Client Relations & Marketing
Video: What can we do to ensure happy clients?
"This isn't brain surgery," says Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald. Here are his tips.
Pet owners spend more on dental conditions than prevention
Encourage clients to be vigilant with their pets' preventive dental care and help them save money.
Show your sympathy and strengthen the bond with veterinary clients
Let your clients know you care during trying times
Market Watch: A new model: Look for opportunity
It may be time to rethink your practice's pharmaceutical product pricing.
Reward your repeat veterinary visitors
Save clients money with little perks and freebies.
Veterinarians: Turn those bad reviews around
How should I respond to negative reviews of my practice that come up during a Google search?
5 ways to get veterinary clients on board with your vaccination recommendations
Polish your communication skills and increase client compliance in the exam room.
The final bill
National Report - A Syracuse, N.Y., television station opted to air a report critical of area veterinarians for charging owners to stay in the room during the euthanasia.
3 steps to ease the strain of an itchy workup
Follow these steps to get veterinary clients to follow through.
Leading Off: It's not what you know-it's what your clients know
Dr. Jason Coe discusses a key component of getting clients to accept your recommendations.
Fees: It's all in the presentation
Turn common sense on its head: Present your fee schedule to pet-owning clients-personally
Q&A: Fight veterinary clients' fears with microchip facts
Sometimes clients are afraid to have their pets microchipped. What can I say to calm their fears?
Ease your veterinary clients' anesthesia fears
My clients are afraid of anesthesia. How can I explain the risks and importance?
3 services veterinary clients really want
Here's how to make extra services work in your favor while pleasing clients.
Client handout: Myths vs. Facts: The truth about ticks
Make sure parasites have no place on your veterinary patients.
Veterinary boarding and grooming: The good, the bad, and the profitable
Your veterinary clients want it-but is it worth it? Comb through the pros and cons before you provide boarding and grooming services.
The threat from the Net: Marty Becker says this is veterinarians' top challenge
Work with the Web.
Sample veterinary breed sheet
Download this breed sheet and customize your veterinary clients' experience.
5 ways to educate with breed-specific veterinary healthcare
Customize and personalize your clients' experience by focusing on their pets' breed.
Play nice with local low-cost veterinary clinics
They're popping up everywhere, they mean well, and they can't give clients what you do.
3 ways to make a case for veterinary vaccinations
Tired of your veterinary clients' excuses when it comes to vaccinations? Take the frustration out of these conversations.
Texas Supreme Court could mull non-economic damages in cases of negligence
Fort Worth, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court may listen to arguments in a high-profile legal case that would allow emotional damages after a mistaken euthanasia of a lost pet by a shelter worker.
Ask Shawn: The case of the missing kitten
Learn what to do when a veterinary client finds a lost pet and doesn't want to return him to his owners.
Be real about pet insurance
Clients need to consider financial options-including pet insurance-to safeguard their pets' health.
Share the horrors of heartworms with clients
It's vital to explain the symptoms and risks of heartworm disease to clients in endemic areas.
Court case further tests emotional damages claims
National Report - A lawsuit in Clearwater, Fla., is calling for the court to award $15,000 in damages due to alleged negligence.
The human-human bond
Veterinarians have always been recognized as animal lovers.
Top 5 leap year "tails" of all time
Warning: The cats and dogs you're about to witness have taken extreme leaps of faith and lived to bark or purr about it.
Case 10, Answer 2b
Case 10, Answer 2c