That was the sign I read on a billboard alongside the M56 in North Cheshire as I drove back to Manchester from a practice visit in Wrexham 2 weeks ago. I was on my bluetooth phone at the time and didn’t catch the email address that was detailed under the offer (perhaps driving a little
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My thanks to Fraser Hendrie who emailed a link to the Times article about the “off the record” conversation that took place between Barack and Dave during the trip to London. You can read it here.

The Sony Reader is now available. Or does the idea of “reading a book” on a hand-held device seem like a sin? Who could possibly want to replace the “primeval” pleasure of holding a hard-back, smelling the clean crisp publication and parting those pages for the first time? Reading is a tactile experience – what are
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This morning I’ll be on the phone at 8.00 am, catching up with my old friend Guy Levine, who wants to tell me all about his search engine optimisation business. When I first met Guy, he wasn’t even 20 years old – and now he is a success story in itself, constantly asked to speak
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In response to my recent post (and ezine article) about membership schemes, reader Ann Brosnan writes: Hi Chris,   Great article about membership.   One thing I would add (as a patient) is how about being invited to join a ‘patient panel’ so that I can give feedback to the dental practice and be asked
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and you can read all about it HERE  

So the GDC are beginning to fire warning shots across the bow of many practitioners. Read here what Dentistry magazine have to say. That should raise a few eyebrows 🙂

Here’s a great little resource for you to play with this weekend. Go to http://www.websitegrader.com/ and enter your own web address. This funky service will generate a free report that gives you a visibility ranking out of 100 – but will also tell you what’s missing from your search engine optimisation. Go ahead and then make
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Just a quick update on what has been happening – absolutely nowt!!! PCT are not returning our calls (we rang every day last week – PCT dental lead constantly ‘in meeting’ or ‘just stepped out of office’) – absolutely unbelievable way to run things! Anyway, they’ve got until Wednesday and then I’ll simply hand it
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Was it Amex that first coined that phrase? In Edinburgh at the moment for our Business Club meeting – and when I arrived yesterday and passed my Diamond VIP loyalty card across the registration desk at The Cally, I was upgraded to one of the “newly refurbished rooms with a view of the castle” in
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