Happiness is Retirement with Financial Confidence!
Retirement and living your dreams is not about how much wealth you have. The fact is, there are people that have millions of net worth yet they may be living a sub-optimal retirement lifestyle. Why? Retirement is about cash flow, and to be more specific, retirement finances may be improved if cash flow is guaranteed. [...]
Long Term Care. When those 3 words are uttered, what comes to mind?
Long Term Care. When those 3 words are uttered, what comes to mind? The Nursing Home? Don’t want to talk about it? Someone else’s problem? It can be an unwelcome addition to a room that is already full of pink elephants. Long Term Care can be defined as the kind of help one may need [...]
Finding the Right Location for Your New Practice
Determining the right location and space for your new practice is critical to its overall success. Smart negotiating that fits your needs and leverages terms to suit your best interest can set your practice on the right path by minimizing overhead and out of pocket expenditures. Ask yourself the following questions to help you choose [...]
Section 199A and QBI
Your ownership of a pass-through trade or business can generate a Section 199A tax deduction of up to 20 percent of your qualified business income (QBI). The C corporation does not generate this deduction, but the proprietorship, partnership, S corporation, and certain trusts, estates, and rental properties do. The tax code says QBI includes the [...]
What makes your practice different? Why do your patients come to you?
These 2 questions I ask of every dental practice I speak to. When answering it, over 90% of the practices I talk to will say something dealing with the great service they offer. And although your practice might indeed offer great customer service, that is all but unique. Especially if 90% of practices claim the [...]
How To Create A ‘WOW’ Patient Experience
Why is it that some dental practices maintain healthy growth year over year while others in the same area struggle? Is it location, a professionally decorated office, state-of-the-art technology, a highly experienced and educated team, do they accept every insurance known to man-kind or are they a fee for service practice? If this is the [...]
DART Direct Mail – A Client Success Story
This new practice in Dallas, Georgia was introducing a new owner and a new dentist and needed a way to generate new patients fast. DART Direct Mail was called in and delivered immediate results. "We have had great success with DART Direct Mail. They are very friendly and easy to work with. They give great [...]
Georgia Retraining Tax Credit
Work Related Tax Credits Federal and State Tax Credits are government incentives for businesses to invest in their employees through locating, hiring, and training the employee. It is important to understand that credits are more valuable than deductions as Tax Credits reduce your tax liability dollar for dollar. Many employers are eligible to receive the [...]
Socially Responsible Energy Efficient Dental Design
The news is full of stories about global warming, energy efficiency, and having a small carbon footprint. There are differing opinions as to the cause of global warming, but the reality is the earth is in a warming trend which affects our daily lives. Being energy efficient is not merely a trend but should be [...]
What is Professionalism and Why is it Important?
In January, our President gave us his vision for our company’s #1 goal for this year…Professionalism. Academically defined as “the conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person” (Webster’s Dictionary 2018), professionalism, to me, speaks more to the merits of first impressions, communication skills, and positivity in the workplace. [...]
New IRS 199A Regulations Benefit Out-of-Favor Service Businesses
The recently passed tax reform law included the new Section 199A deduction,generally referred to as the 20% income reduction. The law raised many questions regarding its implementation for “out-of-favor service businesses” such as: physicians, dentists, CPA's and attorneys. As is often the case with new tax laws, the application is a work in progress and [...]
Are You Protecting Yourself ?
October 15, 2016 was the day the all of the members of the Payments industry feared. This was the day the Chip Cards became “Official”. This was our Y2K moment. The greatest amount of pleasure was to make certain that all of our clients were ready and able to accept and read the pesky chips. [...]