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Internet Marketing & Practice Success Bootcamp Feb. 17-19, 2012

2012-01-16T08:17:00.000-08:00

I am hosting a Internet Marketing & Practice Success Boot Camp in Westlake, Texas at the Dallas Ft. Worth Marriott Solana Hotel where you will be discovering the formula for driving in more new patients as an Business owner/Doctor, then consider this email as an update of what you will experience while in attendance.

If you are NOT already registered you will find this email helpful to
give you some more details about this once-in-a-lifetime event,
how you can save extra, and how you will receive a number of
additional bonuses for enrolling NOW.
Now go to http://www.Success-Marketing-Strategies.com and register immediately before it fills up. We only have room for 75 spots.

The Superstar Professional Business Speakers include:

** Michelle Prince - Best-Selling Author of Books

** Dr. David Phelps, D.D.S. - Creative Realestate Investing
** Carol McManus - The Famous "Linkedin Lady"
** Shirley Vazquez - How to Setup and Own Your Own Health Fairs
** Sherry George - Yes, There's An APP For That!
** Dr. Chandler George, D.C. - How to use Internet Marketing Strategies in your Practice and Staff Training on Selling Your Service

Besides the great entrepreneurial marketing strategies that you will discover
at this Internet Marketing & Practice Success Boot Camp, you will get to meet our ...
incredible celebrity Glenn Morshower, of "24" Fox TV starred as Aron Pearce and who is in the new 'Dallas' TV Series coming up in 2012.
General Admission is only $297 per doctor (including spouse) and $97 per additional staff.
V.I.P Admission is only $497 and there are MANY Bonuses you will get including pictures with Glenn Moreshower!

Now go to http://www.Success-Marketing-Strategies.com and register immediately before it fills up. We only have room for 75 spots.
To book your hotel you can go to Dallas Ft. Worth Marriott Solana Hotel.

Hope to see you there!!!!!

What you think you know but really dont about your website...

2010-11-09T12:58:00.001-08:00

Ok, here's the scoop. You really should be updating your website at least once a month for search engine optimization. I know it can be difficult for some of you who are doctors or own your own business and you are the only one doing "Everything." I know, I've been there. But, there is always a way... You need to be researching your keywords and phrases each month and making at least those changes. You need to add backlinks to it as well. You can do this by using social media such as twitter and facebook and putting your website link in your comments. This creates a backlink back to your website and the search engines love it. You also need at least 6% of your keywords or keyword phrases in your website pages. Also, make sure you have a good offer and a form box on each page so that someone can subscribe for your offer. This is how we built our med spa and chiropractic businesses.

The last thing is make sure you are following up on all your leads from the internet. It is important you get back with them as soon as possible. You might use an email automation program that will help with that. You can find great resources on my website at http://www.catchfireinternetmarketing.com/free_resources.html.

Good Luck,
Dr. George
www.CatchfireInternetMarketing.com
www.MarketMySmallBusiness.com

Parker Seminars

2010-09-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

Hi all, no I don't work for Parker, but they have positively impacted my life over 30 years. You see I made good friends when my dad went starting with Parker at the Holiday Inn in Corpus Christi I believe. What fun, wanted to be just like the Kimballs, dad, Cheatwood, Dr. Griffin, Dr. Karl, my uncles and many more. Well here today more like them then not. Preveledged to speak at www.Parkerseminars.com in Dallas friday september 24th, 20010 this upcoming friday. Very excited! Been able to have great practices in Texas in 3 different counties, from country to big city. Got to take my staff over the years to Parker where they got the "Big Idea", which by the way is priceless. Now I can share Internet Marketing knowledge with them from years of doing for clients, and our own businesses and practices. It will change their lives. Do come, starts thursday eve, thru sat night at Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Tell em, Dr. Chandler George, sent you. And by all means come to my training and tell me too!! 2011 should be your best your yet, what are you doing to invest in that future reality? See you there.
www.CatchfireInternetmarketing.com

Internet Consulting – Taking Your Business to the Next Level

2010-06-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

Most businesses promote on the internet to be competitive with other businesses. It is important to know effective ways to drive clients to your business. If not, you will need to learn how to market a business online. Most businesses are experiencing some type of competition from other business because the old way of marketing is not working. The internet has forever changed the way a business market to clients.

There is a demand for fast accessibility, quality products and fast implementation. This leads to pressure on online business and affects the growth of the business. This is the reason for businesses turning to social marketing gurus and experts. Many internet consultants will share effective strategies and expertise on how to start an online business. In additions, doctors and chiropractors are seeing how lucrative online marketing is for a business.

Anyone who owns a business could benefit from a new approach on marketing a business. Having a business traffic evaluated will lead increased income and long term customers. Most internet consulting packages can be customized for a particular business. Internet consulters focus on getting traffic to a website. There are a lot of business websites that are not market appropriately. In short, internet consultanting focus on driving traffic and turning the traffic into customers.

What is a Webinar?

2010-06-22T20:06:00.001-07:00

There is a possibility that you have heard the word “webinar” from time to time. If not, a webinar is a lecture, presentation or seminar that’s broadcasted on the internet. In addition, the presentation allows for the audience and broadcaster to interact and discuss the topic of the presentation. There is a difference between a Webcast and a Webinar. A webcast is a one way broadcast and doesn’t allow the users to interact with the broadcaster.

There are several benefits to using a Webinar to promote your business. In addition, the presentation can be on any subject. Another benefit is that the presentation is broadcast all over web from anywhere in the world. As well as, you will be able to make contact with the audience without leaving your location or having to travel. This can be helpful for a doctor or someone running a business.

Most business owners are concern about cost factors when establishing a budget for marketing. A webinar is cost effective and an inexpensive way to interact with clients. All parties involved can gather at their computer from anywhere in the world to discuss a specific subject. Businesses are able to collaborate and communicate through web conferencing. In short, this is another way to advertise a brand without worrying about any extra fees.

The Amazing Secrets of Time Management for Doctors

2010-06-18T13:19:00.000-07:00

Time management is one of the challenges that doctors face and fail to manage effectively. If you are not aware of time then the medical work will take priority over everything else in life and become an endless task. It is important to have a balance between work and life.

This relationship will suffer if time is not managed properly. Not having enough time will lead to problems. You will start to feel overwhelmed, frustrated and not self sufficient. As well as, this will lead to having problems sleeping and problems outside of work. Poor time management can lead to problems with family members, friends and spouses. Many people are not aware that feeling overwhelm can affect a person physically and emotionally.

A profession as a doctor is undeniably a very busy field. Many doctors complain of being overworked and not having enough time outside of work to take part in enjoyable activities. When someone from this profession actual attends a social event, friends complain that the doctor is not good company and appear to be exhausted while hanging out with friends.

Many people make the mistake of leaving work late and taking work home. You are not superhuman and need to take time away from work. For example, you should take the time to participate in a hobby and spend time with friends and family. As well as, it is important to take time out for “self” and to just exhale after a long day. Furthermore, practicing time management will improve a person’s lifestyle and career.

Advantages of Phone Coaching for Doctors

2010-06-17T19:46:00.000-07:00

Many doctors would like to take advantage of coaching but unable to take time away to attend sessions. Coaching programs are aware that doctors are very busy. In addition, many programs offer a variety of ways for the doctor to participate in the program. Doctors have the option of taking advantage of phone coaching. Here are some of the advantages of receiving coaching by phone.

Convenience

A phone call can be made from any location. For example, you can call from work, home or vacation. The main goal is for the doctor and coach to form a relationship. It really doesn’t matter where the phone call is made as long as both parties are talking.

Efficient Use of Energy and Time

A phone call will prevent either party from traveling to have a meeting. As well as, this will prevent from taking time off from work. Many doctors are very busy and it can be hard task to take time off from work. Also, there is a possibility that the doctor could lose money by leaving to go to a coaching session. A simple phone call will save money and time.

Better Focus

A phone call session with a coach will allow the doctor to focus on the message. The doctor will not have any distractions because he will be on the telephone instead of at a face to face meeting.

Many coaching programs want to make the process as smooth and convenient for the doctor. Furthermore, if you want to take improve life and business then it’s time to take action.

Why doctor should take advantage of coaching?

2010-06-16T20:53:00.001-07:00

Coaching can really help with molding and improving the performance of a doctor. In addition, most doctors possess three qualities which are self-motivated, intelligent and self-sufficient. Doctors don’t really like to talk about their problems when experiencing trouble. Some professionals see talking to a coach or counselor as a sign of weakness. As well as, doctors are very conscious and know what need to be done to fix their problem. It can be hard for some people to take action and may need the help of a coach.

There could be several reasons for a chiropractor to be experiencing some worry in their career or life. For example, the medical career could not be progressing on the right or expected track. Some doctors get to a certain stage in their career and decide to give up the medical field. Also, you could be feeling pressure from love ones.

Coaching will help doctors and chiropractors to gain clarity on their career and life. You can talk to a coach in person, on the phone or the computer. In addition, you can share thoughts and feelings with a coach. As well as, the coach will help with making decisions to help with improving a practice. Sometimes doctors are out of touch with the latest trends. You will be able to learn the different trends for gaining clients and traffic to a website.

How to Get Traffic from Facebook and Twitter

2010-06-15T20:58:00.000-07:00

Social marketing is the new way to gain clients and to drive traffic to a business. Many businesses have a budget set aside for marketing because it takes money to market a business. Social marketing is saving business owners money and providing free traffic to their business. As well as, many businesses are experiencing success with promoting their businesses on sites like Twitter and Facebook. Attracting more clients has lead to business owners gaining financial freedom.

Here are a few tips on how to correctly use social media websites.

Many people take advantage of social media websites and abuse the opportunity. You don’t want to be label as a spammer. As well as, this could lead to being banned from the website. It is not professional to post links of your business on other people’s Facebook pages. You should ask for permission before doing any self promoting.

Social media websites should be used for building relationships. You want to give people that frequent the sites a chance to get to know your personality. After the interaction, people will have a chance to determine if you are someone that can be trusted. As well as you should drive traffic to the business blog instead of a landing page.

These are a few tips that will help to drive traffic to a business using social media sites. In addition, you should make posts on the sites that don’t always pertain to your business. Furthermore, business owners should take advantage of training and consulting packages on social media networking.

How to Use Social Media for Your Business

2010-06-14T20:59:00.001-07:00

Social media websites are very popular these days and another way for people to communicate. People are no longer picking up the telephone to reveal special news to love ones. Instead, they are using social media websites like Facebook and Twitter to keep people updated about their family and lifestyle. How does social media websites affect businesses? This means that people are being recommended products through online ads, social media websites and search engines. Traditional brick and mortar businesses like chiropractor offices have to start advertising on these sites to attract customers to their business.

Here are some advantages to using social marketing websites.

• The social websites will allow a chiropractor to increase their business contacts and client list.
• You will have the ability to keep in contact with patients, colleagues, family and school friends. Contact can be made at a click of a mouse.
• As well as, social marketing websites provides a convenient way to make contact and saves time. This is good new news for any doctor running a busy practice.
• You are able to put information about your business on these sites and people will be able to find the information at anytime in the day. A business has the ability to advertise 24 hours a day without the extra labor.

If you are a business and not taking advantage of social networking websites then you are missing out on potential clients. In short, social media websites can be used for building a list of potential clients.

The Truth About Anti-Aging Products

2010-06-08T19:05:00.000-07:00

Appearance is very important to most people. It is impossible to avoid growing old. There is a possibility using an anti-aging product or getting a procedure at some point in a person’s life. Looking our best will play a role in a person’s self esteem and how the person functions on a daily basis. For some people, the ability to see the body age and knowing can be depressing.

The skin care industry is making millions of dollars each day marketing products that promise a youthful complexion. Some skin care products are effective and others are not so effective. In addition, there is no such thing as a miracle product. You can’t expect to apply a product to the skin and appear to look 10 years younger instantly. There are a number of natural products available that doesn’t contain a lot of toxic ingredients. Natural nourishment is a better option compared to products made of toxic chemicals. Natural products allow for natural balance to repair and re-grow healthier skin.

Honey is often included in beauty regime because of the nutritional value. Also, it can make the skin appear healthy and vibrant. You will want to look for natural skincare products that carry the ingredient active manuka honey. Usually, products that contain manuka honey will contain hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide contains antioxidants and good for cleaning the skin.

There are many factors that help people to appear youthful. For example, you want to eat healthy and continue an active lifestyle. Furthermore, anti-aging products can be that extra boost that a person needs to feel confident.

Coaching Seminars – How Negative Attitude Affects Success?

2010-06-08T14:54:00.001-07:00

There are many differences that divide a successful internet marketer and an unsuccessful marketer. The main difference is a person’s attitude. In fact, a business owner with a great attitude will build a successful business. Generally, there are two responses when the words “coaching seminars” are mention. A person with a positive attitude will want to attend seminars and learn more information. Also, this will give the person a chance to network and exchange ideas. Someone with a negative attitude will quickly make up an excuse not to attend a seminar. Also, this individual will make references to not having time to take from their business to attend a seminar that might not work. If you are trying to accomplish a goal or trying something new then you have to be positive in order to see results.

Most people with a positive attitude have a different outlook on life compared to a negative person. A positive doctor who is looking to make changes in their business will be more successful for many reasons. For example, you will know what to say to a customer to make the customer feel comfortable and want to return for another visit. If you don’t have the skills of having a positive outlook then customers will be unhappy and spread bad reports about the business.

Attending a coaching seminar will help doctors to learn more about social marketing and accomplishing goals. There will be several experts attending the event and a chance to increase business knowledge. In addition, you will have a chance to meet doctors in similar situations and a chance to network. The opportunity is only possible by taking action and gaining a positive outlook on life. Different results will not be accomplished without change. In short, coaching seminars will give you a chance to learn a new skill set and new information.

Boost Your Medical Business with Social Marketing

2010-06-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

Most medical businesses will need some type of advertising budget. It is possible to get free web promotion with social marketing. As a matter of fact, some companies don’t have a large expense account available to launch a domineering advertising campaign. Marketing is one of the largest expenses for a medical practice. Social Marketing has changed the way businesses advertise their business.

One of the ways to advertise your medical practice is through Facebook. This is a great way to attract patients to your medical office. As well as, you will be able to connect with patients on a personal level. Facebook can be used for sharing information about upcoming events and news related to the medical business. In addition, this will allow you to advertise the business for free and instead of money going towards advertising. You will have to build a fan base by posting on a regular basis and providing helpful information for people that are fans of the medical business.

Twitter is another way to attract patients and to build relationships. Patients are able to log on at anytime and find information on the medical practice. As well as, twitter can be used to advertise the medical practice website and any specials going on at the business. The way of social marketing gives the patient a medium for interacting with the doctor. In addition, you can answer any questions that a patient may have about the services provided or about a condition.

The way people receive information is different from ten years ago. Most people heard about a business or a product through the news, media or radio. This has changed with social marketing. In short, you are losing out on business by not taking advantage of social marketing.

HCG Hormone – Do You Want To Shed Pounds Fast?

