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Student Intern Wanted!
Rockstar Technology is looking for a student intern to start over the Holiday break and possibly during the second semester. The position will be an introduction to the web design and internet marketing industry – specifically working with the marketing team on content generation and learning how to evaluate a company’s online presence.
This will be a paid internship. Internships are very beneficial for college applications as well as for entering the job market. Ask anyone – internship experience is HUGE.
Requirements
1. Gotta be a Rockstar in some way and able to explain why. Quick learner, self motivated, attention to detail – all are important to us.
2. Upper class students in the Keller area that have transportation and a desire to work in the business, technology or design industry are welcome to apply. Internship will be 5-10 hours per week – 1-2 days after school at our office or at home.
Step 1 – email jeff@rockstartechnology.com – introduce yourself, tell me about your plans for school or career and why an internship is important to you.
Step 2 – interviews will be done as early as next week. Intern will be chosen before holiday break.
Visit www.rockstartechnology.com to learn more about us or follow up on social media.
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Rockstar Project Wall and Chalk Mural Complete!
We are excited to share our completed Project Wall for Rockstar Technology design by Joe Chavez! The wall will be for new content and Social Media ideas to benefit all our clients.
Engaging content and web design for businesses of all sizes does NOT need to be expensive, it has to be intentional and consistent! Realizing your Ideal Website Strategy.
See examples at http://rockstartechnology.com/portfolio.php
Contact Joe Chavez of Zombie Joe Tattoo at 951-906-2843 or zombietattoojoe@yahoo.com
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New website launch for Mathews4Mayor | Keller, Texas Web Design
Here is our latest pro bono project- a website we created for Keller mayoral candidate Mark Mathews.
We love supporting our local community, and we are proud to provide web and marketing for Keller mayoral candidate Mark Mathews for his current campaign. The new site allows for online donations, video clips of Mark Mathews and plenty of ways to get involved with his campaign. Please support Mark come election time!
Rockstar Technology is a Keller based Web and Marketing agency focused on small / mid-sized businesses that want professional services at an affordable price.
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Employee Spotlight – Sandy Ballou
The team we have here at eTekhnos/ Rockstar Technology is our greatest asset to both our company and the clients we serve daily. The Employee Spotlight is to help our clients get to know the staff they work so closely with and rely on personally and professionally! Read below to learn more about Sandy Ballou – in her own words.
How long have you been with eTekhnos/RT and what is your official title?
Since April 2011. Technology Support Manager.What is your favorite aspect of your role here?
I like helping our clients sign new clients with the technology we help them offer. I also enjoy the relationships I have with my clients and co-workers.Do you have a favorite sports team?
The Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots.
Where is the furthest you have traveled?
I went to Italy to visit Family when I was 6 and Hawaii when I was in High School.What is your passion?
Right now my 1.5 year old son Scottie and almost 4 year old daughter Natalie and my Husband Scott take up most of my time.What is something people might not know about you?
I trained in martial arts from the age of 5 until I was 18. I was a Second Degree Black Belt and used to teach classes to young children and also competed in many tournaments. Also, my first language was Italian – I could not speak English fluently until the age of 6 after taking classes in school. -
Employee Spotlight – Gem Nel
The team we have here at eTekhnos/ Rockstar Technology is our greatest asset to both our company and the clients we serve daily. The Employee Spotlight is to help our clients get to know the staff they work so closely with and rely on personally and professionally! Read below to learn more about Gem Nel – in her own words.
How long have you been with eTekhnos/RT and what is your official title?
I have been with the company exactly two years this month. I am the Technology Support Manager.What is your favorite aspect of your role here?
My favorite aspect is knowing that I have an amazing team of colleagues backing me up and that I trust explicitly. I love problem solving and design and this job allows me to do both.What is your passion?
I am an avid rugby fan and my team that I support is the Wasps. But my passion is my family…. I do everything I do for them and fit everything I need to do around them. My family’s smiles and laughter are my favorite reward.What is something people might not know about you?
I am from England. I am a qualified interior designer. I was taught dressmaking skills from a Saville Row, London, tailor’s apprentice. I was a scout for over a decade and a half and the level of my backwoods skills normally surprise most people. I love antiques – the more interesting and unusual the better – and have a growing assorted collection from scouring antique shops and yard sales. -
White House To Delay Obamacare’s Employer Mandate Until 2015
White House To Delay Obamacare’s Employer Mandate Until 2015;
Far-Reaching Implications For The Private Health Insurance MarketExcerpt from The Apothecary, with Avik Roy – 7/02/2013
The Obama administration has decided to delay the implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate—the requirement that all firms with 50 or more employees offer health coverage, or pay steep fines—until 2015. The mandate was supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2014. This development will have a significant impact on the rollout of Obamacare, the private health insurance market, and the nation’s economy, as I detail below.
