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Reduce Broken Appointments
I believe that practices have a lot more control over broken appointments than they ever realized. Many practices are running on automatic and not taking time to educate patients and look at the patient's indicators before scheduling and during confirmations. 1) Educate the patients when the...  Read More
Oral Systemic Link in the Media as a patient education tool
While it has been common knowledge in the dental profession that there is a link between oral and systemic health, the really great news is that the public is beginning to get this message via mainstream media channels. Today, we know that if a patient has periodontal disease, they have a higher...  Read More
Consultant Tip: Key Computer Reports
Computer Reports tell you what is happening in your practice and they will help you find missed opportunities based on facts. Knowing your score is important when it comes to managing your business. I recommend that you utilize the following reports from your computer software to keep your...  Read More
30 Leaders in Dentistry
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” -Isaac Newton Like he was with so many things, Sir Isaac Newton was right on. Let me state from...  Read More
Practice Sellers - How to Maintain Practice Value Before a Sale
During my many buyer representation engagements I tend to see some common issues when it comes to practice valuations that sellers could have avoided to help maintain their practice values. Here are some of those areas. 1. Clean Record Keeping: Remember, buyers and their advisors will be...  Read More
Real Estate Choices - The Most Common Transition Challenge
Having analyzed countless dental practices, the most common theme among the more "challenging" valuation discussions we encounter is the relative impact of real estate decisions on practice valuation. Location and visibility, while very important, aren't often nearly as important as making the...  Read More
To Blog, or Not To Blog
This post is hopefully the first of many. Most doctors are involved in a practice sale (transition) maybe once or twice in their careers. We do it daily. The purpose of this blog is to share hard won, real world experiences - good and bad - with solo practitioners for purposes of assisting...  Read More
 Consultant Tip: Actions and Words of the Dental Team Can Increase Cancellations or Prevent Them- Tip #3
Tip #3- Use Good Verbal Skills at the Time of Scheduling Not using good verbal and communication skills at the time of scheduling can contribute to patients not committing to an appointment. They may even schedule the appointment and call back later to say they are not coming. This is an...  Read More
Consultant Tip: Actions and Words of the Dental Team Can Increase Cancellations or Prevent Them- Tip #2
Tip #2- Know that a large portion of broken appointments begin chairside. As we evaluate broken appointments and track down exactly what was done prior to the appointment day, what was said and what was left off, we see that many of the broken appointments should have never occurred. Most could...  Read More
Consultant Tip:  Actions and Words of the Dental Team Can Increase Cancellations or Prevent Them - Tip #1
Tip #1- Stop making patients think cancellations are normal. Be more proactive. I think we all agree that broken appointments are not good for the practice. Through our investigations into the causes of broken appointments, we’ve discovered many times they could have been avoided if the...  Read More
Increasing Your Bottom Line
The easiest way to increase your bottom line is to not have open time in your schedule which is achieved by eliminating broken appointments and controlling your schedule. For every broken appointment and time left open on the schedule, your bottom line decreases to that degree. This is true for...  Read More
Consultant Tip: Handling Patient Complaints
Since dental practices deal with all kinds of people, there will be complaints from time to time no matter how well organized you are and/or how skillful your team. Hopefully you hear about them so you can handle them properly and get the patient happy and coming back in the future. Ignoring...  Read More
Actions of a Successful Dental Office
I’m often asked what successful offices have in common... They have a good solid ethical team, with a great attitude. There is a strong leader, they are organized and have real world systems that give more predictability and consistency. The office runs like a well oiled machine. There are few...  Read More
Building Your Practice with Emergencies and "Emergencies"
An emergency, according to the American Heritage Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary, is “an unexpected situation or sudden occurrence of a serious and urgent nature that demands immediate action.” When quotation marks (“ “) are placed around a word, it means the word is...  Read More
An Important Thing to Know
You do not win friends and influence patients when you use criticism, authoritative attitudes or high-pressure sales talk. You do win friends and influence patients when you really care about them and when you follow the rule be yourself. It is an interesting fact that people will respond to you...  Read More
Free Cerec Machine !
So we get a question on our FB page "an equipment vendor told me that if i buy a Cerec Machine with the tax code as it is today i can basically get the machine for free, is that true ?" My first thought for a reply was "have you ever heard the saying, "if it's too good to be true it probably is ?"...  Read More
Root Canal Retreatment or Implant?
Root Canal Retreatment or Implant? Stan, a recent reader of , commented, "I'm 66 and have an abscessed pre-molar that had rct and a cap 25 years ago. Went to my dentist (who does implants) and was told rct retreatment had a 50% failure rate and the implant-cap was my best option. I had agreed...  Read More
The “Big 3” Habits of Millionaire Dentists
Last month, I hosted the Dental Success Summit 2013 in beautiful Scottsdale, AZ. All I can say is WOW!!! I was amazed and humbled at the talent and enthusiasm of the doctors and their teams that showed up for the event. It was a very special group of people… Dentists and their teams traveled...  Read More
Welcome to our newest feature: blogs. We are in the rollout phase right now and will be asking some of our members to test out the new functionaltiy. Please try it out and let me know if you run into trouble, have suggestions for additional features, or to provide additional feedback. Feel...  Read More
Dental Marketing Vultures
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-008-the-one-about-dental-marketing-vultures.htm  Read More
Woody Called Me A Liar
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-007-woody-called-me-a-liar.htm - Is Colin actually recording these while driving? - Find out about our Patient Attractors video training series due out this Summer - Reserve your seat in Destin with Dr. Woody Oakes while there's still space. ...  Read More
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