Partners at large law firms and solo practicing lawyers alike may overlook the importance of maintaining a digital presence, especially given their day-to-day priorities. The most astute attorneys recognize that a quality brand and strong reputation are their greatest assets. A quality presence online is a competitive advantage. Lawyers with stellar reputations gain trust from prospects, clients, partners, regulators, and colleagues relative to those with lackluster or tarnished brands. Law firms grow and achieve results through their online reputational assets.

To stay ahead of the legal competition curve, engaging content that follows proven reputation management techniques should be shared online with prospective clients.

The advice we give to clients is that the best offense is a strong defense. With a strong presence, you build digital resilience and develop a strategy or path for repairing a damaged digital footprint. The high quality content should be published on owned and managed, as well as curated website domains to protect from any future reputation damages.

Some digital assets that can be considered for proactive reputation management include:

• Active social media presence and coordinated approach for sharing content on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram
• Profile listings on reputable business directories and portals as NXTidea etc.
• Organic earned assets such as feature stories, interviews, quotes, news and blogs about you, a specific case, or your practice.
• Paid digital advertising or PR media.

The presence of digital assets on high-authority domain websites will both enhance your digital reputation, as well as neutralize any confusing or defamatory webpages that appear in search results.

A complete proactive and customizable solution can be found at NXTidea. Lawyers and legal firms can fulfill all their digital presence and promotion needs. As of now, the service is FREE. And yes, the higher end services are highly affordable.

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NXTidea just released its beta version of its healthcare module. A real visible boon for healthcare providers embedded with latest technology with usage convenience.

As today’s healthcare consumers demand greater convenience, healthcare brand loyalty is on the decline. This means patients who were once faithful to a specific healthcare provider or group will switch doctors for an experience they want— and many have already done so. In fact, more than one-third of patients have left a healthcare provider in the past few years with a lack of access cited as a top reason for making the switch.

How can independent healthcare provider prevent this attrition? Improving patient convenience and access will often satisfy patients better than competing other medical communities. Online scheduling and cloud presence does both. NXTidea’s innovation is a perfect solution.

If a doctor’s practice doesn’t yet offer patients online scheduling, it’s time to add this tool to your website and online profiles. This naive digital opportunity can provide immediate patient satisfaction and retention. Eighty percent of patients prefer to schedule their healthcare appointments online.

The transition to online scheduling gives your practice a competitive advantage, but also reduces the administrative burden on your busy front office staff. With fewer schedule-related tasks, your team can focus on in-person visits and important patient requests. Here’s what you and your business stand to gain when you invest in digital appointment booking.

1. Patients choose services/practices that offer online scheduling

With convenience a top priority for today’s busy healthcare consumer, online scheduling is a key differentiator that can help drive new patient acquisition and longer-term practice growth. Aside from insurance coverage, patients’ list convenience as the top factor that influences their healthcare choice. Since scheduling is often a patient’s first interaction with a healthcare practice, it’s critical to present a seamless, convenient process that makes a great first impression.

When patients are offered online scheduling as an option, they can book or request an appointment when it’s convenient for them — without having to call your front desk or scheduler during business hours, or play phone tag. Online scheduling can also help you convert website visitors into new patients when your phone line is busy or office is closed.

2. Patients can schedule on their own time and terms

The rise of healthcare consumerism has made traditional ‘office hours’ a long dated concept. In most industries, the use of chatbots and 24/7 customer service support is standard. Conversely, healthcare practices accommodate appointment requests only between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (often with a break for lunch!) For patients who work and manage other commitments during the day, this lack of access is immensely frustrating and badly effects the reputation.

Online scheduling is a logistical life-saver when your office is closed and when phone lines are tied up. But it also delivers convenience to patients who simply prefer the flexibility and ease of online scheduling, regardless of time of day. All NXTidea practices offer an easy-to-use online scheduling system for patients right on their practice’s website. Advanced features such as web-to-text functionality even allow patients to request an appointment via text message directly from the website, offering an even higher level of convenience.

3. Online patient scheduling helps instantly fill appointments gaps

Successful independent physician practices keep a full schedule by maximizing their appointment volume. Unfortunately, patient no-shows and last minute cancellations render those appointments useless, leading to lost revenue and hindering practice growth. Fortunately, if your practice offers online scheduling, patients looking for a time-sensitive appointment can check your practice’s up-to-date availability without delay — often choosing those appointment slots that would otherwise go unfilled or lost to a no-show.

Most online scheduling platforms also offer automated appointment confirmations and reminders, designed to also help reduce no-shows and late cancellations. Because missed appointments mean missed revenue, using these simple digital tools to minimize schedule disruptions supports your bottom line and long-term practice growth strategy.

