The original internet was created in 1969 as a way to share information between 2 computer networks, one in the University of California and the second at the Stanford Research Institute. Email was created in 1971 to share information. By 1973, there were 40 computer networks connected to each other and the first cross-Atlantic connection
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Reading my latest issue of Wired magazine on the flight back from Portugal last night, I noticed an advertisement by IBM for “the cognitive business”. To quote: “A cognitive business is a business that thinks. A new era of technology is giving rise to a new era of business, made possible by three historic shifts:
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Yesterday I met (for the first time) with Zoltan Mate, the new business development manager at Premier Orthodontics in Bromley. It will be the first of a series of meetings in which I ensure that he is doing “the right things right” to help grow the business, in close liaison with owners Yaz and Lydia
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Last night I enjoyed my third (in as many months) delightful supper discussing the opportunity for a Private Equity investor looking at UK dentistry. It happens largely as a result of my self-generated profile across social media. The flattering perception that I know people and things. The same organisations and individuals haven’t focused their research to
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Why, I wonder, do so many people procrastinate on making tough decisions about relationships until the short-term pain of making the decision becomes greater than the long-term pain of doing nothing about it? There’s not a week goes by that I’m not listening to a prospect or client explain in gruelling detail (sometimes for the
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John Ray’s “Collection of English Proverbs” 1670 first records the phrase and it was clearly well known already by that time. After a 14-hour working day that concluded at 20:15 last night with a telephone interview for a client’s potential new marketing manager and TCO, I barely had enough time to grab a quick meal, quaff
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John Ray’s “Collection of English Proverbs” 1670 first records the phrase and it was clearly well known already by that time. After a 14-hour working day that concluded at 20:15 last night with a telephone interview for a client’s potential new marketing manager and TCO, I barely had enough time to grab a quick meal, quaff
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In part 1 of this 4-part series we looked at The 10X SOI Digital Marketing System, how to get sales equivalent to 10x your marketing spend. CLICK HERE TO READ PART #1 In part 2 we looked at the concept of growing your sales and profit by 100% in less than 36 months. CLICK HERE TO
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Potential new patients are finding your web site from organic search, by clicking on adverts, via shared social posts, linking from newsletters and through verbal recommendation. I’ve reviewed three separate client reports in recent weeks (from widely differing practices and digital marketers) that indicate almost 2/3rds of their web site visits have been via what
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An observation of UK dental post-graduate courses suggests that it is getting tougher to sell places. Partly dilution? Mainly, I suggest, a consequence of the lack of confidence amongst large cohorts of the UK profession, influenced by: the GDC the NHS system of delivery the lack of decent career opportunity post-FD the dominance of mega-corporates Brexit and
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