It was a fun weekend, if not climatologically challenging. The rain poured and poured on Saturday night but that Dunkirk spirit prevailed and we sat in full thermal gear around a wood fire and waited until the BBQ was glowing before adding the beef burgers and sausages. We may be crap at football but us
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On Friday the 15th of June 2012, Dental Angels Recruitment went online. The site is an online jobs board specifically tailored to the Dental industry. It uses Twitter, Facebook , its own database, and SEO to match the right people to the right jobs. There were a solid number of people who attended the party
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How does your practice truly measure against some industry benchmarks? Would you like to know?   Well, grab a cup of your favourite hot beverage, settle down where you can really focus and truly concentrate … and then take the newly launched BKH Business Barometer.  This survey will challenge every aspect of your business with
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  $40,000 in three hours.   That’s how long it took Seth Godin to generate the funding for his next writing project on Kickstarters.   And the activity continued… just a few moments ago (07:49 Tuesday)   This worked because: he has spent years creating value he talks straight – no fluff its a simple
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Charlie Fox makes a good point in commenting on my recent blog post

Part of my job is to comment on what I see.   Here is what I see: small to medium-sized treatment plans being postponed due to cash flow issues maintenance and hygiene books getting gappy again continued strong sales of cosmetic ortho, implants and denture stabilisation patients keeping their disposable income in their pockets patients
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In a few weeks’ time I will be attending an ITI Gold Day in South Wales and I’ve been asked to host an open-mike session after dinner on the Saturday night. I don’t do “after-dinner speaking” but hopefully the audience will respond to the chance of firing questions on any subject. I asked Cathy Johnson
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I recently spent two days working on the BKH Group exhibition stand at Dentistry Live!  This was a great event for our team in many ways: it was another chance to reconnect with colleagues, a chance to refine strategies, a chance to push forward, a chance to connect with clients, partners and providers, a chance
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Average number of patients seen per day per dentist Average daily production per dentist 60 £600 30 £800 15 £1000 6 £3500 2 £4500 1 £8500

I’m not moaning but… The QDJ gives us an opportunity to look at a very important number in dental business management. First, look at your total revenues for the year: =£X Minus: lab fees material costs payments to associates, hygienists, therapists What you have left is your operating costs – what it costs to keep
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