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COVID-19 Webinar –Solutions for your Periodontist Practice
What are you confronting at this time? Are you closing your office? How are you handling staff? What are you saying to...
IDS Recap for January 4th, 2019
Lee decided to change things up this week and shoot a quick video to provide a recap of some of the content from this...
What To Do About Patients Bringing Animals Into Your Office?
I don't know about you, but we've seen an increase in the number of service dogs coming into our office. While many...
Become THE DENTAL AUTHORITY In Your Marketplace
On the last webinar, our guest Chestin Salisbury, talked about the importance of establishing your position as THE...
Tips on Phone Skills
Tips on Phone Skills A common concern among us is that referrals are dropping. The question is how can we...
How do you get the “Big Case” into your office?
How do you get the "Big Case" into your office? Have you capitulated to the corporate dental implant groups, to...
Who is your Most Important Staff Member?
Your Phone Staff: The Most Important Position in your Office? 18The new patient calling to schedule—If you...
Video
Video Video has become an essential for marketing. I know we talk a lot about the written word, but in fact the...
Statistics 2 – Source of New Patients
Statistics 2 – Source of New Patients Let’s talk more about statistics. What else do we follow? Well if you’re...
The Key Element to a Successful Periodontal Practice
Click Here for a Two Minute Video Differentiate Yourself I want to first thank the many periodontists who...
Statistics 1 – Income, Production, New Patients
I am going to tell you something that you are going to find to be boring. It is statistics. Statistics are so...
When Something Goes Wrong
What happens when things go wrong? Yeah, I know, we hope and anticipate that everything will go right. But what...
The Power of Thought
One may think of me as a marketer, as a business man, perhaps even a rogue. If so, please read on, because none of...
The Road to a Self-Sustaining Practice
The Twelve Attributes of the Director of Dentistry You can create a Director of Dentistry practice slowly and...
Patients Want to Smile and Chew
So what is our orientation? Our orientation is as dentists, not as periodontists. I know we do perio, but I want to...
IDS Monthly Tip: Email Addresses
Image enhancement is a big part of what we do in public relations. One of the simplest ways of enhancing one’s...
IDS Monthly Tip: Blood Enhancing Products
So what can you do to differentiate your practice? We talk about that a lot. One is to make sure that you are...
IDS Weekly Tip: Root Canals
Well it happened. It happened even in our office. A prospective patient called our office and one of our newer...
IDS Weekly Tip: Handoff Communication
We talk a lot about transitions. “Transitions” have different meanings depending upon what we apply it to. How...
Do You Want New Tools to Help your Referral Sources?
Public Relations and Marketing Tools for You and Your Referral Sources Your Program Are you looking for a way of...
IDS Weekly Tip: Mobile Websites
Let’s talk about websites. Originally websites were designed for desktop computers and now it has developed...
IDS Weekly Tip: Patient Referrals
We are looking for sources of referrals other than general dentists. What better sources of referral could...
IDS Weekly Tip: Personal Documentation
There are times you have to let go of a staff member. We just let go of one recently. What do you need to do...
IDS Weekly Tip: Personal Note
You know everything comes out of our word processors now and everybody is therefore used to getting typewritten...
Happy Independence Day
Independence Day 2017 I hope that this Independence Day finds you in good stead, celebrating the bounties that...
IDS Weekly Tip: Weave a Tapestry
What are we selling? Yes, we are all good periodontists of course. But there is something about the “experience.” That...
Grow your perio practice. Act Now!
Dear Colleagues! Timing is everything. Sometimes you wait. But really, where does procrastination get you?...
IDS Weekly Tip: Mile IQ
You know I don’t recommend apps very often. In fact I may never have recommended an app to you, but I am going...
Your Opportunity to Grow Your Periodontal Practice This Year!
Dear Colleagues! You can improve your practice quickly and painlessly. Imagine a full schedule with patients...
IDS Weekly Tip: Go Back a Step
There are times when things just don’t go right, correct? And you look at it and sometimes you try to want to control...