Every year I offer a glimpse of the future for doctors seeking to buy or start-up a practice in the next year.  There are some BIG trends you should know about.

Perhaps, I am being too hard.  But these 10 locations certainly deserve extra caution.  It is more than slow growth.  It is a combination of overhead, crime, over-regulation, and anti-business sentiment.  

We go through this list every year to share with our listeners the Places with Promise throughout the U.S.  The metrics are different from our previous editions due to changes in the demographics and economic factors found in the Post Covid world.  Give it a listen! This is important.

Practice Brokers and Demographers may use similar data but they can different outcomes.  This is because they have different priorities and different Audiences.  The Broker has to please his Client, the seller of a practice.  The Demographer has to please the buyer AND the seller while remaining entirely objective and consistent.  This is vital for doctors to know.

Even though there is a huge cottage industry of predictions right now, the reliable predictions are in demographics, not politics.  So if you want to know the future, pay attention to the statistical science that avoids short-term predictions: demographics.  We know how to avoid bias and get answers!

Some states are pretty much the same as they were before the Pandemic.  Others are having changes forced upon them as populations shift.  In some cases, people from other states are encouraging theirs states adjust their taxes and credit practices.  Arizona looks like it is going through this kind of shift.

It is easy to list features of a location and its population.  But the relative benefits of a site is much harder to know. Sure, knowing the population size is great but what if that population is not growing or is not large enough? This episode explains.

One of the basic functions of professional practice viability studies involves the measurement of competition factors to consider if another practice can be accommodated.  This can be tricky and this session is all about what you need to consider.  In a way, it is one of the most important episodes on professional practices. 

Florida's governor has just announced the end of all Covid-19 restrictions.  This goes for healthcare practices as well. While Florida is the first, it will not be the last state to offer these modifications.  How will this affect where you practice?

The publishing company, McGraw-Hill, has just released the 20th Anniversary Edition of Marketing Warfare by Al Reis and Jack Trout, two of my favorite Marketing Theorists.  Who can doubt that we are in a Marketing War?  Where to Practice, and Why one location is superior to another is what decides the War. This session explains it all!