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Private Duty Today brings you the nation's leading bi-weekly newsletter for non-medical, private duty home care news and resources.

Jason Tweed, Editor of Private Duty Today's bi-weekly newsletter wants to link home care owners, managers and workers with an opportunity to receive free articles and a home care focused bi-weekly email newsletter.  This newsletter will be delivered to your inbox every other Wednesday and contains one in-depth feature article on a critical issue facing the private duty industry.  Our focus is on leadership and business strategy.  Each issue also contains several short articles about products, services, and events which Leading Home Care is currently involved.  Finally, our "Readers Respond" article gives you the chance to express yourself through a letter to our editors.  Private Duty Today! is published by Leading Home Care ...a Tweed Jeffries company.

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Private Duty Today Newsletter Resource

Volume 6, 2008
Issue #123 Aug 13, 2008 Balance Your Business
Issue #122 Jul 17, 2008 Customer Service is Key to Your Business Success
Issue #121 Jul 02, 2008 10 Terrible Marketing Phrases
Issue #120 Jun 18, 2008 Five Ways to Get (Almost) Free Marketing
Issue #119 Jun 04, 2008 The #1 Tip for Increasing Profits
Issue #118 May 21, 2008 Stimulate Your Client Revenue
Issue #117 May 07, 2008 Three Private Duty Myths
Issue #116 Apr 23, 2008 Is Caregiver Turnover Limiting Your Growth?
Issue #115 Apr 09, 2008 What is Your Limiting Factor?
Issue #114 Mar 26, 2008 Private Duty Home Care Software
Press Release Mar 25, 2008 Leading Home Care and Decision Health form Strategic Alliance
Issue #113 Mar 12, 2008 Employee Referral Programs that Work
Issue #112 Feb 27, 2008 Marketing for Caregivers
Issue #111 Feb 13, 2008 Improving Caregiver Value in 2008
Issue #110 Jan 30, 2008 Three Functional Levels in Your Business
Issue #109 Jan 16, 2008 Pleasing Your Toughest Customer
Issue #108 Jan 02, 2008 The Three Pillars of Private Duty Home Care
 
Volume 5, 2007
Issue #107 Dec 12, 2007 Six Trends in Private Duty for 2008
Issue #106 Nov 28, 2007 Know What to Say When the Phone Rings
Issue #105 Nov 14, 2007 Chart Your Own Destiny
Issue #104 Oct 31, 2007 Expertise is a Marketing Tool
Issue #103 Oct 17, 2007 Five Lessons in Business
Issue #102 Oct 03, 2007 Seven No-Nonsense Ways to Grow Your Business
Issue #101 Sep 19, 2007 Putting a Face on Your Business
Issue #100 Sep 09, 2007 Pay Attention to Your Numbers
Issue #99 Aug 22, 2007 Evolving Job Descriptions in Non-Medical Home Care
Issue #98 Aug 08, 2007 Branding Your Business
Issue #97 Jul  25, 2007 Wednesdays Can Be Rough
Issue #96 Jul  11, 2007 Six Ways to Make More Money Serving Medicaid Waiver
Issue #95 Jun 27, 2007 The "Catch 22" of Association Membership
Issue #94 Jun  13, 2007 Quick Tips for Developing New Marketing Collateral
Issue #93 May 30, 2007 Success Doesn't Exist in a Bubble
Issue #92 May 16, 2007 Building a High Performance Private Duty Team
Issue #91 May  2, 2007 Five Years Ago Today...
Issue #90 Apr 18, 2007 Selection is the Key to Caregiver Retention
Issue #89 Apr   4, 2007 Name Badges as a Marketing Tool
Issue #88 Mar 21, 2007  Adding Care Management to Private Duty
Special Mar 12, 2007 Live Update to National PD Association Convention
Issue #87 Mar  7, 2007 Direct Sales vs. Handshake Marketing
Issue #86 Feb 21, 2007 Private Duty Today gets a New Look and New Website
Issue #85 Feb  7, 2007 Simple Answers to Simple Marketing Questions
Issue #84 Jan 24, 2007 Caregiver Selection is Critical to Effective Recruitment
Issue #83 Jan 10, 2007 Private Duty is Like Juggling
 
