As a small business owner, it’s important to understand the ways you can take advantage of tax breaks and deductions to reduce your tax liability. You’ll want to keep good records and don’t be afraid to ask for help from experts when you don’t know how to file your taxes. When you think of business expenses, the most common ones are rent, internet, utilities, and insurance, but there are countless examples of miscellaneous expenses that can be written-off as well.

Providing excellent client care is a large part of running a successful business, but there’s also a lot of other factors that go into it. We’ve designed these productivity steps to help you create a practice that gets more done in less time, with less stress.

If you go into facilities to provide direct care (e.g. foot care), you will need to think about how you will document before your visit.

As regulated professionals, solo practitioners are directly accountable to clients. It is imperative to develop and maintain policies and procedures based on evidence, best practice guidelines, Professional standards and practice standards.

Let’s assume that you have been documenting all patient records on paper and now want to change to paper-free.
Your question might be:
I have been using paper charting for my independent practice, but I’m considering going paper-free and using electronic charting Is this allowed?

Loyal clients are one of your most valuable assets
Ongoing care of an existing client is much more efficient than chasing down new clients. Loyal clients and their loyal families will lead to more work by word of mouth referrals. In fact, the more clients you obtain by referral, the smaller your marketing budget can be.

As we say goodbye to 2020 and its unique challenges, at CompanyOn we want to share with our amazing community of solo practitioners 7 resolutions to increase efficiencies and incorporate best practice with your business in 2021.

One of the basic tenets of customer success is using your service to create advocates for your business. A happy army of satisfied customers can do a lot of legwork for you. And when word-of-mouth referrals make up 20-50% of most purchasing decisions (especially for new businesses and in emerging markets) why not take advantage of the opportunity?

Whenever someone needs a nurse, in most cases, they ask family, friends, neighbours and clinic staff for recommendations. They want a nurse who they can trust and who they know is professional.