Chase Your Dreams with a Plan
Wouldn’t it be nice to just chase after your dreams like a mad man? No worry for what people would think, whether or not you’d succeed or how you would feed yourself an...
Questions Warren Buffet Asks Before Investing in a Business
Will Warren Buffet buy your business? Probably not considering it is likely to be a business that may not meet his criteria. But does your business meet all the other requirements ...
4 Crucial Things You Need to Check Before Subscribing to A Marketing Service
As a dental professional and entrepreneur, running a world-class practice is often more than a full-time job so I wouldn’t blame you if you feel there’s no time in your...
Top Business Trends Post Covid-19
We just can’t wait to go back to business, can we? But will we ever be able to go back to doing business the same way we have always been doing? Chances are not really! This ...
How To Be A Confident Decision Maker, Defeat Stress And Overcome Setbacks
There’s no doubt that running your own business can be super stressful. When you invest your time, life and money in a business you have to accept that there’s alway...
When A Recession Hits: What To Do Next!
The emergence of COVID 19 has created a recession like never before. Regardless of the industry you work in, you are impacted by its presence. Problem is, there is no sight of it e...
How Personal Development Assists With Professional Growth
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]There is a major difference between being ambitio...
Marketing Your Practice During Uncertain Times
Uncertainty might be an understatement considering the current situation worldwide. Coronavirus has really overtaken this year. Everyone is at a pause. Some call it the ‘big ...
Creating A Powerful And Unique Brand Identity
What is Branding? When we think of branding, we think of logos – the bitten apple for the technology giant of the same name or the little tick for Nike that is a movement in...
How To Work Collaboratively With Specialists
It has always been a little difficult for the general dentist and a specialist to amicably co-exist. But the fact of the matter remains, both of them are equally important componen...
Managing Risk In Uncertain Times
As we live amidst the most trying of times in modern history, uncertainty seems to be the keyword. COVID-19 has shaken up the entire world. From a business perspective, there is a ...
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...
WHAT DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS IN AUSTRALIA MEAN FOR DENTISTS
The world is changing – and so is Australia. There are three key factors influencing demographics in Australia. First, we are seeing a massive population boom. In 2006, we...
CREATING A PROFITABLE, EXITABLE DENTAL PRACTICE
Any dentist who owns a business can benefit from taking the steps to create a profitable, exitable dental practice. Whether you would like to sell your practice within the next yea...
THE POWER OF CLARITY FOR DENTAL PRACTICES
Success in business comes from one thing: clarity. In today’s world, there is this pressure to do it all, have it all, see it all, be it all. Sometimes the only thing that...
HOW TO MANAGE TIME, BEAT PROCRASTINATION, AND GET STUFF DONE
If you find that you generally create good results for yourself but you struggle to hit ‘great’ territory, it might be procrastination holding you back. Often the diffe...
5 GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW TO SCALE EXCELLENCE
I often find myself talking about the dentist that holds onto his or her dental practice with a white-knuckle grip. Everything needs to go through the business owner and it creates...
THE 3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A COSMETIC DENTAL PRACTICE & GENERAL DENTISTRY
...(ANDTHE 3 SECRETS TO SUCCESS) If you are a dentist that owns your own practice, you wouldn’t be alone if you had considered adding some cosmetic dental serv...
THE THREE REST STOPS ON THE ROAD TO A MORE VALUABLE PRACTICE
If you own a dental practice, you probably have a similar dream to me. You want your dental practice to be successful – to the point where it can function without your consta...
Walk Away From the Rat Race: The 3 Secrets to Reinvent Yourself
It can often be easy to identify when someone else is throwing good money after bad, but hard with ourselves. As medical professionals, we can be especially prone to this dark spot...
Identify And Manage Risk In Your Dental Practice Now to Protect the Future
Identifying and managing risk is something every business should do at least once every six months. Identifying risks is a moving goalpost that changes as the marketplace c...