In this dental practice advice series lets talk about how critical it is to review how you go about how you present your cases with a check-list and how you have an advantage over other dentists who have not learned how to use them. Would you personally try to fly a plane (or land it!)
In my dental practice advice series lets talk about those who complain too much. After years of observing and listening to specific situations in practices throughout the world, I can tell you there aren’t a lot of new surprises in what I hear. Being more than a decade into what I call my third career
In this dental practice marketing series let’s discuss how all kinds of things cross yours and my inbox. I love Dental-Town and Howard as they are always pitching something through my email box that’s interesting and of benefit to a percentage of the profession. There are some amazing innovative techniques out there such as the
There are a lot of very good consulting programs and dental consultants and gurus out there. Scheduling Institute, Blatchford, Pride, Miles, Jameson, etc. Some are quiet behind the scenes types that you have to decrypt a special code to track down, some scream at you from a big stage using subliminal selling methods on you
I’m often asked “how many phone calls can I expect if we’re doing the right kind of marketing and spending the right amount of money each month for my all-on-4 cases after my all-on-4 training?” One thing to understand about “deep disability” marketing (which is what All-on-4/6/8 etc. is all about) is that when you
Recently, I had calls with several docs who had either recently spent $9,000 plus with Einstein Dental on a dental practice website or were considering it. To be blunt–it’s utter nonsense to spend this kind of money on a dental practice website in 2016 be it with Einstein, Progressive, or whoever, and I’ll go into
When it comes to dental implant marketing what does it take to have 50-100 All-on-4 cases every year? In major metro markets 50-100 cases a year will mean you are one the top 3 docs in the area performing this procedure. In a more rural setting, you very well may be the #1 doc in
In a minute we’ll get into the math of online patient reviews and dental patient online value. A big take home message from the numbers you’ll see below is that it is possible in many markets and in “stealth” fashion with minimal to no paid advertising to generate most or all of a practice’s NP
If you drink the kool-aid put forth by 3rd party finance companies, they will convince you that you “need” to put every patient on an account and do all of your billing through it when dental patient financing. WHY? Well, because they get an amazing fee out of the deal—duh. There is also a back-end
While this article series is centered on the specialist, be aware that if you are a generalist doing niche procedures, there is value for you in understanding the trends which will be discussed. Feel free to forward this article on to your specialist colleagues who can benefit. Dentistry as it relates to the traditional referral
The 39 Key Tenets for Practice Success
An in-depth discusion of the key tenets of ethical selling and promotion - an approach used by successful dentists throughout North America.
