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As I’m working my way on catching up with things I thought I’d talked about but really haven’t, it occurred to me that over all these years of writing this blog I’ve mentioned my two free newsletters, but never talked about them. It’s obviously not enough that I have that link on the side to my newsletters page (it’s probably too low), or that I’ve shared some newsletters here and there, or that I’m still thinking about adding a membership site of sorts so folks would be able to join and go back to read old newsletters and the like if they so chose.

Nope, I really have to talk about the newsletters in general, and this is probably the best place to go. The newsletters page is more of a sales page than what I’ll write here, although, long term, this will end up pretty much looking like a sales page also. No matter; since the newsletters are free, all I’ll be selling is some free knowledge, whether you want to partake of that knowledge or not.

I write two different newsletters. I’ll get the health care newsletter out of the way first. I’ve been in health care for over 25 years at this point. I’ve worked on the financial side of things, in receivables and revenue. As a consultant, I have helped hospitals capture more revenue, and I’ve helped business offices collect more cash. I’ve also taught a lot of people how to work claims and things about coding that they’d never get anywhere else. I’m certainly not saying I’m smarter than any other director or supervisor; I’m saying that I’ve had more access to more things across the board, and that there are things I do know that others either might not know, or might not have the opportunity to sit back and think about on a daily basis.

Anyway, the health care newsletter is geared towards those who work in the receivables and revenue part of the industry. Most of my subscribers to that newsletter work in hospitals, mainly directors of patient financial services or business office, but truthfully, I think it wouldn’t hurt chief financial officers, charge master people, or individual billing personnel to subscribe. Or, anyone interested in the intricacies of the industry either; I don’t get as much into commentary, though I’m thinking about it.

The other newsletter addresses anything that the rest of my business here at T. T. Mitchell Consulting Inc talks about. In other words, I’ve written on leadership and management, diversity, customer service, motivation, and a host of other employee issues. My style has changed from when I first started writing it. Initially it was very straight forward; I’d pick a topic, then write about that topic. Now it’s a bit more personal, with a moral or point that I want to address. I like starting off with a story, whether it’s a story about me and my life or someone else’s story. Then I get into a point and sometimes offer ways of getting through my particular point.

For instance, my last newsletter was titled Stop Tolerating, and I began with a story of how I’m limiting myself to things that I feel will start to benefit me instead of allowing things to run my life just because I “think” they might help, yet have never shown themselves to help. I link to the 1001 Tolerations pdf that I mentioned in my blog post called Tolerations Revisited at the same time.

And, in each newsletter, I pony up a link to two items that have something to do with the topic, usually two books, although sometimes I link to a movie or audio presentation. Yeah, I guess that’s the sales part of the newsletter, along with links to my products, but hey, it’s still a free newsletter. I write it every two to three weeks, and sometimes I offer specials on my products, like I did in this sales blog post back in November 2007; wow, I hadn’t realized it was that long ago!

Anyway, now I’ve talked a bit more about my newsletters. I hope you at least take a look at the sales page, and think about signing up. You get a free pdf on time management as well as an evaluation sheet to determine what kind of leader you are. Oh yeah, just to confirm, the newsletters are free.