2010-06-03T20:10:00.000-07:00

The HCG hormone is a weight loss plan that is changing people’s lives. Before the hormone, many people idea of losing weight consist of exercising every day and eating a low calorie diet. Eating healthy combine with cardio will eventually help a person to lose the extra weight. Many people are busy dealing with their daily stressful life of family and work. It can be hard to keep up a daily workout schedule and take out the time to make a healthy meal each night. This will lead to not seeing results or losing any weight. The HCG hormone makes it possible to lose weight without interrupting a person’s daily routine. The diet plan will allow people who want to lose weight to finally reach their goals.
HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin which is a hormone that was discovered by Dr. ATW Simeons. Dr. Simeon spent years working with pregnant women. In addition, the hormone breaks down the food into nutrients to sustain the woman’s body and the baby’s health. Most pregnant women are able to a lot of food without gaining a lot of weight because of HCG. Dr. Simeon was able to conclude that the HCG hormone can prevent people from losing weight and develop a plan that use the hormone for weight reduction.
Most people gain weight because their metabolism is unable to burn all of the fat that the body takes in on a daily basis. This will cause the body to store fat. Following a HCG diet plan will work to break food down into nutrients or the wastes will be flush out of the body. In short, the HCG hormone is unable to work alone and must be combined with a special diet plan that consists of low calorie/protein/fiber diet.

Self Healing – The Power of the Body

2010-06-02T15:53:00.000-07:00

Many people don’t know what to expect when walking into a chiropractic office for the first time. You should walk into the office with a positive attitude and not doubting the effectiveness of the treatment. The chiropractor will have a consultation with the patient and tell the patient how he will be able to help with the ailing condition. Many people come into the chiropractic office looking for an immediate cure. Chiropractic care is not a cure.

This treatment is not a cure for pain or diseases. The chiropractor will perform an adjustment to align the spine and to remove any nerve interferences. After an adjustment, the right nerve messages will be able to travel down from the brain to the spine and reach other organs. Now, the body has the power to self heal. The doctor will provide the patient with a care schedule to follow for at home treatment.

Discovering the wonderful art of alternative medicine

2010-06-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

We live in very exciting times - as technology continues to grow , we have seen some absolutely amazing advances and, although "standard" western medicine certainly does have a place in our lives - it seems as though alternative medicine has also seen a marked increase.

For many of us, taking meds for just about every pain or illness we have may no longer be the right answer and, because of this, we are on a quest to discover alternative methods to treat our bodies - which do not include medication or invasive procedures.

This is where chiropractic services come in. Chiroprators have often been found to be THE solution to many of your chronic (and not so chronic) problems and pains. Through a series of gentle manipulations, chiropractors can help your body heal itself - by targeting the root of the problem and NOT only the symptoms.

I am a huge believer in the restorative powers of chiropractic procedures and encourage you to seek out your own chiro. You will be amazed at how better you feel.

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Endorsements for our Marketing System keeps coming

2010-06-01T02:47:00.000-07:00

Helping you achieve the ultimate in success is our number one priority. When it comes to business marketing - we are the best - but don't take our word for it!

Kristi Frank of Donald’s Trump’s Apprentice Season 1 Endorses Dr. Chandler George, Catchfire Marketing System of Success

We are big fans of shows like The Apprentice because of their dedicated focus to "all things business". We are truly proud to be endorsed by these two contestants from Season 1 and encourage you to contact us for more information on how you can get your business to work for you.

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The Art of Healing

2010-05-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

In this day and age, it is a challenge to find some "quiet" time just for ourselves. We spend so much time working on our careers that doing the "fun" stuff makes us feel guilty. The question is "when did it become okay to overwork, overstress and overachieve all the time?". It seems as though nobody really has an answer for this one.

Look at your own life - are you spending enough time doing the things you truly love doing? Do you spend enough quality time with your family? do you end up feeling guilty all the time because you find yourself caught between advancing your career and attending your child's play?

Unfortunately, you are not alone. It is a challenge to take the time to sit still, calm our minds and our breathing and to gently take the time needed to start healing ourselves - from the inside out. The good news is that it can be done - truly.

By taking the time to "make the time" to do it. Nothing will heal a broken soul faster than love, laughter and a little bit of freedom. Think about it.

If you need help with the business side of your life - we can help. Contact us:

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Communication is the healing touch

2010-05-27T06:48:00.000-07:00
Chiropractors hold a deep belief in healing through touch - one on one communication and contact in order to get the flow back into the body.

Really, when you think about it, communication truly is the one way we all "talk to each other" - through a variety of means and ways. Whether it is through a smile or through a touch, we are telling someone about our feelings, thoughts and emotions.

When it comes to running your own business and growing it, the exact same type of principles apply - and through communication techniques, such as social media and marketing, you can get your message out to any target audience you choose.

For more information, please don't hesitate to contact us - we can help you spread the word - one Tweet, Facebook Message or Blog at a time.

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You really don't have to do it by yourself

2010-05-26T06:43:00.000-07:00

Many chiropractors are concerned about their time management, feeling as though they have to do it all "by themselves" - meeting with their patients, taking the time to discuss their medical needs, treating them as well as all of the "business" transactions that go with running a practice.

Hiring, training, doing all that dreaded paperwork, managing the staff, making financial decisions, keeping the books straight and oh yes! finding some quality downtime to spend time with family and friends - all of it can be daunting and challenging.

The good news! you don't have to do by yourself - we are here to help you. Thanks to our many, many years of hands on experience in the medical field, we know what you are facing and have an answer that will work for you.

Don't hesitate to contact us:

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We are endorsed by the best

2010-05-26T06:11:00.000-07:00

We have one goal at Catchfire Coaching - to help you get to where you want to be.

YOU are the most important person to us and we strive to listen to what you are saying, but we also hear what you are not saying.

Sometimes, you might have a general idea of what it is that you want to accomplish with your practice - but are at odds as to how to get there - this is where we come in.

Through one on one coaching on sound business principles such as marketing techniques and how to best use them to your advantage, we can help you refine your business plan - to get you to the top of your game.

In fact, we have done just that for many, many chiropractors as well as other professionals - who are now proud to endorse our business.

We invite you to view this short video for more information.

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Getting THAT edge

2010-05-25T06:19:00.000-07:00

As a busy profesisonal, you are, no doubt, wondering how you can do it all. Between treating your patients (always a number one priority of course) and dealing with the business side - time is in limited supply, especially, if your goal is to expand and grow your business.

What you need is "an edge" something that will truly make you very distinct from everyone else - you need to stand out! We are there to help you achieve each and every goal you have set out for yourself and your business.

Putting all the business tools in your toolbox is the best business decision you can make! and we can make it all happen for you.

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How do you incorporate business with healing?

2010-05-21T05:36:00.000-07:00
One of the questions we often hear is "how can I make make business grow, without jeopardizing the "health and healing aspect" of the practice?

This is an excellent question, and one that clearly shows that for many chiropractors, the health and well being of their patients is always a number one priority.

However, in order to keep healing, the "business side" must also keep growing -you cannot really have one without the other.

Of course, there are some things that can be done to help give structure to your business, but is it really enought?

Thanks to our coaching techniques, we can help you make all the pieces fit in - so that you never feel as though you are taking anything away from your patients - all the while, getting your business plan in place through marketing measures that will simply make your business explode.

Don't hesitate to contact us - we can help.

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WE are everywhere - thanks to technology

2010-05-20T08:10:00.000-07:00

For many chiropractors, looking to someone who is situated locally, for help with both social media and marketing techniques is probably a natural inclination.

The good news is that you can certainly broaden your horizons and hire - just about anyone, located anywhere in the US, thanks to technology. In fact, it may just be an excellent idea to hire "the best" instead of "the one that is closest".

Fortunately, through social media tools, we can be there for you - every step of the way. Giving you all the assistance and support you need when it comes to getting that marketing edge. In fact, we will even give you one on one training on every social media tool out there - making it that much easier to stay in close contact with your entire network of professionals, suppliers, patients and various other contacts.

It really is that simple, so why not visit us at: CATCHFIRE COACHING

Don't just take our word for it!

2010-05-19T05:59:00.000-07:00
At Catchfirecoaching, our goal is to assist each and every practitioner in growing their business.

We do this through a variety of ways, including one on one coaching, as well as by presenting seminars and events that offer the most comprehensive, user friendly and "hands on" learning experiences available anywhere!

In fact, we recently hosted a 2 day event on the importance of social media and marketing techniques and we are pleased to say that it was a complete success - thanks to you!!!

But don't take our word for it, one of our attendees, Dr. Howard Hornsby speaks out.

Contact us for more information on how we can help you -

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We can help you explode your business!

2010-05-18T06:12:00.000-07:00

What is coaching? and more specifically - what is social media and marketing techniques coaching?

Basically, coaching is about mentoring and passing along acquired knowledge on a certain industry, product or service.

Of course, any business person knows that, in order to grow your business, you must focus on a few very key components and one of them is "marketing". However, for many, this important business tool is often misunderstood and incorrectly used - turning a wonderful business opportunity into a waste of money.

Combining marketing techniques with social media is certainly the way to go for the 21st century. nothing has proven to be more efficient and, if you are goal oriented, you will be happy to hear that these methods produce results.

We can help you pull it all together - to create a marketing plan that will simply explode your business.

Contact us - we can tell you how.

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KNOWING the business from the inside out

2010-05-17T06:41:00.000-07:00

Finding the right person to help you grow your business, through social media and marketing techniques can be tricky - especially since there are quite a few of us out there! practicing this very type of business.

So, how can you make sure to choose the right representative? the one that can best help you get to where you need to be?

The answer is simple - by making sure that you work with someone who "has been there" and "done that".

As a chiropractor, you are definitely in a highly specialized field, which requires its own brand of marketing and its own social media needs. Nobody, absolutely nobody can better understand this than a fellow chiropractor who has had his own practice and has extensive experience managing his own team of medical and non medical staff.

Sure, you could hire the services of some young professional, straight out of business school - but really - is that in your best interest?

If you would like to discuss our services more in detail, please contact us at CATCHFIRE COACHING

We understand YOUR business.

Giving BACK and Helping You Through Our Newest EVENT

2010-05-14T07:20:00.000-07:00

We are happy to work together with you to make your business grow and reach the heights you have always envisioned!

In fact, we are hosting, on May 15 and 16, 2010 an event that you cannot miss!

SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING & INTERNET MARKETING TECHNIQUES in Irving/Dallas, Texas.

In fact, as our way of giving back to you - we have opened our doors to all chiropractic students - and are inviting each and every one of them to join us, FREE OF CHARGE, for the all day event of May 16, 2010.

Our goal is to help you - in anyway that we can. Together we can make it happen!

Contact us for more information at For more information, please visit: CATCHFIRE COACHING

Contact us for your FREE reports on how To Grow and Explode your Business

2010-05-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

We are happy to invite you to contact us at 817-939-8435. We have prepared a report, that we will send you, free of charge, entitled: How to Grow and Explode your Business. This document has been created for professionals in the chiropractic field, who wish to expand their marketing, through social media and other Internet marketing techniques.

Once you have read our report, we can guarantee you that you will want to "dive" right in - and we can make that happen for you - quickly and efficiently.

If you want to stand out and make "your" practice the one with the reputation that everyone else would kill for - then you have come to the right place.

For more information, please visit: CATCHFIRE COACHING

SOCIAL MEDIA EVENT - FREE FOR ALL CHIROPRACTIC STUDENTS

2010-05-12T07:41:00.000-07:00

We are thrilled to invite you to our newest Event - entitled:

SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING & INTERNET MARKETING TECHNIQUES

Date: May 15&16, 2010

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Irving/Dallas, Texas

We are proud to invite ALL chiropractic students, from any chiro college, to join us, FREE of CHARGE, on May 16, 2010!

Take advantage of this free day to discover how you can build and create your own practice through marketing and social media.

For more information, please visit: CATCHFIRE COACHING

Best Practices to Make your Practice Stand out

2010-05-11T06:30:00.000-07:00

As you (hopefully) continue to grow your business, you will see a bigger and bigger need for the implementation of Best Practices.

What is a "best practice" you might ask? Well, according to Wikipedia:

A best practice is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive, or reward that is believed to be more effective at delivering a particular outcome.

We can help you source out and create these new Best Practices, through a series of discussions and analysis!

We exist to make your professional life easier - so why not contact us to find out more.

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GOOGLE can Offer you MAIN REAL ESTATE

2010-05-10T06:28:00.000-07:00

As a chiropractic practicioneer, you want to get the word out about your services and products and the best to do so is through Social Media and, more specifically the GOOGLE search engine.

It is truly amazing to note just how many people automatically go to "Google" as their first and ONLY seach tool - so, it makes sense that you will your practice to be the first to appear under the SEO organic search.

We can help you get there -and stay at the top. Google is one of the most effective and affordable ways to grow your business, in a totally professional manner. In fact, getting known, through Google, will almost always ensure substantial numbers of patients, that will all, in turn, spread the word.

Contact us to get more info - we will be happy to get you to number 1.

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MAY Event - Don't Miss It!

2010-05-07T13:02:00.000-07:00

We are, once again, thrilled to be offering an event that has been specifically designed to help you grow your business - SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING & INTERNET MARKETING TECHNIQUES has been created with your needs and requirements in mind - we WILL give you all the necessary information you are searching for and we will gladly answer any of your questions!

So, make a note - don't miss it.

Date: May 15-16, 2010

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Irving/Dallas, Tx.

Click here for more information - we would love to see you there!

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It is ALL about return on your invesment

2010-05-06T06:45:00.000-07:00

Social media marketing training and coaching - sounds expensive doesn't it? The reality, however, is quite different.

In fact, we can tell you that you cannot afford NOT to consider this type of service if you hope to increase your business, all the while keeping your patients happy and healthy.

Let's face it - your first priority is to heal. This is why you went to school and this is what you have dedicated your life to. If you happen to be a great "entrepreneur" as well - then, that is a bonus! However, in most cases, doctors, such as yourself, need help when it comes to discovering what kind of tools are out there to make your practice "all that it can be".

As for the cost - you might be extremely pleasantly surprised. So, contact us to get more information, we will be happy to discuss our services, as well as our low prices.

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You are Cordially Invited to My Social Media Training & Internet Marketing Techniques Seminar

2010-05-05T05:35:00.000-07:00

I am thrilled to announce that we are, once again, offering our popular Social Media Training & Internet Marketing Techniques seminar!

You will learn all the information, tips and "insider" information that you will need to make sure your practice continues to grow.

This seminar is geared towards the importance of social media and internet marketing for professionals! We will also be answering all your questions - so don't hesitate to make a list of any you may have.

Date: Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16, 2010

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location: Irving/Dallas, Texas

Please visit CATCHFIRE COACHING
for more information.

Finding Your OWN Niche

2010-05-04T05:23:00.000-07:00

Many doctors have asked me "what is social media marketing?" - and the quick answer is - developing methods of communication, that were not possible or even considered, just a few years ago, in order to reach out to people across the world.

Social media marketing can help you spread the word, can help you make sure that people in the US and elsewhere are aware of who you are and how great your services are.

Amazingly, just a decade ago, most of the social media tools we now currently use, and, in many cases, take for granted did not even exist - our job is to help you utilize these tools to your advantage, but also to make sure that you are always on the wave of new technology -ready and willing to discover new methods of marketing that will help you create the business or practice you have always dreamed of.

Contact us, we will be happy to talk with you in more detail: CATCHFIRE COACHING

Creating the Relationships That You Need - Through Social Media

2010-05-03T06:15:00.000-07:00

Life is moving quickly - in fact, just a few decades ago, the "blueprint" for becoming a successful chiropractor and enjoying a thriving practice was substantially different than it is today.

