Essential Meet Up

Maria Markusen is the Director of Development for VGM Retail and a thirteen year veteran #caretailer, speaker and healthcare retail thought leader.  Before joining VGM, Markusen was Co-Founder of Simply Shops and Chief Operating Officer of Simply Retail, hospital retail outsource partners.  A dynamic speaker and twenty year sales trainer in both healthcare retail and long-term care, Maria is a healthcare sales and product development visionary. Maria’s career is focused on capturing

Are you feeling the pinch on time and money?  Join the club!  As a women’s health provider today, it can be just as hard to find time as it is to find a healthy budget for marketing your business.  This is why we're giving you the tools to market your business quickly and affordably each day with quick return on new business, because we know you probably wear many hats within your organization.  During this presentation, Christina Throndson of VGM Forbin will highlight

Often times, you will not only provide your mastectomy patient with bras, prosthesis, etc. But you will also provide the patient with compression products as many patients will develop lymphedema post surgery. Join Essentially Women on April 16th as we learn from Jennifer Jagielski, medi USA's clinical educator on how to choose the appropriate compression garment for your patients.  Jennifer Jagielski has been in the compression business for over 20 years as a master fitter and biller.

Meet Beth Cox Hollingsworth, VGM's Director of Content Strategy for VGM Marketing. A member of the marketing leadership team, she oversees creative professionals who specialize in developing marketing strategies that are planned, sustainable and integrated with sales strategy. She also develops and coordinates educational opportunities VGM thought leaders.  Beth has a passion for empowering individuals to discover their personal mind-body well-being. She is a certified life

This week in the speaker spotlight we are featuring Patrice Sobcznski; she brings personal and professional experience to the Essential Meet Up in April in Philadelphia.  Meet Patrice Patrice is a 28-year breast cancer survivor and has worked in the breast care industry for 27 years. She is an 11-year member of the ABC sales and education team and is a certified mastectomy fitter with both ABC and BOC. Her personal experience, industry knowledge, and caring personality are the perfect

Ronda Buhrmester is a veteran speaker for Essentially Women; she is a billing and reimbursement expert and a former mastectomy fitter. Join us at the Essential Meet Up in Philadelphia on April 16 and The Women's Health Track at Heartland Conference in Waterloo, Iowa on June 20-21 for this hands-on training.   Non-Assigned - How Do Those Claims Get Processed, Ronda Buhrmester, Reimbursement Specialist, VGM Group, Inc About Ronda: As a VGM associate since 2012, Ronda

Every business has the capability to be a successful retail location in addition to their current services/products offered; it just takes a little education to get there. Join our experts with VGM Retail as they break retail down to three core areas: marketing, product and experience. Marketing: No matter how well designed your business is, you cannot expect customers to visit out of thin air. This section of the workshop will discuss the old DME/HME industry trend that once looked at customers

Members have been asking – “What is the Essential Meet Up?” Here is the short of the long and resources to find out the rest! Who: The Essential Meet Up is open to all Essentially Women members and geared towards your women’s health staff – whether it is your mastectomy fitter or business operations staff – there is something for everyone! What: This is a one-day educational and networking event. Attendees who are interested in learning more about retail