Four years after Marta Lista bought and took over the Trail Animal Hospital, a fixture on Southwest Eighth Street in Miami for a remarkable six decades, she found herself struggling. She was working six days a week, juggling the duties of being a solo practitioner while keeping an eye on the books, the staff, the inventory and the other demands of running her practice.  Veterinary school, it turns out, prepared her to be an awesome vet, but not such an awesome business owner.

The Miami Herald enlisted Luis M. Zuniga, a counselor with SCORE Miami-Dade, which offers a host of services to small businesses, including counseling, seminars on business practices and tutorials for programs like Intuit’s QuickBooks, the hugely popular accounting software for small businesses.

By the end of the month long makeover, Lista was feeling more confident about the changes and the advice she received from Zuniga.

“I’ve got the medicine down,” she said. “Now I definitely want to focus on the finances — the business.”

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