I was reading Craig Wilson’s article, Final Word: Fall down on diet, friends will know. Allow me to summarize it. “It appears the we-must-all-be-on-a-diet world has gone even crazier. How a $60 billion a year industry just keeps churning along is testament to how obsessed we all can be. I just read there’s a new gadget released this ...
Read MoreWhat is this “super general dental practice”? You already know, if you have attended one of our breakaway seminars that everyone is talking about called the “180 Degree Dental Journey”. If not, please just email me and let me send you an article that lays out the four threats to dentistry as we know it, and what will insure your ...
Read MoreI was trying to write an article that verbalizes how we as dentists and dental offices need to create a culture of caring and compassion while still taking care of business. As any of you know that have read some of my 30 page ramblings, words seldom escape me, but I was reading a blog by Jeff Whittle and I was mesmerized. He put it better ...
Read MoreEverybody wants the short answer to: What should I do right now? Is there a simple way to correct an entire career of not being engaged in your practice? Well this may not be so simple, but it is step one in taking back control and re-engaging in your career. In laying out this strategy, I recognized there were three “broad stroke, got to get ...
Read MoreIt seems like every time I read an article, somebody has something to sell us in the form of some great strategy. Just send them $199.00 or attend some thousand dollar seminar and they will reveal this closely kept secret guaranteed to turn your struggling practice into a top producing super star practice that everyone will envy and patients will ...
Read MoreThat’s right, its half time. The “woulda’s, coulda’s, and shoulda’s” didn’t show up, so you and your practice didn’t keep that New Years Eve resolution to take your practice to the next level. Half the year is over and you have the opportunity to take it to the locker room and come out with a new strategy for the final half. ...
Read MoreWhen dealing with doctors considering a transition, we see a consistent misunderstanding of what creates value in a dental practice. Value, or the relative worth of a dental practice, is important whether you are a solo practice or a multi-doctor practice. The very things that increase the value of the practice also increase productivity, ...
Read MoreSpeed and accuracy? Speed versus accuracy? Accurate speed? I was reading a shooting article that was going back and forth on whether one is more important than the other. I find that it has a very important lesson for Dentistry also. Most of my friends know I shoot. I shoot a lot. Read on. “Speed and accuracy: There are so many ...
Read MoreNo one would want to project a “my way or the highway” attitude with any consumer driven business, but in Dentistry more offices than not are doing just that. Let’s take just one aspect of our daily routine and dissect where we might be dropping the ball. Consider the new patient who calls in and wants to have their teeth cleaned. In ...
Read MoreI was speaking with a dentist that we all know, who has one of those “Institutes” for clinical and cosmetic services. It seems that while he was a wonderful clinician, and gifted speaker, he had never been able to produce or save enough to ever consider himself successful in the “business of Dentistry”. He would never be able retire, ...
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