ProfNet Experts Available on Customer Service, Retirement Planning Also in This Edition: Jobs for Writers, Media Industry Blog Posts
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EDITOR'S NOTE
- How Do You Use Mobile in Your Reporting?
EXPERT ALERTS
- Social Media Channels for Customer Service
- Retirees Tapping Into IRAs to Pay for Spontaneous Expenses
MEDIA JOBS
- Managing Editor – HollywoodLife.com (NY)
- Senior Reporter – Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
- Reporter – The Bulletin (OR)
OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES
- Five Tools for Social Media Monitoring
- PR Newswire's Media Moves
- Blog Profiles: Transportation Blogs
EDITOR'S NOTE:
To better understand how members of the media use mobile devices (phones or tablets) to produce stories, PR Newswire for Journalists is asking users to participate in a quick, eight-question survey. The survey will remain open until Nov. 30: http://bit.ly/prnjmobile
EXPERT ALERTS:
Social Media Channels for Customer Service
Jason Levesque
CEO, Founder
Argo Marketing Group, Lewiston, Maine
"The number of questions asked on brands' Facebook pages has increased by over 85% in the last year. More and more of today's consumers are utilizing brands' social media pages as a channel for customer support, and brands must be prepared to provide expedient, real-time service through these channels." Levesque is CEO and founder of Argo Marketing Group, one of the largest privately owned customer engagement centers. He is available to discuss customer service, multichannel customer service, and political campaigns.
Website: http://www.ArgoMarketingGroup.com
Media Contact: Katelyn Ludwig, [email protected]
Retirees Tapping Into IRAs to Pay for Spontaneous Expenses
Bijan Golkar, CFP
CEO/Senior Advisor
FPC Investment Advisory, Inc.
Imagine grabbing a cookie from the cookie jar and finding a shockingly large tax bill attached. That, in a nutshell, is what's happening to far too many wealthy retirees today. These retirees aren't reaching for cookies, of course -- they're tapping their IRAs to pay for somewhat spontaneous expenses such as new cars or family vacations. In some cases, they're withdrawing retirement funds to pay for emergencies or unanticipated medical expenses. Says Golkar: "Maintaining a properly funded taxable account provides you with an option to effectively pay for unexpected expenses without facing a massive markup from Uncle Sam. The proper asset total within the taxable account depends on each family's financial profile; a financial advisor can help you pinpoint the optimal number."
Based in San Francisco, Golkar has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, The Fiscal Times, Bankrate, MoneyUnder30.com, MainStreet.com, InvestmentNews.com, Physician's Money Digest, and DepositAccounts.com.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/bijangolkar
Website: http://www.fpcwealth.com
Media Contact: Steve Garmhausen, [email protected]
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MEDIA JOBS:
Following are links to job listings for staff and freelance writers, editors and producers. You can view these and more job listings on our Job Board: https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/community/jobs/
- Managing Editor – HollywoodLife.com (NY)
- Senior Reporter – Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
- Reporter – The Bulletin (OR)
See more listings here.
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OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES:
Following are links to other news and resources we think you might find useful. If you have an item you think other reporters would be interested in and would like us to include in a future alert, please drop us a line at [email protected]
- FIVE TOOLS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING: Monitoring and verifying news from social media is far from simple, but tools exist to help journalists find good information they can separate from the bad they don't need. In this week's Media 411 column, we look at five tools for monitoring and verifying information from social media: http://prn.to/1wtmhU2
- PR NEWSWIRE'S MEDIA MOVES. PR Newswire's Media Moves, the Audience Research Department's weekly newsletter, features a recap of recent changes in the media industry. You can read this week's copy here: http://prn.to/10RtTHi
- BLOG PROFILES: TRANSPORTATION BLOGS: Every week, PR Newswire's media relations manager, Christine Cube, profiles a handful of blogs that do a good job with promoting, contributing and blogging about an industry/subject. This week, she takes a look at a few transportation blogs: http://prn.to/1wfFXdQ
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