Navigating The Covid 19 Crisis
Who knew we would live to see a time like this! Covid 19 has now become a pandemic all over the world. This blog is all about how you can manage your dental business and your sanit...
The Good, The Bad And the Ugly Of Setting Up Fee Structures
Any business needs a viable and appropriate fees structure to operate commercially successfully. But what factors go into setting up a fees structure that will help the bottom line...
Which Efficiencies Can Make Your Practice More Profitable
Have you been working more than 50 hours a week over 5 or 6 days without taking a meaningful break? Do you know that you could be putting yourself in real danger with the excessive...
Legal Elements Of Owning A Dental Practice
Most dentists forget that dentistry isn’t simply about being excellent at clinical care, it is also about taking care of the business and the legal aspects that can impact on...
Master How Your Words Come Out
We all know the importance of communication in the success of any relationship, business or otherwise. Communication is the key that allows us to foster great relationships with ou...
How To Use Great Content To Attract New Patients
We live in an age of information. Google has become our confidant, our 3.00A.M medical advisor and our trusted counsellor and guide. But for business the key role these search eng...
6 Top Tips To Fix Your Front Desk
How important is face to face patient support in times of text reminders, emails, online booking systems and chat bots? Well, extremely important. Actually, more important now than...
How To Be The Leader Your Team Needs Now!
It is generally believed that leaders are born and not made. What if I could prove to you that this is not the case and with the right kind of self-awareness and dedicated work, an...
7 Instagram Hacks To Grow Your Practice!
If you haven’t introduced your practice to the world of digital and social media marketing, then, you are definitely not living in 2020. In social media, the first name that ...
5 Secret Tips To Build Your Patient Audience
If you have been a regular listener on my Savvy Dentist Podcast, you may know I have achieved the 200thepisode mark. This episode is all about what I learned from my guests in my 4...
How To Get More Patients With Email Marketing
Not many dental practice owners read up on digital marketing trends on a daily basis. It is not surprising then when they consider email to be dead. It was pronounced dead a long t...
Write Your Ultimate Roadmap For 2020!
Many people talk about work-life balance. And I think that’s a bit of a misnomer. It should bework-life integration.Because ultimately it is just life; and this includes your...
Crafting Systems And Automation For Scaling Successfully
It is imperative for any running business to have systems and operations in place for smooth functioning. We all use some level of technology to help make things easier. However, a...
How To Develop A Powerful Practice Manager Relationship
All great performers have a wingman. This is the one trusted key person that a performer relies on to support them in their professional life. In dentistry the wingman or wingwoman...
Have You Measured Your Growth Potential Yet?
Running a dental practice is like throwing a dozen balls in the air and then try to catch them all at the same time! You not only have to build and maintain a reputation as a compe...
Your Guide To Effective Marketing For 2020
Not sure if your marketing strategies would be able to hold their ground next year? All the marketing gurus got you all confused on the right strategies of successful marketing? We...
An Important Lesson On Motivational Interviewing
We all feel overwhelmed sometimes. Regardless of the hours and effort we put into our work, we never really have it all together. The team doesn’t get us, the patients don&rs...
Keeping The End In Mind - Generate Revenue Outside Of Dentistry
We all have rather a rinse, repeat kind of a routine. And it only makes sense! There are only so many hours in a day and days in a week to get things done. It takes all you have, t...
How Google Helps New Patients Find Your Practice
We live in a world of options. We have multiple options for the smallest of products and services we may require. However, there is one entity that has been able to remain a monopo...
8 Top Tips From The Master Of Scale
Anyone who has thumbed through the shelves looking for a good read on succeeding in business or ever considered enrolment in an entrepreneurial program will recognise Verne Harnish...
Competitive Intelligence: Critical To The Survival Of Your Dental Practice
When you hear the words intelligence thrown in with competitiveness, your mind wanders to the other dental practice down the road or that shiny new clinic in town with the enormous...
How To Successfully Introduce A New Surgical Procedure
Introducing a new surgical process can be exciting and nerve-wrecking. It takes a lot deliberation, education and above all hefty investments to put a new surgical process on the t...
Treating Kids: 6 Key Steps To Successful Paediatric Dentistry
Dealing with kids can be fun, exciting and nerve-wrecking, all at the same time. Now add surgical chair and needles to the mix and you are just waiting for a small volcano to erupt...
Guide To Investing In A Lucrative Passive Income Stream
Do you have only one mouth mirror, one dental tweezers, probe and scaler lying around your practice? The chances are the answer is ‘No.’ You probably have a couple of e...
