Most business-savvy legal professionals I know spend a significant portion of their time and revenue on advertising and marketing activities. I've found that this is particularly true for those of you in areas like personal injury, insolvency and employment law. As you are undoubtedly aware, practices can spend tens of thousands of dollars on TV advertisements, billboards and print advertising.
On top of all the effort you are expending on managing...
12/01/2014
Doctors - just a reminder that registration for Wave 2 of Canada Health Infoway's eBooking initiative closes December 15th!
E-booking is one of Canada Health Infoway’s key initiatives right now. Licensed physicians and nurse practitioners who implement an e-booking solution, like Kabuk, by December 15th are eligible to receive up to $2,000 through the Canada Health Infoway e-Booking initiative (a further per-clinician amount of $750 may be reimbursed...
In a start-up, there is a 0% chance that you will always agree or get along with your co-founders (no matter how awesome indeed your co-founders are!). That's not necessarily a bad thing.
When this happens, what do you do? While this is hardly a start-up specific problem, I think that when you are arguing over your "baby", things just have the potential to get that much more "heated". After all, unlike employees in a firm, you and your co-founders...
11/27/2014
Team Kabuk is extremely pleased to introduce long awaited support for clinics!
So what's new?
Clinic Creation: Clinic owners can now create a clinic and easily add practitioners. More key functionality for clinics will be heading your way very soon, including the ability to assign administrators to oversee practitioner schedules.
Up next? Some exciting new resources, admin functionality, testimonials, and the ability to claim your pro...
11/20/2014
The problem with business plans, in the most traditional sense of the term, is that they are static; A window into, or snapshot of, your business at a very specific moment in time. You write one, or many - everyone seems to have their own required standard template - and then they just sit there and stagnate.
As a start-up, your business is changing exponentially every day. New obstacles and data have a way of making themselves known constantly...
11/18/2014
I recently became aware of the trend towards cross-training in dental offices. I immediately called my friend,
a dental hygienist to see if "cross-training" in the world of dentistry was a real, or common, phenomena. I was somewhat unsettled to learn that it was.
It was time to do some research.
So - what exactly is cross-training anyhow? Cross-training is the practice of training an employee who has been hired for one role to do tasks associated...
11/15/2014
I can't tell you how many articles I've read espousing the need to fund more women led companies, or
provide more mentorship opportunities.
Countless.
The truth? Getting funding for a start-up is hard no matter who you are. Is it harder for a woman? Maybe.... Probably. I'm certainly not trying to downplay the stats on men vs. women-led companies getting VC funding. In truth, the bigger problem for us was experience (i.e. previous successful...
11/13/2014
Excited to share our brand new infographic on physiotherapy treatment in Canada with all of you!
First – a little bit of history on Physiotherapy as a profession in Canada. Physiotherapy in Canada has a rich history, dating back to the end of World War I. At the time, the need for physiotherapy was driven by the return of wounded soldiers, many of whom were in need of some form of physical rehabilitation. The Canadian Physiotherapy Association...
11/12/2014
In today's data crazy world it seems like everyone is online, all the time. Healthcare is no different. Patients are searching for health information online constantly. Is the information that they are finding enough?
Interestingly, while healthcare inquiries are one of the most common google queries, few providers are fully making the leap into the internet savvy, online all-the-time world. While 90% of patients surveyed by Canada Health Infoway...
11/10/2014
We met Babak over spaghetti in the St. Lawrence Market area. As most of you living the start-up life know, some of the best connections for partnerships and collaborations are made through your existing network. Babak was no exception – a fellow Waterloo grad, we met through mutual friends. There was an instant fit with our team – great news since by this point we had been searching high and low for the RIGHT technical co-founder for several months.
Finding...
11/04/2014
At Kabuk, we help patients find a variety of specialists from the well-known to the hard-to-find. One of the rarer specialties we support is, without a doubt, medical herbalists. Once we added support for medical herbalists last weekend the questions began to roll in.What is a medical herbalist? What conditions to they treat? What sort of training do they undergo? How would a typical consultation with a medical herbalist work?Luckily, we were fortunate...
10/31/2014
A lot of people ask me about how it all began. How did we
come up with the Kabuk concept? How did we
weigh the pros and cons of a
start-up life and eventually decide to dive straight in?
Every business starts with passion. Whether you are a tech
start-up or a new physiotherapy practice, I truly believe that passion is the
root of success. As for Kabuk, for us it started very personally, as it often
does with start-ups.
A few years ago, my grandmother...
10/27/2014
Team Kabuk is extremely pleased to introduce new features, additional specialties and many improvements for user experience!
So what exactly is new?
New Specialties: Kabuk now supports Athletic Therapists, Dental Hygienists, Kinesiologists and Medical Herbalists. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with medical herbalists, in essence a medical herbalist uses plant-based medicine to treat their patients. Stay tuned for more details...
10/16/2014
No shows are a universal source of concern for dentists and other medical professionals.
I recently read an article that provided a good overview on language techniques dentists can employ to reduce "no shows".
The good news? You don't have to be a hypnodontist to reduce no shows and optimize your schedule. E-Booking solutions like Kabuk are a great way to reduce no-shows with minimal additional effort!
A recent...
10/03/2014
With next week being mental illness awareness week in Canada I thought it was appropriate to write a little bit about the challenges that those with mental illnesses face in accessing treatment.
Did you know that a third of Canadians in need of mental health care did not have their needs met?
Despite the plethora of
information available online, Canadians still find it challenging to find the
right healthcare provider and often rely on word-of-mouth...
10/02/2014
It's hard to believe that we have been working on the Kabuk platform for nearly two and a half years now. What a wild ride it has been! Dull moments are hard to come by these days and free time is an endangered species, but overall I can't complain. We are now live on with our beta version on www.kabukit.com and building momentum quickly.
I wont lie, the road to get here has been winding and fraught with challenges at every turn, but none...
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