Your furry, scaly, feathery, fluffy patients may have nine lives to spare, but your veterinary practice has just the one. When your livelihood is in danger due to outstanding debt on behalf of your patients’ “parents,” you’ve got to walk a fine line. While you don’t want to isolate or turn off your clients, you…
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The nation is under a blazing heat advisory, which means nothing but big bucks for your business, right? So you’re beefing up on staff, adding machinery, and basically raking in the dough. Yet when the rush is over, you don’t want your funds to “take a dive,” “get burned,” or “be all wet,” do you?…
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You know it’s that time of the year when one of the parents in your office is suddenly much more popular. He or she is passing around a laminated cookie order form and suddenly, you see them everywhere. Little girls dressed in uniforms, covered in patches, hawking their treats. The names are exotic and unlike…
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You don’t need an auto tiller to spread the seeds for a successful landscaping business. But as you know, a single instance of root rot can spread so quickly that it can kill your entire crop. Don’t let bad debt overcome you. Take root with these ideas on how to see more green. Trim and…
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Congratulations! You’ve made the sale but still haven’t collected full payment from your customer. What do you do now? You can either track down those non-paying customers yourself or hire a debt collection agency. Debt collection agencies often provide flat fee or contingency services. Flat fee is self-explanatory. But what is contingency? What is it &…
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Being an effective medical office manager has always required excellent organizational, communication and time management skills, but in today’s rapidly evolving landscape, you need more to get ahead. As the executive director of the Association of Professional Office Managers, Jim Lynch recently offered some important insights. We added a couple too, which can help you build…
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