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Make Your Business Cards Work For You

Having an eye-catching, professional business card is a great step toward building a profitable shoeing business
April 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
There's an old saying, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." This saying is especially relevant to today's farriers, as you need to make sure that your business card represents you and your shoeing business to its maximum potential.
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Business Management

Use A Computer To Improve Your Bottom Line

Adding a quality business management software program to your shoeing business toolbox provides two primary benefits: time and money
April 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
Although it may take some time to initially set up the program (entering clients, horses, your services list, etc.), a good computer software program can save you significant amounts of time every week, with an additional time savings at tax preparation time.
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Briefings

April 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
After developing carpal tunnel problems 9 years ago and waking up almost nightly at 4 a.m. in severe pain, Lee DeLisle started using curved handles on his driving and turning hammers.
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Shop Talk

Tax Court Opinion Makes It Easier For Farriers To Deduct Home Office Expenses

March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
While it has been possible in the past for shoers to deduct the cost of an office in the home that is used 100 percent for business purposes, a new U.S. Tax Court opinion may make it possible to do so even if the room is used for some personal uses. But one caution is that this opinion went against the existing tax law, which requires a room be used “regularly and exclusively” for work in order to take a home office tax deduction.
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Shoeing For A Living

Balance From All the Angles

Minnesota farrier’s holistic approach benefits her clients’ horses
By Pat Tearney posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices, Shoeing
Even for a January day in Minnesota, it's cold. The mercury in thermometers has taken up residence far south of the "zero" mark and you don't even want to think about wind chill. Vehicle engines grumble to life reluctantly — or not at all — and it would be a good day to own a franchise in something like "Jumper Cables R Us."
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Make More Money Shoeing Horses

Six-Figure Shoeing: How to Build a Profitable and Rewarding Farrier Business
March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
One of the most respected farrier educators in the world, Dr. Doug Butler is back at passing his knowledge on to horseshoers with his new book, Six-Figure Shoeing.
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The ABC’s with Your Hat In Your Hand

What kind of reception would the owner of ABC Farrier Service receive from his local loan officer?
By Pat Tearney posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices
Farriers are an independent lot. But sooner or later, they’re likely to find themselves sitting across a desk from a person who doesn’t know a driving hammer from a tack hammer — but who can discern things out of a balance sheet that the farrier has never dreamed of.
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Briefings

March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices

Future research is more likely to find a pharmacological cure for systemic laminitis than for overload weight-bearing laminitis, maintains equine veterinarian Larry Bramlage. The surgeon with Rood and Riddle in Lexington, Ky., defines systemic laminitis as a disease process that liberates enough mediators within the body to trigger the separation of the hoof wall.


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Farriery requires knowledge and skills to provide proper equine hoof care. In this series, sponsored by VICTORY, American Farriers Journal visits Heartland Horseshoeing School in Lamar, Mo. In this edition, Chris Gregory discussed his journey to becoming an educator, his focus in teaching farrier students and the state of farrier education.

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