The reality is that being the best chiropractor in the world is simply not enough to make sure that your practice grows and continues to grow. In fact, reaching out to new patients or even existing ones is about building relationships - and, in 2010, this means getting current and riding the continuous wave of social media changes that seem to be happening ever so quickly.

Social media marketing can help you develop and buildt your relationships - in short, we can help you "grow with the times".

Whether you are considering phone apps, Facebook. blogging, Twitter or any other type of social connection - we can make it happen.

So, why not contact us and find out how to get "on top" of the ever growing social media wave.

CATCHFIRE COACHING

Let us do OUR stuff

2010-04-30T01:42:00.000-07:00

Being a chiroporactor has been the dream of our life - and you are finally here! you now own your practice and have a wonderful list of clients. But, you can get so much more! By embracing social media marketing, you can grow your business, offer better services to your patients and increase your practice in so many other ways.

However, YOU are the doctor and your job is to make sure that your patients are healthy and happy - OUR job is to help you get there. We encourage you to contact us to find out how we can help :)

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Chiropractor practices and Social Media - a natural fit

2010-04-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

Blogging, Twitter, Facebook - how on earth can all of these social media tools be helpful to a chiroporactor and his/her practice?

If you are looking to increase your business, without increasing your advertising budget. If you are looking for ways to network and connect with others in your field - and if you are looking to grow your business and your practice then the answer to your question is YES - a RESOUNDING YES!!!!!

Contact us, we can help CATCHFIRE COACHING

MYSTERY SHOPPERS in your practice

2010-04-28T06:20:00.000-07:00

Are you wondering what your patients "really" think about your practice, your services and your staff? If these are questions that have been troubling you lately - we may have the solution you have been looking for.

Indeed, we can offer you the services of "mystery shoppers". These are average, every day people who will visit your practice, speak with your staff and assess what they see, from a totally objective point of view.

Once they have finished their visit, we set up a "debrief", note their comments and draft up a report of their findings, which, is then given to you for review.

Based on the findings, we can then work together on improving the areas (if any!) that may stand out as potential issues.

It really is that simple. We are there to help you - in anyway that we can.

You can reach us at: CATCH FIRE COACHING

Cold Laser Training For YOU and Your Staff

2010-04-27T04:31:00.000-07:00

Offering the best to your patients

Offering your patients the best treatment options - with the most current and up to date tools is a "must" for any chiropractor. Making sure that your patients are happy and healthier when they leave your office is a number 1 priority.

Fortunately, technology is making your life just a little bit easier - especially if you are using the Cold Laser process.

Thanks to http://www.siteproweb.com/catch-fire-1">CATCHFIRE COACHING you can easily get your staff trained on this newest technology. Don't hesitate to contact us.

The Art of Healing - You do the Healing - we take care of the rest!

2010-04-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

Do you own a Healing Center? Perhaps offering your patients a variety of natural healing options such as chiropractic services, massage therapist and, perhaps, other types of alternative medicines?

While these types of centers are absolutely wonderful for the patient, they can often be quite challenging to manage. We can help you get it done. Through a series of coaching sessions, including seminars, we can help you cover off every aspect of owning your own Healing Center.

We can help you get a better handle on the hiring process and how to train your staff.

Thanks to our extensive knowledge, we can offer you insightful and helpful advice that will take the burden off your shoulders - giving the opportunity to do what you do best _ HEAL_

Please check us out at: CATCHFIRE COACHING

We Help YOU find YOUR Niche -

2010-04-23T04:32:00.000-07:00

We are often asked if "all" coaching services are "the same" and the answer is no. At www.catchfireseminar.com we help you focus on finding your own niche - so that YOU can stand out from the rest. This is our philosophy - each chiropractor is different - and each brings something to the table. Our role is to help you discover how to make you and your chiropractic business be all that it can be - by being different and by offering services and products to your clients that are entirely your own.

We can help -

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IT's FINALLY HERE - FREE WEBINAR EVENT

2010-04-22T04:13:00.000-07:00

HEALTHCARE WON'T GO AWAY - BUT YOU MIGHT

Is finally here. Please join us for our FREE Webinar Event which will give help you better understand the role of social media and coaching in today's changing landscape.

DATE: Thursday, April 22, 2010

TIME: 6:00 p.m. (CT)

COST: Free

LOGIN: http://AttendThisEvent.com/?eventid=12395028

Don't miss this important event!

We hope to see you there.

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HEALTHCARE WON'T GO AWAY - BUT YOU MIGHT

2010-04-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

IT'S ALMOST HERE!!

Are you concerned about the effects healthcare might have on your marketing strategies that are currently driving your practice?

You are invited to attend our FREE webinar event entitled: HEALTHCARE WON'T GO AWAY - BUT YOU MIGHT

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010

Time: 6:00 p.m. CT

Cost: FREE

Link: http://AttendThisEvent.com/?eventid=12395028

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HONESTY IS the best policy!

2010-04-20T05:09:00.000-07:00

As a busy chiropractor, managing your practice can be a challenge and making sure that you are compliant in all areas, as dictated by law, can be incredibly time consuming - after all, your FIRST priority always lies with your patient's well being, especially when it comes to making sure that they are made aware of all the various treatment choices they have available to them.

Report of Findings for Chiropractors -Cash Report for increase compliance - patient's choice is a free, online video that can help you get a better basic understanding of the requirements.

If you prefer to spend quality time with your patients and less "drudge" time with the paperwork and the "logistics" of building and managing your own practice, then I can help you get there.

Please don't hesitate to contact me - you can have the practice that you have always wanted.

CATCHFIRE COACHING

FREE Webinar Event - April 22nd, 2010

2010-04-19T04:34:00.000-07:00

I am thrilled to present this FREE webinar event!

WHY HEALTHCARE IS STAYING, BUT YOU MAY NOT!!!!

Please join us for this informative look at a subject that has certainly been controversial, to say the least.

We will take a look at how marketing AND coaching will take on an even bigger role than ever before - as the competition becomes stiffer and the rules tighter.

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010
Time: 6:00 p.m. (CT)
Event
log in: http://AttendThisEvent.com/?eventid=12395028

Cost: Free

Don't miss this important webinar event. We hope to see you there!

The Difference Between "DOING IT" and "TALKING ABOUT IT"

2010-04-16T04:56:00.001-07:00

It is pretty easy to talk about what is going on in the healthcare field - all the pros and cons and, as a matter of fact, many people are doing just that. From your next door neighbor to those "so call" marketing professionals, everyone has an opinion. The thing is - if you haven't actually worked and experienced the healthcare field firsthand - you will never truly know all the ins and outs of the industry, you will never gain insight into the inner workings. Sure, marketing "experts" might be able to talk a good game and they might even have done alot of reading on the subject - but, in reality, all they will really be able to offer up is alot of flash with absolutely no substance. Your practice is about more than just "appearances". You want to give all of your patients the top quality, professional medical assistance they deserve and it all starts with YOU. If you are serious about your practice and want to benefit from an insider's experience, then you will want to contact me

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DEMYSTIFYING Healthcare & You - FREE Seminar

2010-04-15T00:03:00.000-07:00

The word "healthcare" has certainly been brandied around quite a lot in the last few months. While you may have heard endless discussions about the pros and cons - the reality is that nobody is truly addressing the most important question which is "where does healthcare fit into my life"?

Fortunately, you can get some of the answers you have been looking for, by simply registering to attend this free of charge Webinar event entitled:

Why Healthcare is Staying & You are Not

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010

Time: 6:00 p.m. (CT)

Cost: Free

Link: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=12395028

Dr. George will be happy to take your questions - so don't wait, register today!

Do you want the benefits of Social Media Marketing, with none of the Work?

2010-04-09T13:41:00.000-07:00

Well, you are in luck! We can either teach you how to take advantage of Social Media Marketing, OR, we can just show you how it all works, and actually take care of the processes for you. Either way, you are going to be amazed at just how much your practice is going to grow, in a very short amount of time!

When you are ready, contact me at: CATCH FIRE COACHING

5 Tips For Becoming An Early Riser

2010-04-08T14:33:00.000-07:00

by Seth Simonds

If you’d like to become an early riser, there are some things you should know before you run off to set your oft-ignored alarm clock. Here are five tips I’ve discovered to be most helpful in making the transition from erratic sleeper to early morning wizard:

1. Choose to get up before you go to sleep

You’re not very good at making decisions when you’ve just woken up. You were in the middle of a dream in which [insert celebrity crush of choice here] is serving you breakfast in bed only to be rudely awakened by the harsh tones of your alarm clock. You’re frustrated, angry, confused, and surprised. This is not the time to be making decisions about whether or not you should stay in bed! And yet, most of us leave the first decision of our day to be made in a blur of partial wakefulness.

No more! If you want to be a consistently early riser, try making your decision to rise at a specific time before you go to sleep the night before. This frees you from making the decision in the morning when you’ve just woken up. Instead of making a decision, you have only to follow through on your decision from the night before. Easier said than done? Of course. But only for the first few times. Eventually your need for raw willpower to get out of bed will diminish and you’ll be the proud parent of a new habit!

Steve Pavlina suggests you practice getting out of bed during the day to get a few of the “practice sessions” out of the way without the early morning fog in your head.

2. Have a plan for your extra time

Let’s say you’ve actually made it out of bed 2 hours before you normally would. Now what? What are you going to do with all this time you’ve discovered in your day? If you don’t have something planned to do with your extra time, you risk falling for the temptation of a “morning nap” that wipes out all the work you put into getting up.

What to do? Before you go to bed, make a quick note of what you’d like to get done during your extra hours the following day. Do you have a book to write, paper to read, or garage to clean? Make a plan for your early hours and you’ll do more than protect yourself from backsliding into bed. You’ll get things done and those results will fuel your desire to build rising early into a habit!

3. Make rising early a social activity

While there’s obvious value in joining a Lifehack Challenge in order to get you started as an early riser, your internet buddies just don’t have enough pull to make your new habit stick in the long term. The same cannot be said for the people you spend time with as part of your early morning routine.

Sure, you could choose to read blogs for two hours every morning. But wouldn’t it be great to join an early breakfast club, running group, or play chess in the park at 5am? The more people you get involved in making your new habit a daily part of your life, the easier it’ll be to succeed.

4. Don’t use an alarm that makes you angry

If we’re all wired differently, why do we all insist on torturing ourselves with the same sort of alarm each morning? I spent years trying to wake up before my alarm went off so I wouldn’t have to hear it. I got pretty good, too. Then I started using a cellphone as my alarm clock and quickly realized that different ring tones irritated me less but worked just as well to wake me up. I now use the ring tone alarm as a back up for my bedside lamp plugged in to a timer.

When the bright light doesn’t work, the cellphone picks up the slack and I wake up on time. The lesson learned? Experiment a bit and see what works best for you. Light, sound, smells, temperature, or even some contraption that dumps water on you might be more pleasant than your old alarm clock. Give something new a try!

5. Get your blood flowing right after waking

If you don’t have a neighbor you can pick fights with at 5am you’ll have to settle with a more mundane exercise. It doesn’t take much to get your blood flowing and chase the sleep from your head. Just pick something you don’t mind doing and go through the motions until your heart rate is up. Jumping rope, push-ups, crunches, or a few minutes of yoga are typically enough to do the trick. (Just don’t do anything your doctor hasn’t approved.)

If you live in a beautiful part of the world like me, you might want to use a bit of your early morning to go for a walk and enjoy the beauty of the world around you. If you have a coffee shop open within walking distance, dragging yourself out of bed for a cup of coffee to savor on your walk home as the world wakes around you is a wonderful experience. Try it!

Still wondering how much this is going to cost?

2010-04-07T14:28:00.000-07:00

I think the better question is, "How much are you going to gain by using our services?" We all know that one of the more expensive aspects of owning your own business/practice, is the marketing. If no one knows you are available, then no one will show up looking for your services. Right? That is what we are here to help you with.

When you are ready to increase your practice, ten-fold, contact me:
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Managing Asthma with Natural Medicine

2010-04-06T14:14:00.000-07:00

By Randall Neustaedter

Natural medicine can significantly strengthen immune function, preventing asthma attacks and even curing the underlying cause of symptoms. The most successful approach to asthma, and the easiest for parents to adhere to, is constitutional homeopathy as practiced by an experienced, certified, classical homeopathic practitioner (see www.homeopathicdirectory.com ).

The constitutional medicine is a single substance that corresponds to the overall picture of a child's physical symptoms, medical history, general metabolism, and behavior. A skilled homeopath will discern the correct medicine and prescribe it in a single dose on sugar pellets or in repeated daily doses of a liquid solution. The typical effect of homeopathic care is a gradual reduction in asthmatic and other respiratory symptoms and the improvement of overall health, with less need for conventional drugs.

A homeopath usually schedules a one-hour initial appointment with one or both parents and the child. That interview will include a detailed history of the asthma, respiratory illnesses, and allergies, including factors and conditions that stimulate symptoms, the time of day when coughing occurs, food triggers, types of weather that aggravate respiratory problems, and the nature of the child's coughs. Such apparently inconsequential details as a child's favorite foods, sleep position, fears, expressions of anger, nervous habits, reaction to change in temperature, and a whole range of idiosyncracies, are also considered in the initial interview. The homeopath decides which of these details best characterize the individual child and chooses the medicine based on this encompassing view. At the end of the interview, the homeopath will prescribe the proper medicine and any other appropriate interventions.

Conventional asthma medication should continue during the beginning of treatment; symptoms should be clearly stabilized before the ongoing drug regimen is gradually reduced. Homeopathy has several prescribing techniques to ensure that conventional drugs do not antidote or interfere with homeopathic medicines.

During a follow-up visit in two to four weeks, and usually monthly for several visits after that, the homeopath reviews symptom recurrence and improvement to determine whether the treatment has been effective. A medicine may need to be repeated or changed over the course of several months based on this evaluation of progress. The goal is a consistent lessening and even complete absence of symptoms. Cure is defined as a year or more without any symptom recurrence.

Oriental medicine and Chinese herbs have the ability to directly strengthen immune function. The disadvantage of herbs is their bad taste, and the most effective strategy for children is to mix liquid extracts of herbs with juice to improve their taste. A licensed acupuncturist experienced in the treatment of children can assess an individual child's needs and prescribe an herbal formula to relieve congestion and build immune function. The correct formula will adjust the child's energetic imbalances and strengthen weaker areas of energy that have led to decreased resistance and heightened susceptibility to allergens. The result is reduced symptoms and increased resistance to infections. An oriental medicine practitioner may also suggest a course of acupuncture, depending on the child's age and willingness to have treatment with needles. (For a list of practitioners, see www.aaom.org [nationwide] and www.csomaonline.org [California].)

Classical homeopathy, with its 200-year history of treating asthma, and oriental medicine, with a 3,000-year history, are the most consistently effective forms of natural medical treatment for childhood asthma. Both have also been proven effective for asthma treatment in double-blind clinical studies

Homeopathic Treatment at Home
Of all the natural home treatments available, homeopathic medicines offer the quickest relief and are easiest for children to use, because they taste like sugar. Homeopathic medicines have no side effects, dangers, or dosage complications, nor will they interfere or interact with conventional asthma medications. Parents can feel totally confident in the safety of homeopathic medicines. Overdosing is impossible; a child could swallow an entire bottle of any homeopathic medicine and never suffer an adverse reaction.

