April 2014 - Page 2 of 3 - LegalNurse.com

16Apr2014

Tom’s Tech Tip: Why Is My Phone Frozen When It’s Springtime?

Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant has suffered from a frozen phone. Whether it’s an Android^® or an iPhone^® – it freezes on start-up. Sometimes it freezes for a minute, sometimes longer and sometimes it requires a total reboot. What’s the cause? Well, the causes are many and diverse. The first involves the operating system and your apps. When you power your phone on it “checks in” to see if it needs to be updated. At the same time so do all your apps. If you use “push” notifications for email, Shazam, weather or apps that use location services, they’re all competing for your scarce resources the second your phone comes alive. All those apps can take a long time to check in and if one fails during the check-in, it may kill or affect other processes – all of which use up memory and time checking on, or waiting for, each other.

Even worse, Android phones especially tend to multitask, meaning that some apps continue to run in the background once you use them. They take up memory from the last time they were used until they’re either used again or killed off by the Android OS.

15Apr2014

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Get Up and Stand Up!

A recent study has validated a fact all RNs already know – the more physically active we are (walking, standing and doing just about anything except sitting) the less we’re at risk for chronic disease. When you worked in your RN job at the hospital you enjoyed the health benefits of moving all day long through those 12-hr shifts.

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants will want to heed this study, especially if you’re the type of CLNC^® consultant who develops blood clots from sitting at your computer all day long. This study proves that we cannot work out at the gym in the morning and consider ourselves covered for the day. Exercise is good, but 30 or 60 minutes of exercise with little to no movement throughout the day is not good enough. Interrupting sessions of sitting with sessions of walking and standing is the recommendation.

Last year I put an adjustable desk in each of my offices that allows me to both sit and stand. I enjoy it more than I ever imagined I would and it’s my favorite piece of office furniture.

14Apr2014

Create Email Subject Lines Sure to Get Your Prospecting Emails Opened

While I don’t recommend cold email marketing to attorney-prospects, all Certified Legal Nurse Consultants should use prospecting email as a marketing strategy for attorneys identified through networking and referral. The friend or colleague that attorney knows has essentially opened the door to get your emails opened.

One research study revealed that up to 31% of marketing emails from consultants get opened. However, the secret to get attorney-prospects opening your emails starts with the subject line. Put another way, if your subject line fails, then your email is most likely never going to be read. This is why it’s important that you master the art of email subject line writing. Use these 5 strategies for creating irresistible subject lines sure to be opened.

Write the subject line as a headline. Email marketing, like a strong advertisement, demands a headline to capture the attorneys’ attention. With a strong subject line the response you want to elicit is I’ve got to read more.
Example: Attorney Divulges Secret Defense Weapon
Embrace clarity over cleverness. An Aweber Communications study revealed that a clear email subject line is a whopping 541% more likely to be opened over one that tries to use “clever” language.

11Apr2014

Thoughts for Success – Passion Is a Way of Enjoying Everything to the Fullest

I’m Italian, so passion is wired into my DNA. I’m passionate about everything I do. When passion is a way of life it gets you through the boring tasks and projects, making it easier to not give into the tedium. Yes, I’m often tempted to take a break to clean toilets or iron clothes instead of writing a report.

I don’t like everything I do in my legal nurse consulting business, but everything is so much easier when I passionately embrace it, whether I’m feeling passionate or not.

Try being Italian for a day. Put more passion into your life – it just might work for you and your CLNC^® business. 🙂

I’m Just Sayin’

P.S. Comment and share your experiences with embracing passion in your daily life.

10Apr2014

CLNC^® Success Story: A Day in the Life of CLNC Consultant Jane Hurst

One of the best parts about being a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is that my days are never the same. I enjoy the variety of my CLNC business and the ability to work when I want or need to.

9Apr2014

Tom’s Tech Tip: More Email Etiquette for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of email is not to generate more email. The purpose of email is to communicate and transfer information – not to communicate what you’re doing and how hard you’re working at it.

All too many people, including one or two CLNC^® consultants, use email as a way to let other people know how busy they are on a project. It’s kind of like standing up and shouting “Look how hard I’m working and thinking” and getting immediate feedback saying “Yes you are!”

When you’re working on a project, whether it’s with a group or alone, it’s better to email the fact that you’ve completed the project or that you have a question about it, not that you’re working on it. Likewise, endlessly and fecklessly responding to every email that drops out of cyberspace and into your inbox wastes everyone’s time – including your own. Vickie jokes that there’s no prize for being the fastest email responder. There’s also no prize for being the most prolific responder. It’s almost as bad as being a serial texter.

So the next time you get an email,

7Apr2014

Get Involved with World Health Day

It’s World Health Day today and while you might not feel you’re empowered to cure vector-borne diseases, you are empowered to turn World Health Day into a day for you and your personal health. If you would like to get involved, start with breakfast. Any registered nurse will tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Why? Because it jump-starts your metabolism and refuels your body from your eight-hour overnight fast (break fast – get it?). What we eat for breakfast also sets the tone for the rest of the day. For example, bad choices can dull our mind and set us up for unhealthy food cravings, all of which adversely impact your productivity as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.

Tom jokes with me that I like dinner for breakfast and that’s true. I’ve been known to eat chicken and veggies for breakfast. I love eggs – just not every morning. I think the French and Italians get it right. My favorite breakfasts are European-style with plenty of fresh fruits, meats, cheeses and plenty of olive oil.

Airports are challenging, which is exactly where I found myself yesterday flying to the Orlando CLNC^® ertification Seminar.

4Apr2014

Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: A Course in Miracles

This quote from A Course in Miracles is why I have a 4:00am tea time – a tradition I picked up trekking in the Himalayas. Balance and perspective are always my first call of the day.

Banish fear and you will endow the world with attributes of love, peace and abundance.

I’m Just Sayin’

P.S. Comment and share how you will banish your fears.

3Apr2014

CLNC^® Success Story: Doors Started Flying Open for Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Kathy Sindoni

One decision can change the course of your legal nurse consulting business. Kathy Sindoni, RN, BSN, CLNC, shares how simply making the decision to take her CLNC business full time started opening doors to new attorney-clients. This decision catapulted Kathy from a part-time CLNC business to a full-time business.

Congratulations Kathy!

P.S. Comment here to congratulate Kathy on her CLNC success.

P.P.S. Read more CLNC Success Stories and send your CLNC Success Story to [email protected].

2Apr2014

Tom’s Tech Tip: Are You Ready for Windows XPiration?

On April 8, 2014 Microsoft^® will stop supporting and updating its popular Windows^® XP operating system. To the average person this may sound like it’s “going out of warranty.” But to the computer savvy Certified Legal Nurse Consultant this should be terrifying. Once Bill Gates signs the death warrant on XP there will be no more security or other updates – XP will become a security nightmare. Even CERT – part of the Department of Homeland Security – has warned that after April 8 anyone running XP and using Internet Explorer as their web browser will be at high risk. CERT didn’t go so far as to urge you to abandon XP, instead they simply recommended changing to an alternative browser such as Firefox^®.

As a CLNC^® consultant you have a duty to do what is necessary to keep your computer files secure. While I don’t recommend going to extremes such as engaging in hard drive encryption, I do recommend installing security patches and Windows updates when they become available. XP users won’t have that privilege or luxury anymore.

Month: April 2014