by [email protected] | Apr 24, 2024 | Enjoying Cash Flow
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Feeling stuck in a rut with your dental practice? Discover strategies to inject excitement and purpose back into your daily routine.
Join Dr. Dave as he draws on insights from renowned entrepreneur Paul Graham’s essay, ‘How to Do What You Love.’ Learn how reigniting passion can dramatically improve your dental office.
This episode offers practical advice on revitalizing your practice, enhancing team dynamics, improving patient care, and boosting profitability—all through creativity and joy.
We’ll also examine the cultural reasons behind our dread of work and offer actionable steps to overcome this negative mindset.
- Rethink Work Culture: How can addressing our beliefs about work lead to better financial and personal outcomes?
- Enhance Team Dynamics: Is a fun and engaging work environment the key to boosting productivity?
- Superior Patient Care: Discover how a happier team can provide unparalleled care and generate more word-of-mouth referrals.
Don’t resign yourself to lackluster workdays. Listen now and start revitalizing your practice into a more enjoyable and profitable endeavor!
Are you ready to upgrade your practice? Need help implementing the Dentists Ascend Method? Don’t miss Dr. Dave’s presentation: ‘How to Build a Referral-Centric, High-Profit Dental Practice Without the Team Drama — Even if You’re Currently Overwhelmed.‘ This resource is tailored to help you enhance your operations, boost patient referrals, and increase profits while creating a self-managing team. Perfect for any dental practice owner looking to win in today’s challenging environment. Check it out now!
Key Quotes:
- “In the world of dentistry, where the precision of your practice intertwines with the satisfaction of your patients, loving what you do is not just a matter of personal fulfillment. It’s a real cornerstone of long-term success and financial prosperity.”
- “A practice led by passion rather than obligation is more likely to attract and retain both patients and the most talented team, fostering a thriving business environment.”
- “Encouraging your team to discover joy in their work, whether through continuous education, patient interactions, or community involvement, can redefine their professional lives and lift the entire practice to a new level.”
- “It’s essential for dental practice owners to look beyond the financial gains and the societal recognition that we receive when we’re defining our professional path.”
- “This mantra is vital for dental practice owners who must continually evolve to stay relevant in a rapidly changing field. Keep moving. Don’t get complacent.”
Featured on the Show:
- People: Paul Graham, is an English-born computer scientist, entrepreneur, and essayist. He is known for his work on the Lisp programming language and for co-founding Y Combinator, the influential startup accelerator that launched companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit.
- People: David Senra, hosts The Founders Podcast, dissecting the lives of influential entrepreneurs to share actionable lessons. He emphasizes the value of learning from history’s business leaders, innovators, and strategists.
- Essay: How To Do What You Love, Paul Graham
- Blog: The Key to Motivating Your Dental Employees, Relentless Dentist Podcast
- I appreciate your feedback. Let me know what you learned and loved here: [email protected].
by Karah Karah | Mar 1, 2017 | Bold Biographies, Magnificent Marketing, Prescriptions for your Practice
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This week, I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with fellow podcaster Dr. Peter Boulden: dentist, marketer, and businessman extraordinaire. Peter is the brains behind the Bulletproof Dental Practice podcast and the owner of several dental practices.
Peter is here to talk about why he loves the business side of dentistry and what attracted him to the profession in the first place. He’s also one of the best advisors on dental marketing and systems out there, so be sure to tune in for that advice!
We chat about Peter’s first job out of dental school and why he offered to work three months for free – seriously! – just to be at a practice he admired. We then cover entrepreneurship and the ups and downs of owning your own practices. Peter shares some of the quotes and books that motivate him now and in hard times, and why he thinks perfectionism is a detrimental concept. He’s also chock-full of actionable marketing tips you won’t want to miss!
Key Quotes:
- I knew that my chances of being successful were more enhanced by coming back to the place where people knew and loved me.
- As a new grad, you have the tools but you are by no means ready to roll.
- People told me we were gonna fail, which is kind of a blessing because it fuels you every morning.
- I like the multiple ownership model because it keeps me busy, and I get to flex my muscles with marketing and systems and all that stuff.
- I’m a big fan of reverse engineering – visualizing what I want and then filling in the steps going backwards.
- I don’t strive for perfection; I strive for progress and value.
- People have depth in so many areas that I don’t and I just want to pull all the pearls I can from their brain.
- No one has a vested interest to grow your practice the way you’re going to.
- People will pay for value – and the same thing can transcend for dentistry.
- The only sure thing you have in this world is you. You are your best investment. So don’t doubt for a second that you can do it.
Featured on the Show:
- Dr. Peter Boulden: [email protected] | (678) 887-1005
- Bulletproof Dental Practice
- Atlanta Dental Spa
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt - Tim Ferriss
- Dr. Rich Creasman
- David Hornbrook
- Dr. Debra Gray King
- Dr. Trent Smallwood
- Dr. Mark Costes on Bulletproof Dental Practice: Expanding Your Practice Through Acquisitions
- Dr. Steve Rasner on RDP: Dr. Steven Rasner’s Bold Biography
- Dr. Steve Rasner on BDP: How to Have A Thriving FFS Dental Practice
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
- The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies by Michael Gerber and Chet Holmes
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss
by Karah Karah | Nov 19, 2013 | Bold Biographies
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Quotes & Notes:
- Mantra – “Never quit!”
- “He was a bootstrap, built from the ground up entrepreneur…I learned a lot of lessons in business from my grandfather and my father.”
- “Every January 1st I sit down – after celebrating with the family – and I make a list of everyone that’s been influential in my life and I write them a thank you letter.”
- “Growing it from no patients in 2006 to over 7000 active patients today in four locations and five doctors was really an opportunity to express what I learned in marketing.”
- “If you’re not letting your patients know what you do, really I think you’re doing your business a disservice.”
- “We were going to be serious about letting people know who we are and what we stood for.”
- “…and my staff one day walked out at lunch, granted it was only three people but all three walked out and they never came back.”
- [In October] “We’re matching every patient we start, we’re going to treat a kid for free through Smiles Change Lives.”
- Book Recommendation – The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
- “You will become what you think of most.”
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by Karah Karah | Oct 22, 2013 | Magnificent Marketing
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Quotes & Notes:
- “The first thing you want to do is make sure you at least have some basic type of website set up.”
- “Go out and start putting some content together.”
- “Another highly searched term is emergency dentistry.”
- “Be very active in areas where housewives are active, like Facebook and Pinterest.”
- “As long as you’re posting once, twice, three times a day, which isn’t hard to do, you’re gonna start interaction.”
- “The very top searches (on the web search page)…those are all done by Google Plus Local.”
- “Bright Local…you need to have your site in all the free directories.”
- “…and you can do that on Twitter just by looking for a hashtag.”
- “Twitter is a great networking tool.”
- “Form some type of collaboration out there with other business owners in the local area that have the same type of customer.”
- “Even if you are not comfortable networking, you gotta do it.”
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