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How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 3)
Posted 3/31/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 3412
How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 3)
For dentists looking to open a new office, this article willgive you some powerful strategies to use in your dental real estatelease negotiations.If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 of this 3-part mini-series you can read them here:Part 3: HOW TO WIN(and how your landlord will try to win too)Could Your...  Read More
HIPAA Security Compliance: What is Your Sanction Policy?
Posted 3/31/2014 by Colington Consulting in Help with HIPAA Compliance   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 3952
HIPAA Security Compliance: What is Your Sanction Policy?
Sanction policy? It sounds like what one country would do to another country to apply political pressure. Regrettably, that is the terminology the government is using when it comes to this section of HIPAA Security Rule compliance. The sanction policy (CFR 164.308(a)(1)(iii)(C) must be part of the...  Read More
How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 2)
Posted 3/31/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 3  |   Views: 3485
How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 2)
If you missed Part 1 of this 3-part mini-series It shares thoughtful insight and should be read before Part 2.Dentistswho are considering opening a new office will most likely look at the option of leasing. After reviewing many leases, my team has found afew sure-fire ways to FAIL in the dental...  Read More
How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 1)
Posted 3/31/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 52284
How A Dental Real Estate Lease Can FAIL (part 1)
The one, all powerful document, called a dental real estate lease, could secure or obliterate your financial security.Surprisingly the financial dangers have nothing to do with the price per square foot.Read on, in this 3 part article to discover the 3 worst FAILS of a dental real estate...  Read More
Dentist Marketing Success Requires That You MUST Understand The "New" New Patients... Introducing the Gen-C Patient
Posted 3/29/2014 by Ken Newhouse in Get Clients Now   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 4267
Dentist Marketing Success Requires That You MUST Understand The "New" New Patients... Introducing the Gen-C Patient
Dentist Marketing Success Requires That You MUST Understand The "New" New Patients... Introducing the Gen-C Patient. As I've mentioned in previous posts and In , the level of sophistication and specialization required to achieve sustainable growth in your dental practice is now at an all-time...  Read More
The Key To Dental Marketing Success: Growth Hacking Your Dental Practice Using The Four Moments of Truth
Posted 3/26/2014 by Ken Newhouse in Get Clients Now   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2859
The Key To Dental Marketing Success: Growth Hacking Your Dental Practice Using The Four Moments of Truth
Growth Hacking Your Dental Practice: Why Understanding and Designing The Four Moments of Truth Is The Key To Your Dental Marketing Success When dental marketers talk about “real time” online strategies, they are almost always thinking about rapid engagement and response. focuses on the...  Read More
HIPAA Investigations: You Never Know
Posted 3/24/2014 by Colington Consulting in Help with HIPAA Compliance   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 3732
HIPAA Investigations: You Never Know
The Office of Civil Rights at HHS will initiate an investigation into HIPAA violations due to disgruntled employees, patient complaints, theft or loss of records, security breaches, and improper disclosures. Private practices are the most common covered entities required to take corrective action...  Read More
Medical Identity Theft: A Troubling Trend
Posted 3/23/2014 by Colington Consulting in Help with HIPAA Compliance   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 1681
Medical Identity Theft: A Troubling Trend
The Ponemon Institute, a nationally recognized privacy research firm, recently released its Fourth Annual Patient Privacy and Data Security Study. For healthcare providers, it is probably not much of a new revelation that the study found more criminals are stealing patient records to commit medical...  Read More
HIPAA Investigations: You Never Know
Posted 3/22/2014 by Colington Consulting in Help with HIPAA Compliance   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2015
HIPAA Investigations: You Never Know
The Office of Civil Rights at HHS will initiate an investigation into HIPAA violations due to disgruntled employees, patient complaints, theft or loss of records, security breaches, and improper disclosures. Private practices are the most common covered entities required to take corrective action...  Read More
Look Into The Deep Dark Secrets Of PPO's
Posted 3/19/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 4517
Look Into The Deep Dark Secrets Of PPO's
The Secret: Dental Fee Schedule Negotiation Can Actually Work.If you’re considering opening a new office, you must consider this topic before opening or you’ll risk decades of missing hundreds of thousands of dollars of profits.If you’ll take PPOs in your new office, you’re...  Read More
Surprising Facts On The Current Realities of Dental Real Estate
Posted 3/18/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2411
Surprising Facts On The Current Realities of Dental Real Estate
