US Markets in green on Friday; Dow 30 up over 345 points, Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 up nearly 1%

US Markets were trading in the green on Friday with Dow 30 trading at 30,678.80, up by 1.14%. While S&P 500 was trading at 3,701.66, up by 0.98% and Nasdaq Composite 10,690.60 was also up by 0.71 per cent

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US Markets in green on Friday; Dow 30 up over 345 points, Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 up nearly 1%
Earlier today, Indian stock markets ended the week on a winning note. It was the sixth straight gains for equity markets. Source: Reuters
US Markets were trading in the green on Friday with Dow 30 trading at 30,678.80, up by 345.25 points or1.14 per cent. While S&P 500 was trading at 3,701.66, up by 35.88 points or 0.98 per cent and Nasdaq Composite 10,690.60 was also up 75.75 points or 0.71 per cent. A Reuters report said that today’s strength was on the back of a report which said the Federal Reserve will likely debate on signaling plans for a smaller interest rate hike in December, reversing declines set off by social media firms after Snap Inc’s ad warning.

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Nasdaq Top Gainers and Losers

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Earlier today, Indian stock markets ended the week on a winning note. It was the sixth straight gains for equity markets. The BSE Sensex ended at 59,307.15, up by 104.25 points or 0.18 per cent from the Thursday closing level. Meanwhile, the Nifty50 index closed at 17,590.00, higher by 26.05 points or 0.15 per cent. In the 30-share Sensex, 13 stocks gained while the remaining 17 ended on the losing side. In the 50-stock Nifty50, 21 stocks advanced while 29 declined.

Become a Pharmacy Technician and Join the Booming Health Care Industry

The health care industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. for almost two decades, and there is no sign of a slowdown. When you consider demographic factors such as the baby boomer generation continuing to age, and the Affordable Care Act is projected to give nearly 20 million Americans access to the health care system, together with the fact that pharmaceutical industry is constantly developing new and more effective medications, continued growth in the health care industry is a given.Positions for pharmacy technicians are expected to increase by 32 percent between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This means that around 100,000 new jobs will be added by 2020 to the 350,000 already employed as pharmacy techs in 2012.Pharmacy Technician TrainingA high school diploma is generally required to become a pharmacy technician, and employers typically prefer candidates with some post-secondary education, ideally a pharmacy technician certificate. A few employers will hire inexperienced persons and train on the job, but most pharmacists prefer to hire pharmacy techs who have already been through a formal training program.The training programs can be found at vocational schools and community colleges, many with online education options. These programs typically take six to 12 months and include classes in the math used in pharmacies, recordkeeping and bookkeeping, dispensing medications, sanitation and safety, as well as pharmacy law. The technicians are required to learn the names, actions, uses and doses of common medications.Certification and LicensingCertification is attestation to your skills and knowledge in pharmacy technology by an independent third party organization. Two national organizations offer pharmacy tech certification: The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board and the National Healthcareer Association. Both certifications require graduating from an accredited training program and passing a comprehensive exam covering all aspects of pharmacy technology.Nearly all states require some form of licensing or registration for pharmacy technicians. A few states just require a high school diploma and a background check for registration; other states require graduation from a formal training program, a background check and passing a comprehensive exam to become licensed as a pharmacy tech.Pharmacy Tech Pay and ProspectsThe BLS reports that pharmacy technicians earned a median salary of $29,320 in 2012. Those employed at outpatient care centers earned the most, taking home an average salary of $38,750 in 2012. Those, who work in doctor’s offices and at college and university health centers are also on the high end of the pay scale, both averaging around $37,000. Techs working for department stores are at the lower end of the salary scale, only averaging $27,750 in 2012.The sky is the limit in terms of career advancement for pharmacy techs. Given the great demand for pharmacy techs, pharmacists are going to be looking out for up-and-comers to promote to more responsible position. Some technicians enjoy working in the industry so much they decide to go back to school to become a pharmacist. Earning your Pharm.D.would likely requires at least an additional five to six years of education, but your reward is a tripling of your earning power (pharmacist median salary of $116,670 in 2012).

