Business Development
Tips for LNCs Facing Rejection
LNCs facing rejection are most often in a marketing situation. You might be exhibiting at an attorney conference and watching people walk by without stopping at your booth. You might be making cold calls and having trouble getting past the gatekeeper. You might be finding out you will not get the case you discussed last…
Read More7 Signs You Are a Motivated Legal Nurse Consultant
It is easy to lose perspective when you work alone, as most independent LNCs do. It is easy to not be a motivated legal nurse consultant and to slip into bad habits and mindsets. How do you stand up to the test? Signs of a Motivated Legal Nurse Consultant 1. You have written goals which…
Read MoreFull Time LNC Business or 5 Signs it’s Time to Leave Your Job
You want to be have a full-time LNC business but you are working full or part-time in a clinical role. You wonder if you have fallen out of love with your clinical job or in love with being an LNC. Here are 5 signs it is time to leave your clinical job. You dread going…
Read MoreTips for How to Stay Motivated as an LNC
Do you ever feel like you are surrounded by negativity? As legal nurse consultants, we deal with a lot of negative things. Sometimes it is a challenge to stay motivated as an LNC. We may be working at home, alone, and isolated from other people. How do we keep motivated? Try on the tips I…
Read MoreTop Tips for a Successful Life Care Planning Business Part 2
Running a successful Life Care Planning business, or a legal nurse consulting business requires skills in 5 areas: expertise, marketing (which I covered in part 1), client management, finances and business development. In this post I share tips about the last 3 pillars. Client Management Maintaining sound relationships with clients is the third pillar of…
Read MoreNeed More Clients? Think Like a Farmer
It is planting season in the Northeast U.S. Do you need more clients? Think all a farmer has to do is wait until fall to harvest truckloads of delicious tomatoes or corn or squash? Think again! That farmer has worked hard all year long to prepare for that week or two of reward. He prepared…
Read More16 Myths about Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship built America; it is one quality that has made America great. Are you aware of the myths about entrepreneurs? What do these people have in common? Christopher Columbus Benjamin Franklin Henry Ford Thomas Watson Thomas Edison George Eastman Ole Evinrude Nolan Bushnell Buckminster Fuller Dean Kamen Rosalyn Yalow Percy Spencer Jerome Lemelson…
Read MoreWhy LNC Businesses Challenges are a Piece of Cake
Are you up for LNC business challenges? Few activities are as challenging and exhilarating as starting and running your own company. If done correctly, being an entrepreneur can be financially rewarding while giving you job flexibility and job security. And, where is job security today? The best way to predict the future is to create…
Read MoreWhat should you know if you decide to start a business?
Get some basic information first. For example, if you’re thinking about becoming self-employed versus being employed, speak to some other self-employed legal nurse consultants first. Ask them about the upside and the downside of being self-employed. Ask them about things they wish they had known beforehand or perhaps lessons that they have learned because then…
Read MoreDealing with Fear: Tackling LNC Fears
You might think that fear is the legal nurse consultant’s enemy. Fear demoralizes us, right? It stops us in our tracks. Not so. How should you be dealing with fear? Understand that even if we’re in situations that lack fulfillment or the flexible lifestyle we think we want, it is human nature to want to…
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