The news was first reported by Mike Dorning and Alex Wayne of Bloomberg this afternoon. The ruling, they say, “will come in regulatory guidance to be issued later this week. It addresses vehement complaints from employer groups about the administrative burden of reporting requirements, though it may also affect coverage provided to some workers.”
“First,” wrote Treasury official Mark Mazur in a statement, the delay “will allow us to consider ways to simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law. Second, it will provide time to adapt health coverage and reporting systems while employers are moving toward making health coverage affordable and accessible for their employees.”
Read the full article on Forbes.com
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Benefits Portal Builds Direct Relationships
Not only is self-service technology helping employer-clients control benefit administration costs, it might also be insurance carriers’ missing link to employee consumers once they leave the workplace.
This potential is not lost on MetLife, a large New York-based provider of non-medical group benefits with accounts at more than 3,500 organizations. To better service the needs of close to 17 million employees working at its client companies, MetLife embarked on an effort five years ago to build an online employee benefits portal called MyBenefits.
By all measures, the online self-service portal has been a hit. Recently, MetLife announced that the one-millionth employee had registered to access accounts online through MyBenefits.
The portal enables employees to log in-either from work or from home-and get answers to frequently asked questions, learn about plans and coverage specifics, obtain price quotes for certain products, and enroll in dental benefits, critical illness insurance, long-term care, life insurance, auto and home insurance, disability insurance, and banking services.
Users can also check their claim status for certain products, locate a dentist who participates in a MetLife preferred dentist program, or learn about retirement savings options. A popular feature is service e-mail, such as e-alerts that notify employees of claim updates.
The first iteration of the MyBenefits portal was launched in June of 2000, according to Sachin Shah, vice president of MetLife Workplace Solutions. MetLife has upgraded the portal several times since that initial launch, with the most recent upgrade taking place in 2003. Shah estimates the site is being accessed an average 800,000 to a million times a month, and transaction activity has been almost doubling each year.
There were three primary considerations in launching the portal, says Shah. First, customer companies were anxious to reduce processing burdens incurred by benefits administration.
“Our employer customers-plan sponsors, or HR offices-needed to promote more self service, and reduce the related costs of the administrivia with benefit programs,” he says.
The ability to lower administration costs has been a key selling point to employers, he adds. “In our business, things that we can do to provide employees a better way to manage their benefits, without having to call the HR office, are real winners. It takes work from employers, who would otherwise be getting phone calls and inquiries.”
Second, organizations are gradually reducing their financial stake in benefits plans. “Employers are beginning to cost-shift to employees, and that cost shifting continues to grow, certainly on a dollar basis, because costs in aggregate for medical programs in particular have gone up,” he explains.
“That cost shifting has required us to work with employers to begin to provide much more information to employees, and get them to become more aware of, and educated in, benefits offerings.”
Third, Shah says, there’s a strategic shift occurring in the benefits administration marketplace. “Employers are getting out of the benefits administration business,” he notes.
“Strategically, the marketplace is moving toward a world in which we have two customers – the employer, and more importantly, the employee. Making a sale to the employer is no longer a guarantee of revenue, as it was in the past. It’s just a point of entry. Ultimately, making the sale to the employee, and keeping the employee as a customer, has become our driver of revenues and earnings.”
Read More (Source: Joe McKendrick, Insurance Networking News)
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7 reasons your Facebook page is a hot mess
A state of disarray so chaotic that it’s dizzying to look at. A mess that is beyond the normal range of disarray. Visual clutter that draws attention to itself. It may sound like I am describing Lindsay Lohan heading into court on a Monday morning. But no, I am describing a Facebook business page lacking a strategy without consistent engagement but has potential to become super-hot. Could this be your business’s page?
Facebook boasts the largest user base of any social network, so if your business doesn’t have a solid Facebook presence, you’re simply missing lead generation opportunities. There are plenty of ways to sabotage your success when it comes to creating Facebook content, and we’ve all been guilty of them at one point in time. Here are seven reasons your Facebook page might be viewed by your fans as a social media hot mess.
1. You’re not using enough visuals
2. You’re not using your real estate wisely
3. You are not tying your posts to offers
4. You don’t have an editorial calendar
5. You are not paying to upgrade your reach
6. You are not experimenting
7. You are not having fun
Read More (Source: Jason Miller, www.convinceandconvert.com)
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Benefit Development Group Website Live
Here is another of our latest websites, just launched for Benefit Development Group.
They realized the importance of having an easy to navigate website with lots of up to date information to help their clients and prospects.
Special Feature – The addition of the FAQ section is a great way for agencies to be found by search engines when people are asking questions related to a certain business topic. FAQ pages are full of great content and keywords related to your agency that when tied to your Google Analytics account can really help move you up in the Google search engines.