Blog - Page 6 of 23 - The Practice Solution

Public Relations and Social Responsibility

by Ken DeRouchie | Jun 3, 2016 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Hot Tips, Optometry, Practice Areas, Veterinary

This article concerns the benefits of getting out of the office and getting actively involved in your community. Whether it’s sponsoring your local little league team, encouraging your area’s children’s museum to do an eye screening or “Celebration of Smiles”...

How to Set Reminders for Continual Services (Recall)

by Ken DeRouchie | Feb 5, 2016 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Improving Net Income, Managing Online Reviews, New Patients, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Training, Veterinary

Whether you are using an automatic reminder system, or it is someone’s job function to send out reminders; or a combination of both. The below information will be highly beneficial to increase your appointments scheduled, reactivating clients/patients and having...

How The Practice Solution Works

by Ken DeRouchie | Jan 12, 2016 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Optometry, Practice Areas, Veterinary

Here is a video that we have put together explaining how The Practice Solution works and how wego about compiling practice management articles and resources for our readers. As you can see, everything that we do depends on the help and cooperation of practice owners...

Termination Series:

A Constructive Face-to-Face Termination

by Ken DeRouchie | Nov 12, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Optometry, Staff Management, Veterinary

This article is a continuation of our termination series. To view the previous article, click here. This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a...

Termination Series:

Guidelines to Follow When Terminating

by Ken DeRouchie | Nov 5, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Hiring, Optometry, Staff Management, Veterinary

This article is a continuation of our termination series. To view the previous article, click here. This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a...

Termination Series:

Making the Decision. Should I Fire My Employee?

by Ken DeRouchie | Oct 30, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Management, Veterinary

This series will go over how a termination decision should be made, how the organization handles problems before making a termination and how to convey the news for a constructive face-to-face termination. There are specific guidelines when terminating because all of...

The Underrated Business Card

by Ken DeRouchie | Oct 8, 2015 | Dentistry, Hot Tips, Improving Net Income, Marketing, Online Strategy, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Training, Veterinary

Business cards don’t seem to be in vogue as of recently, however they are still a highly effective tool for getting your name out there. Everyone in the practice should be attentive to any and all opportunities to promote the practice. One of the easiest methods for...

Reactivating Patients: How to Get Them Back

by Ken DeRouchie | Oct 1, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Improving Net Income, New Patients, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Training, Veterinary

If you were to calculate the value of each patient or client visit and multiply that by the number of patients or clients you have not seen for 6 months or more, you would begin to get the idea that you are losing significant amounts of income by allowing these...

How Valuable is that Employee?

by Ken DeRouchie | Sep 16, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Optometry, Practice Areas, Staff Management, Staff Training, Veterinary

Performance Evaluation in a Practice Performance evaluation is viewed as a process to ensure a high quality of service to the patients and clients of the practice by fostering personal and professional growth of the staff. A performance evaluation does not necessarily...

Marketing: Why are Surveys Important to Your Practice?

by Ken DeRouchie | Sep 3, 2015 | Dentistry, Featured Dentistry, Featured Optometry, Featured Veterinary, Marketing, Optometry, Veterinary

Are you as confident in your ability to get a steady flow of new patients into your practice as you are in your ability to provide high quality technical care? You should know that successful marketing has a technology that, when applied correctly, will get results...