by Ken DeRouchie | Mar 5, 2021 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Improving Net Income, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Quality of Life, Staff Management, Staff Training, Veterinary
It is very wise to have a bonus plan for staff in operation in your office. If you reward staff for increasing their production and the production of the practice, they will naturally want to continue to do that, and the whole staff will tend to operate much more as a...
by Ken DeRouchie | Feb 26, 2021 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Quality of Life, Staff Management, Staff Training, Veterinary
One of the key elements in running a successful practice is the actual communication level of the practice. This communication level is not just how people talk to each other. “How” is important, but there is more to it than just that. It’s also not how many...
by Ken DeRouchie | Feb 19, 2021 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Improving Net Income, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Quality of Life, Staff Management, Veterinary
1. Confront Your Current Practice Limitations With private practice ownership already a challenging environment, how do you cope with the sense of overwhelm? Sometimes, to solve a problem, we have to go back to the drawing board. In order to solve the feeling of...
by Ken DeRouchie | Feb 12, 2021 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Staff Training, Veterinary
A Way to Avoid Common Confusions in the Workplace In order to function most effectively as a team, agreements must be known and adhered to for smooth, efficient coordination and cooperation. This is also known as “policy.” As long as people know what the...
by Ken DeRouchie | Jan 15, 2021 | Collections, Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Veterinary
One of the most common problems doctors want help with is dealing with canceled or rescheduled appointments. If a doctor’s office has too much of this occurring it can wreak havoc on their daily production. Normally, when this is occurring it is a sign that the...
by Ken DeRouchie | Jan 3, 2021 | Collections, Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Office Manager, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Veterinary
Collecting on past due accounts is a function that the Accounts Manager will find herself/himself having to do. Any contact with a patient/client, even under these circumstances, should be kept on a friendly, professional and dignified basis. This will promote respect...
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 18, 2020 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, New Patients, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Social Media, Staff Management, Staff Training, Veterinary
Thriving successful practices have mastered the challenges of patient and client retention. A question that needs to be asked, answered and fully understood is, “Where does patient or client retention start?” The truest and simplest answer is: the point when the...
by Ken DeRouchie | Dec 11, 2020 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Managing Online Reviews, Marketing, New Patients, Online Strategy, Optometry, Popular, Practice Areas, Social Media, Veterinary
COVID-19 has changed the healthcare profession forever, with practice owners feeling exposed to threats within and outside the clinic. The good news is that, with the right strategies, you can fly past competitors whose slow response time is crippling their ability to...
by Ken DeRouchie | Sep 4, 2020 | Collections, Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Hot Tips, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas, Veterinary
In 2020, the world has fundamentally changed – perhaps more so than at any time in human history. While pandemics have struck humanity before, the economic ramifications on an international level have never been so high as they are today. With so many changes,...
by Ken DeRouchie | May 8, 2020 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Hot Tips, Newsletter, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Training, Veterinary
PPP: If you haven’t already applied for PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) do it now. This program allows you to receive 8 weeks worth of funding to go toward your payroll/rent/bills. At the end of the 8 weeks you can apply for loan forgiveness. As long as you’ve spent...