Client Relations & Marketing

Should this veterinarian learn to say yes more often to his clients, even if it means bending the rules and inconveniencing his team?

Technicians have long been essential in providing telehealth to veterinary patients, and new technologies are expanding the depth of care they can provide. How are technicians skills being leveraged alongside technological advancements now, and how can practices take telehealth a step further to reach more patients in the future? Read on.

Help your veterinary clients teach their fanged friends to tolerateand maybe even likehaving their teeth brushed.

Practice management experts provide a series of short on-demand videos to help boost your practice's profitability. Sponsored by Henry Schein Veterinary Solutions

Scratch that itch for a clear explanation of the flea cycle for your veterinary practice's clients with this printable PDF.

If questions about coconut oil are popping up in your exam room, just a spoonful of advice from veterinary nutritionist Dr. Angela Rollins should help give you some direction.

An RVT with 15 years experience writes us to say a DVM who worries that pet insurance will go the way of human healthcare insurance is all wrong.

Millennials have grown up with technology and the conveniences it affords. If veterinary practices dont adapt to their expectations, they risk being replaced.

Pay attention to the needs of your veterinary hospital's receptionists. They do a terrific job every day to keep problems in the front from affecting the veterinarians in the back.

After you get a complaint, but before you make a decision as a veterinary practice owner or manager about employee discipline or big process changes, this kennel-attendant-turned-practice-owner told conference-goers to ask themselves and others two important questions.

While speakers at Uncharted's Get Sh*t Done conference talked about branding, hiring and personnel management, they seemed to be telling a story about the power of stories: your team members' and your practice's.

Occasional hairballs and vomit are a part of every cat owners life at one time or another. But maybe your hospital can help cats with proper diet, lifestyle changes and diagnosis and treatment. And you can tell clients about it right now with these social media posts.

The veterinary team at this Florida hospital has been trying wearable sensors for patients to get round-the-clock, at-home data for dermatology, nutrition and post-surgery issues.

This veterinarian learned to hate vision insurance when she worked as a human optometrist, and shes afraid what more insurance control of veterinary medicine could mean.

Your veterinary clients know you cant feed a human baby what you feed an adult. And yet, they may think nothing of filling their puppys bowl with kibble meant for mature dogs and vice versa. Be ready to counsel them on how nutritional needs

Do you know which clients are your prize Thoroughbreds and which ones youre just happy to plug in when its convenient? Thats step one of a three-step process to work with clients who want to be seen right now.

Print this PDF to educate your veterinary clients on the dangers of outdoor living for domestic housecats.

A pet owner reached out to us for an expert answer on insulin for a canine with diabetes. We said, "Go talk to your vet." But heres the lowdown for your veterinary team on what a boarded internist has to say on the issue.

Life happens, and its rife with accidents (which cost money). How can we help clients cover the costs of veterinary care so they can take care of their pets while we still cover our bottom line?

Not surprisingly, a Marc Rosenberg column about two veterinarians disagreeing over the best way to prevent fleas and ticks in veterinary patients has inspired more debate.

When it seems like a pet has a dermatology issue, what happens next? Is it right off to the veterinary hospital, or do pet owners skip the DVM and head for Dr. Google? Data from the Pet Owner Paths study illuminates the differences between you and your clients on what happens next.

A walk in the park should be just that for both the dog and the owner. Read up on these leash, harness and halter options so youll be ready to help your veterinary clients find the finest fits for their canine companions.

Veterinary clients want the best for their pets, but sometimes their financial situation gets in the way. Here's a short version of my long path I travel with veterinary clients when they complain about price, seem hesitant to comply with recommendations or say, straight up, they're under a financial strain.

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Educate your veterinary clients on the basics otitis externa, media and interna and how youll get to a diagnosis.

Five hard truths that veterinary technicians should tell veterinarians about otitis visits. (And if your vet techs arent, maybe they should be.)

When the owner of a Lhasa apso with chronic otitis refused to bring her dog in for a recheck, I turned the problem into a new policy at my veterinary hospital.

Give it to me straight, says one reader to our CVPM advice guru: Are veterinary wellness plans worth the time?

Maddie's Fund provides $2.8 million for UT's AlignCare program, which takes a One Health approach to meeting needs of low-income families-including the four-legged members.

A veterinarian recommending only natural flea and tick prevention is reported to her state board. Will her approach be deemed negligent or merely incomplete?