Best of Hearing Health: Keeping Up With The Schedule
I wrote previously about combining the best of the retail and medical scheduling models to streamline our practices, yet still accommodate emergency appointments. To help solve this problem, our appointment times tend to be longer than other practices and we know those specific patients who need more time. With a simple email or phone call…
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You’ve heard it said, “When you work for yourself, you work for a real tyrant.” A seasoned and successful businessman friend recently gave us another pearl: “If owning a business were easy, everyone would have one.” When you’re the boss, you get to make the rules. You can close early; you can set policy, pricing…
Read MoreInterlude: The Work Sabbatical Concept
I’d like to take an interlude this week from my series on pricing concepts to share a concept that, while not unique, is something that those in private practice should seriously consider: the work sabbatical. I started taking work sabbaticals several years ago. At AAA in Salt Lake City (2004) I met a guy named…
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