Volume 4, 2006
Issue #82 Dec 20, 2006 JOY to the World!
Issue #81 Dec  6,  2006 How Do You Capture Referral Source Email Addresses?
Special Nov 15, 2006 9th National Private Duty Conference and Expo. - Day 3
Special Nov 14, 2006 9th National Private Duty Conference and Expo. - Day 2
Special Nov 13, 2006 9th National Private Duty Conference and Expo - Day 1
Issue #80 Nov  8, 2006 What is Strategic about Planning
Issue #79 Oct 25, 2006 Increase Profitability through Relationships
Issue #78 Oct 11, 2006 Value Your Caregivers, But Not With Cash
Issue #77 Sep 27, 2006 Answers to Five Sales and Marketing Questions
Issue #76 Sep 13, 2006 Thriving on Change
Issue #75 Aug 30, 2006 Growing Your Business Using Newsletters, Part Two
Issue #74 Aug 16, 2006 Growing Your Business Using Newsletters
Issue #73 Aug  3, 2006 Retail Walk-In Clinics: A Hot New Referral Source
Issue #72 Jul 19, 2006 Your Greatest Advertising Device
Issue #71 Jul   5, 2006 Creating Corporate Fireworks
Issue #70 Jun 21, 2006 Developing Friendly Business Relationships
Issue #69 Jun   7, 2006 Five Private Duty Trends In A Shrinking World
Issue #68 May 25, 2006 Calculating your Marketing ROI
Issue #67 May 10, 2006 Will Having a Low Price Increase Our Revenues?
Issue #66 Apr 26, 2006 The Three Legged Stool of Private Duty Home Care
Issue #65 Apr 13, 2006 Web-Centric Marketing and Recruiting
Issue #64 Mar 29, 2006 Your Golden Parachute, Selling Your Company
Issue #63 Mar 15, 2006 Top Ten Techniques for Marketing Private Duty Home Care
Issue #62 Mar  1, 2006 Seven Things to Grow Your Home Care Business
Issue #61 Feb 15, 2006 The Top Characteristics of Effective Home Care Leaders
Issue #60 Feb  1, 2006 Your Most Valuable Referral Sources
Issue #59 Jan 18, 2006 The Top Five Sources of Private Duty Home Care Referrals
Issue #58 Jan   4, 2006 Caring Starts When We Answer the Telephone
 
Volume 3, 2005
Issue #57 Dec 21, 2005 Raising a Company-Raising Children?/Raising Companies?
Issue #56 Dec  7, 2005 Studying Private Duty H. C. And Private Pay Home Care
Issue #55 Nov 23, 2005 Growing with Long Term Care Insurance
Special Nov 17, 2005 Report from Private Duty Advanced Training - Day 3
Special Nov 16, 2005 Report from Private Duty Advanced Training - Day 2
Special Nov 15, 2005 Report from Private Duty Advanced Training - Day 1
Issue #54 Nov  9, 2005 Providing Home Care-Medicaid Waiver and Other Programs
Issue #53 Oct 26, 2005 Segment Your Private Duty Home Care Marketing
Issue #52 Oct 12, 2005 Leaders Are Readers
Issue #51 Sep 28, 2005 Strategic Staffing vs. Strategic Marketing - Part 2
Issue #50 Sep 14, 2005 Strategic Staffing vs. Strategic Marketing - Part 1
Issue #49 Sep  1, 2005 Is Your Website Profitable? Part 2
Issue #48 Aug 17, 2005 Is Your Website Profitable? Part 1
Issue #47 Aug  3, 2005 Seven Sources of Private Pay Referrals
Issue #46 Jul 20, 2005 Word-of-Mouth Marketing - 3 "Buzz" Creation Techniques
Issue #45 Jul   6, 2005 Creating Exceptional Customer Experiences
Issue #44 Jun 22, 2005 Readers Respond to Faith-Based Home Care
Issue #43 Jun   8, 2005 Faith-Based Home Care
Issue #42 May 25, 2005 How to Up sell Additional Services to Your Clients
Issue #41 May 11, 2005 Calculating Staffing Turnover Costs and Retention Value
Issue #40 Apr 27, 2005 Calculating your "Owner's Discretionary Income"
Issue #39 Apr 13, 2005 Billing Rates Calculator and a New Website
Issue #38 Mar 30, 2005 Reverse Mortgages - Using your home value to pay
Issue #37 Mar 16, 2005 Spring is Coming ... and it's time to plant some seeds
Issue #36c Mar  7, 2005 3rd Annual NPDA Leadership Conference - Day 3
Issue #36b Mar  4, 2005 3rd Annual NPDA Leadership Conference - Day 2
Issue #36a Mar  3, 2005 3rd Annual NPDA Leadership Conference - Day 1
Issue #36 Mar  2, 2005 3rd Annual NPDA Leadership Conference Daily - Intro
Issue #35 Feb 16, 2005 Capturing Big Private Pay Clients
Issue #34 Feb  2, 2005 Geriatric Care Management as a Private Duty Product Line
Issue #33 Jan 19, 2005 Ten Ideas to Create an Awesome Place to Work
Issue #32 Jan  5, 2005 Strategic Planning for Private Duty Home Care
 