The effectiveness of homeopathy, of course, depends upon selecting the correct medicine for the symptoms. The process of choosing the right medicine for an asthma attack is simple enough, involving finding the closest match between the child's symptoms of coughing and wheezing and the description of symptoms for each medicine. A homeopathic practitioner can suggest a list of acute medicines that will be most appropriate for a particular child's symptoms. Otherwise, parents can read through the list of symptoms associated with each of the medicines described here and keep on hand those that sound most like their child's symptoms.

The general rule for prescribing any acute homeopathic medicine is to repeat the dose until symptoms improve, then stop and observe. If symptoms return, begin the medicine again. For asthma and cough, if no improvement is noted within 24 hours, re-evaluate the medicine and change to an alternate prescription. If symptoms change markedly after the prescription of the first medicine, then also re-evaluate and consider a second medicine. If a respiratory infection changes form, for example from a runny nose to a deep chest cough, it is often necessary to switch medicines. Since asthma symptoms tend to recur in the same form in an individual child, parents soon become adept at choosing medicines that work best for their child.

The following list separates medicines for dry and loose coughs. This is a relatively arbitrary distinction, since children may have both dry and loose cough at different times of the day. (Coughs tend to sound more congested during the night and morning when the child is lying down and mucus collects in the throat.) A tight, high-pitched, ringing cough can be clearly distinguished from a deep, rumbling, fluid-filled cough. Each of these medicines also addresses wheezing and chest tightness.

All homeopathic medicines should be given in the 30c strength. The amount of medicine administered is not critical; any amount will work equally well. A typical dose is two pellets every two to three hours, more often if wheezing is severe. However, when wheezing worsens, parents will be using conventional medications, which should also relieve symptoms quickly, making more frequent repetition of homeopathics unnecessary.

Dry Cough
1. Lobelia is the first medicine to think of when wheezing is accompanied by short, dry coughs. Shortness of breath is brought on by exposure to cold air and any exertion. The chest is tight and constricted.

2. Cuprum metallicum is characterized by spasms, spasmodic coughing, and spasmodic vomiting. These children feel a painful constriction of the chest. Their cough is better from drinking cold water and worse in hot weather.

3. Kali carbonicum . Children must sit up and lean forward in order to breathe more easily. Typically, they wake at 2 or 3 a.m. with a dry cough and wheezing. They must have open air when an attack occurs, but the cough is often brought on by cold weather.

4. Sambucus. Sudden spells of asthma that resemble croup in their intensity. The child awakes nearly suffocated, gasping for air until the attack passes. These sudden, dramatic attacks usually occur at night, with a hollow dry cough, which is worse lying down and worse in cold air.

Loose Cough
1. Ipecacuanha corresponds to more childhood asthma symptoms than any other medicine, including racking, rattling coughs, with rumbling in the chest, wheezing, and coughing with every breath, accompanied by nausea, gagging, or vomiting. Attacks occur in warm or damp weather, and symptoms improve in the open air. Mucus collects in the throat or chest, causing a loose gagging cough. Loud bubbling noises from congestion can be heard in the chest.

2. Antimonium tartaricum . There is a great deal of mucus in the chest, and very little is expectorated. Children seem weak and wheezy and appear sicker than those who need Ipecac, though the Ipecac children may have more rumbling chest sounds. Children must sit up to breathe. The chest rattles and the cough is loose, worse in the evening and at night.

Acupressure
Massaging specific points on a child's body during asthmatic episodes helps to relieve cough, induce relaxation, and decrease wheezing. The techniques fall into two categories: pressing on acupuncture points and massage of acupuncture channels. Both are simple, straightforward, and require no training.

There are six important pressure points for the relief of asthma symptoms (see list below). With your child lying down, apply finger pressure to the points on both sides of the body, simultaneously if possible. Hold for about two minutes, or hold for ten seconds, release for ten seconds, and repeat ten times. The points may be tender. Apply pressure without causing undue pain.

1. Lung 1 opens blocked energy in the lungs; located on either side of the chest in the soft space just under the lateral head of the clavicle (collarbone).

2. CV 17 clears the lungs and disperses congestion; located in the center of the chest at the level of the nipples.

3. Pericardium 6 opens the chest; located in the center of the palmar surface of the forearm, two child-sized finger breadths above the crease of the wrist.

4. Ding chuan is a specific point to relieve asthma; located on the back, just below and lateral to the most prominent vertebra at the base of the neck (at T7).

5. Liver 3 is a calming point that brings energy down out of the chest; located on the top of the foot, in the depression at the junction of the first and second toes.

5. Stomach 40 relieves congestion; located just lateral to the shinbone at a level half the distance between the prominent bones at the knee and ankle.

Tui na pediatric massage is soothing and effective for symptom relief in infants and children up to 12 years old. It involves repetitive massage, 100 strokes at a time, repeated two to three times daily. For massage of the limbs, do one side and then the other. Young children respond especially well to tui na.

1. Ring finger. Rub the palmar surface of the ring finger in a straight line in one direction only, from the second knuckle to the fingertip.

2. Chest. With thumbs together at the midpoint of the chest between the nipples (CV 17), and hands wrapped around the chest, push the thumbs out towards the nipples.

3. Back. With thumbs on the medial border of the scapulae, and hands wrapped around the back, push apart the curves of the scapulae with thumbs moving in one direction, from above to below.

4. Forearm. Use only if the child does not have a fever. Rub along the lateral edge (thumb side) of the long bone of the forearm (radius) in one direction only, from wrist to the elbow

You've got a new patient, now what?

2010-04-05T14:19:00.000-07:00

When you have a new patient, your first step will be to do your consultation, exam and x-rays if needed, and then you will do your "Report of Findings". This will help you to explain to your new patient, exactly what his or her symptoms are pointing to, and exactly what the course of action is that you would like to take in order to relieve them of their pain.

In this video, I will take you through a thorough "Report of Findings", and show you exactly how I would do it. When you are ready for more coaching, remember you can find me at:
CATCH FIRE COACHING.

What is Social Media Marketing?

2010-04-02T14:32:00.000-07:00

You've heard about it. You know other doctors who are achieving amazing growth within their practices because of it, but do you really know what Social Media Marketing really is? Well, now is the time to ask all of those questions you've been wondering, and finally get the answers you've been looking for.

I am here to help you! CATCH FIRE COACHING

Worry Accelerates Your Risk of Alzheimer’s

2010-04-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

Posted by Dr. Mercola

If you are a constant worrier or don't handle stress in a healthy manner, you may be in a higher bracket of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. While the origin of the link between stress and Alzheimer's remains unclear, researchers stated that it is likely that chronic high levels of stress hormones may result in damage to the regions of the brain that are responsible for regulating behavior under stress and memory.

The study consisted of asking over 1000 people about their tendencies to experience bouts of worry and stress. The participants were evaluated after three to six years to see whether or not they developed Alzheimer's disease.

The study revealed two key findings:

The participants who were more prone to feelings of stress were more than twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease
The link between stress and Alzheimer's was more predominant in white participants

It was also discovered that each individual is able to deal with psychological stress in varying degrees. Researchers advised that if you know a loved one who seems to be unhappy on a regular basis to urge them to seek out a qualified mental health professional.

One expert noted that this was the first study to examine the possible connection between stress and Alzheimer's disease among the African American population and stated that the findings underscore the importance of including racial and ethic minorities in these types of studies.

How much is this going to cost?

2010-03-31T14:47:00.000-07:00

Now that you see what you are missing, you have to be asking yourself if this is something you can afford to add to your marketing budget. The real question is, "Is this something you can afford to NOT add to your marketing budget". When you compare the price of using our services, versus, say, advertising in the newspaper, you will see a huge difference in the amount you actually spend, and the amount of business you are generating.

When you are ready to get started on really maximizing your marketing dollar, contact me at: CATCH FIRE COACHING

Why Smart Businesses Use Blogs and Social Media to Grow Their Businesses

2010-03-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

by Dr. Patrick MacNamara

Do you run a small business? If so, is blogging part of your marketing strategy? What about other social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube?

If you’re still a skeptic sitting on the fence, then let me point you to several resources to help catalyze change in both your mindset and business which, in return, should assure you that you’ll be in business well into the future.

The first resource comes from none other than Technorati.

Every year since 2004, Technorati has produced an extensive report titled State of the Blogosphere.

Their most recent report, State of The Blogosphere 2009, has some amazing insights and statistics.

For example, here’s a direct quote from the Introduction to the State of the Blogosphere 2009 report:

In a world that’s constantly changing — shocked by financial catastrophe and political upheaval, yet still moving faster every day — not much is constant. But as the 2009 State of the Blogosphere survey demonstrates, the growth of the blogosphere’s influence on subjects ranging from business to politics to the way information travels through communities continues to flourish. In a year when revolutions and elections were organized by blogs, bloggers are blogging more than ever, and the State of the Blogosphere is strong.

In Day 1 of their report, Technorati continues with the breakdown of blogger demographics.

Here’s a small example:

Two-thirds are male
60% are 18-44
The majority are more affluent and educated than the general population
75% have college degrees
40% have graduate degrees
One in three has an annual household income of $75K+
One in four has an annual household income of $100K+
Professional and self-employed bloggers are more affluent: nearly half have an annual household income of $75,000 and one third topped the $100,000 level

But, instead of regurgitating Technorati’s entire report, make sure you spend solid time reading through the report. As a small business owner, you’ll walk away with the information you need to make an intelligent decision if blogging is right for you.

If you still need more help, then consider this …

Due to the decline of newspaper subscriptions, both national and local newspapers are in a world of hurt.

However, through thought leadership and innovative thinking, one newspaper decided to blaze a new path in cyberspace.

Founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, The Huffington Post, touted as the Internet newspaper that provides news via blogs and video commentary, was launched on May 9, 2005.

Since that time, their success has been staggering.

According to Nielsen NetRatings, The Huffington Post had 8.9 million unique visitors in February, 2009. According to Google Analytics, The Huffington Post has 22 million unique users each month. Technorati ranks The Huffington Post the most linked-to blog on the Internet.

Also, consider this …

In August 2006, The Huffington Post announced that SoftBank Capital would invest $5 million in the site, which had grown in popularity in only a year, to help expand it. Plans included hiring more staff to update the site 24 hours a day, hiring in-house reporters, and a multimedia team to do video reports.

The site now has invested in Vlogging, or video blogging, with many of the site contributors contributing via video, and capturing clips in the media and posting them on the site.

In November 2008, The Huffington Post completed a $15 million fundraising from investors. The money will finance expansion including more journalism and the provision of local news across the United States.

How did they accomplish such a feat with other newspapers dying on the vine?

Through utilizing the power of a blog and social media networks!

I could continue ad nauseum. There are numerous case studies and a plethora of data substantiating the legitimacy of blogs as an extremely viable and lucrative business strategy.

However, the above links should provide you with plenty of information to get started learning about this powerful medium.

What is Internet Marketing?

2010-03-29T13:24:00.000-07:00

We know that in order to be successful in this world, when it comes to your business, the most important thing you can invest in, is marketing. How much, and what type of marketing investments you choose, are completely up to you. We are convinced that you are going to find that you get the most bang for your buck when you choose to go the way of Internet Marketing.

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Worried about healthcare changes?

2010-03-26T14:01:00.000-07:00

There are many in our industry who think they are doing very well with their practices. In reality, this may or may not be true. It depends on your idea of what "very well" is.

I can help you prepare for your future, with the upcoming changes in healthcare, as well as the present state of your practice. Together we can make your practice, the practice you always dreamed it could be.

When you are ready for my help, and are ready for change, contact me! CATCH FIRE COACHING

7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You

2010-03-25T14:34:00.000-07:00

-- Jeanna Bryner

Our personalities do more for us than determine our social circles. Temperament can impact a person's physical health.

"The idea that behavior or personality traits can influence health is one that's been around for a long time. We're just now getting a handle on to what extent they do," said Stephen Boyle of Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.

From those with a chill demeanor to the completely frazzled types, mental factors are ultimately tied to physical health. And while a highly neurotic person might deteriorate more quickly than others, not every character trait will kill you. Some might even boost lifetimes.

7. Cynicism

Cynics who tend to be suspicious and mistrustful of others, a character trait that scientists refer to as hostility, may have an increased likelihood of developing heart disease. "These aren't necessarily hot-headed people, but people who are more likely to read into people's behavior as some hostile motive," Stephen Boyle said during a telephone interview.

In a study of more than 300 Vietnam veterans who were healthy at the study start, Boyle found that those who scored high on measures of hostility were about 25 percent more likely to develop heart disease.

Boyle and his colleagues think that hostile individuals might experience more stress, which can cause spikes in an immune-system protein called C3 that has been linked with various diseases, including diabetes. In fact, the participants with higher scores on hostility showed an increase in these proteins while the non-hostile men showed no such increase.

6.Lack of Meaning

If you lack a sense of purpose, your stay on Earth could be truncated. A study involving more than 1,200 elderly participants who didn't have dementia at the study's start found that those who indicated having a high purpose in life were about half as likely to die over the study period, which lasted up to five years. The results, published in the June 15 issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, held regardless of a person's age, sex, education and race, along with level of depression and neuroticism.

"Persons with high purpose readily derive meaning from and make sense of the events of their lives, and likely engage in behaviors and activities that they deem important," said study researcher Patricia Boyle of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago.

Some other research has suggested that people with a higher sense of purpose may have different levels of stress hormones, better heart health or improved immune systems, though more research is needed to firm up any of these biological mechanisms, she said.

The opposite also holds: "The findings from our study suggested that people who no longer set and work actively toward goals or enjoy their day-to-day activities (how they spend their time) are those with greater mortality risk," Boyle told LiveScience.

5. Fretting

People who are highly neurotic -- constantly worried and anxious, and prone to depression -- die sooner on average than their chill counterparts. And a recently reported study of nearly 1,800 men followed over a 30-year period suggests that's partly because neurotics are also more likely to smoke. Perhaps having a cigarette eases anxiety, said study researcher Daniel Mroczek of Purdue University in Indiana, adding that such a short-term payoff might not be worth it if it kills you down the line.

4. Lack of Self-control

Late for appointments? Can't keep your desk organized? No self-control? These seemingly benign qualities could take a toll on your health.

A review of more than 20 studies and nearly 9,000 participants revealed people who are conscientious -- organized and self-disciplined, as opposed to impulsive -- live two to four years longer than others. Study researcher Howard S. Friedman of the University of California, Riverside, suspects the boost in lifetime can be attributed partly to the fact that highly conscientious individuals are less likely to smoke or drink to excess, and live more stable and less stressful lives. The study is detailed in a 2008 issue of the journal Health Psychology.

3. Anxiety

The jitters can put a strain on your noggin, research suggests. Compared with the highly frazzled, individuals with a mellow demeanor who are outgoing may be less likely to develop dementia, which can be caused by Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. The claim is based on a study that followed more than 500 elderly individuals for five years. Among the outgoing extroverts, dementia risk was 50 percent lower for participants who were calm compared with those who were prone to distress.

2. Gloom and Doom

The gloomy, inhibited person is not just at a disadvantage socially, but also physically.

A preliminary study of more than 180 patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (plaque buildup in the arteries) showed participants with so-called type D, or distressed, personality, had an increased odds of dying sooner than other people. Type-D people are more likely to experience negative emotions while at the same time hold in their feelings.

The researchers, who detail their work in the August issue of the journal Archives of Surgery, suggest the personality type is linked with the body's immune system as well as stress response system.

