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How Do You Spend Your Time Specifically as the Pharmacy Owner?

Posted by Benjamin Coakley on Wed, Jul 16, 2014 @ 04:12 PM

You have probably heard that time is the only thing you can give that you can never get back. Your time is essentially your life energy. We are only blessed with a finite amount of time and life energy. Focusing on how you spend this can make a tremendous difference in how successful you are and the quality of life you have.

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Topics: community pharmacy owner, community pharmacy independence, pharmacy time management

Community Pharmacy Owners: We are not in Kansas anymore!!

Posted by Benjamin Coakley on Mon, Jun 23, 2014 @ 12:58 PM

These past few weeks have been very busy for our advisors at Waypoint. We have travelled many miles and spent countless hours on the phone working with our clients. We have also gone to several meetings to support community pharmacy owners (these will be detailed in a series of blogs called From the Front Lines of Community Pharmacy). A common theme keeps arising from these meetings, the battle for the future of community pharmacy is just beginning.  

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Topics: community pharmacy, community pharmacy owner, community pharmacist

Community Pharmacy Owners, It's Your Time!

Posted by Benjamin Coakley on Thu, Jun 12, 2014 @ 01:43 PM

The phrase "it's your time" can be interpreted in numerous ways. However, no matter how you look at it, the message is extremely powerful for community pharmacy owners. This blog looks at all the ways you can interpret this phrase and the potential implications these interpretations have for you and the pharmacy or pharmacies you own... and on independent community pharmacy ownership across our great land.

To start, we feel it is important to understand the three scarce resources every pharmacy owner has: time, energy and money. Time and energy, once spent, are things you can can never get back. That is why they are the most important resources to manage.  

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Topics: community pharmacy owner, community pharmacist, community pharmacy time management system

SPECIAL BLOG: 3 things learned at the 2014 Pharmacy Growth Conference

Posted by Benjamin Coakley on Tue, Mar 04, 2014 @ 10:34 AM

This past weekend was jam packed in Orlando. We learned many new things about community pharmacy and pharmacy owners. Below are the top three things we learned that can help you.

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Topics: community pharmacy, community pharmacy owner, community pharmacist

Is Your Pharmacy a Family Pharmacy?

Posted by Benjamin Coakley on Tue, Mar 04, 2014 @ 10:32 AM

We have all heard that small businesses are the backbone of America. A significant number of those small businesses are family owned and operated. We could even take it a step further and say that small family owned businesses are the true backbone of America and the various communities that make up this great country.

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Topics: community pharmacy, community pharmacy owner, family pharmacy