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LESSONS FROM THE COFFEE SHOP TO BOOST SALES AND SEAL DEALS
By Karen Friedman, Communications Coach, Author, Shut Up and Say Something (Praeger 2010)
His name is Steve. He’s retired now, but before spending mornings at the local coffee shop, he spent forty years in sales, owned his own company and boasted a resume of successes.
For a good ten years now, I’ve enjoyed a morning cup of joe with Steve and a small group of loyal Manhattan Bagel regulars in my neighborhood. Sometimes it’s a quick buy and bye. Other times we sit and chat. We’ve sipped through elections, wars, simmered over political differences and added extra sweetener to sugarcoat a disappointing Philadelphia Eagles loss. We’ve come to value each other’s opinions even if like a steaming cup of coffee, our differences sometimes boil over.
So on this fall morning, I asked Steve to share his secret of sales success. Without hesitation, he answered…
Squandered capital, wasted efforts, shattered dreams. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, is on a mission to save entrepreneurs from such a fate. Ries, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded IMVU, an online social network that made the Inc. 500 last year. Through trial and error at IMVU, Ries developed a methodical approach to launching companies that goes beyond bootstrapping. Now he’s creating a movement.
Click below to watch an interview with American Business Systems founder Patrick Phillips and licensee Brent Pagnotta from Florida. Brent joined ABS in April 2011 and just signed up his 4th client!
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American Business Systems’ Founder, Patrick Phillips is a published author and renowned public speaker. He is also a Business Networking Expert. He has published a new report (audio and PDF) called “A Simple Method to Create Your Own Massive Networking Group” that can help you, not only with your medical billing business, but with ANY line of work you may be in. The full report is only $19.
We often get asked “Where do you think the medical billing industry headed?” In a recent article in the Healthcare Billing & Management Association magazine that question is answered for us.
A few of the major points from the article:
- Healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP has increased from approximately 6% in 1965 to almost 18% in 2009, an almost 300% increase.
- The estimated expected growth in the medical billing industry is just under 6% per year.
- Physician Medical Billing is a $9 billion industry with $4.5 billion being generated by office-based physicians, the ones we are here to serve.
Watch the video below to hear from our Founder on this topic:
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