First-Class 'Forever Stamp'
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Beginning May 14 the United States Postal Service will increase the rate for regular postage stamps from 39 cents to 41 cents. At the same time, so-called First-Class 'Forever Stamps' will be available for purchase. . . . Keep reading

    3. Have you thought about starting a Medical Staffing company?
      Dr. Jason Meyer
      The shortage of nurses and other health-care professionals in the United States has created a huge demand in the marketplace--one that staffing firms throughout the country are stepping in to fill. The shortage is projected to be 450,000 nurses by 2008 according to the Bureau of labor Statistics (BLS). . . . Keep reading

    4. Sell your services to attorneys involved in Seroquel and Zyprexa lawsuits
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Look for current class action medical law suits like those for Seroquel and Zyprexa and contact the attorneys involved or contact your local attorneys to see if they are working any of these types of cases. . . . Keep reading

    5. Downloads: Sample letters for nurse entrepreneurs to use to propose a presentation on a current theme or hot medical topic
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Tie your press releases and sales letters into a current theme or hot topic. Possible themes are National Brain Injury Awareness Month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Emergency Services Week or another health observance or healthcare recognition day. . . . Keep reading

    6. DOWNLOAD: Business Travel Expense Reports
      If you're struggling to reconstruct your nursing business expenses from scraps of paper again so you can do your taxes, perhaps it's time to vow to change your ways. And the Nurse Entrepreneur Network has got just the business travel expense forms you need in our Download Library. . . . Keep reading

    7. Nursing Business Opportunity: Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)
      Consider Legal Nurse Consulting (LNC) as a nursing business and career option. . . . Keep reading

    8. Check out our new Vintage Nurse - Nursing Postcard and Photo Gallery
      We've collected vintage postcards over the years related to nurses and nursing that we want to share with our members and the public. Now that we've figured out what we can do with them, we'll be adding more. Members are encouraged to add to the digital collection, too. . . . Keep reading

    9. Code Green, Or Why EVERY RN Should Know "How to Code"
      Joanie M. Wexler
      When trained and credentialed in the "codes" representing medical services and diagnoses, RNs increase their earning potential and augment their job security. For example, Gayla Crouch, RN, MSN, CRN-C, holds both the Certified RN-Coder (CRN-C) coding credential for RNs from the American Association of Clinical Coders and Auditors (AACCA). Formerly a critical care nurse and Cardiac Cath. Lab manager, Crouch currently works part-time for insurance-company clients doing coding -- mostly from home -- and also teaches at the University of California-Riverside, as well as teaching full time with the national RN-Coder Institute. "I choose my hours," she says, and estimates she spends about 1 week per month working away from home on coding business. . . . Keep reading

    10. Oscar-Winning Introductions: How to Establish Meaningful Business Relationships
      Ruth Ledesma, PCC
      You must be able to express clearly who you are, what you do, who you serve and the benefits of your services. How else can someone decide to hire you or to refer someone to you for services? . . . Keep reading

    11. Nursing Business Opportunity: Life Care Planning (LCP)
      Consider Life Care Planning (LCP) as a nursing business and career option. . . . Keep reading

    12. DOWNLOAD: 7+ Touches Marketing Chart
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Since it can typically take 7 touches with a potential client before they become an actual client, it is important to have a plan to make these 7 touches. With a plan, persistence, and follow-through, you can increase the number of potential clients who become actual clients. Use the 7+ Touches Marketing Chart to track your contacts with each potential client. . . . Keep reading

    13. Consider these things before starting your nursing business!
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Before you even start your nurse entrepreneur - nursepreneur career, there are important things to consider. The success of your nursing business will depend on it. . . . Keep reading

    14. Your Signature Makes or Breaks Your Online Small Business
      Beth Engel
      What's in a name you wonder? The real question is - what's in your signature? Your email address and signature can make or break your business efforts. Your customers and clients want professionalism and credibility with those they choose to do business. . . . Keep reading

    15. How do you qualify a customer?
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      There is much talk about qualifying potential customers. When you qualify potential customers, you are determining if they are qualified to buy from you. When you do this you also need to determine where they are in their buying cycle. . . . Keep reading

    16. Press Release: Unique Online Network Provides Business Solutions for Nurse Entrepreneurs
      A new online Nurse Entrepreneur Network (NeN) has been formed to help nurses who are or want to be successful entrepreneurs - nursepreneurs. Launched on January 1, 2004, and re-designed on January 1, 2005, the web- and telephone-based subscription organization provides networking, education and training as well as coaching for member nurse entrepreneurs. The NeN also helps members form collaborative alliances and promote their businesses. . . . Keep reading