From Profitable to Scalable: Your Journey To A Thriving Practice
So what is the big difference between a profitable practice and a scalable practice anyway? Business owners mistakenly use these terms interchangeably, and limit their business&rsq...
What Farmers Can Teach Dentist About Wealth Creation
Farmers and dentists aren’t really talked about in the same sentence. You are probably wondering about the correlation between these two careers! Today I am talking you throu...
How To Run A Sustainable Dental Practice
Running a successful business is hard enough, running a sustainable and successful business would be much harder right? We all want to serve higher purposes, but we just don’...
How To Boost The Value And Saleability Of Your Practice
No matter what future plans you have for your practice, the chances are you never know what’s around the corner. Opportunities can come out of nowhere. You may decide to move...
Grow Your Business Steadily: Be The Tortoise To Win The Race
Have you ever tried stacking a bunch of boxes together and moving them from Point A to point B? We all have at some point. And we all have tried to squeeze just one more in. Stack ...
Digital Marketing Breakdown Every Dentist Needs To Read
Let’s say a patient walks in with a taco in his hand. He asks you to take a bite because it ‘literally is the best taco in town.’ You accept the offer and he wasn...
How To Make Your Business Sale-Worthy!
Before we jump on any horses, no I don’t want you to sell your business and this is not what this blog is about! It is about evaluating your business and bringing it together...
The Quality Of Leadership
Do you have the quality to be a leader? Great! What is the quality of your leadership? Not so sure are you? Do you know how to lead teams tactfully and effectively? As business ...
Lessons For Success - Mastering Dentistry One Step At A Time
Have you ever tried Googling ‘How do I make my dental practice the best in the world?’ Well, you aren’t alone, I still do that sometimes (read: all the time!). We...
Make Time For Success - Your Guide To Time Management
The biggest problem we face today is our desire to get more time. If only there were more minutes in an hour or more hours in a day. So much left to do with so little time. And thi...
How To Create A Winning Culture
We hear the importance of culture to optimally run a business all the time. We know we need to inculcate it in our organisation, big or small. But that is only the beginning of a l...
Things I Wish I Had Known Right After I Graduated
It is a long, difficult, tedious and expensive journey to earn the right to practice dentistry. It is then only understandable that you want to dig right into those teeth and get s...
A Business Owner’s Guide To Change, Transition And Self Mastery
Nobody likes uncertainty; no one likes to not be in control of what tomorrow will hold for them. And this is the number one reason why people become complacent and unwelcoming of c...
Leadership Hacks For Personal And Professional Growth
The first step to mastering any skill is to first be aware and accept that there is still a lot of learning to do. This is especially true for people in leadership roles. They are ...
Design Your Own Career And Future By Reinventing Yourself
It is never easy to go back to square one; to tell yourself to start again. To accept that things did not turn out as they should have and it is time to do things differently; to r...
How To Master Deep Listening
How often do you really pay attention to what other people are saying? Our social media news feeds are swarming with people filling us in on their lives, but the moment you open th...
How to Bounce Back from a Setback
We all have setbacks; it is part and parcel of living on this beautiful planet. Listen to anyone’s success story and they’d tell you about how they moved forward agains...
Build and lead Teams Effectively with the Help of Storytelling
How does storytelling have anything to do with fixing people’s teeth? Why are we even discussing storytelling on a dental business blog? And who leads teams by telling them s...
Going Digital and Beyond
As dentists and business owners, you are always on the lookout for upgrades. Always learning, always growing. And in this Digital Age, growth without the incorporation of technolog...
How Little Things Make A Big Difference in Marketing
So what is your marketing budget? How much are you willing to invest in promoting your practice? Are marketing gurus hunting you down on social media, via emails and personal phone...
Leadership Roles- Are you the Master or The Servant?
ldquo;Liberate yourself from the need to be right.” Seth Godin This quote by Seth Godin really resonates with me; because it is everything that is wrong with the role o...
How to run high performance meetings!
So how many of you have slept through meetings at work? I can imagine almost all of you sheepishly nodding your heads. We’ve all been there. Meetings can be dull and unproduc...
Behaviour Change and Its Impact on Your Practice
What is behaviour change and why is it so important for you to know about it? How many dentists do you know who pay very close attention to how they make their patients’ f...
15 Golden Rules of (Patient) Love: How to Offer Five Star Patient Support Every Time
Patient is king. He is always right. He knows best. A happy patient is a flourishing practice. As business owners, we hear this all the time. These statements are considered a g...
Give Up Control to get control and make room to scale.