Coupling Inbound Marketing With Your Online Reputation Management

Unlike how it was in the past, marketing has changed dramatically over the years. Although traditional marketing still exists and is very important to the overall process, inbound marketing is essential at this point and pairing it with your increased reputation is a natural choice.Having a fresh, novel approach to marketingWith traditional marketing, you have to go after your customers. You have to educate them about what they want and need and you have to convince them that you have what they cannot live without. That often involves a lot of interrupting and it often leaves the customer (or potential customer) feeling irritated and put upon. On the other hand, more modern marketing (inbound marketing) takes the opposite approach in many ways. First of all, with inbound marketing, you don’t go after your customers and potential customers. You get your customers to come to you. Because of that approach, those customers and potential customers are prescreened and prequalified. You don’t have any need to twist their arms. They come to you willingly and happily.Another positive feature of inbound marketing is that you will not have to eat up most of your budget to accomplish your goals. Inbound marketing costs very little. With traditional marketing, in all likelihood, you would have been forced to spend a great deal of money in order to accomplish what you set out to do. Because of that, if you owned a small or even medium-size company, you would have had a difficult time competing with larger companies from a marketing perspective. Of course, what follows that is your professional reputation. The more successful you are at causing a stir and getting people to know you and to eventually buy your offerings (after they have believed in your credibility, trustworthiness, and expertise), the better your professional reputation will become.Marketing to the appropriate peopleWhen it comes to your marketing efforts for your business, it is important to choose the most appropriate target audience possible. Your target audience must be interested in what you have to say and in what you can do for them. They must also want to be in the market to buy what you are selling and to feel that you are the best person from whom to buy that particular product and/or service. Additionally, the usual traditional (outbound) marketing approach may no longer work for you. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that when it comes to outbound marketing efforts, the target audience has gotten very clever about thwarting your efforts. They can block your advertisements, they can put themselves on a “Do Not Call” list, etc. In other words, they have ways of avoiding you entirely.On the other hand, inbound marketing can be extremely effective and, if you do it correctly, your target audience members may not even be aware that you are trying to sell them anything at all (not even at some point in the future). When it comes to inbound marketing, the approach that the technique takes is concentrating on drawing people, converting prospects to eventual customers, closing the sale, and satisfying those customers on a long-term (or permanent) basis. Inbound marketing creates solid, enduring relationships that last for very long time and are mutually beneficial. Those relationships create a very positive feeling between the other people and you. Again, along with successfully marketing your brand, your reputation will also get a boost and it will become stronger and stronger. Inbound marketing will general more online traffic, it will create new leads, and it will allow you to ultimately increase your revenue.How do you ensure that your inbound marketing campaign is successful?The best way to ensure that your inbound marketing campaign is successful is by writing and posting top-notch content. You want to share content that is well written, innovative, insightful, and amazing to the point where other people feel compelled to share it with people they know and trust. If your content was done correctly, it will answer all of your target audience’s questions (even the ones that they haven’t asked yet). In fact, you want them to seek the answers automatically from you. If you can get them to that point, you will be good to go.Making loyal customers from target audience membersWhen it comes to the nature and approach of inbound marketing, it is important to understand that the relationship and interactions between human beings is at the heart of it. Your target audience members are critical to your professional success; however, on some level, it is even more critical that you create loyal customers who will stick with you for a very long time to come. If you can create brand champions, you won’t have anything to worry about.ConclusionUsing inbound marketing to help boost your professional reputation is a brilliant thing to do. Inbound marketing is a proven, successful, intelligent approach to marketing your brand. It is very easy to learn how to use it and it is extremely effective. You will start to see positive results within a relatively short amount of time. Outbound marketing is an approach that interrupts the target audience members to get your point across. It is a hard approach and, although it works well when paired with inbound marketing, it often doesn’t work so well by itself. On the other hand, inbound marketing has tremendous benefits for everyone involved (on both sides of the fence).