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Need a Technoshrink?

July 29, 2010

From Guerrilla Marketing: Future success requires that you be technocozy; If you are not your technophobia is holding back your dental practice. If you suffer from that affliction, make an appointment with your technoshrink immediately. Technophobia is fatal these days.
Technoshrink appointmenst here

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The Stories we Tell

July 28, 2010

It has been a while since I linked to Lioness Katherine Eitel. The link below is from her weekly e-letter and reminds us of an important truth. Self talk shapes our attitudes. This truth holds for high tech changes just as much as it does for the important issues Katherine outlines in her message. For example:
Negative [...]

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Practice and Thrive

July 26, 2010

I just received a new ADA e-mail newsletter called Practice & Thrive focused on practice management issues. The July issue has articles on patient satisfaction and the economy. Interesting take away: 66.7% of general dentists update fees every year. The link below is from the satisfaction article and links to the ADA Dental Practice Hub (membership [...]

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Grow Your Practice Webinar

July 26, 2010

The link below will take you to Webinar on Growing your dental practice.
New Ways to Grow Your Practice as a Dentist (ExecSense Webinars).

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FAADOM

July 23, 2010

I have just learned about a new project from the AADOM  (American Association of Dental Office Managers). They have just announced a Fellowship program. To become a Fellow AADOM members need to demonstrate a specified level of experience, education and competence. This is designed to provide a reliable professional designation for dental office managers.
Dental business [...]

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Webinar Wednesday-New Ways to Grow Your Practice

July 19, 2010

I will be presenting a 60 minute webinar Wednesday July 21 at noon EDT. Follow the link below for details and registration. The topic is a bit different for me, that is we will focus on growing your practice. This will include…of course…using new high tech tools as well as tried and true methods. Hope you [...]

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AppointMaster-What is it?

July 16, 2010

I have not used this product but it looks interesting. It allows patients to make appointments online. I believe this could be very effective for re-call not so sure about complex restorative.
AppointMaster-What is it?.

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Who owns the website???

July 14, 2010

Great tip from Jason Lipscomb. Plus. Who owns the domain name? That is the name of your web site like (www.drjenkins.com). You as the practice owner should own the name. However sometimes the web developer registers the name to themselsves.
Most important SEO tip ever!!! Make sure you have the log in information and a way [...]

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A Sharp Transformation

July 9, 2010

In the 1980s, Peter Drucker, the dean of American management theorists wrote;
“Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred. In a matter of decades, society all together rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, and its key institutions. Fifty years later a new [...]

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Online Fee Survey

July 8, 2010

The link below will take you to the Willeford Group web site. Rick Willeford is a founding member of the ADCPA (Academy of Dental CPAs). Follow the icon shown here and you will find a fee survey form. This is the 30th year of the survey. You have until Sept 30 to participate. As a [...]

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What’s the Point?

July 8, 2010

Another bit of insight from Seth Godin. Do you have any new office projects in the works? Are you spending your time and talent on a valuable project or is it a project that seems fun and easy? Are you spending time in team meetings deciding which color scrubs to wear or are you moving [...]

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Paperless Thoughts

June 26, 2010

Dead tree (paper) data can only be in one place at a time. There is only one paper appointment book, only one paper chart, only one film radiograph. As a result if one of the pieces is missing, say the chart is in the back (or just lost in a stack on the doctor’s desk) [...]

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Radio Shack tells it All

June 24, 2010

By comparing the cost (in hours worked) of electronics and technology today compared to the recent past the article linked below makes it very clear that we live in amazing and prosperous times. (Read the article)
Human nature being what it is, it is routine for people to complain about how hard the times are, how [...]

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DE – Expert Tips & Tricks

June 23, 2010

Good online resource.
DE – Expert Tips & Tricks Newsletter Newsletter.

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Practice Activator

June 23, 2010

Another online service. This one grabs your patient data and re-activates non responsive or idle patients.
Of course this or any other online service only works with digital data. That is you need to be charting, and treatment planning with the computer. Not to mention scheduling and re-call. If the computer does not have a treatment plan [...]

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Training, Training, Training II

June 11, 2010

Another observation from the Dentrix Users meeting: Sitting in on a presentation of new features (and there are some pretty great new features) it was obvious from some of the questions that many users had no idea of what their software can do.
I see this often, a dentist or team member says, “If Dentrix could [...]

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Training, Training, Training

June 11, 2010

I am blogging from the Dentrix Business Conference in Vegas. The keynote speaker Jon Gordon quoted this classic which he attributed to Zig Ziglar. When a business owners worries:
“What if I spend all the time and money to train someone and they leave?”
Ziglar’s Reply:
“What if you don’t train them and they stay?”

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Help Going Paperless

June 9, 2010

The conversion process from paper to paperless records requires three different types of help or support.
Consultant: This person helps develop the plan, choose vendors, establish a budget, set up office systems, assign tasks and follow up over time to trouble shoot and assure completion of the project.
Trainer: This person teaches the office staff which icon [...]

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Leap of Vision in Dental Practice Management

June 7, 2010

Often, in the past, many dentists have viewed technology as an endless and unwanted expense that often causes more trouble than it’s worth. However if dentists start looking at their technology as not just a local machine but as a component in the big picture; then computer technology and information integration makes more sense. The computer [...]

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Fired for Porn

June 5, 2010

According to The ePolicy Institute,  30% of bosses terminated employees for web violations in 2007, and 84% cited the viewing, downloading or uploading of pornography and otherwise offensive or inappropriate material as the reason.
Have you upgraded your employee policy manual to address appropriate use of the Internet?
 

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