Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. HORACE MANN, Thought It’s always a risk to accept the challenge of predicting possible futures. The last time I gave a
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20 years ago I walked into my first Showcase at Birmingham NEC, spent the day wandering around, met one person I knew (Jeff Caddick, Castle Ceramics) and then went home, wondering whether dentistry might be an interesting place to hang out. To say the rest is history would be an understatement. The business of dentistry
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We all have our inner demons – the things we are afraid of. My girlie scream at the sight of a sizeable spider in the bath is the stuff of family legend – but nothing scares me more than heights. I used to listen to Wayne Dyer cassette tapes in the 90’s, suggesting that heights
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On Monday 10th October Chris Barrow and Colin Campbell have been invited to speak to a group of new graduates at a charity event in London. It’s going to be a ‘no holds barred’ event where Barrow and Campbell discuss what they think will happen in dentistry in the next five – ten years
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Friday morning, Marylebone, London and off for a Groundhog Day with the BDA at Wimpole Street, there to repeat last week’s marketing presentation at the BDA Whitening Day. It will be interesting to see how many attend and also the mix in the audience. Last week most of the delegates were from Yorkshire area (I
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Today I’ll be working with a former client who has asked me back in (after a break of some years) to work on a business and personal vision for his future. There is no problem to solve here apart from a very full book, a waiting list for treatment and a bursting calendar of clinical,
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Old school question: Q – “So how did you find us?” A – “I had a look at your web site.” So the marketing team record this as an internet lead and it looks from your marketing spreadsheet as if 1/3rd of your patients are word of mouth and 2/3rds are internet leads. The story,
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The new web site is live at www.coachbarrow.com and, whilst we are still snagging the site as we go along, I welcome you to the latest iteration of my brand and identity. My very public thanks go out to the team at Dental Focus and my IT guru Kimberley Black who have worked hard
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The new Coach Barrow blog will be here in the next three weeks.
Mobile phones are extremely popular devices these days. There are over 7 billion mobile phones in the world today. Mobile application usage was up 58 percent in 2015. Eighty percent of smartphone owners use their phones to access the internet. In developing markets, mobiles are often the only way to access the internet. It seems
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