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This Masterclass on how to tag in PetsApp, comes from the Customer Success Manager and Vet Tech Jerica Tarquinio. Tagging is a really great way to organize incoming chats and queries, allowing you to prioritize and triage medication requests, appointment requests, or non-urgent questions by separating them into different boxes or topic tags.

Check for yourself to see what a good job PetsApp CoPilot does of helping you to draft quick and easy responses with comprehensive, personal information by using both the owner's and pet's name, within the follow-up queries and questions, in a way that you would want to answer as a human member of the veterinary team.

Pack member Claire is no stranger to routine clinical procedures. Not only a member of our customer success team here at PetsApp, she is also a qualified RVN of 15+ years who has worked in practice for even longer than that. However, Claire is also a self confessed world’s worst client!

The chances are that at some point this year (whether you’ve wanted to or not), you’ve stopped to at least consider AI (artificial intelligence that is not artificial insemination) and its place within veterinary medicine. Whether your anticipation has been apprehensive or one of uber excitement, the wait is now over. AI is well and truly here!

PetsApp, is proud to announce its recent Cyber Essentials Plus certification, a testament to its continued commitment to providing secure and reliable services to its customers and the pets they serve. The Cyber Essential Plus certificate is only awarded to companies proven to have the highest standards of cybersecurity.

Now introducing PetsApp Loyalty Plans. Foster customer loyalty, increase customer satisfaction, and drive repeat business through offering additional value and thanks, via your own, tailored rewards plan. With the freedom to organize seasonal promotions to encourage repeat custom and even drive visits towards lower footfall periods.

Veterinary Practice Management Software that focuses on client communication and engagement has a stack of benefits for all sizes of vet clinics.

Flexible working, either perceived flexibility or formal flexibility has been shown to improve work life balance. Simply allowing employees to choose their start or finish, helps them feel as though they have a better work life balance, even when they’re working the same hours.

A digital roadmap is an easy to follow plan of steps an organisation can follow to achieve both their short-term and long-term goals online. It begins by understanding the needs of the business in order to build a strategy that can be layered into its existing business plan. Whether you're starting out afresh or looking to refresh your current online strategy these 3 tips will assist you with building a successful digital Road Map for your veterinary business.

Starting from October our Customer Success team will be leading a month of Monday Masterclasses, especially for our PetsApp Together community.

With PetsApp Together, veterinary's newest get together just around the corner, we wanted to look back on the previous get together and detail how you can get involved in our next community gathering in the Spring.

In this week's guest blog post Liv Oginska of Human Savvy discusses why many feel being a leader is hard. Walking through her years of experience as both a vet and EQ coach, Dr Oginska will offer both insights and hacks for tackling those feelings of hardship as a leader.

At our first ever community get together at Somerford Hall, back in May, Vet Times Editor James Westgate joined the pack to interview Cofounder and CEO Dr Thom Jenkins on PetsApp’s new initiative and it’s ever-growing community.

Tele-radiology experts VetCT have been exploring the history and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in veterinary medicine, including its uses in small animal, farm and equine practice, radiology and veterinary education, and its potential impacts on the well-being of veterinary teams and the workforce.

The PetsApp pack are putting the power of AI into the hands of veterinary teams around the world. Teams using PetsApp to provide high quality care will be able to do so even more quickly using CoPilot. More than 1 million pets will now be helped with the vet ai assistant.

Have you ever felt the frustration of someone choosing the option you hoped they wouldn’t, even though you shared a tonne of evidence to prove why it wasn’t the best idea? Were they just not listening?!

For many it is more instinctual to search for fuel to draw people in. This is mainly because we relate friction to slowing down, and fuel to powering you forward. But what if you’ve been looking at the two elements from the wrong perspective? Rather than trying to entice customers to where you feel most comfortable serving them, the fuel versus friction theory looks at identifying what blocks the essential interactions needed to complete a transaction. So, in the battle to successfully innovate, why is establishing your points of friction more important than generating fuel?

Quorum sensing is a bacterial cell to cell communication process that involves the production, detection, and response to extracellular signalling molecules. Bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defence and mount attacks.

In today’s guest blog, [human savvy](https://behumansavvy.com/ "how to be human savvy") expert Olivia Oginska breaks down the basics around understanding emotional intelligence and how to support your veterinary team's growth.

This week Dr. Thom Jenkins explains how getting the balance between quality, cost and convenience can revolutionise a clinics understanding of just how competitive their veterinary business model can be. # Back to The Future In 2007 hoping to piggy back on to the ever increasing trend of 'pets', a group of marketers decided that the future of pet care was going to be robotic pets. Companion pets that wouldn't get sick, need walking or ever throw up on your pillow. However, fast forward just over 15 years and a global pandemic it turns out that there's something intrinsic to picking up the faecal matter of another species that we humans find therapeutic!

As BSAVA PetsApp CEO and Co-founder discussed the 'Theory of Constraints' and knowing your clinic's current (single) bottleneck. So what is the theory of constraints and how is it possible to have only one bottleneck, when we seem to be fighting against much more?

Last week pack member Naomi led a well received talk on content generation. Utilising your clinic’s social media platforms is key when wanting to up your offline to online game. The number one hack? Realising that absolutely everything is content!

A common theme this month has been the need for change within veterinary when it comes to how we recruit and retain our veterinary teams. With lots of talk both around how to attract the right candidates as well as how to carve out your own career in veterinary that is bespoke to you.

Never has the field of veterinary medicine evolved as fast as it was forced to over the past decade. Much like the veterinary industry, the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly growing. In today’s blog post, using insights from the pack we discuss 5 tips for veterinary professionals and the people and pets they serve .

It’s that age old question; how do we get more, without doing more? But could it be that the greatest hack there is you already have in your arsenal? Mastering pet owner communication through utilising reminders is a great way to get yourself in front of your clients without having to physically place yourself in front of them!

As more and more clinics switch to a hybrid online-to-offline offering to better serve their clients, fear around access, use and even ownership of private data has understandably also increased. As both service providers and service users it is good practice to maintain a high level of vigilance in protecting both your own privacy and the privacy of others. To address these concerns around client data, privacy, and ownership of clinic data the PetsApp pack have come together to create this easy-read article on client data and privacy to give you full clarity around permissions and data ownership.

Moving from transactions to relationships means shifting from a transactional way of doing business, where the primary focus moves from a one-time exchange of goods or services for money, to a more engaged approach, where the goal is to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with clients, often through the use of memberships or subscriptions.

How to use tech to enhance the client bond has become a hot topic in recent years and never more so than within the pet healthcare industry. In a recent webinar with PetsApp, Peter Weinstein the executive director of the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association and a veterinary coach at Simple Solutions for Vets discussed how to use tech to enhance the client bond.

Proudly aided by the PetsApp pack Dr. Donita McCant's veterinary concierge services have been a runaway success. An experienced Veterinarian with a demonstrated history of supporting the veterinary industry, we asked Dr. Donita McCants how using PetsApp as a mobile veterinary practitioner has helped with managing the hybrid, mobile pet care services she offers.

With the RCVS 'Under care' guidance now no longer under review Dr. Jessica May has compiled her top tips for best implementation of the new RCVS under care guidelines, which comes into effect in the second half of this year.