Finance

Clients don't always have money, but you can still earn in ways other than just that warm feeling of a good deed done.

Study also examined how practices monitor finances and manage business.

Your veterinary team knows all about the health of your patients, but what about the health of your veterinary practice? In this Team Meeting in a Box, you'll look at the condition of your financials and your operations and then treat them with new ideas and strategies. Remember, the more successful your practice is, the better it will be for your team, clients and patients.

You might not examine your veterinary patients in low light, but there other places in the clinic where you can try this trick out.

Do dogs take an interest in faux trees? Maybe not, but clients love them.

Inventory at your veterinary practice making you angry? Mark Opperman's "red dot and flag" system could make it less of a chore (and more fun for you organization wonks).

You can't fight millions of dollars in marketing from corner drugstores and gigantic online pharmacies. But you can educate pet owners, find products you sell with the lowest prices, and build your own online pharmacy.

A recently publicized client horror story keeps care, revenue and oversight regarding the procedure in the spotlight.

Pain specialist offers her take on emerging modalities, including one that could 'revolutionize' pain medicine.

North Carolina clinic serves cases that cant wait but dont need emergency hospitalization.

Your services are worth more than you think. Adjust your fees accordingly.

We know: Parasite control talks can be boring. But this veterinary parasite expert resolved a familys flea nightmare by not ducking the issue.

A few things are certain: Death, taxesand the countless ways a practice sale can be brought to a screeching halt.

or, better yet, do a little bit of basic math and figure out whether that rad, new veterinary doohickey (and the potential end-of-the-year tax break) is worth it.

It's not about the money for Dr. John Talmadge. (What veterinary hospitals makes its money on retail items?) It's about closing the gap between a client's pet issue and the product to fix it.

So says (almost) every veterinarian in the world. But, really, you are, if you want clients to agree to buy the products and services their pets so desperately need.The most egregious, tacky example of selling in the veterinary practice that many doctors shy away from is selling products. Your practice is not a pet store! That's true. But having items on hand-especially to fix tricky behavior issues, manage daily pet diets or enrich pets' entertainment at home-is a good idea, says Dr. John Talmadge. See why he does it.

… at one thing: Getting customers what they want RIGHT NOW

As these business gurus follow us to dvm360.com, a few of them offer a parting piece of advice in the magazine for you.

A tight leasehold footprint could squeeze out this prospective practice owner.

The majority of drug prescriptions for people in the U.S. are filled with generics. Though prescribing veterinary generic drugs is a recent introduction to our profession, it is not just good medicine, its also good business.

Whole Pet with Wellness plan expands coverage, reimburses 90 percent of eligible costs.

We curated our very best tools to help you dream, plan, build and stock your next veterinary hospital.

Check out this interactive feature to see what elements make reception areas shine.

Veterinary students in general are managing their debt within reason; solutions to this massive problem will have to come from elsewhere.

Sometimes all thats needed is a little creativity to help your feline patients feel better about being in your clinic.

One important fact: Clients who enroll in these bundled-services plans spend 57 percent more per patientor nearly $300 a year.

Stop making pet owners ask your receptionist, "What does this mean?"

Private-practice veterinarian learns-again-that price trumps loyalty.