Practice Management

Too many options from a veterinarian can be confusing – streamline your clients' and eliminate their frustration.

Just like this institution, your veterinary practice can be a well-oiled machine.

So, you've got a website. Now you need to update it and drive your clients there. Veterinary Economics wants to help! Use these resources to populate your site, reach out to pet owners, and develop more compliant clients.

Just like humans, horses like a little TLC on their sore and tired spots.

Your toolbox for promoting flea control to clients, including articles for your veterinary practice's website, Facebook posts and tweets, and blurbs for your e-newsletter.

Everybody benefits when the practice is in the black.

I'm a male technician in a mostly female practice. I've been here just as long as another female technician who's less experienced than me. She was promoted-I wasn't. How do I get my fair shake?

Use plastic vaccine trays to collect urine by free catch.

Keeping track of clippers by mounting to ceiling

Use IV lines to tie endotracheal tubes during dental procedures.

Use colored dot stickers to quickly identify expiration dates.

Sometimes veterinary team members' emotional responses have more to do with their own self-esteem than with what you've said.

Do clients typically take advantage of the free office visits you offer under your annual plan? I'm considering offering two exams and three free office visits. Subsequent visits would cost 50 percent less than a regular visit.

The future of mixed-animal practice will survive if practice owners are willing to compromise with associates.

Spruce up your computer's desktop with these fun images.

How to create a consistent message.

Train your veterinary receptionists right from the beginning.

This form is an example of what you might give new hires on their first day at your veterinary practice.

Is your veterinary practice cat friendly? It will be once you start implementing these tips and programs.

A creative solution for your veterinary practice.

Q: Our veterinary practice often plans outreach activities for the community. Can we require team members to attend these events on their own time? If so, how should we compensate them?

The best greeting you can extend is a thorough training and orientation program. The more time you spend on these crucial introductory steps, the more likely your new hire is to stick around-and flourish.

Veterinary Economics and Firstline editor Brendan Howard reports live from Firstline Live at CVC Washington, D.C.

If the engagement among your veterinary practice's Facebook fans has dropped off, an algorithm may be to blame.

Nobody knows equine practice management like Jim Guenther. Here are five of his best articles from over the years.

Overweight employees cost U.S. business billions annually.

National Report - Three veterinary practitioners are still coming to terms with loss from fires in February-one who lost a family business and nine animals, another who lost her home, and a third who lost his business and many personal possessions in a suspected arson.

These three stumbling blocks must be fully understood before veterinary practice owner and associate sign on