4. Online scheduling reduces burdensome administrative tasks for managerial staff

Healthcare practices across the country are managing record-high levels of employee burnout.  A recent survey showed that nearly one in five healthcare workers quit their jobs during the pandemic. Another study indicates that roughly half of all India healthcare workers are overwhelmed by the demands of their job in the wake of the pandemic. How can management provide better support their employees during these unprecedented times? By reducing tedious, menial tasks, increasing duties that provide value, and streamlining back-office operations. On all fronts, online scheduling can help.

At practices that don’t offer online scheduling, front desk staff are performing a juggling act that’s just not sustainable. Between scheduling appointments, taking incoming phone calls and inquiries, and meeting the needs of patients during their visits, the workload is overwhelming. Many practices are wasting hours each week scheduling patients manually when online scheduling systems can meet patients’ preferences for convenience while also freeing up front desk staff time. Using online scheduling allows busy practice staff to focus on other activities for the practice — they can accomplish more during the workday without the need for overtime, yet another contributor to burnout.

5. Online scheduling allows staff to enhance patient experience

Even before a patient’s first visit, online scheduling is setting the stage for positive patient satisfaction. Research indicates that 65 percent of patients are annoyed by waiting on hold and the inappropriate office hours related to scheduling appointments by phone.

Giving patients the option to self-schedule directly from your website means they don’t have to work around your office hours to make an appointment. They also don’t have to sit on hold while your front desk staff manages other calls or duties.

According to NXTidea’s intensive research, the ability to schedule an appointment digitally is one of four  top digital functionalities patients want most, preferred by more than 80 percent of patients. Implementing online scheduling is a sound investment in practice efficiency, and doing so can have a positive impact on both patient and staff satisfaction. NXTidea offers a comprehensive appointment scheduling system that includes online scheduling across a practice’s entire web presence, plus automated appointment confirmations and reminders. It’s all integrated into a single high-end platform designed to help practices enhance all touchpoints along the patient journey.

All doctors and healthcare providers, from all disciplines Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurvedic, and Naturopathy etc) can connect with NXTidea to be a part of world-class platform to serve the local community enhancing their recognition and service.

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At NXTIdea, Women empowerment is not a slogan, but a visible reality. The reality would renovate the SHGs to the next levels of digital units.

With the digital hype and implementation in all sectors, the SHGs should not fall behind. The Government of Odisha led by the Hon’ble Chief Minister has taken remarkable and commendable steps to uplift rural women to the next level of independent existence and financial freedom.

The singular objective of Mission Shakti by the Government of Odisha was not to place money in the hands of women and make them self-sufficient, but to transform these women into entrepreneurs to make their marks on the global ecosystem.

Self- Help Groups (SHGs) play a vital role in poverty eradication in Indian villages. A growing number of poor women in different areas of India are members of Self Help Groups and they actively occupy in savings and credit, as well as activities like income creation, natural resources management, literacy, child care, etc. The digitization of these SHGs is a major issue to bring these to the national limelight.

Since its inception, the performance of the self-help group program in the area of rural development and women’s empowerment has been admirable. But, although the program is being implemented in many parts of Odisha, its success has been patchy and not fully realized by the general public. NXTIdea, an innovative business growth platform, has researched through polls, personal meets, and surveys, concluded the digital needs into their work models and process formalities.

The SHG has given individuality, access to information, and bargaining power to the women’s community. Some benefits to group members include: ·

• It is the platform for poor women to discuss and solve their financial problems; · Serving members to manage cash deficits preserve food intake and overcome emergencies, leading to improvement in the quality and productivity of their resources;
• It keeps its members away from money lenders, particularly to meet food and health emergencies; · It improves the investment capabilities, wealth creation, and risk-bearing capabilities and also branches out their occupations; ·
• It promotes leadership qualities among its members; ·
• Fostering women, even from conservative communities and regions, to interact with outsiders, particularly officials, including men; and ·
• Establishing the linkage between banks and marginalized citizens, especially women. An economically poor individual gains strength as part of a group. Besides, financing through SHGs reduces transaction costs for both lenders and borrowers. While lenders have to handle only a single SHG account instead of a large number of small-sized individual accounts, borrowers as part of an SHG cut down expenses on travel (to & from the branch and other places) for completing paperwork and on the loss of workdays in canvassing for loans.

Keeping in view the digital requirements, the Founder of NXTIdea, Mr. Lingaraj Behura has assured the women entrepreneurs of the state and the SHGs to extend all digital marketplaces and online resources to facilitate online transactions in a secure environment. This would facilitate these units to stride through the uncertain market needs and create new possibilities for revenue generation.

