What’s the best way to grow your dental practice? Personal referrals coming from within are most ideal. Internal marketing – gaining valuable referrals from current …
The two most under-utilized words in business are Thank You!
The dental industry is no exception. Throughout my career as a consultant, I’ve spent countless hours with dental team members, and one of the questions …
Winning in Dentistry
You’ve overcome a lot of hurdles to get where you are today. First, you made the decision to apply to dental school and had to …
Your Fundamental Choice: Making a Living or Making a Life?
You make a living working for someone else. You make a life working for yourself. “Human life has always been lived on the edge of …
Career Suicide – The Easy Way
It’s easy to kill a practice. You can over-treatment plan. You can over-charge. You can insist on treatments patients don’t want. You can refuse to …
My Story – Neha Garge, DMD
You don’t know what you don’t know. Over the years, I have heard this more times than I can count. So simple but says so …
Advice From a Founding Father
There is one thing—one nagging mindset condition—that is common to many new dentists, and it’s not just the anxiety from the mountain of school debt …
Flip Your Focus and Change Your Life
Nothing in life brings us more face-to-face with ourselves than owning a business. Things like sports, schooling, marriage or raising children don’t cause us to …
Leadership Skills Need Attention, Too!
It goes without saying that excellent clinical skills are required for achieving dental practice success. In fact, if you are like most doctors, you attend …
Chasing and Finding Balance
I want to have it all! How can I balance a professional life, my family and my friends to have any personal time for me, …
Optimal Image, Optimal Success
What do YOU think about your image at work? Often times the longer we have worked someplace the less we think about our image in …
Take Advantage of Scripting
Whether you’re building a new practice from the ground up or taking over an established office, scripts can be instrumental in quickly raising productivity and …
Don’t Be a Mosquito In a Nudist Colony
Why Lifetime Goals are So Important to What I Do Tomorrow, and Why Tomorrow is Important to My Lifetime Goals. The mosquito in the nudist colony …
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
I went to school for more than 12 years to become a “professional” and was told to just “build it and they will come.” I …
The Pursuit of Education and Mentorship
Healthcare is one of the most rapidly evolving industries. It never stands still. This requires medical professionals of all ages and skill levels to participate …