VITUSVET BLOG
The Search For Pet Medical Information: Finding Trusted Resources
Among the 260,000,000+ North Americans with internet access, the Web is the most widely-used resource for health and medical information . Couple this with the fact that most modern pet owners view their pets as members of the
What do pet owners REALLY want?
What do your clients REALLY want? To use economist-speak, why do they consume veterinary services? They don't want annual exams or vaccines or lab work or HW preventative. They want a healthy pet who lives long and well.
To Celebrate A Life: Memorializing Your Pet
The loss of a beloved pet is one of the most difficult aspects of pet companionship. All pet guardians know that the lifespans of our beloved companions are significantly shorter than our own, but that doesn’t lessen our
Why Steve Jobs would have loved BringFido.com
Regardless of whether you’re a Mac or a PC person, I think we can all agree that Steve Jobs was a visionary. One of his unique talents was recognizing that people ‘don’t just want to buy personal computers
Ringing in 2016 with Our Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015
It just wouldn’t be a new year without a good old fashioned countdown, now would it? In case you missed some of our best posts this past year, we have complied a list of our top 10 favorites
Share the wealth: The case for increased transparency in veterinary medicine
I recently came across a fascinating article that really opened my eyes to the power of transparency. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2012 (http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1203517) investigators allowed patients full access to
How veterinarians can (and must) adapt to an increasingly mobile world
I just read a fantastic article entitled “The Mobile Mind Shift” by Forrester Research. https://solutions.forrester.com/mobile The article included a couple of key insights that were particularly relevant to private practitioners and I’ve summarized them here. For more information, definitely
Gift Wrapping Safety for Pets
The halls are decked and the presents are under the tree. It is a holiday card in the making, except for one small thing. You may not have realized that those beautiful gifts under the tree might be
The 4 P’s of Marketing: Place
A commonly cited paradigm for how we should think about marketing is “The 4 P’s”: product, price, promotion, and place. For our use, place is synonymous with distribution: how do your clients receive products and services from you?