Interested SHG members, can directly connect with #NXTIdea at https://www.nxtidea.com/contacts/

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No matter how much we hope society can return to the “pre-pandemic normal”, the reality of a post-pandemic world is here to stay for long, really long. Henceforth, every brand – including school institutions – must adapt to our permanently digitalized society.

In other words, today’s parents expect to find every school easily online. Otherwise, if a school is not readily found through a Google search, they run the risk of being completely invisible to its target market. You can make your school more searchable, visible, and scalable with a free QR from #NXTIdea

Between the dozens of mandatory lockdowns, schools quickly turned to online learning, and everyone, including education companies, teachers, students, and parents, had to spend most of their time online. Even our parents had to get comfortable with sourcing everything online! This made the digital promotion of a school mandatory!

#NXTIdea platform connects these digital needs of a school to the expectations of the parents.

To satisfy the digital demands of today’s families, your school’s marketing ideas must be changed, redesigned, or perhaps cancelled entirely. Instead, educational institutions can use digital marketing to disseminate information, advertise themselves, solve problems, and reach previously unavailable audiences. And, digital marketing is less expensive than traditional marketing!

How Can Digital Promotion Solutions from NXTIdea Improve Your School’s value?

In recent years, every market has changed dramatically, becoming more competitive and brutal. Digital marketing, like every other trending sector, has become a necessity for today’s schools and institutions to improve market standing and reach their desired target audience effectively.

Even if people are perusing the web without looking for schools, efficient digital marketing will ensure that users remember the advertised institution for future decisions or conversations. In addition, schools must have effective and “top of the search results” digital marketing to attract students attention and impact parent intent.

Most schools build a website with digital marketing in mind, yet a website alone is insufficient. Instead, an end-to-end digital marketing strategy and customized promotional solutions is multifaceted, utilized to advertise online, reach its target audience, present a positive brand image, demonstrate its value in the market and surpass its competitors.

A survey by #NXTIdea concluded that most of the websites maintained by schools are hardly updated and maintained by a dedicated team. Schools can leverage their digital promotional needs to NXTIdea to compete with their global peers and elevate the goodwill into new possible markets. Schools can register themselves FREE at www.nxtidea.com

However, this is only achievable if schools use effective and powerful digital marketing and promotions to communicate their characteristics and qualities to the correct audience. An excellent website combined with an effective digital marketing plan may assist schools in showcasing their unique traits and best aspects to their target audience, focusing on improving admissions and campus culture.

#NXTIdea provides a free QR code to all registered schools w.e.f Jan’2023 to empower them with the following FREE facilities:

• Dynamic listing & QR to make the school name searchable across search directories
• Fully functional dashboard to track ratings and reviews given by parents
• Fully functional CRM built on latest cloud technology
• Photo gallery, parent query form, event management and much more
• 24×7 online promotional support by a dedicated team

Get your QR today and start sharing it on social media to enhance your credibility. For more queries and information about your QR, you can mail to contact@nxtidea.com

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Look at Your Vision & Long-Term Goals

The first step in any strategic plan involves looking at your business’s long-term vision and goals. By taking the time to analyze your vision, you allow yourself to step back and identify how your business needs to shift over time to hit your goals versus looking for short-term solutions.

It’s important to remember where you’re heading and why. Your vision should act as your north star. When you’re setting goals, they should be in pursuit of that end destination.

Perform SWOT Analysis

A SWOT analysis stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This is a tactic businesses use to help reveal blind spots that business owners or employees might not see on a day-to-day basis. Performing a SWOT analysis helps your company slow down and ask probing questions that unveil essential information about your company and where it wants it to go. It is the easiest way to self-evaluate your business both internally and externally.

The strengths and weaknesses of a SWOT analysis are considered to be internal, while opportunities and threats are considered to be internal. What does your company do well, and where can you make improvements? Opportunities and threats are even more important in today’s marketplace as companies are evolving and innovating faster than ever. Rather than trying to put out fires as your competitors make positive steps forward, a SWOT analysis allows you to act as a firefighter ready for battle. As a best practice, strive to complete a thorough SWOT analysis at least once per quarter to keep yourself accountable and aligned with your goals.

Set Your Macro Goals

What do you need to accomplish this year to achieve your vision?

Identify 3-4 overarching goals for your business. For example, do you want to launch a new product or service? Do you want to recruit 20 new people? Write down 3-4 things you need to accomplish to achieve your long-term vision.

When setting your goals, remember to choose defining goals (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely) that are measurable and easy to track. For example, a goal to “Increase sales by 10% in the next two months” is easier to measure than “increase revenue”. Here you maybe would like to consider financial advising to increase your profit.

Identify the KPIs You’ll Use to Track the Success

Now that you’ve created your business goals, it’s time to shift your attention to monitoring your progress and defining your deadlines.

