28th Oct 2007
Welcome to StudentDC Interactive
Hi. I’m Jean Murray, and I’m excited to be able to welcome you to the new blog for StudentDC and chat with you directly.
My goals for this blog are:
- To provide you with information, advice, and encouragement to help you prepare for your career in chiropractic, whether it is as an associate or independent contractor, or a practicing chiropractor in your own practice or a multi-disciplinary clinic, or anything in between.
- To provide a way for you to ask questions and get answers from me and from other experts in chiropractic and practice startup. I know from talking to students and recent graduates that you have lots of concerns and questions. If I can’t provide the answer, I am sure it’s out there.
I will be posting several times a week, and I welcome your comments and your suggestions on the kinds of information you would like to see on this blog. The best way to get in touch with me is to respond by commenting on a blog posting.
If you have a burning question about practice startup, now is the time to ask.
To get your thought processes going, here are some topics you might want to know about:
- Can you use credit cards to fund your practice startup?
- How do you get a credit report?
- What form of business structure should you choose?
- How important are Yellow Pages ads?
- Do you need a co-signer for a practice startup loan? If so, how do you get one?
- How do you know what fees to charge?
- How do you find information on costs of equipment?
- What is “working capital” and how do you figure it?
- Do you take your business plan to a bank before or after you find a place to lease or buy?
- Which is better, buying an existing practice or starting your own?
- Are there too many chiropractors?
- Is this a good associate contract?
What else would you like to know?
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