1. Stress

Whatever you do, don't let this list worry you! Research is showing that prolonged stress can be deadly, and if it doesn't do you in, workplace stress can increase your chances of heart disease, flu virus, metabolic syndrome and having high blood pressure.

A study of nearly 700 Israeli workers found that those who experienced job burnout (when work stress becomes unmanageable) were nearly twice as likely as others to develop type 2 diabetes, in which a person's body becomes resistant to the sugar-regulating hormone called insulin.

And while a job promotion might boost your income, it also stresses you out. British researchers recently found that when people get promoted, they suffer on average about 10 percent more mental strain and are less likely to find time to go to the doctor.

Are you having troubles with your staff?

2010-03-24T13:53:00.000-07:00

We can most definitely help with troubles with your staff! We can help you from the very beginning in your hiring process, on up to where you are now with your current staff. We will help you by using role playing games, webinars, and simply by educating your staff on the expectations that are placed on them.

What you need is a staff that is in line with the needs of our practice, and we can help you get just that! CATCH FIRE COACHING

U.S. Gets Annual Health Checkup

2010-03-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

By LiveScience Staff

U.S. residents are living longer and in some respects healthier thanks in part to a dramatic increase in the use of medical technology and soaring rates of body part replacements, according to a new report that offers a statistical snapshot of the nation's health.

The use of advanced imaging procedures such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or PET (positron emission tomography) scans "increased dramatically," the report concludes.

"Between 1996 and 2007, there was more than a threefold increase in the number of visits per population to physicians' offices that had these advanced imaging technologies provided, and there was a fourfold increase in these advanced imaging technologies ordered or provided during emergency department visits," said Amy Bernstein, a health statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of the report.

"Medical technology in all its various forms has improved both the quantity and quality of many, many peoples' lives," Bernstein said.

Over the past decade, life expectancy in the United States has increased 1.4 years, reaching 77.9 years in 2007.

But with obesity and related ills on the rise, the nationwide health checkup offers mixed messages.

The wide-ranging report, released this week, analyzes data that is for years prior — representing the most recent years for which data has been fully analyzed in each case.

Among the findings:

No surprise, but body part replacements are climbing. Knee replacements soared 70 percent among the 45-plus age group, from 26.5 procedures per 10,000 people in 1996 to 45.2 per 10,000 in 2006.

Drugs administered to combat diabetes increased 50 percent from 1988-1994 to 2003-2006, among those age 45 and up. Use of statin drugs to lower cholesterol among this age group increased almost tenfold. Other studies have found soaring rates of obesity in recent years, and obesity causes diabetes and heart problems, as well as raising the risk for certain cancers and a suite of other health problems.

The number of kidney transplants jumped 31 percent from 1997 to 2006. Liver transplants hiked up by 42 percent.

One of the most interesting findings, Bernstein said:

"Among adults, about 30 percent of them report that they almost always or often had trouble sleeping in the past month."

What is internet marketing?

2010-03-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

Have you been hearing a lot about "internet marketing" but have no idea what it is, or how to get started? I am here to help clear things up for you, and to help you get started using the internet to market your practice. You are going to be amazed at how simple this is, and how much bigger your practice can be!

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You Will Soon Be Able to Monitor Your Vital Signs on Your Smart Phone

2010-03-18T14:17:00.000-07:00

posted by Dr. Mercola
In the near future it could be that the only place you’ll be able to see a stethoscope will be in a museum. These devices, once mainstays of modern medicine, are quickly being replaced (along with many of their archaic cousins) by far more advanced technology that can monitor not only your heartbeat, but seven vital signs all at the same time.
Better still, this monitoring can take place outside of your physician’s office, while you workout, sit at your desk at work or even while you sleep.

Your doctor needn’t even be present. When you go to check your email, you’ll be able to monitor your blood pressure, temperature, glucose levels, sleep patterns, energy expenditures, and more.

This is the next level of taking control of your health!

Making Strides Toward Consumer-Driven Health Care

What’s most exciting about the wireless health care revolution is that it puts you in control, allowing you to track and monitor your health. This gives you vital information like never before, and you can use this information strategically to prevent chronic health conditions.

Just as many people now keep track of their fitness programs or calorie intake, and adjust them accordingly to lose or gain weight, you’ll be able to track fluctuations in other vital signs and make informed health choices.

Further, if you’re one of the 100 million Americans already living with a chronic health condition such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure, wireless technologies may be able to detect important shifts in your health sooner, allowing you to have an early warning that there’s an impending problem.

These applications are picking up where conventional medicine has dismally failed … they are offering a streamlined approach to disease prevention … that is, provided you use the information and make the corresponding healthy choices.

The potential is truly endless.

From Prevention to Chronic Disease Management

As Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist with the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation (who, by the way, became one of the most outspoken critics of drug companies), pointed out in the video above, wireless health care will be important for both preempting disease and managing illness.

Alzheimer’s patients could use the “smart band-aids” to help with balance and vital signs, along with offering a way to track their location, for instance.

Asthma patients could track pollen counts and air quality before venturing outdoors, while heart failure patients could benefit from continuous monitoring of their heart pressures, blood pressure and fluid status.

Dr. Topol is the chief medical officer of West Wireless Health Institute, which offers a streamlined explanation of wireless health care that I wanted to share with you:

"Regardless of the factor influencing a condition, wireless technologies offer great promise for helping people stay healthy. Wireless sensors, for example, can detect a 'shift' in health as soon as it occurs.

A patient with high blood pressure can be monitored with a wireless device that picks up changes and sends an early warning to the doctor – preempting complications such as stroke, heart attack, or kidney disease.

Researchers have also developed algorithms that detect individual preference and treatment compliance patterns, making it possible to create personalized applications for end-users that provide timely advice and automated reminders to take medication or modify behavior."

Among the innovations being developed by the West Wireless Health Institute are:

Smart Pill: Wireless sensors embedded on a pill that measure your body’s response to medications.
Smart Patch: A smart “band-aid” that will measure your heart rate and rhythm, calorie intake and expenditure, and hours of quality sleep.

You can expect to see many more innovations coming to the marketplace soon. For now wireless health care is still in the beginning stages, but it is set to explode and will likely become the standard of future health care.

One Caveat and Caution …

I’m a major advocate of technology, and these new developments are not only exciting but set to change health care as we now know it. That said, although the benefits are potentially immense, there is one consideration that I haven’t seen mentioned, and that is the impact of wireless technologies themselves on human health.

I am so convinced of the inherent dangers of wireless technologies (including WI-FI, cell phones, cordless phones, etc.) that I had my new home completely renovated with wired CAT-5 cables a few years back -- so I have no wireless connections at all.

I am concerned that as wireless technologies become increasingly integrated into our lives, including in the management of our health care, it will become even more difficult to avoid exposures to the potentially damaging electromagnetic fields and radiation.

This is a new frontier with uncharted risks … and it will be important to weigh the benefits against these risks as the technologies become available.

For now, I encourage you to continue to take control of your health by making healthy lifestyle choices and staying tuned in to the newsletter for the latest health information and updates for yourself and your family.

It's all up to you.

2010-03-17T14:08:00.000-07:00

When you think of your practice, do you wish someone would just come in and take over your marketing and turn your practice around, or would you rather play a big part in that transformation?

Did you know that the methods that I can teach you are easy to learn, and you will actually be able to do them yourself instead of paying someone untold amounts of money to do it for you?

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Is This the New Silver Bullet for Cancer?

2010-03-16T14:05:00.000-07:00

Posted by Dr. Mercola

Doctors have known that low levels of vitamin D are linked to certain kinds of cancers as well as to diabetes and asthma, but new research also shows that the vitamin can kill human cancer cells.

Researchers took human breast cancer cells and treated them with a potent form of vitamin D. Within a few days, half the cancer cells shriveled up and died.

The vitamin's effects were even more dramatic on breast cancer cells injected into mice. After several weeks of treatment, the cancer tumors in the mice shrank by an average of more than 50 percent. Some tumors disappeared.

Similar results have been achieved on colon and prostate cancer tumors in mice.

Vitamin D Helps Prevent Heart Disease, Diabetes

Further, middle aged and elderly people with high levels of vitamin D could reduce their chances of developing heart disease or diabetes by 43 percent, according to researchers.

A systematic literature review of the relationship between vitamin D and cardiometabolic disorders looked at 28 studies including nearly 100,000 participants.

The studies revealed a significant association between high levels of vitamin D and a decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

All studies included were published between 1990 and 2009, with the majority published between 2004 and 2009. Half of the studies were conducted in the United States, eight were European, two studies were from Iran, three from Australasia and one from India.

Do you really know what's going on in your practice?

2010-03-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

My staff and I are available to come to your practice. We can evaluate your routines, and show you what areas we think would be a huge improvement to your clinic. It's amazing how much you can learn about yourself and your practice, when seen through another person’s eye.

Why not more seminars?

2010-03-12T13:40:00.000-08:00

There are some Internet marketing coaches out there who make all of their money by doing seminars. So you will find that they are having 2-3 seminars a week, all over the country, but not focusing on taking care of you, the client. At Catch Fire Coaching, that is simply not how I operate.

"Without This… You Won’t Efficiently Metabolize Fat*"

2010-03-11T13:55:00.000-08:00

posted by Dr. Mercola

With a 25% chance every cell and tissue in your body has less than optimal levels of this nutrient, your metabolism can be totally inefficient in burning fat, generating energy, and absorbing vital nutrients.* Here’s what to do…

Many experts previously believed that strict vegetarians were the primary group that could develop a vitamin B12 deficiency. If you had adequate stores of this important nutrient in your body, the experts believed you were “safe” for many years from developing a B12 deficiency..

Now we know better.

Vitamin B12 depletion and deficiency are much more common than previously thought, especially in the over-60 population. In fact, it’s believed that almost one in four people over 60 have deficient levels of this vital vitamin.

Equally disturbing are emerging signs that other age groups harbor suboptimal blood levels of B12 as well.

Why is vitamin B12 deficiency such a big deal?

Your body depends on vitamin B12 for a host of functions, including…

Helping to maintain normal energy levels*

Promoting healthy neurological activity, including mental alertness*

Supporting normal homocysteine levels for healthy cardiac function*

Helping to ease occasional stress and sleeplessness*

Maintaining healthy cell growth and repair*

Promoting normal immune function*

Supporting normal metabolism of carbohydrates and fats*

When your blood levels of vitamin B12 are low, one or more of these functions may be disrupted.*

Without adequate blood levels of B12, you can experience symptoms related to low energy, mental fatigue, mood changes, sleep difficulties, and even occasional indigestion.*

Your body relies on the efficient conversion of carbohydrates to glucose – your body’s source of fuel – just like your car needs to be able to use gas to run smoothly. Vitamin B12 plays a major role in that conversion in your body.* Likewise, B12 enables your body to convert fatty acids into energy as well.*

Contrary to what you might have heard, there’s really no solid evidence that supplemental vitamin B12 helps you lose weight.

Overall, vitamin B12 is a nutrient your body cannot do without for efficient, healthy metabolism of fats and carbohydrates.*

How You Become Vitamin B12 Deficient
With each advancing year, your chances of developing a vitamin B12 deficiency increases.*

The two main causes of vitamin B12 deficiency are inadequate dietary intake and the inability of your body to absorb the vitamin from food.*

Vitamin B12 is present primarily in animal sources of food--which is one of the reasons I advise against being a strict vegetarian or a vegan. This deficiency can result in less than optimal nervous system function, a tendency toward nervousness, and even less-than-optimal eye health.*

I recently visited India which is primarily a vegetarian based culture and current studies there show about 80% of the adults are deficient in vitamin B12. However, vegans are not the only ones who can become vitamin B12 deficient.

The older you get the more your digestive system breaks down, especially if you have been following the standard American diet. Specifically the lining of your stomach gradually loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid which releases vitamin B 12 from your food. The use of antacids or anti ulcer drugs will also lower your stomach acid secretion and decrease your ability to absorb vitamin B 12. Infection with Helicobactor pylori, a common contributor to stomach ulcers, can also result in vitamin B12 deficiency.

However the main cause of vitamin B 12 deficiency is a term researchers call food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome. Cobalamin is the scientific term for vitamin B12. This typically results when your stomach lining loses its ability to produce intrinsic factor which is a protein that binds to vitamin B12 and allows your body to absorb it at the end of your small intestine.

If you often feel tired, run-down, and lacking in energy, you're not alone. Low energy is one of our country's biggest health complaints.

Some of the top reasons for this are:

Refined foods sold in grocery stores are depleted of vital nutrients...
Refined foods are loaded with sugar...
Refined foods are full of chemicals...
Refined foods are overloaded with food colorings; and...
Refined foods are loaded with preservatives...

...but it doesn't stop there, either.

Add the harmful effects of caffeine, pollution, conventional therapies, and the stress most of us experience everyday... and you've got yourself a recipe for energy drain.

Well, I'm here to tell you there's a new way to give yourself extra energy.* Actually, a cutting edge way to feel more energized -- without the jitteriness of caffeine.* More on this in a moment.

Now, of course, powering up with extra energy is just one of B-12's many health benefits*. So...

What Critical Health Benefits Does this Vitamin Bring to the Table?

For starters, vitamin B-12 helps folic acid regulate the formation of red blood cells, and helps your body use iron*.

In addition, it is also needed for proper digestion, food absorption, carbohydrate and fat metabolism.* It also helps keep your nervous system healthy by assisting the nerves of your body to function and communicate in an optimal manner.*

But that's not all...far from it!

B-12 also helps in cell formation and cellular longevity.* Plus, it can support female reproductive health, and promote normal nerve growth and development by maintaining the fatty sheaths.* These fatty sheaths play a vital role as they cover and protect your nerve endings.*

What's more, this workhorse of a micronutrient is critical to your circulation and adrenal hormone production -- plus, it helps boost your immunity.* And, oh yes, let's not forget...

Vitamin B-12 supports a healthy mood and feelings of well-being.* And then there's this -- it also provides excellent support for your memory, mental clarity, and concentration.*

Aside from using B-12 to give you an energy boost, when does it also make sense to supplement with this all-important vitamin? Well, there are several good reasons to take vitamin B-12

And the first reason to take it is if you are a carb type or a strict vegetarian.

If You Avoid Meat, You Probably Need to Take B-12

Many people avoid red meats for a large variety of reasons. If you are one of them, you are at a high risk for developing vitamin B-12 deficiency. Why? Because plant sources have virtually no vitamin B-12. And oral forms of B-12 in nearly all supplements are practically useless, as little is absorbed into your bloodstream.
Vegetarians should take this essential micronutrient to ensure an adequate supply of it, because it is found almost exclusively in animal tissues. And, the few plant foods that are sources of B-12 are actually B-12 analogs -- not the form that provides all the benefits of the real deal.
Simply put, an analog is a substance that blocks the uptake of true B-12. The result being, your body's need for the nutrient actually increases.
Furthermore, your body's need for this nutrient may also increase if you take Metformin©. Metformin may interfere with calcium metabolism. And this interference may reduce B-12 absorption, because this absorption requires calcium.
Studies suggest that 10% to 30% of patients taking Metformin show evidence of reduced vitamin B-12 absorption. That's why it is important to speak with your doctor to discuss the best way to maintain B-12 levels when taking this medication.
Now, if getting a good night's sleep has also become increasingly more difficult for you, here's...
What Your Sleeping Difficulties May Be Trying to Tell You!