In addition to setting defining goals goals, you should establish clear dates and milestones by which you want to achieve your goals. And to ensure you’re on track, you need to identify the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you will use to track the success of your goals. Metrics are an excellent way to measure progress over time and understand what is working in your business and why. When it comes to KPIs and businesses, there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Each business is unique in its goals and should use its business plan as a starting point to determine KPIs.

NXTIdea has recently enriched its digital products and cloud services so that your business can compete with its global peers with latest technology.

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In a report, Acuite said India’s annualized GDP growth in Q2 FY23 expectedly, expanded at a slower pace of 6.3 percent year-on-year (YoY) as against 13.5 percent in Q1 FY23, the latter led by the easing of favorable base impact created by the second Covid wave in the previous year.

Nevertheless, India’s growth impetus driven by domestic demand as judged by high-frequency lead indicators continues to remain resilient, withstanding the uncertain and increasingly antagonistic global environment, the report said.

According to Acuite, while pent-up, as well as festive demand, has had a positive role to play in keeping up this momentum, there is a possibility of moderation in some of the lead indicators in the second half of the fiscal unless there is a sustainable and consistent uptick in rural demand.

The loss of working days in a festive heavy month may have caused a scare on the IIP in October, a sharper slowdown in global growth is likely to have a stronger bearing on growth from Q3 FY23 onwards, the report said.

Looking ahead on an annualized basis, Acuite said as the favorable statistical effect tapers further, incremental GDP growth is expected to be on the decelerating path.

For Q3 and Q4, growth is likely to slip closer to 4-4.5 percent. This factors in incremental external risks and their impact on domestic growth, despite support from factors such as strength in services demand, upside in rabi sowing, CAPEX-oriented government expenditure, and the moderation in global commodity prices.

Taking into account the upside and downside factors, we revised the GDP growth forecast only marginally to seven percent in FY23, Acuite said.

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The agreements were signed to commemorate the launch of the AIC at the BARC to hasten the conversion of products from research labs to the market. 

The incubation agreements are signed specifically for technologies aligned with India’s global commitments of achieving Net Zero (carbon neutrality) such as access to safe drinking water, and growth of potential import substitutes for advanced and affordable healthcare in the country, said Rajesh Vatsa, Head, Public Awareness Division of the DAE (Department of Atomic Energy) in a statement.

The technologies include Alkaline Water Electrolyser for Green Hydrogen production, DC Accelerator for Wastewater Treatment, novel Gamma Monitoring, and X-Band LINAC-based X-ray source for radiotherapy machines.

AIC-BARC is introduced as one of the three projects for the self-reliance of DAE and is established under the aegis of Atal Innovation Mission, a flagship initiative of the union government to create and promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. 

The launch of AIC-BARC was announced in the 2020 Budget Speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and will complement the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat initiative of the government. Moreover, the incubation centre will help promote start-ups and other emerging businesses and create new employment opportunities for people. 

As per the framework of AIC-BARC, the scientists of BARC will mentor the incubatee industries for further improvisation and development of market-ready products with the help of DAE technologies. For development work, incubatee industries will be able to access advanced laboratories at BARC. 

Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Director, BARC, representatives of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, and senior members of DAE also attended the launch of the centre.

Courtesy : Financial Express

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Ever wondered what it takes to create a successful B2B marketing strategy? It is all about knowing your target audience, personalizing your interactions, and reaching out to them across multiple touchpoints. 

Below are the two strategies you MUST try out to compete with your peers and mobilize your business cycle against changing market constraints.

Real-Time Personalization to Your Website

Introducing website personalization is another excellent B2B marketing strategy for start-ups. While email and content personalization have been in the game for a long, website personalization involves creating a tailored experience for all your website visitors. 

Which means rather than relying on a general web interface for everyone, your website can create display customized web pages based on the user’s profile. For instance, customized CTAs with welcome offers for new customers, upselling to the existing ones or customizing the home page with industry-specific use cases or relevant metrics. 

You can use valuable user data such as location, IP address, past online behavior, demographics, and more to fuel your personalization efforts.

Create an SEO Keyword Funnel

Thanks to the increasing information online, your target audience is most likely to go from having no awareness to researching potential solutions all on their own. But that makes it even more important to make your presence known through organic content that ranks.

And how can you do that? Optimize your content strategy by using an SEO keyword funnel for different stages of the buyer journey. A typical keyword funnel would look like this-

• Top-of-funnel keywords- These target the pain points of the target buyer and help them perform their job more efficiently, like how to guides
• Middle-of-funnel keywords- As buyers learn more about the different solutions, you can use strategy-focused and comparison keywords
• Bottom-of-funnel keywords- Targeted keywords optimized to earn conversions and focus on what the buyer knows.

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