In a recent article, it became clear to me that there are 4 compelling reasons why 2014 could be theCHEAPEST year for you to move into your ideal dental real estate.Delaying may be very costly.Surprising FactsThe Current Realities of Dental Real Estate1. Fewer Open Spaces:U.S. office vacancy rates...  Read More
More on Morning Huddles
Posted 3/14/2014 by Kevin Tighe in Cambridge Dental Consultants   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 604
More on Morning Huddles
Often morning huddles are being done but the dentist is solely running the meetings and they are always just talking about what is being done today. And here lies the mistakes in doing it this way:The dentist must never soley run the morning huddle so to speak. Now I didn’t say not to have...  Read More
Building Your Local SEO to get New Patients
Posted 3/13/2014 by CharlesCrawford in Internet Marketing   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 4632
Building Your Local SEO to get New Patients
Instead of spending a ton to reach out to your patients, you could put yourself in a position that local patients are reaching out to you whenever they need dental services.Introduction of computer networks did nothing to change the most basic fact about the way dental professionals make a living...  Read More
Things Are Bad. Things Are Really Bad. Here Is The Update
Posted 3/11/2014 by OpenADentalOffice in How To Open A Dental Office   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 4669
Things Are Bad. Things Are Really Bad. Here Is The Update
You might remember last years two part series about the good, the bad an the ugly of hiring the wrong dental contractor. Well, that story has gotten worse...much worse.The project is now nearly 7 months delayed and the doctor will likely lose upwards to a quarter of a million dollars, while the...  Read More
Growth Hacking Your Content Marketing Program… Take Your Blog to the Top of Google SERP’s and Generate MORE Quality New Patients Each Month!
Posted 3/11/2014 by Ken Newhouse in Get Clients Now   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 3329
Growth Hacking Your Content Marketing Program… Take Your Blog to the Top of Google SERP’s and Generate MORE Quality New Patients Each Month!
Growth hacking is the name of the game right now for Dentists who want access to the next generation of dental marketing, and why shouldn’t it be? It’s all about putting more prospective patients at the top of the conversion funnel and bringing more qualified new patient traffic into...  Read More
Are your employees driving away your patients?
Posted 3/9/2014 by CharlesCrawford in Internet Marketing   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2314
Are your employees driving away your patients?
For a dental business to succeed, a lot of things need to go the right way, but just a single customer service misstep is all it takes to permanently ruin a reputation.Everyone who spent any time in the dental industry knows very well that some patients can be really difficult at times and that...  Read More
3 Things You Need to do to Get Your Practice Publicity
Posted 3/8/2014 by CharlesCrawford in Internet Marketing   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2347
3 Things You Need to do to Get Your Practice Publicity
No matter how good a dentist may be, it’s necessary to get the word out in the community. Here is a brief overview of techniques that can be used to make your dental practice more publically visible.In every business, public image can be easily translated into money and dental services are...  Read More
Looking to open a retirement plan (or want someone to review your existing plan)? We can help.
Posted 3/8/2014 by Kon Litovsky in Financial Planning and Money Management   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 3708
Looking to open a retirement plan (or want someone to review your existing plan)? We can help.
As your revenues and profits increase, so do the taxes you pay on your earnings. If you are considering opening a retirement plan for your business to minimize taxes, you are on the right track.  There are three major reasons for opening a retirement plan:    Provide a valuable perk to your...  Read More
HHS Office of Civil Rights Seeking Public Comment on HIPAA Audit Program
Posted 3/6/2014 by Colington Consulting in Help with HIPAA Compliance   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2506
HHS Office of Civil Rights Seeking Public Comment on HIPAA Audit Program
On February 24, 2014, the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced plans to submit a new Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for public comment on the HIPAA Audit Program.This information collection consists of a...  Read More
The Big Three for Me and Thee
Posted 3/6/2014 by samboenits in Clicks 2 Call Marketing Solutions   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 2337
The Big Three for Me and Thee
The highest level of achievement for any dental practice is patientretention. If your patientretentionmachine is functioning properly then practice growth and market penetration are a certain commodity. It's not so much thatacquisitionis unimportant but a fully functioningretentionmachine will...  Read More
Growth Hacking Your Dental Practice... The Evolution of Dental Marketing
Posted 3/5/2014 by Ken Newhouse in Get Clients Now   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 12385
Growth Hacking Your Dental Practice... The Evolution of Dental Marketing
One of the most searched terms on Google in 2013 was “what is growth hacking” and in 2014 that trend is continuing to gain strength. The best way to understand what growth hacking is… what growth hackers do and why you want to know is to first understand what is meant by the term...  Read More

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