My recent wet weekend at Kendal Calling (music, beer, mud) may have been washed out (along with a number of other British music festivals) but it was a timely reminder of just how tribal we still are – and how that impacts the way we promote our businesses. On Saturday evening I watched and listened
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The Business Course Part 1 At the Campbell Academy, we run a Business Course that we call TBOB (The Business of Business) it’s just a nickname for the course that we started in February. If you want to know what it looks like here is link to the video. It’s really good, try and watch
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As part of a government strategy to improve air quality, Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health. The Guardian In the UK: It is estimated that air pollution causes 40,000 deaths a year
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Recently, I have met three young dentists who have bought practices under what I can only describe as questionable circumstances. Three different locations around the UK and yet the audit trail of events that is disturbingly similar: Existing owner in mid-50’s decides to sell whilst goodwill values are at an historic high; Sales figures for
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One of the benefits of spending 4 days a week on the road is the opportunity to spot trends very early. Here’s a trend that has exploded in the last 3 months. The use of Instagram by dental practices to post photographs and short videos that include: patient testimonials and team news Most of the
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What makes a dental business stand out from the crowd? What are their unique selling propositions? I was recently musing on the strategies and tactics that differentiate the absolute greats in the business of dentistry from the good and the rest. Out came my Livescribe pen and the magic Moleskine notebook so that the list
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Back in 1980 I worked for an insurance company in Central Manchester and was (no surprises) frequently the first person to arrive every morning so that I could have a morning huddle with myself and work out my priorities for the day. On the desk in front of me? No desktop, laptop or smartphone –
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Let me share with you a couple of lessons from yesterday. Firstly, I want to thank Emma and Mikaela, dental nurses from Cirencester Dental Practice. They were asked to join my meeting with Principal Ross Cutts and Practice Manager Gay Cutts with the objective of introducing Instagram as a new social media channel to share
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As Season 7 of Game of Thrones takes us back to Westeros and re-introduces us to the characters we hate to love (don’t panic – no spoilers here) I’m wondering whether, in fact, winter is coming here in UK dentistry? Earlier this year (and on the recommendation of my friend and client Colin Lawson) I
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As a committed member of the innovation tribe, I downloaded the beta versions of macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 over the weekend (just in case that doesn’t mean very much to you, they are the next generation of operating systems for Apple Macs and iPhones and will launch to the general public in the
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