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Pioneering The Dental Practice Business Model

Aggressive Marketing Is Now The Norm For Dentists With rising health care costs and a decline in dental insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act (ACA), dental service providers have been forced to use aggressive marketing tactics to attract patients on a tight budget. In addition, dental practices face increased competition in saturated markets and […]

Using The Cloud to Bundle Your Technology

If you are a small business or perhaps a franchisee with multiple locations, you are consumed with running your business, hiring staff, training staff, introducing new products all in the name of providing great customer service.   When you stop and think about it, you have a lot of technology in your business, you depend heavily on […]

Healthy Habits For Busy Professionals

It’s important to incorporate healthy habits into your daily life. Not only do they impact your mood and physical condition, but they also play a big role in lengthening your lifespan. Here are six things you can do every day to ensure you’re giving yourself the best chance possible. 1.)   Always say yes to exercise […]

Energy Drinks: A Healthy Business Model?

Consumers are inundated with ads for energy drinks, including the tiny bottle of 5-hour Energy. Carl Sperber, the spokesperson for Living Essentials, says, “It would be easier for me to tell you where we didn’t sell them in the U.S. thank list all the places we do.” Living Essentials is the Michigan based manufacturer of […]

Gay Marriage in California

An appeal by the sponsor’s of California’s gay marriage ban was made Thursday with the hopes of stopping a federal judge from allowing same-sex weddings to begin again next week. Proposition 8, the contested ban on same-sex marriage, is being defended by lawyers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They wish to impose […]

Breakthrough in Prosthetics Technology

With the current trend of scientific advancements moving so quickly, it seems difficult to keep up. Case in point is the recent innovation of prosthetic limbs that are controlled by the user’s mind. Currently in the testing phase, the project is headed by The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, who were awarded the $34.5 million […]

Ground Zero Mosque

Mixed reactions filled New York as a panel cleared plans for construction of a Islamic Cultural Center and mosque on a street only two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. The vote by the city Landmarks Preservation Commission was unanimous in denying protected historic status to the building that […]

Electric Vehicles Gaining Acceptance

Even after a presidential endorsement and the support of leading environmental groups, the Chevrolet Volt still needs to be embraced by consumers when it comes to market later in the year. General Motors brand new extended-range model, the Volt, is just one of many advanced electric cars that will debut in showrooms over the next […]

Inventory Shortages Cause Dealer Insomnia

In the past, car dealers struggled with being able to hold all of the inventory sent to them by manufacturers, like Ford Motor Co. However, now dealers complain that they cannot get enough. Vice President of Galpin Ford in Los Angeles, Beau Boeckman, asked for 100 Ford Fusion sedans last month. He only received 7. […]

Overdrafts

Wells Fargo & Co. have been ordered by a federal judge in California to change what he deemed “unfair and deceptive business practices” that cause customers to pay multiple overdraft fees. The order also stated that Wells Fargo & Co. must pay back $203 million to the customers it charged. U.S. District Judge William Alsup […]

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