You don’t dig a well in a drought because there’s a good chance that you will too late. You dig a well when it’s raining. You don’t slow down or stop your marketing when there are new patients queuing up for consultations and the waiting list for treatment is getting longer. You don’t slow down
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I’ve recently started working with a 30-year old, 13-chair practice in central Milan, Italy, confusingly (for some readers) named Adec (no connection with the supply company). It has been a pleasure to meet founder Dr. Luciano Passaler and his daughter Dr. Linnea Passaler and to begin working with them and their management team on evolving
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Extreme Business 2018 London workshop done and my 47 delegates are sent home with spreadsheets, handouts and their heads buzzing with numbers. I invested quite some time at the start of the day in asking for feedback on Q1 of 2018 – always a chance to feel the pulse of the client base and get
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Please don’t contact me if you want to grow a patient base quickly. I know how some people do that. They throw money at the problem. What you get for money is quantity. You get patients who: buy from you (if you are lucky/cheap); and then leave (unless you are VERY good at keeping them).
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For many of us, this will be the first full day back at work after the Easter break, beginning Q2 of 2018. Over the 4-day weekend I spent a total of 12 hours in The Barrow Bunker, working “back stage” to prepare myself for a very busy 12 weeks ahead. Many other business owners were doing
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Technically, the term “baby boomers” is used to describe those of us born between 1947 and 1957 (there’s me – right in the middle at 1953). As has often been said, we are the most affluent members of western society and some pundits have speculated that we have around 45% of all the net disposable
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In the mid-19th century, a man named Carl B. Frank began importing Panamanian bananas to New York City. The fruit quickly became a popular street food throughout America, but the surge in urban migration and lack of sanitation regulation posed a major problem in cities. People often tossed their garbage into the streets, leading to
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This latest chart from Statista really brings home the impact that social media is having on all of our lives. Let’s remind ourselves that China doesn’t allow Facebook, Twitter or YouTube and that WeChat, Qzone and Weibo are the biggest of their social networks. Around 1 billion of China’s 2 billion population are daily users.
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My first question this morning is whether it would be useful to have 80 minutes of Chris Barrow, live and uncut, talking about: tips for newly qualified dentists; how to be a great associate; what’s coming next in dentistry: exit strategies for dental practice owners and top business tips in the current marketplace. all free
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In the UK alone, there are 42 million of us accessing Facebook every day and the majority via a mobile device. To understand just how dominant Facebook has become in our online and search activity, take a look at the following: UK social media networks ranked by size: the extent to which Facebook has equalled
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