Do you know how to be your own dental assistant? Can you handle all the jobs that most of your staff members do? What if your receptionist takes a day off, would you be able to pic...
From Numbers to Profits: Create Your Own Success Metrics
How do you make your business decisions? How do you decide what further assets you need to purchase, how much to pay your employees, how to manage your cash flow, and most importan...
The Art of Swinging Your Cash flow in the Right Direction
Being a great dentist might help you run a successful practice, but in order to turn it into a lucrative and profitable business, you need to be a competent business owner too. And...
7 Easy Ways to Use Focus and Discipline to Achieve Goals.
This week I want to talk about something that will help us be more effective in our roles within and beyond our practice. In some way we all strive towards self-improvement every d...
6 Strategies for Scaling Success: A Case Study with Dr Jahnavi Vora
Scaling success is a constantly evolving journey. Whilst our scaling goal may be clear in our own minds we have to remember where scaling leverage really comes from. That is our sy...
10 Free Guerilla Marketing Tactics That Will Increase Profits
One of the most common things I hear from dentist practice owners today is, “I just want more patients.” The unspoken bottom line though is: I just want to generate ...
The 3 Secrets to Becoming the Best Associate at Your Dental Practice
Associate dentists are the single most important key factor for dentist/business owners to transition from self-employment to a true business that can scale. As this process happen...
Crafting A Perfect Patient Experience
The bar for customer service has been set so low it’s almost underground. Giant multinationals like telcos and banks offer famously awful customer service. In comparison, a s...
Creating Breakthroughs In Business And In Life
There are a growing number of people who I speak to who are at the stage in their life where they not feeling truly fulfilled. Maybe they are looking for external factors for f...
Underlining the Existing Purpose in Your Small Business
There is a growing sense amongst employees and business owners today that there is more to life than acquiring money and assets. People are becoming more aware of the atrocities ha...
On Doing The Work: Paying the Price for Success in Dentistry and Business
There seems to be an easy path in dentistry. If you are fresh out of university, you might be looking at dentists with 10 years under their belt. You see their practices, their fan...
Adopt Cause Marketing, Unlock Your Brand, and Help Your Community
The Internet offers people an unparalleled chance to be informed consumers. When the review, brand history, and values of a company can be found through a quick Google search on a ...
The 4 Keys to Building a Scaling Framework for Your Dental Practice
Cultivating the skill set you need to be a good businessperson can feel like diving into deep water without a lifeguard. When dental schools only teach us clinical skills, we&rsquo...
The 4 Types of Dental Practices: Which One is Yours?
I want to share a story with you. In the early 2000’s, I owned a dental practice and I was doing the traditional practice management thing. We made good money. But I found...
Create a Fulfilling Dental Practice with This One Secret
Connection is more important than ever. We live in this amazingly high-tech world where we can connect with someone across the world from the device we carry around in our pocke...
How to Turn Complaining Customers into Devoted Followers
It’s actually quite simple. Turning an upset, complaining customer – or protesting patient - into a devoted follower is not all that difficult. The problem is tha...
How to Turbo-Charge the Productivity of Your Team
How would you describe your team? Are they productive, focused and efficient? Or is it a challenge to keep them on track and working together towards your goals? You need ...
How To Use Social Media To Boost Your Business
Social media is overwhelming. Facebooking, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn – the list is endless. There are so many platforms, and each one is different. They a...
Don't Do These 5 Things When You Want To Build An Elite Team
What’s your biggest headache? No, let me guess. Staff. Am I right? Most business owners say staff are one of their biggest stressors. Now, let me ask you another ...
How To Be the Beckham of Dentistry: 7 Ways to Boost Your Brand
What do dental practices and soccer have in common? David Beckham. How? Let me paint a picture for you. There is no one quite like David Beckham. He’s a talented foo...
6 Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making (And How To Fix Them)
Are you competitive? Because the dental profession is more competitive than ever. There are simply too many dentists for the number of patients. But that’s not the real...
6 Case Presentation Secrets Every Dentist Should Know
Enviable, isn’t it? The way some people manage things so effortlessly, when it’s so much harder for the rest of us. Some dentists manage to easily guide a patient...
8 Little Known Factors That Could Affect Your Diagnosis
You dream of a successful dental business. A popular practice with hordes of loyal patients who hang on your every word. So you never have to worry about an empty appointment...
Do You Make These 6 Case Presentation Mistakes?
It’s not your fault. No one teaches you this stuff. No one tells you how to do case presentation elegantly, intelligently or strategically. So you make it up as you go ...