    17. How will the green trend affect your business?
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      We hear more and more about green concepts. How will this trend impact your business? . . . Keep reading

    18. Month 1: A Month-at-a-Time Marketing Plan for Nurse Entrepreneurs - Nursepreneurs
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      Every nursing business needs a marketing plan. A nurse entrepreneur - nursepreneur must be actively marketing and selling their business for it to survive and flourish. The following step-by-step plan was designed to help nurse entrepreneurs - nursepreneurs - nurses in business develop a marketing plan quickly by eliminating the need for them to develop a marketing plan from scratch. Tailor this marketing plan to meet the specific needs of your nursing business. . . . Keep reading

    19. You can't please all the people all the time!
      LeaRae Keyes, RN
      As nurses, it is common for us to want to please people. This can be a major pitfall which can keep you from marketing effectively. . . . Keep reading

    20. Talk more - write less
      As a nurse entrepreneur, you may find yourself typing more than you ever did before and more than you ever imagined. If you're not a rapid typist, if you're developing symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome or other repetitive stress injuries of your upper extremities, or if you just don't like to type, you will certainly want to look into dictation software, also called voice recognition software. Dictation software literally "types as you talk." This can be a great time saver and ease the stress on the nerves in your wrists. . . . Keep reading

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    The Nursepreneur Movie
    The Nursepreneur Movie Imagine waking up energized and ready to start your day because you are in control! You set the plan. You are responsible. Don't know how to go from where you are now to being a successful nurse entrepreneur? For valuable tools, information, concrete ideas for being a nurse entrepreneur, and for resources on how to become a successful nurse entrepreneur sign up now to receive our free weekly tips. But first, check out our new Nursepreneur Movie for inspiration on starting your own nurse owned business. . . . Keep reading
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    This email is to thank you for your website and for the help you have been for me personally.

    When I started my website, I thought I had a good idea, and I tried to do everything at once. After my free consultation with you, I focused on building my list, as you recommended. In the process of doing that, I kept adding content, and creating "give aways" to encourage people to sign up.

    I actually got somewhat discouraged for awhile, but then one day I got a call from a man who owned a company that sells supplies to home health and hospice agencies. He said you had referred me to him. When he looked at my website with all its content, he called me back and said, "You are the perfect person for me."

    So, now I am doing just what I had intended to do with my website, from home, working for this company. I am salaried, plus I get part of any service or product that I helped develop.

    I am amazed by how this has all fallen together! Thank you, LeaRae, for your advice and for your referral. Now I am doing just what I want to be doing. I am working from home as a nurse.

    Sue Hull, RN, MSN, CWOCN
    WoundConsultations.com
    Aberdeen, WA


    What an awesome resource you are! Thank you for the work you do and share. This is such an empowering site, and provides a launch pad for those of us just trying to find a means of beginning.

    April Hopkins-Freeman
    Louisville, NE


    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It was a pleasure speaking with you today, and our conversation was most insightful. I'm so happy you are there. I will keep in touch. Keep up the great work!

    Stephanie Johnson
    Nursing Staff Solutions
    Lake Balboa, CA

    LeaRae, thank you for [the MasterMind group] and to everyone else for sharing of yourselves and your visions! You each are an inspiration and I just love the fact that opportunity abounds for us to be successful in our chosen profession.

    Mary Pat DeWald
    Evergreen, CO

    I had the benefit of one on one with LeaRae, and the information exchanged was exciting, intriguing, as well as educational. What a wonderful teacher. LeaRae allows you the freedom to brainstorm and encourages new thoughts. She is not afraid of unusual or different ideas. Everything you might expect in an entrepreneur. I would strongly encourage others to join the forums, but also take part of the community she is building.

    I think she is a wonderful coach and her web site is a reflection of that. Thank you LeaRae! Stellar job!

    Claire Hull, RN,CCM,CLNC
    Cary NC
    www.thejerklnc.com

    I absolutely love your site.

    Dr. Donna Hebbeler, FNP
    Anchorage, AK

    "Wow! Whoopee! and Thank you! LeaRae, my coaching session with you was everything I wanted and needed. I had been spinning my wheels with regard to my business interests, leaving me both frustrated and weary. In a matter of minutes, you lifted my spirits, opened my eyes and got me thinking about my mission in a new light. Thank you for helping me change my focus. I no longer feel like I'm in a mental quagmire. My hat is off to you as a coach as well as to the Nurse-Entrepreneur-Network for all the information and support it gives to the enterprising person in all of us."

