Topics: Grow Your Veterinary Practice, Marketing For Veterinary Practices, For Practice Managers

Topics: Innovative Technology For Vets, Marketing For Veterinary Practices, For Practice Managers

The not-so-subtle Christmas music and advertising is a clear reminder that we are drawing nearer to the holiday season.  It used to be that you wouldn’t see this kind of advertising until after Thanksgiving, but nowadays as soon as Halloween is over there is a palpable change in the background of our daily lives.  How many more years before it’s Labor Day?  

Topics: Grow Your Veterinary Practice, For Practice Managers

 

The glory days of old are gone.   The time has passed where you could merely hang out your shingle as a veterinarian and be successful.   As is now well known, veterinary supply is growing faster than veterinary demand, which increases competition and exerts downward pressure on the prices you can charge your clients.   This is a new reality, but it doesn’t have to be a negative one.

Topics: Grow Your Veterinary Practice, For Practice Managers

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the the benefits of volunteering and the social good that comes from giving your time and experience to a good cause.  I’m fortunate to serve on the AVMA’s Veterinary Economic Strategy Committee, and have done so for the last year or so.  This committee is tasked with developing specific recommendations for the Executive Board with respect to the economic health and well being of both individual veterinarians and the profession as a whole.  Our profession is facing some interesting economic challenges, but we are a strong group of people united by a common love for veterinary medicine.  There’s no doubt our best days are ahead of us! 

 

Topics: For Practice Managers