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Investigating Ancillary Services for Your Practice (a White Paper)

Adding a new, complementary service to your existing business structure can help increase your revenue during your regular business hours.  This is especially helpful for businesses that feel they have reached a maturity or decline stage.

Succession Planning & Your Building for Medical or Dental Professions

Remember the good old days—a few decades or so ago—when a doctor could practice for 30 – 40 years and then sell his or her practice to another doctor when they were ready to retire, or better yet, have a son or daughter to take over the practice.  Jump forward to present time and it’s not as easy to find someone to take over a medical or dental practice.  The reality is there are far fewer doctors graduating than there are practices out there and doctors should start succession planning well before they’re ready to retire.

Your Building Makes an Impression on Your Business

What Is Yours Saying?

It makes a lot of sense that your building emits an attitude and gives a first impression that reflects your corporate culture.  Immediately, visitors are assuming things about your customer service, quality, competency and staff when they come in your parking lot.  So why is it that some business owners aren’t aware of the message their building is sending?

Tips for Improving Your Building Investment This Winter

As a business owner or manager, your building is an investment that you’d like to protect from harsh weather; therefore, here are a few tips on how to prepare your building and grounds for cooler temperatures, ice, and snow.

Environmental Choices That Should Save Money for Your Office

 
 
(Updated 11/18/20) You may or may not have ever thought about what your company could do to save the environment, but I bet that you’ve thought a lot about how your company can cut costs.  The Florida Green Building Coalition has a list of simple actions that a company can take to save energy and water and just be a little greener in general.  Here are the 7 highlights from the Florida Green Building Coalition's list:
  1. Get Educated – designate a staff member to do research or subscribe to a newsletter.

Why Convert a House into a Dental Office?

 

Especially When Commercial Space Is So Efficient

How Wolgast Selects the Best Subcontractors

 
The science of selecting the best subcontractor (sub) for a construction project is based on finding the right balance of price and value among the entire pool of contractors available.  Looking at price alone is a gamble the purchaser takes with the potential of surprises and unmet expectations.  If you mix the price with good value, you’re likely to get exactly what you expect at the price you were quoted and with the customer service to back it up.

 

Could a Facility Study Save Your School/Community?

Taking on Today's Challenges to Improve Outdated School Buildings

Facility Study Example

Many Michigan school boards and schools districts are facing the same problem, outdated buildings with fewer students and a community that already feels burdened by taxes.  Asking tax payers to take on a bond to make school improvements seems like it would be a big challenge.  Without the right information and resources, it is a much bigger challenge.

Take Caution When Hiring the Low Bidder

 

What Can Happen When You Pick the Low Bid?

Part Two about the Professional Contractor

What Makes a "Professional" General Contractor?

Customer Service is the Key
 

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