Like most things, success is in the details. Almost every dentist I speak with wants to grow a practice to the point of needing a new doctor. The details in getting the timing right are critical to the successful execution …
For once, I was asked a question that I could answer with a strong black or white statement of: “absolutely”, “maybe”. Buying patients from a practice that is calling it quits “can be” a great strategy for injecting your …
The following is the actual text from an email response that I provided to a doctor’s questions back in January. His words are in bold. He was, at the time, interested in the possibility of having us come into his …
Getting new patients, inspiring them, telling them what they need, and having them say yes is one of those things that we live with every day. I feel like the dental community, as a whole, falls far short of its …
I hope you were not too surprised with your investigation of how your front desk answers the phone and what your actual conversion rate to an appointment looked like. It is startling at the reality of its impact but remember …
One thing. Really. Just one. Anyone can do one thing to turn his or her practice around. One thing, anything, is better than allowing another day or year go by and settling for where you are now. One thing can …
Warning: If you have reached the pinnacle of dental practice nirvana, stop reading and exit this article. For the rest of us, read on and consider that rarely do we actually arrive at a point where we could not improve …
If you are “Thinking Like a Dentist”, this last part can be a fatal flaw. I find the doctors that think like a dentist, which would be bad, have almost no situational awareness. These doctors are vulnerable to any Tom, …
When it comes to successful businesses, timing, location, and demographics are always super important. But when I see doctors “thinking like a dentist” I often see some disconnect in understanding, assembling, training, and keeping a great staff. Through the years …
In the first two parts of “stop thinking like a dentist” we’ve seen that viewing solo practice as a destination or benchmark for dentists is not the best approach and also how debt and entitlement can cripple a successful dental …