    Cynthia Conklin, RN
    Sharon, CT

    "I talked to you this summer, and wanted to let you know how progress is going... You gave me alot of encouragement, and I wanted to let you know that even tho it is slow, [my legal nurse consulting] business is starting to build.  I just completed my first entire case review, did 1 sub-contracting with possible testifying, and am now on my 2nd case as testifying expert and will testify.  I emailed approximately 70 attorneys in the past 2 weeks, and the case I am now working on came from the emailing, and I hope that an attorney that responded is not scared off with my fee schedule.  I hope that I will hear from more of the attorneys that I emailed and mailed out my packets to.  Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer that it works.  I am really hoping that I can get this flying, so that I can spend more time at home with the kids.
     
    I wanted to thank you for your encouragement, and please post this on your site if it is possible, as you have done a world of good for me."

    Beth Trussell RN, CLNC
    Akron, OH

     "LeaRae Keyes is a world-class life coach I have been blessed to know since 2003.  She is a warm, perceptive, genuine professional, with an exceptional gift for motivating others.  Her approach seems quite effortless, yet it has been refined through years of experience and learning.  She is a true pleasure.  She is an inspiration in what she has achieved in her own life, and by her own example..."

    Catherine Bobenhausen
    New York, NY


    "I'm so glad I found the Nurse Entrepreneur Network!  LeaRae always has great ideas to share with other "Nursepreneurs."  I recently finished the teleclass "Get Clients Now!" and I have to say that it was the most motivational and informative program I've done.
     
    Just starting out in my business as an LNC, this program help me set goals and keep me organized.  It also kept me accountable to my peers in the group each week.  LeaRae is so insightful and has wonderful experience to draw from for those of us who are beginning our dream of being nurse entrepreneurs.
     
    I would highly recommend ANYONE who is just starting their business, or even someone who's been in business awhile and feels like they're in a lull to take this class.  They won't regret it!"
     
    Danielle D. Shapiro, RN, BSN, CMSRN, LNC
    Shapiro Medical Legal Consulting
    Las Vegas, NV


    Following a free complimentary coaching session: "Thank you for taking the time to address my concerns and questions regarding marketing techniques. Your keen insight into the art of becoming a successful nursepreneur is so valuable and helpful even to those of us who have been practicing as independents for years! I enjoy reading your weekly tips and have used them in promoting my business. You have given me the confidence to market my business, my services and myself with ease."

    Kathleen Loeffler, RN, Legal Nurse Consultant
    Medical Litigation Consulting Services
    Carlsbad CA
    www.kellnc.com


    Following a free complimentary coaching session: "Thank you so much for your help!  Your words of encouragement have really made me ready to keep trying.  Your ideas are great, and I am going to try some of them this afternoon.  I needed the boost of confidence you provided me, along with your great ideas.  I can't thank you enough!"

    Beth Trussell RN, CLNC

    Following the Michael Charest Teleforum: "Thank you for letting me be part of the [free] teleforum this afternoon. It was inspiring. Michael Charest made it seem so simple (not easy), it boosted my confidence. I will be using the notes I took to help me sell my services here 'up north'."

    Ellen Codner
    Graphics Designer
    Wascott WI
    graphicsalive.com


    "I have been out of the net for awhile. It seems just as I was getting up and running with my business, Uncle Sam came knocking and called me back to active duty. It is so refreshing to get your tips to remind me of what I am going to eventually get back to! Keep on keeping us nurses encouraged!"

    Brutrinia D. Arellano, RN, BSN, CLNC
    Amaris Consulting Group
    Converse, Texas


    "Thank you so much for your skilled ear, LeaRae!  I appreciate the direction and thorough business knowledge you shared with me during [my free, complimentary] coaching sessions. You were VERY helpful!"

    Laura Hayes
    Organization Consultant 
    Strategic Organization Solutions                   
    www.SOSfor.com


     "I highly recommend LeaRae for anyone who is ready to take their business to the next level."

    Pat Funk
    Pat Funk Copywriter
    Burnsville, MN
    www.Pat-Funk.com


    "LeaRae helps me... review and think about what I am doing, what my priorities are and how to develop action steps to reach my goals."

    Lori Ann Clark
    J4 Web Services
    Cannon Falls, MN
    J4WebServices.com


    "Working with LeaRae provided me the support I needed to grow a strong and successful business. She helped me develop practical solutions to a variety of business problems. My profits have dramatically increased."

    Melissa Becker
    Legal Nurse Consultant

    Minneapolis, MN