CrossCheck Blog

Worried about your contribution to environmental damage? Diminishing forests? Ever growing landfills? There are creative ways you can help – and what you do matters because even small changes can make a big difference. Just using eco-friendly materials and methods for building home furnishings is a big step in the right direction. The environment will thank you, and so will your customers.

Careful, smiles are contagious! And what comes with a smile? Happiness. Seeing those pearly whites through a genuine smile at the end of an appointment is a wonderful feeling. When you take care of your patients’ needs and concerns they notice your patience and personal investment. Who doesn’t like to feel cared about and appreciated? And the more faith your patients have in you, the more likely they will leave in high spirits and return without hesitation. That satisfied smile will spread to others, bringing in more enthusiastic clients and elevating profits.

Bruce Wayne did not buy the Batmobile with a credit card. Almost no one can buy a vehicle with a credit card, in fact, unless their limit is sky-high or they don’t need to worry about exorbitant interest rates.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is famous for its slogan: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. No matter what type of shop, all auto repair businesses must abide by state and federal regulations if they don’t want to get fined or shut down. And you don’t want that. Your customers bring their vehicle to you for maintenance and repairs. Auto body shops fix dents and replace windshields. Auto repair shops replace belts and spark plugs and flush the system of various chemicals. Oil stop locations not only change oil but also replace air filters and transmission fluid. All of this is meant to keep the customer’s vehicle in top condition and to extend its life -- but doing this can have a significant impact on the environment.

Checks have been a preferred method of payment for so long that it’s no secret that they’re one of the quickest ways to get or give some greenbacks. But what you may not have considered is just how “green” checks are, in eco-friendly ways. In honor of International Earth Day, we offer a few tips on just how easy it is to be green with checks.

Cyndi Lauper… in a business blog? You know it! The “She’s So Unusual” singer had a hit with her song, “Money Changes Everything.” With her crazy shaved hair and colorful outfits, Ms. Lauper represented the 1980s perfectly. But who would have guessed she was actually quite retro, echoing a statement from way back in 1861? Today, the anniversary of the United States officially issuing cash currency, we want to celebrate the fact that money did change everything and share some interesting things that have happened in money's strange history.

Don’t you wish fewer of your patients dodged their dental check-ups? In honor of National Dentists’ Day, March 6, focus on helping your patients see you as a champion for teeth and gums. The last thing a champion wants is to scare or hurt his charge. Even though you provide all the little incentives, including a calming ambiance, a friendly smile, and small trinkets for children, many people still try to avoid their visits. Help your patients view you as more than a dentist, the person who invades their mouths twice a year and prescribes advice and procedures that can wrack up alarming costs. Every time you interact with your patients, you have the opportunity to ease their anxiety. Each happy patient is one who is more likely to return another day and recommend you to someone, ultimately increasing your revenue.

Clogged arteries, unbelievable work strain, preservative-filled diets, family stress. The people who come through your medical practice’s doors are up against a war field of attackers soldiering up to wreak havoc on their hearts. While some may feel that having to pay for all the poking, prodding, and testing is a major pain point, others have a financial heart attack when they get their bills. In honor of the 50th anniversary of American Heart Month, we provide some insight into ways that you can help patients’ hearts stay on the beating path.

Whether you perform microchipping yourself or recommend it to your veterinary practice’s patients and their people, you understand the idea of implementing technology that helps streamline the devastating issue of a lost pet. While losing money and time to waiting on check processing payments isn’t the same as a missing animal family member, you can harness technology to reduce those pain points in the same way.

Consumers hang on to checks as fiercely as they hang on to their smartphones. We're still writing checks, though their demise was predicted twenty years ago. Even with the increase in debit card use, about 90% of US adults have a checking account. In addition to paying bills, we still use checks to make person-to-person payments, pay the rent and the gardener, donate to social causes, present as gifts and shop. And now, with the emergence of new payment processing technology that simplifies depositing, such as mobile remote deposit capture, it could be that checks are here to stay.