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...
5 Keys to Making the Gear Change from Self-Employed to Business Owner
Something I hear brought up a lot in the dental world lately is the idea of creating a “true business”. I’m all for that. Let’s dive in.....
6 Financial Mistakes Dentists Make (And How to Fix Them)
We’re rounding up on the end of the financial year here in Australia, which means that businesses across the country are turning their attention to taxes. When we think about...
Building the Foundations to Effectively Market Your Dental Practice
Any marketing efforts need a strong, well-built foundation to rest on. Often, I see dentists that put the cart before the horse. Friends from university would come to me and...
How to Build a Scalable Lifestyle Business Worth 3 Million Dollars
As a successful businessowner, you’re likely asking “How do I get a scalable business worth $3 million?" A lifestyle business is built around the skillset of a f...
How to Connect with People and Read Responses of your Patients and Practice Staff
Being able to connect with people as a leader or a dental entrepreneur is paramount to the success of your dental business. When it comes to facial expressions, other than the c...
Lessons 8 to 13 for Dental Practice Entrepreneurs: Part 2
Last week, I shared with you the first seven entrepreneurial lessons for dental practice owners… The lessons are based on my experiences during my own journey and are com...
13 Entrepreneurial Lessons for Dental Practice Owners: Part 1
When I started out, entrepreneurial tendencies were frowned upon. Being a dental entrepreneur or dental-preneur as I used to refer to it in my articles, was considered dodgy, or a ...
5 Reasons Why A-Type Personalities are on the Brink of Burnout
Everybody wants to bring their A game to work, but dentists are prone to burnout! When I was at university I had the mindset that I either did something perfectly or it was wron...
Top 7 Secrets to Being the Best Practice Leader Possible
I like to remind my clients that people are not born leaders. And that great leadership skills are learned – which is the good news, but how do we know what makes a great lea...