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Nick Fitzgerald has served as HHTM’s Chief Marketing Officer for the past 3 years. He is the President and Owner of AuDSEO, a full service digital marketing agency. With over 15 years of digital marketing experience, Nick is a highly data-driven marketer, with expertise in search engine optimization, digital analytics and forensics, social media, digital advertising, and web development. He has been involved in the construction and optimization of nearly 1,000 web presences, including some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.

Hearing health matters—no matter what your language

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By David H. Kirkwood I always enjoy checking out the latest report from Google Analytics on traffic to our blog. It’s gratifying to see that our readership is continuing its rapid growth. But I get an extra kick from seeing that our content is reaching people in every corner of the earth. In the past 30 days alone, we drew

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Die Wahrheit über Mona

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By Gael Hannan, Editor The Better Hearing Consumer @ HHTM English-language version – The Truth About Mona Lisa Translated into German by Birgit Meyer, a member of the European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH). Das Lächeln, eigentlich nur ein leichtes Kräuseln der Lippen. Und die Augen? Lächeln sie auch oder beobachten sie jemanden. Aber wen? Und warum? Seit

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Making Economic Complements of Hearing Health, Healthy Living, and Coffee Drinking

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The world observes National Coffee Day on September 29. England (obviously the most Advanced Country in the World) gives coffee a full week of festivities, adulation and celebrations in April. Throughout the year, there are whole cultures and religions (e.g., coffee kosherology) actively working on coffee, exploring the finer points of Starbucks on websites, examining its Official Guidelines and loyalty programs. South Korean pilgrimages to worship “higher

Let’s look to a friend across the ocean in combatting hearing loss

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By David H. Kirkwood I spend quite a lot of time searching the web for information and ideas for my blogs, Hearing News Watch and Hearing Views. In doing so, I have become familiar with a 101-year-old British organization, Action on Hearing Loss. The more I learn about it, the more impressed I become. The non-profit group, known until last

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Cost Cutting Ideas for Small Practices, part 2

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The first post in this series reminded readers why small firms have to come up with small but inventive cost-containment ideas to compete in competitive markets. Idea #1 was to eliminate old expensive monitoring technology (security systems) and switch to inexpensive portable systems (smartphones with remote web cams). Total estimated savings over 3 years (my wild guess): $2600. Here is

La Pérdida De Audición: El Desventaja En Silencio

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La pérdida de audición está en todo el mundo. No es de las enfermedades transmisibles de la edad o otras enfermedades. Cuando es causada por tumores cerebrales[1], desórdenes autoinmunes, o meningitis que puede producir la muerte. Para el tratamiento en estos casos, es importante detectar la pérdida de audición, diagnosticar su origen, y proporcionar tratamiento . Pero, en la mayoría

Thanks for your opinions; now here’s mine on the Task Force’s grievous mistake

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By David H. Kirkwood Hearinghealthmatters.org has been drawing more and livelier comments recently in response to our weekly posts. I’m sure I speak for all my colleagues when I say thank you to all who share your thoughts with us and encourage other readers to do the same. All of us—editors and readers alike—appreciate and learn from your input. A

Hearing Loss after a Liver Transplant?

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This past week I had a patient who received a liver transplant over 3 years ago. He went to a world-renowned clinic for the procedure and during his post-transplant follow up he took advantage of his location and obtained diagnostic evaluation and treatment of his perceived hearing loss. As a clinician, I know what I say and what the patient understands

Cost Cutting Ideas for Small Practices

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Editor’s Caveat: Hearing Economics strives for a broad economic view, rarely getting down to nuts and bolts of running a practice–you’ll find those in our Hearing Health section. However. today’s post is the first in a series that reveals my dirty, or nutty, little secrets for cost cutting. They’re not clever and they’re not real secrets, but they are little — most only work (if they

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But That Would Still Be Wrong: Moral and Ethical Decisions in Hearing Healthcare

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A few weeks ago, Hearing Economics ventured into Ethical territory — not a place Economists like to visit though it’s part of the job. Nevertheless, we’re back in that quagmire of bad decisions, their effects on practices, and whether they are Moral Temptations or true Ethical Dilemmas. The latter surface when there is a clash between two or more moral