If you suffer from sleeping difficulties, I recommend taking vitamin B-12 during the day. I believe it can help you.* Here's why.

B-12 plays a vital role in melatonin production.* Melatonin has been called "the sleep hormone" because it is responsible for letting you get a good night's sleep.

As you age, it becomes increasingly more difficult to get a good night's sleep because your body becomes less efficient at making this hormone. And that's why it's a good idea to take B-12 to help you sleep like a baby each night.*

Moreover, a lack of adequate B-12 can have other annoying consequences too.

Do You or a Loved One Experience Any of the Following?

Not many know it, but if you or a family member experience:

Tiredness and feelings of weakness...*
Less-than-optimal nervous system functioning...*
Less-than-optimal eye health...*
Loss of appetite and unintended weight loss...*
Occasional constipation and gas...*
Feelings of mild moodiness...*
Less-than-optimal memory...*
A tendency toward nervousness...*
Less-than-optimal balance...*
Less-than-optimal liver or heart health...*
Premature grey hair...
Occasional digestive issues...

...you may need to supplement with vitamin B-12, even if you eat foods rich in B-12. Oddly enough, that wasn't a typo.

You can eat plenty of meat, poultry, lamb's liver, brewer's yeast, clams, eggs, herring, mackerel, kidneys, milk, dairy products, or seafood -- and still have low levels of B-12. How can that be?

It could be because your body is unable to absorb it from your gut. You see B-12 needs the help of a protein in order to be absorbed. That protein is called intrinsic factor. And because the lining of your stomach makes intrinsic factor, people with less-than-optimal gastrointestinal health often need to supplement with B-12.*

Likewise, most people over the age of 50 have a limited ability to absorb B-12, too. Thus, the need for supplementation

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Are you tired of contracts?

2010-03-10T13:47:00.000-08:00

With all of the cell phone commercials these days, pertaining to contracts, no one wants to be in one if they don't have to. The same is true for any type of service contract, including Social Media Coaching Contracts. You will be happy to know that what I have is an "Agreement"........... the following video will explain more clearly what I am talking about.

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Vitamin Deficiency can lead to depression.

2010-03-09T14:15:00.000-08:00

If you are among the millions of people today who have been diagnosed with depression, but are unwilling to take a prescription "anti-depressant", (which is going to give you unpredictable results, and in some cases can even make your situation worse), then you may be relieved to know that your depression could possibly be helped by simply adding a multi-vitamin that is high in B vitamins. There has been alot of research done on this topic.

This has become a topic that is very important to many of my patients and clients, as well as myself. I have found several articles and studies that have been written to support these claims, and the following is simply one that breaks down the different B Vitamins and what their function is in the body.

Vitamin for Depression? A good vitamin supplement could be just what the doctor ordered.

By Nancy Schimelpfening

Did you ever wish that you could take a vitamin for depression? Well, for some of you it may be just that simple. There are a variety of vitamin deficiencies that can lead to depression symptoms.

The B-Complex Vitamins

The B-complex vitamins are essential to mental and emotional well-being. They cannot be stored in our bodies, so we depend entirely on our daily diet to supply them. B vitamins are destroyed by alcohol, refined sugars, nicotine, and caffeine so it is no surprise that many people may be deficient in these.

Here's a rundown of recent finding about the relationship of B-complex vitamins to depression:

Vitamin B1 (thiamine): The brain uses this vitamin to help convert glucose, or blood sugar, into fuel, and without it the brain rapidly runs out of energy. This can lead to fatigue, depression, irritability, anxiety, and even thoughts of suicide. Deficiencies can also cause memory problems, loss of appetite, insomnia, and gastrointestinal disorders. The consumption of refined carbohydrates, such as simple sugars, drains the body's B1 supply.
Vitamin B3 (niacin): Pellagra-which produces psychosis and dementia, among other symptoms-was eventually found to be caused by niacin deficiency. Many commercial food products now contain niacin, and pellagra has virtually disappeared. However, subclinical deficiencies of vitamin B3 can produce agitation and anxiety, as well as mental and physical slowness.
Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): Symptoms of deficiency are fatigue, chronic stress, and depression. Vitamin B5 is needed for hormone formation and the uptake of amino acids and the brain chemical acetylcholine, which combine to prevent certain types of depression.
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): This vitamin aids in the processing of amino acids, which are the building blocks of all proteins and some hormones. It is needed in the manufacture of serotonin, melatonin and dopamine. Vitamin B6 deficiencies, although very rare, cause impaired immunity, skin lesions, and mental confusion. A marginal deficiency sometimes occurs in alcoholics, patients with kidney failure, and women using oral contraceptives. MAOIs, ironically, may also lead to a shortage of this vitamin. Many nutritionally oriented doctors believe that most diets do not provide optimal amounts of this vitamin.
Vitamin B12: Because vitamin B12 is important to red blood cell formation, deficiency leads to an oxygen-transport problem known as pernicious anemia. This disorder can cause mood swings, paranoia, irritability, confusion, dementia, hallucinations, or mania, eventually followed by appetite loss, dizziness, weakness, shortage of breath, heart palpitations, diarrhea, and tingling sensations in the extremities. Deficiencies take a long time to develop, since the body stores a three- to five-year supply in the liver. When shortages do occur, they are often due to a lack of intrinsic factor, an enzyme that allows vitamin B12 to be absorbed in the intestinal tract. Since intrinsic factor diminishes with age, older people are more prone to B12 deficiencies.
Folic acid: This B vitamin is needed for DNA synthesis. It is also necessary for the production of SAM (S-adenosyl methionine). Poor dietary habits contribute to folic acid deficiencies, as do illness, alcoholism, and various drugs, including aspirin, birth control pills, barbiturates, and anticonvulsants. It is usually administered along with vitamin B12, since a B12 deficiency can mask a folic acid deficiency. Pregnant women are often advised to take this vitamin to prevent neural tube defects in the developing fetus.

Vitamin C

Subclinical deficiencies can produce depression, which requires the use of supplements. Supplementation is particularly important if you have had surgery or an inflammatory disease. Stress, pregnancy, and lactation also increase the body's need for vitamin C, while aspirin, tetracycline, and birth control pills can deplete the body's supply.

Minerals

Deficiencies in a number of minerals can also cause depression.

Magnesium: Deficiency can result in depressive symptoms, along with confusion, agitation, anxiety, and hallucinations, as well as a variety of physical problems. Most diets do not include enough magnesium, and stress also contributes to magnesium depletion
Calcium: Depletion affects the central nervous system. Low levels of calcium cause nervousness, apprehension, irritability, and numbness.
Zinc: Inadequacies result in apathy, lack of appetite, and lethargy. When zinc is low, copper in the body can increase to toxic levels, resulting in paranoia and fearfulness.
Iron: Depression is often a symptom of chronic iron deficiency. Other symptoms include general weakness, listlessness, exhaustion, lack of appetite, and headaches.
Manganese: This metal is needed for proper use of the B-complex vitamins and vitamin C. Since it also plays a role in amino-acid formation, a deficiency may contribute to depression stemming from low levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine. Manganese also helps stabilize blood sugar and prevent hypoglycemic mood swings.
Potassium: Depletion is frequently associated with depression, tearfulness, weakness, and fatigue.

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2010-03-08T11:27:00.000-08:00

There are plenty of Social Media Marketing coaches out there for you to choose from, and many of them are very good at what they do. Many tend to think that they are so good, that they can charge you as much as they want, and you will pay it no matter if it's going to be worth your bottom line or not. I am not one of those coaches.

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2010-03-05T14:36:00.000-08:00

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Placebo effect stronger than doctors believed

2010-03-04T14:33:00.000-08:00

Posted by: Dr. Mercola

In a review of recent research, international experts say there is increasing evidence that fake treatments, or placebos, have an actual biological effect in your body.

The doctor-patient relationship, plus the expectation of recovery, may sometimes be enough to change a patient's brain, body and behavior, experts write. While doctors have long recognized that placebos can help patients feel better, they weren't sure if the treatments sparked any physical changes.

In a review, researchers cite studies where patients with Parkinson's disease were given dummy pills. That led their brains to release dopamine, a feel-good chemical, and also resulted in other changes in brain activity.

Don't you think it's about time?

2010-03-03T14:13:00.000-08:00

Someone told me one time, "If you continue to do the same thing over and over, how can you expect a different outcome?" So, wouldn't you agree that it's about time you started doing something different when it comes to helping your practice grow?

One of the best things you can do, is dive right in to social marketing. Of course, this isn't something that you should do blindly, and this is where I come in. I am a Chiropractor, and a Social Media Coach. I can help you take your practice farther than you ever thought possible. Once of the best ways for you to get started, would be to attend one of my upcoming seminars. The next one is going to be held in Austin Tx, on March 25th. You can find out more information about it and how to reserve your spot at Catch Fire Seminars.

Even Drugs Thrown in the Trash Can End Up in Your Drinking Water

2010-03-02T14:08:00.000-08:00

Posted by: Dr. Mercola

The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.

Tiny amounts of discarded drugs have been found in water at three landfills in the state, confirming suspicions that pharmaceuticals thrown into household trash are ending up in water that drains through waste, according to a survey by the state's environmental agency that's one of only a handful to have looked at the presence of drugs in landfills.

Concerns have grown in recent years over pharmaceuticals reaching drinking water supplies. An Associated Press investigation in 2008 reported that the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans contains minute concentrations of a multitude of drugs.

It's commonly believed that the vast majority of drugs that get into water supplies come from human and animal excretion and that smaller amounts come from flushing them down the toilet or drain, a practice the Food and Drug Administration says is not recommended for most medications.

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2010-03-01T14:01:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-26T14:06:00.000-08:00

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5 Keys to Happiness

2010-02-25T14:39:00.000-08:00

By Greg Soltis, LiveScience Staff

If you're not happy and you know it read along.

You've watched "Seinfeld" re-runs, splurged on yourself and downed pints of Ben and Jerry's. Nothing's helping. Maybe you're one of the 20 million Americans diagnosed with depression, you're bottoming out or you just want something to improve your day.

Here are five ways — some admittedly challenging — to help you get that much-needed mood boost:

1. Pick good parents
In Happy Land, genes trump environmental factors, according to the experts. And a study in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science scores another point for the gene team: Differences in DNA that could explain why some people tend to have an extra bounce in their step might also underlie the tendency to be more emotionally stable and socially and physically active.
Genes do not provide free passes from the doldrums, and other external factors will still try to mow you down. But, heredity could provide some people with a horde of happiness that they can draw from when the good times aren’t rolling.
And Canadian researchers' ability to genetically stifle depression in mice in 2006 indicates that human happiness could one day be improved by manipulating genes. This was the first time science throttled the throes of any organism. Mice bred to be void of the gene, called TREK-1, acted as if they had been downing anti-depressants for at least three weeks.

2. Give it away
It only takes $5 spent on others to make you happier on a given day, according to a 2008 study. And selfless acts can also help your marriage become a more enjoyable experience for you and your spouse.

After performing good deeds, people are happier and feel their life has more purpose. But is the act selfless if you expect something in return? Maybe it just depends on how you look at it.

3. Ponder this
Think of a happy place. And you, too, like Happy Gilmore, might sink that putt and earn back your grandmother's house — or overcome your own hurdle.
Humans are more resilient than we think and can endure trying times, as demonstrated in a 2005 study that tracked mood changes in dialysis patients. They were in a good mood most of the time despite having their blood cleaned three times a week for at least three months. But healthy patients envisioned a miserable life when asked to imagine adhering to this demanding schedule.
As Winston Churchill said, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

4. Work out
Consistently breaking a sweat, along with medication and counseling can help people battling depression by sapping lonely and vulnerable feelings.
Exercise improves one's state of mind in part by affecting the body's levels of two chemicals: cortisol and endorphins. The adrenal glands of angry or scared people produce cortisol. This increases blood pressure and blood sugar, weakens the immune response and can lead to organ inflammation and damage. But working out burns cortisol, restoring the body's normal levels.
Running, biking or using an aerobic exercise machine also causes the brain to release endorphins — the body's natural pain relievers — into the bloodstream. The body foregoes the negative side effects of drugs while still experiencing a natural high. To gain the most from your workout, make sure its intensity reflects your stress level. And challenge your body to continually adapt by varying the exercise’s length and intensity.

5. Live long
If you have the right genes and are selfless, optimistic and active but still find yourself down in the dumps, just give it some time.
A study of 2 million people from 80 nations released in January found that depression is most common among adults in their mid-40s. Among Americans, the worst of times hit women around age 40 and men about age 50.
But with age humans are more inclined to filter out the negatives while focusing on what they enjoy.
Americans in their golden years tend to see the glass as half full, despite their increased doctor visits and chemo treatments. After battling cancer, heart disease, diabetes or other health-related obstacles, 500 independent Americans from age 60 to 98 rated their own degree of successful aging as 8.4 on average, with 10 being the highest in a 2005 study.
Happiness, it seems, takes time.

What is Social Media Marketing?

2010-02-24T14:19:00.000-08:00

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Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain

2010-02-23T14:04:00.000-08:00

By LiveScience Staff

Scientists have identified areas of the brain that, when damaged, lead to greater spirituality. The findings hint at the roots of spiritual and religious attitudes, the researchers say.

The study, published in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, involves a personality trait called self-transcendence, which is a somewhat vague measure of spiritual feeling, thinking, and behaviors. Self-transcendence "reflects a decreased sense of self and an ability to identify one's self as an integral part of the universe as a whole," the researchers explain.

Before and after surgery, the scientists surveyed patients who had brain tumors removed. The surveys generate self-transcendence scores.

Selective damage to the left and right posterior parietal regions of the brain induced a specific increase in self-transcendence, or ST, the surveys showed.

"Our symptom-lesion mapping study is the first demonstration of a causative link between brain functioning and ST," said Dr. Cosimo Urgesi from the University of Udine in Italy. "Damage to posterior parietal areas induced unusually fast changes of a stable personality dimension related to transcendental self-referential awareness. Thus, dysfunctional parietal neural activity may underpin altered spiritual and religious attitudes and behaviors."

Previous neuroimaging studies had linked activity within a large network in the brain that connects the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortexes with spiritual experiences, "but information on the causative link between such a network and spirituality is lacking," explains lead study author, Urgesi said.

One study, reported in 2008, suggested that the brain's right parietal lobe defines "Me," and people with less active Me-Definers are more likely to lead spiritual lives.

The finding could lead to new strategies for treating some forms of mental illness.

"If a stable personality trait like ST can undergo fast changes as a consequence of brain lesions, it would indicate that at least some personality dimensions may be modified by influencing neural activity in specific areas," said Dr. Salvatore M. Aglioti from Sapienza University of Rome. "Perhaps novel approaches aimed at modulating neural activity might ultimately pave the way to new treatments of personality disorders."

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2010-02-22T13:48:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

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Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny

2010-02-18T01:43:00.000-08:00

by Dr. Mercola

Epigenetics is probably the most important biological discovery since DNA. And it is turning the biological sciences upside down.

Now that we realize our fate is not sealed at the twining of our double helix, we avail ourselves to a whole new world of possibilities. There are things we can do to change our genetics, and therefore our health.

But beware -- these changes can be good or bad. It works both ways.

You can improve your genetics or you can damage it.

In fact, you ARE changing your genetics daily and perhaps even hourly from the foods you eat, the air you breathe, and even by the thoughts you think.

You are the "caretaker" of your genetic roadmap.

