Where Are You Going? There is no way to figure out where you are going or how you are going to get there if you don’t first fully understand where you are. If you do know your starting point, do you have a plan of action in place to bridge the gap? In 2019 we […]
Read PostWhen You Need to Hire Hiring for any position is darn near impossible it seems right now. I’ve talked with folks all across the country who are having a hard time finding hygienists, assistants and managers. As it happens, my office manager quit recently to move back closer to family, and so I had to […]
Read PostMaximizing Your SEO The baseline of almost any new patient acquisition is having a good website and sometimes that means making sure Google is able to find it. To understand how to make your website more visible to Google, I’m going to get a bit into the Marketing/SEO weeds for this week’s blog! In my […]
Read PostIncreasing Your Profits Let’s talk about inventory control. Do you have a system in place to track your supplies? How does your team know when to order? Do they have a budget and stick to it? Join myself, Jake Conway, Black Belt Coach Summer Kassmel, and her stellar lead assistants Brittany Lopez, Kylee Montoya as […]
Read PostImproving Your Practice The most recent McGill Advisory newsletter discussed marketing and how we are using marketing to hit our fullest capacity. Some surprising results were that 38% of respondents thought they were at 100% of capacity. 13% felt they were at 90-99%, and 25% felt they were above 80% of capacity. If you are […]
Read PostA Successful Weekend Whew, what a weekend! As the lights fade from another successful Dental Success Summit, I’m reminiscing about the wisdom gleaned from the experts who spoke at the conference. Here’s my notes from just a few of the experts who spoke: Dr. Mark Costes: “Hope is the antidote.” He discussed an experiment with […]
Read PostGrowing Your Practice One of the biggest topics I’ve seen discussed recently is when to bring on an associate dentist and possibly expand the practice. When these questions come up, sometimes the best thing to do is to look at statistics, and how you match up against others who have been in this position before. […]
Read PostFinding Your Success Success looks different for each practice owner. For some it’s a boutique fee for service practice with 50% overhead, for others it’s a multiple practice group, and some prefer the large multi specialty model. Today I share with you the incredible success of Dr. M and the steps she took in 12 […]
Read PostAbdicating Knowledge I have to admit that there are certain things in the office I am totally clueless about. Actually, I don’t even know the right questions to ask when it comes to some of the front office tasks. Re-filing problem claims, insurance questions, basically all the billing and AR stuff that goes on outside […]
Read PostExpanding Your Mind I was reading the Tao Te Ching the other day, and of the small percentage of it that I can comprehend, I enjoyed it. Chapter 14 reads: Which is more important, your honor or your life? Which is more valuable, your possessions or your person? Which is more destructive, success or failure? […]
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