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Use these five legal guidelines at your veterinary practice in the daily effort to prevent a lawsuit while simultaneously protecting your staff and your wallet.

And really effective when delivered just right to clients.

Think online and big-box retailers are taking a bite out of your profits? Step up your game.

The undeniable power of individual relationships with your clients is the motivator to fight back against declining visits.

Communicating effectively over the phone is just as important as in person. Here's how to make sure your veterinary team does it right.

The location of your veterinary practice means your business could sink or swim.

Incorporating Enteral Feeding Into Your Practice

Ending Life

One Size Doesn't Fit All

Rabies: Still a threat

Keep your clients informed and their pets protected with this informational sheet about rabies.

Prepare your veterinary clinic for the up-and-coming generation of tweeting, texting, and Facebooking clients.

There may be lies, darn lies and statistics, but the study results here show enough positive trends for the profession to be hopeful.

Offer advice to clients about where to move their mouse.

Veterinarians, technicians, and team members say goodbye to their beloved pets for the weekend and travel from all over the globe to attend CVC Kansas City. Luckily there are plenty of pooches to pet and snuggle in the exhibit hall. Check out this photo gallery to ooh and aah over our new four-legged friends.

A new study reveals that businesses could lose top talent if managers don't address employee concerns.

At CVC Kansas City this week, Dr. Dave Nicol, author of the e-book The Yellow Pages Are Dead: Marketing Your Veterinary Practice in the Digital Age, presented to an eager crowd some website and e-mail strategies to help you market your veterinary practice. Here are his top tips.

Boost your practice's energy and share the good vibes with clients.

Take a walk with us through the last three of veterinary design tips and trends from expert architects at the 2012 Hospital Design Conference, held in conjunction with CVC Kansas City.

Learn about four options that will save your veterinary hospital space and money.

Success relies on development, implementation and constant reinforcement of core values.

You should have employees participate in the creation of the practice's core values says CVC speaker Shawn McVey.

Encourage your veterinary team to be more productive. You might learn a thing or two yourself.

If the day-to-day struggles of an ambulatory equine practice are wearing you down, it may be time to consider building, buying, or renting a haul-in facility.

A smile (vs. a snarl) goes a long way toward keeping the bridges intact throughout your veterinary career.

Advancing age may play a role in managers' level of vitality.

Before you freak out, take a deep breathe and learn from these tips.

A sense of belonging and attachment to a group of co-workers is a better motivator for some employees than money, according to a new study by University of Iowa researchers.

Exclusive Technician Debt Data from the 2012 Firstline Veterinary Team Trends Study

If your veterinary client waiting room is still rocking the shag carpet, it's time for an update. No money? No problem. Veterinary Economics hospital design experts reveal the best ways to design and build on a budget.