The problem is, once you understand that there’s something controlling your genes -- that they don’t control themselves but are controlled by epigenetic coding that tells them to be expressed or not expressed -- which is completely controlled by your environment and lifestyle -- it just blows everything out of the water!

For many years we were secure in our beliefs that, no matter what we did to damage ourselves in terms of poor lifestyle choices, it only affected us. Our children would be born with a genetic clean slate.

But now we are learning that this is not true, and epigenetic changes can be passed down for many generations. Each of us has far greater responsibility than we ever imagined!

In the words of Dawson Church, author of The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention:

"It’s not what we don’t know that hurts us--it’s what we think we know that isn’t true that hurts us."

Your Genetics Are Malleable -- Like Clay

Epigenetic "malleability" helps to explain why identical twins become distinct as they age.

Why does one identical twin develop cancer and the other remain healthy when they have identical DNA? Why does one twin become obese and another remain lean?

As you age, your genome does not change but your epigenome changes dramatically, especially during critical periods of life, such as adolescence. It is influenced by physical and emotional stresses -- how you respond to everything that happens in your environment, from climate change to childhood abuse.

The secret is in the methyl groups that overlie the DNA molecule, which is the realm of the epigenome.

When a gene is turned off epigenetically, the DNA has usually been "methylated." When methyl groups adhere to a segment of DNA, they inhibit the gene’s response. Methylation-gone-wrong is now suspected in autism, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

You do not manifest disease merely by a defective gene, but by your epigenome. In other words, whether or not you develop disease is determined by how your genome is being directed to express itself. There are also "master genes" that can switch on and off clusters of other genes.

Scientists have discovered it is easier to make epigenetic changes than to fix damaged genes. Your epigenome is easier to mess up -- but it’s also easier to fix.

That’s good news -- you aren’t doomed by bad genes!

Epigenetic therapy, which is essentially the curing of disease by epigenetic manipulation, involves changing the instructions to your cells -- reactivating desirable genes and deactivating undesirable ones. This emerging field, now in its infancy, may represent the future of medicine.

Mind Over Matter

Just as your epigenome controls the expression of disease -- your mind controls your epigenome.

Therefore, your mind controls your healing.

The science of epigenetics is now beginning to explain things like placebo effect and spontaneous healing, which lacked a scientific basis until now.

Epigenetics literally means "above the genes." And what is above the genes?

Your mind!

One of the scientists on the forefront of mind-body biology is Bruce Lipton. Thanks to Dr. Lipton and other leading voices, the power of your mind is finally gaining the attention it deserves.

Your mind has the power to create or cure disease because your thoughts affect the expression of your genes. Today’s "New Biology" is overlapping with consciousness science and quantum physics, and it’s showing us that we have masterful control over our own lives.

Energy Medicine and Genetics Converge

You are a being of energy, and as such, you have an electromagnetic component to every biological process. Every thought or feeling produces a complex shift in the biochemical make-up of your organs.

According to Blair Justice, PhD, author of Who Gets Sick, genes account for only 35 percent of longevity while diet, exercise, stress and other environmental factors are the major reasons people live longer.

Dawson Church cites the following impressive statistics in his book, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention:

Heart surgery patients who have a strong social support network and spiritual practice have a mortality rate 1/7^th of those who do not.

Studies show that meditating for just 30 minutes per day can boost your mood as much as antidepressants.

Older people with positive attitudes have a 23 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 55 percent lower risk from all other causes.

Clearly, your beliefs, thoughts, and intentions have a much stronger affect on your life than your genes do.

Mysteries of Meridian Tapping Technique Finally Revealed?

Energy psychology techniques such as Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT) and acupuncture are powerful therapies that work with your body’s own electromagnetic system to produce healing. I have been a huge fan of MTT for many years.

Epigenetics helps explain why MTT works so well.

MTT has a direct affect on your genes through your body’s energy field, on a cellular level. By altering the signals to your energy meridians, you can directly influence your cells by affecting their genetic expression. In his book, The Genie in Your Genes, Church provides a very compelling and convincing model for how energy medicine works.

Would you be interested in a technique that allows you to positively impact your genes all by yourself, in 40 seconds or less?

That would be MTT.

If your genes are so mutable that they can change from moment to moment in response to your thoughts and feelings, then anything you can do to create a positive feeling state can profoundly, and immediately, improve your health.

Has science finally discovered the link between your body’s energy field (aka, prana or qi) and disease?

Perhaps!

In order to answer that question, more research is certainly needed into the connections between thought, quantum physics, energy, consciousness theory, and healing.

This area is one of the hottest topics in science today.

Last year, the National Institutes of Health announced it would invest $190 million to accelerate epigenetic research. The list of illnesses to be studied in the resulting grants reveals the scope of this emerging field: cancer, Alzheimer's disease, autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, asthma, kidney disease, glaucoma, muscular dystrophy and more.

Mind Your Thoughts

Since genetics is now intimately linked to mind and consciousness, the key to healing ultimately lies in controlling your beliefs and emotions.

Bottom line: mind your thoughts!

We’ve always taught our children the importance of controlling their behavior. But maybe it’s time to focus more on teaching them how to control what they think and feel, since beliefs and emotions are what trigger the expression of specific DNA.

Behavior will naturally follow.

Even more importantly, what you think and feel may affect the DNA of your children, your grandchildren, and their children.

I can’t say it better than Dawson Church:

"The code imprinted in our DNA, the one thing we thought was for certain, is just waiting for direction by us to change, creating a civilization that brings health, happiness, and vibrancy in ways in which the current medical establishment only dreams of."

Do you have questions about internet marketing?

2010-02-17T14:20:00.000-08:00

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Chiropractic is Health Care, Not Disease Care

2010-02-16T13:40:00.000-08:00

by: Herb Newborg, citizen journalist

Chiropractors have, for the past 112 years, treated sickness and infirmity without the use of drugs and with the goal of avoiding surgical removal or repair of any of the body's organs or structures. Chiropractic's message is that the proactive care of one's body and wise lifestyle choices are necessary to achieve health. Chiropractors have held and maintained this view, even before it became fashionable and long before evidence made it clear that the drug and surgery model of "health care" is really nothing more than "disease care", waiting for disease to occur and then treating the effects. Chiropractic takes a preventive approach to health care: eliminate the cause of disease.

Chiropractors have always maintained that interfering with the transmission of the electro-chemical signals that connect your brain, the master control system for the human organism, to every organ and cell in your body has a detrimental effect on health.

This system is so delicate and of such vital importance that the body has designed the most elaborate set of protection, armor if you will, to protect it. The skull is a protective vault that houses and protects the most sensitive of systems: the eyes, the mouth, the ears and most importantly, the brain. The next critical organ in your body, the spinal cord, is guarded by your spine. This masterpiece of engineering is 24 vertebrae, each one a unique bone, that serves not only as the axis of your musculoskeletal system, giving you the unique ability to walk upright, but also has a unique set of nerves that run through it to every other system of the body through individual holes called foramen.

What travels through the spine and the foramen that protect them is the very essence of your being. From your brain, your spinal cord and the millions of nerves that branch out from it are the core from which your body functions. Before you came into the world, you formed a brain and a spinal cord and developed a body around it. And so it is today that the brain regulates the rest of your body through this delicate system of nerves protected by your spine.

Chiropractors maintain the proper position of these delicate joints and the precious cargo which they protect, your nerve system.

Pressure on the root nerves that leave the spine through the foramen to control and regulate all of the other organ systems of the body can affect millions of nerve fibers. Pressure on the brain stem, where it leaves the skull and enters the spine can also affect millions of nerve fibers. Interfering with these nerve fibers can have disastrous affects on your health.

Chiropractors detect and correct the cause of this interference, allowing your body to self regulate, adapt and heal. The care and maintenance of the spine and nervous system is a necessary component of any natural approach to health and wellness.

Chiropractors have been outspoken opponents of water fluoridation, mass vaccination, over-use of prescription drugs, food additives and have always maintained that it is better to find and correct the cause of disease, rather than merely treat or cover up symptoms.

Today, chiropractors embrace and support the growing body of evidence that health is a result of - a fully functioning nerve system, consuming natural, nutrient rich food, clean pure water, proper exercise, natural sleep and emotional/spiritual well being. A healthy spine allows your body to adapt, regulate and fully realize the benefits of all of these other natural methods of avoiding disease and achieving health. See your chiropractor today to have your spine checked and begin to extricate yourself from the disease care system of treating symptoms

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2010-02-15T14:24:00.000-08:00

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Baker's Yeast: A Promising, Natural Therapy for Cancer

2010-02-12T13:55:00.000-08:00

Posted by: Dr. Mercola

Dr. Mamdooh Ghoneum, a researcher at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, is investigating the potential use of non-pathogenic baker's yeast as a promising, natural therapy for cancer.

For more than two decades, Dr. Ghoneum has pursued a theory that cancer cells self destruct when exposed to small quantities of yeast.

In laboratory tests, Dr. Ghoneum exposed cancer cells to yeast and observed as they ingested the yeast -- through a process known as phagocytosis -- and then died. In later experiments, yeast was injected inside the tumors of mice and, again, he observed a decrease in the size of the tumor mass. Then, in his most recent tests, he examined whether yeast could kill cancer cells in mice that had cancer metastasized to the lung. These tests also showed significant clearance of the cancer cells from the lung.

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2010-02-11T14:36:00.000-08:00

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Acupuncture found effective against depression during pregnancy

2010-02-10T14:23:00.000-08:00

by Vicki Bendure

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Chicago, researchers will unveil findings that show that acupuncture may be an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy.

"Depression during pregnancy is an issue of concern because it has negative effects on both the mother and the baby as well as the rest of the family," said Dr. Schnyer, one of the study's authors.

About 10% of pregnant women meet criteria for major depression and almost 20% have increased symptoms of depression during pregnancy. The rates of depression in pregnant women are comparable to rates seen among similarly aged non-pregnant women and among women during the postpartum period, but there are far fewer treatment studies of depression during pregnancy than during the postpartum period.

Dealing with depression is difficult for pregnant women because the use of anti-depressants poses concerns to the developing fetus and women are reluctant to take medications during pregnancy.

In the study, an evaluator-blinded randomized trial, 150 participants who met the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) criteria for Major Depressive Disorder were randomized to receive either acupuncture specific for depression (SPEC, n=52) or one of two active controls: control acupuncture (CTRL, n=49) or massage (MSSG, n=49). Treatments lasted eight weeks (12 sessions). Junior acupuncturists masked to treatment assignment needled participants at points prescribed by senior acupuncturists. Massage therapists and patients were not blinded. The primary outcome was the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, administered by blinded raters at baseline and after four and eight weeks of treatment. Data were analyzed using mixed effects models and by intent-to-treat.

The results showed that the women who received SPEC experienced a significantly greater decrease in depression severity compared to the combined controls or CTRL acupuncture alone . They also had a higher response rate (63.0%) than the combined controls or CTRL acupuncture alone. Symptom reduction and response rates did not differ significantly between controls. Mild and transient side effects were reported by 43/150 participants. Significantly fewer participants reported side-effects in MSSG than the two acupuncture groups.

"The results of our study show that the acupuncture protocol we tested could be a viable treatment option for depression during pregnancy" said Dr. Schnyer.

Social media for chiropractors

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Have you ever wondered why it is that the other Chiropractors in your town are doing so much better than you are when it comes to business? Is your sole means of advertising the yellow pages? It's time that you stepped into the Social Media Marketing world of today, and make your practice explode!
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2010-02-08T13:59:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:00

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Next To Prayer the Most Powerful Healing Technique I Am Aware of

2010-02-04T14:05:00.000-08:00

as posted by Dr. Mercola

I think it is important to start out with the understanding that I believe that God is the most potent healing force in the universe and that He has provided us with a powerful inexpensive healing tool that we have available to us at all times. That is a personal two-way communication with Him called prayer.

I am absolutely convinced, without question, that prayer is the most powerful therapeutic move one can do. I generally advise people to journal their prayers. You can do this by writing non-stop for thirty minutes.

You can also type your prayers. It is not important to save the journal. In fact destroying immediately after writing may decrease the fear of not saying what one really wants to for fear of it being found. The healing comes in the writing, not the reviewing of it at a later date.

However, it is my experience that either most people do not use this approach, fail to use it effectively, or their prayers do not result in the healing they seek.

I have learned that one of the most profound healing strategies next to prayer involves normalization of the body's electrical circuitry through testing the muscle strength in response to a challenge that is given to it.

I call this type of therapy muscle reflex testing (MRT), as that is how the treatment is performed. Our therapists generally use muscle strength as a guide to help them identify imbalances in your energy system. Yes, you do have an energy system that is every bit as real as your circulatory, nervous and immune system.

Unfortunately traditional medicine does not fully acknowledge this system and not much "scientific" research has been done on it. How do I know this? Medicine is my passion and my hobby.

I also have been writing an international health newsletter for the last three years. Every week I review several hundred studies that were published, so I am quite familiar with what the current "scientific" understanding of health is.

The information discussed in this paper is probably ten to twenty years away from even being studied in traditional medical circles. You may ask, "why is that?" Most of this results from the fact that the original work was developed in the chiropractic profession.

Although the profession overall does a marvelous job of training clinicians with a mindset towards natural healing methods, they do seem to fall short on publishing generating research in traditional medical journals.

This is also complicated by an intrinsic prejudice that most medical doctors have of chiropractic. They seem to view most of them as quacks who are hurting people more than helping them. Many of these doctors are on the editorial boards of the journals and would not be likely to publish a study, even if it were done properly.

Another issue is that the vast majority of chiropractors are more oriented to the practical aspects of medicine. They are interested in applying the results, not in documenting something they are doing that they know works. I believe this is the major reason that there really are currently no good books about this work.

My Initial Exposure To This Type of Work

Anyway, my journey in this alternative healing strategy began in 1998 when I took a training course in Thought Field Therapy. This course opened my eyes to the incredible healing power that God has provided in our brain and nervous system.

When I was in medical school, I became brainwashed with the drug model and would use them frequently for problems that primarily resulted from emotional wounding.

The drug model has come up with some effective tools in saving people's lives, but in my experience they are nearly always a band-aid and rarely address the central foundational cause of the illness.

These techniques offer a completely different approach to healing. They rely on normalizing the abnormal energy blocks that develop as a result of the wounding that we all go through in life.

These blocks tend to short-circuit the normal energy pathways with which we were born. This short-circuiting frequently results in the chronic health symptoms that most people have.

Muscle Testing

You may have heard of muscle testing before. There are many different forms of muscle testing one can use to achieve these results. It started in the chiropractic profession with Dr. Goodhart who had a technique that is widely used today called Applied Kinesiology. There are many variations that are around today.

The actual specific techniques are not critical but our therapists have taken many of the more effective hybrids of Applied Kinesiology such as Total Body Modification (TBM), Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), Applied Psycho Neurobiology (APN), Autonomic Response Testing (ART), Applied Psycho-NeurobiologyPsycho (APN), and Touch for Health. I simplify the naming by just calling it muscle reflex testing.

I once saw a 30 year-old computer engineer who had a meticulously perfect diet and had a chronic rash for ten years. He had spent thousands of dollars on tests and dozens of excellent doctors to try to improve his rash but all had failed.

I performed a test for him that I do for all new patients called autonomic response testing (ART) and within two minutes I found out that his main problem was oatmeal. It turned out he was eating oatmeal for breakfast every morning. Within three days of stopping the oatmeal and doing the other diet recommendations, his rash disappeared. These techniques are absolutely amazing.

