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Consultant Tip: Actions and Words of the Dental Team Can Increase Cancellations or Prevent Them- Tip #3
Posted 4/9/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 2  |   Views: 8060
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
Posted 4/9/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 1  |   Views: 44219
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
Posted 4/8/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 8  |   Views: 9789
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
Posted 4/8/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 1  |   Views: 905
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
Posted 4/7/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 7052
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
Posted 4/6/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 2  |   Views: 7205
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"
Posted 4/5/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 7109
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
Posted 4/5/2013 by Sandy Pardue in Sandy Pardue, Consultant/Classic Practice Resources   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 7237
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 !
Posted 3/21/2013 by Tim Lott, CPA, CVA in Tim Lott-Your Trusted Dental CPA   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 684
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?
Posted 3/21/2013 by Jason J Hales in The Endo Blog   |  Comments: 2  |   Views: 1911
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
Posted 3/7/2013 by DrMarkCostes in Dental Success Blog   |  Comments: 3  |   Views: 2352
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 the blogs section!
Posted 2/20/2013 by angief in Updates from IT   |  Comments: 4  |   Views: 1260
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
Designing Your Dental Website's Sales Funnel
Posted 4/2/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 624
Designing Your Dental Website's Sales Funnel
Automating Your Dental Marketing
Posted 4/1/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 98
Automating Your Dental Marketing
Marketing In All The Wrong Places
Posted 3/31/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 83
Marketing In All The Wrong Places
The Psychology of Your Dental Website
Posted 3/30/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 83
The Psychology of Your Dental Website
Dental Marketing Vultures
Posted 3/29/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 90
Dental Marketing Vultures
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-008-the-one-about-dental-marketing-vultures.htm  Read More
Woody Called Me A Liar
Posted 3/28/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 88
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
All About "SoLoMo"
Posted 3/27/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 74
All About "SoLoMo"
Why Patients Buy (and Why They Don't)
Posted 3/26/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 84
Why Patients Buy (and Why They Don't)
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com - Why your patients aren't saying "YES" to your services - How to get inside their head and find out what makes them say "YES" - How to overcome ALL their objections, and why it's Critical to overcome their objections before they even object! - See how...  Read More
We Turn Dentists Into SuperHero's
Posted 3/26/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 70
We Turn Dentists Into SuperHero's
The "Voodoo" Behind Dental Marketing
Posted 3/25/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 117
The "Voodoo" Behind Dental Marketing
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-003-the-one-that-debunks-all-the-voodoo-behind-dental-marketing.htm In this episode you will see: - We never intended to work with dentists. Get a quick glimpse of our origins and see why we work exclusively with dentists now - Web marketing isn't...  Read More
Why Just Doing Ads Isn't Enough
Posted 3/24/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 71
Why Just Doing Ads Isn't Enough
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-002-the-one-about-why-just-doing-ads-isnt-enough.htm In this episode you'll find out: - How to keep your name in front of your prospective patients for 2 years - Automatically. - How to pre-qualify your prospects and never waste your time again on a...  Read More
Dominating the Web with Video
Posted 3/23/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 87
Dominating the Web with Video
http://www.smartboxwebmarketing.com/episode-001-the-one-about-dominating-the-web-with-video.htm In this episode you'll find out: - How successful dentists are leveraging video in their web marketing to dominate the web. - How your videos make your website 53x more likely to be seen on Google's...  Read More
Episode 004: The One About "Why Patients Buy (and Why They Don't)"
Posted 2/27/2012 by Colin Receveur in The Patient Attraction Podcast™   |  Comments: 0  |   Views: 70
Episode 004: The One About "Why Patients Buy (and Why They Don't)"
- Why your patients aren't saying "YES" to your services - How to get inside their head and find out what makes them say "YES" - How to overcome ALL their objections, and why it's Critical to overcome their objections before they even object! - See how powerful patient testimonials can do the heavy...  Read More
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