Volume 2, 2004
Issue #31 Dec 22, 2004 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Issue #30 Dec  8, 2004 Leadership Vs. Management, Finding the Balance
Issue #29 Nov 10, 2004 How to Keep More of What You Earn
Issue #28 Oct 27, 2004 A Live Report from NAHC 2004
Issue #27 Oct 13, 2004 Using Paper Newsletters to Promote Private Duty H.C.
Issue #26 Sep 29, 2004 Generating Brand Awareness for Your P.D. Company
Issue #25 Sep 15, 2004 Geriatric Care Management for Home Care
Issue #24 Sep  1, 2004 Marketing Your Non-Medical Home Care Company
Issue #23 Aug 18, 2004 Three Ways to Use Your Website to Grow Your Business
Issue #22 Aug  4, 2004 Five Lessons I've Learned from My Nanny
Issue #21 Jul 21, 2004 Seven Ways to Please Your Toughest Customer
Issue #20 Jul  7, 2004 Strategic Planning in Private Duty Home Care
Issue #19 Jun 23, 2004 Using Direct Mail to Promote Private Duty Home Care
Issue #18 Jun  9, 2004 Increase your Income by selling to Bank Trust Officers
Issue #17 May 26, 2004 Find and Keep Caregivers Through Referral Programs
Issue #16 May 12, 2004 Great Scheduling is Key to Growing Your P.D. Business
Issue #15 Apr 28, 2004 Bonura's Rules for Selling applied to Private Duty H.C.
Issue #14 Apr 14, 2004 Create Private Duty Opportunities Using the Telephone
Issue #13 Mar 31, 2004 Benchmarking & Best Practices in Private Duty Home Care
Issue #12 Mar 17, 2004 Increase your Income from Private Duty Home Care
Issue #11 Mar  3, 2004 Five Ways to Increase Your Private Duty Revenue
Issue #10 Feb 18, 2004 Crafting Your Private Duty Scorecard
Issue # 9 Feb  6, 2004 Three Elements of a Successful Private Duty Business
Issue # 8 Jan 21, 2004 Private Duty Solutions / New Directions Business Process
Issue # 7 Jan  7, 2004 2004 Will be a BOOM Year for Private Duty Home Care!
 
Volume 1, 2003
Special Dec 24, 2003 Special Issue -- Merry Christmas
Issue #6 Dec 10, 2003 Long Term Care Insurance in Private Duty Home Care
Issue #5 Nov 26, 2003 The New Directions Private Duty Business Process
Issue #4 Nov 13, 2003 Public Relations in Private Duty
Issue #3 Oct 30, 2003 Package Your Programs and Services
Issue #2 Oct 16, 2003 Seven Steps to Grow Your Private Duty Business
Issue #1 Oct  2, 2003 Premier Issue: Private Duty Home Care... Making a Difference in the World

 

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