How It Works

I really don't understand how this works, but I can offer some suggestions as to speculated mechanisms. The technique's effectiveness seems to be related to using energy reflex points, somewhat similar to acupressure, at specific body sites to neutralize the energy imbalance in the body. There also seems to be a profound normalization that rebalances the autonomic nervous system.

The autonomic nervous system is frequently referred to as the master regulator of metabolism because it controls all the involuntary activities of the body, all the functions of the body that are not under your conscious control.

This would include functions like your heart rate, digesting, breathing, tissue repair and rebuilding, regulation of your body temperature, immune system and countless other functions. Once the autonomic nervous system is rebalanced and improved, many physical aspects of disease have a corresponding improvement.

Depression and Emotional Illness-Most Common Cause of Disease

In the late 1980s, it became very clear to me that depression and other emotional wounding was the major reason why most people became sick. I can't tell you how delighted I was when Prozac first came out.

I thought it was the magic bullet that would turn everyone's life around. This is because I was still operating under the brain washing I had received in medical school.

Well, we all know that truth eventually rises to the surface. Unfortunately, I did not realize this truth until I had put between one and two thousand people on this drug. I was one of the main users of Prozac, long before it became popular in the media.

If you listen to my audiotapes, you will hear the story of how I eventually came to understand the more basic tenets of natural medicine. But fortunately I did wake up to the fact that antidepressants, while useful for some, are never the long-term solution for these problems.

However, most natural medical doctors have no good tools to address these types of problems. Oh yes, there are many approaches one can have to treat emotional illness.

There are symptomatic band-aids such as natural herbs or supplements such as St. John's wort, L-tryptophan or SAMe. These therapies are clearly safer than drugs, and frequently as effective, but they do not reverse the short-circuiting that resulted in the original symptoms.

Traditional Psychotherapy

When I started my initial energy medicine course work, it became very clear to me that it had incredibly profound healing potential. I started to use some of the techniques, but quickly realized that I would get into emotional wounding issues that I did not feel comfortable in addressing. It became very clear to me that the ideal professional for this work would be a competent psychotherapist.

Many of you may have had less than optimal experiences with therapists in the past, as this is quite common. Like any professional, there are good ones and bad. Like traditional medical physicians, most therapists are using simple cognitive tools that are only symptomatically helpful and rarely address the root causes of disease.

I am relatively prejudiced when it comes to traditional paradigms as I have seen so many thousands of patients who have been wounded by traditional medicine. They have removed millions of gallbladders that should not have been taken out, and millions more of ear tubes that have been inserted when simple dietary changes would have provided nearly instant relief in most all cases.

Many also do not know that the fourth leading cause of death in this country is drugs that doctors legally prescribe. Trailing close behind that are accidental deaths in the hospital.

Fortunately, traditional psychotherapists are not as dangerous as doctors and generally do not cause harm. They frequently are able to help people feel better. But in my experience they rarely provide a permanent resolution of the unresolved psycho-emotional conflict and trauma that cause most chronic physical health complaints by short-circuiting the energy system.

Emotional Wounding

Some of us believe that we can "grow out" of our emotional wounds. I am not so certain. I once saw a 72 year-old woman who could not sleep at night for the last 66 years because of nightmares.

When she was six years old she was several feet away from seeing a criminal shoot the face off of her father's best friend. This trauma stuck with her for 66 years and no therapy had been able to resolve it.

This is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder and the muscle resistance testing worked beautifully to resolve this problem in one visit.

Just like this 72 year-old woman, many of us have been wounded in life. If we are stabbed with a physical knife we can see the wounds and sew them up. But if someone uses an emotional knife to wound us, the wounds are not visible to the naked eye; yet they frequently cause more damage by thoroughly disrupting the energy circuitry in the body.

After working with this program for more than one year, I am convinced that it is one of the most innovative, effective and exciting treatments currently available to improve your health. I have been studying health and medicine for over two decades and I have never seen results so consistently astounding.

Mechanics Of Psycho Emotional Treatments

The treatment sessions are 45 minutes long and generally once a week. There is no contract that is signed and one can attend as many or as few sessions as one sees fit. You determine when or if you want to return, preferably in consultation with the therapist.

Some patients have only required one or two visits, while others, with more deep-seated wounding, require longer treatment. However, you are always in control and if you don't feel you are receiving benefit you can stop the therapy.

I would also appreciate you letting me know of any problems or lack of improvement you might have. The program seems to be consistently effective for most all who are serious about improving their health and committed to change. However, no system is perfect and I am always seeking ways to improve our treatment.

Allergies

The therapy also works phenomenally well for allergy elimination. For over six years, I performed a very sophisticated, yet effective, form of skin allergy testing called provocation neutralization (PN). The technique generally improved over 80% of our patients. This is in contrast to traditional allergy testing which generally only works on about 25% of patients.

The only problem with the PN testing is that is was time consuming, costly and involved needles. It was not unusual for a course of testing and treatment to cost over $2,000. However, this was still a far better alternative for most of our patients as their quality of life was so much improved, as their chronic illness would get better.

The allergy practice was a very important part of the revenues for my practice. But in January of 2000, I made the decision to stop the testing because in all honesty I could not continue to offer something when I knew I had a better alternative for people, even if meant losing practice income.

I have seen many miracles with the muscle resistance testing. One of our more dramatic examples involved a patient who had been through our PN allergy testing program with only minimal results. She had severe asthma and a life-threatening allergy to latex.

Since she was studying to become a nurse, this presented a major problem in her life, as she would frequently be exposed to latex and wind up in the emergency room very close to death.

In one ten minute treatment, Jody, our main therapist, was able to clear her allergy to latex and she could now be exposed to balloons and latex gloves and be around rooms freshly painted with latex paint without having to run to the emergency room. This treatment profoundly changed this nurse's life.

The Mechanics of Allergy Testing

Our main technique to eliminate and deal with allergies is called Total Body Modification. The technique allows her to generally eliminate three allergens at each visit.

It is advised to not start the work though until one's blood sugar metabolism has been under control for two weeks. If you have been following the diet recommended, this is usually not a problem.

There are generally 12 molds that can be treated, several types of dust, and about half a dozen each of grasses, trees and weeds. One is also invited to bring in samples of dust, molds, etc. from the living environment.

Food Allergies Can Also Be Eliminated.

We have had a fair number of patients who were chemically injured and could only eat several foods without getting sick. The treatments were incredibly effective at removing these allergies. You can bring the foods in to your session and can be neutralize to those foods.

This is a far more sophisticated and effective technique than skin or blood testing which only can diagnose the problem, but are in no way ever effective at eliminating the problem. Additionally, they are generally costly and frequently inaccurate.

The treatment for the allergies is generally permanent unless one develops another unresolved psycho emotional conflict.

Does This Really Work? It Seems Too Good To Be True. What is the Down Side?

I was very skeptical for many years, but seeing is believing which is why I am so excited about this technique.

There are some concerns, but they relate more to the danger of the therapist taking credit for the healing. These techniques are so profoundly effective that some therapists fall into the temptation of letting the patient believe that they are responsible for the healing.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The therapist merely serves to facilitate the self-repair mechanisms that God has given each and every one of us.

No, I'm not only a Social Media Coach

2010-02-03T13:42:00.000-08:00

I am also a licensed Chiropractor, and I am here to guide you in
many aspects of the your practice.

Have you been considering adding COLD LASER THERAPY to your practice? You may find this video very interesting. Feel free to pass it along to your staff.

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6 Essential Reasons Why You Need a Chiropractic Blog

2010-02-02T13:40:00.000-08:00

by Dr. Patrick MacNamara

I love the quote by Stephen Covey that says, “Everything is created twice”.

Essentially, what he is saying is that before anything can be physically created, it must be mentally created.

So, let’s say you want to build a new home. What process do you go through to accomplish your goal?

Do you just show up at the construction site and start putting different pieces of material together expecting things to evolve into your dream home?

Of course not!

You first meet with a general contractor and architect to sketch out a floor plan. The floor plan is then created into a blueprint which becomes the primary tool for construction. Simply put, without it your home would never be completed.

The same is true with a business blog. Before you launch it, you must be able to answer the question, “Why blog?”

There are essentially six main reasons why you should blog. But, before we discuss the reasons why, allow me to give credit where credit’s due.

My inspiration for this post came from an exceptional blog post that I read by Chris Garrett titled “How a Blog Can Grow Your Business – Slides + PDF”. For further reading, you can either read his post about the presentation or download his PDF for future reference.

Also, before I step you through the reasons, let’s establish one extremely important concept:

The blog will become the central hub for all of your online communications with both prospects and patients.

Make sure you allow that concept to sink in!

One of your primary goals should be to drive as many people, prospects and patients to your blog through various social media platforms. It will be the central hub for your online business.

Now, let’s take a look at the Six Essential Reasons Why You Should Blog:

Reason #1: ATTRACTING an audience

This should be a no-brainer. If you don’t have an audience online, then you can’t develop the relationships that build trust to convert prospects into quality new patients.

Likewise, there isn’t a better tool currently online that can generate a greater flood of new prospects than a blog if setup and managed properly.

Case in point, Richard Telofski, Principal Consultant of a New Jersey based social media research company, Kahuna Content, says,

“American chiropractors should be jumping en masse into the blog marketing pool, but most won’t even get their feet wet. How do we know this? Because less than one percent of American chiropractors blog and, of those that do, over one-third of chiropractor blogs are inactive and look like sad puppy dogs abandoned by the side of the road. Unfortunately, blogging as a marketing tool is not regarded seriously by America’s chiropractors. In fact, their absence from blogging is just downright astounding.”

It’s astounding because there is a high correlation between the average blog reader and the average chiropractic patient. According to industry statistics, males between the ages of 31 and 50 comprise a high percentage of chiropractic patients and an even higher percentage of blog readers.

Telofski goes on to state, “If this isn’t a perfect demographic alignment between a marketing medium and its target audience, then I don’t know what is. It could be the perfect tool, or the perfect “chiropractic assistant’, yet the opportunity is squandered by America’s chiropractors.”

Reason #2: INFORMING your audience.

You can establish yourself as THE authority within your community simply by informing prospects of the incredible benefits of chiropractic care. If they don’t know what the benefits are, then more than likely they won’t even consider your services.

One major point to remember, though, is that it’s not about you. It’s about them! The way you “inform” them is by tailoring your content around their wants and desires.

Blogging allows the conversation to evolve as you inform and educate people. The conversation produces interaction through the comments section. It’s this interaction you’re looking for to start building relationships.

Reason #3: RETAINING your audience.

It doesn’t make any since to go through the process of attracting and informing your blog audience if you don’t also consider how you’ll retain them. It’s just as important to the growth of your blog as retaining patients is to your practice.

One of the best approaches is to make sure the content you deliver has value to the reader. Successful copywriters will stress that the headline is what draws them in but if you don’t deliver on that fancy headline by providing valuable content, you won’t have people stick around for long.

Since your blog will become the central hub for all of your online communications, a funnel approach to conversion should be established. You can accomplish a great deal toward this goal through auto-responder emails, RSS feeds and social media platforms like Twitter.

Reason #4: ENERGIZING your audience.

I’m reminded of a quote by a personal mentor that states, “Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. No enthusiasm, no dough!”

In essence what he’s saying is that if you aren’t enthusiastic about what you do and provide for patients, then the money simply doesn’t flow.

Take time to evaluate yourself to determine if you truly are passionate and in love with what you do. If you are, then you will automatically provide over-the-top care and content for your patients.

You have to energize your audience to want more and to participate in the conversation of what you offer. The most effective way to accomplish this is by providing content that solves problems for your prospects and patients.

Remember, it’s not about you, it’s about them. Once you figure out what they want and desire, you can energize them with content that’s specifically targeted toward meeting those wants and desires.

Reason # 5: RECRUITING people.

What does it mean to recruit people?

Basically, it means to call them into action for the benefit of both themselves and you.

Now, obviously, this won’t happen unless you produce valuable content that meets the wants and desires of your prospects. When you accomplish this, you’ll produce “raving fans” for your blog and business.

What is a raving fan?

As Ken Blanchard wrote in his best-selling book Raving Fans, “if you really want to ‘own’ the customer, if you want a booming business, you have to go beyond satisfied customers and create raving fans.”

Having raving fans means that you have achieved the kind of service excellence that turns a customer into a lifetime customer. A raving fan is an advocate of your products or services in the marketplace.

Reason # 6: RESPONDING to people.

Last but certainly not least, you must respond to people. This is not only the essence behind Web 2.0 and its platforms but is also what people expect from business owners and their customer service personnel.

If you remember the internet during the middle 1990s, you’ll recall how web sites were basically online brochures. They had text, possibly an image or two and nothing more. There was no interaction between visitors and the creators of the sites outside of an occasional email.

This all changed with Web 2.0 strategies. Blogging software opened a new era of communication by allowing the visitor to comment and communicate very easily with the creator of the content.

And, now with the emergence of additional Web 2.0 tools, the world of social media has erupted onto the scene. If you simply stand on the sidelines and ignore it, business and customers will pass you by.

In order to be THE chiropractor within your community, you must respond and communicate with your prospects. Its the conversation that builds relationships, relationships that build trust and trust that converts prospects into loyal paying patients.

Did you make it out to the seminar?

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Are all Social Media Coaches the same?

2010-01-29T14:34:00.000-08:00

If you have found yourself wanting to ask this question, then this video is for you! If, after you view it, you find that you have more questions, don't hesitate to contact me at CatchFire Coaching.

How to Bring Your Chiropractic Patient Education into the 21st Century

2010-01-28T13:51:00.000-08:00

by Dr. Patrick MacNamara

With technology advancing at such a blistering pace, it sometimes seems impossible to keep up. From software updates to social media networks, a day doesn’t go by where innovation rests.

As an entrepreneur, one of the keys to success in this new digital world is to not only be cognizant of change but also be willing to adapt, test and then implement when the technology makes your life more efficient and effective.

One of the areas I believe chiropractors have either ignored or missed is video conferencing. Companies like Skype, WebEx, and ooVoo make it insanely simple to connect with patients in a new and fresh way.

For example, take your typical patient orientation class. Instead of having patients travel into your office for a second time in one day, how about offering those patients the ability to sit in on your patient orientation class via video from the comfort of their own homes?

Today’s technology allows you to do so.

Matter of fact, you can even share presentations you’ve already created while simultaneously staying front and center via video.

The possibilities are endless.

There are many companies out there that specialize in these services but one that I’ve used successfully over the last year or so is TokBox .

TokBox is the simplest, most engaging way for you to connect face-to-face with up to twenty of your patients at once. And, the best part is that it’s FREE!

Once signed up, you’ll also enjoy the following benefits:

There are no software downloads needed.
You can invite people to video chat via instant messaging and social media networks.
You can share videos, presentations and documents.
You can engage your audience even more through text chats.
You can record and send video messages to all participants before and after the presentation.

Plus, if you need more capabilities, you can upgrade to their Moderation package at only $9.99 per month. With the Moderation package, you simply gain more control.

Here are the benefits you receive with the upgrade:

You can control who joins and who remains on the call.
You can silence the audio of participants.
You can control media sharing.

So, if you want to move your practice into the 21st Century, why not start incorporating video conferencing into the mix?

Once you see how simple it is, it’s very unlikely you’ll go back to the way you’re currently doing things.