The 5 Winning Principles for Dental Practice Owners

Imagine you’re at a crossroads in your dental practice. How do you move from just being good to truly exceptional? Let’s unlock the secrets of thriving in the competitive world of dentistry.

Ever pondered what ‘Winning’ truly means in the realm of dental practice ownership? In this episode, inspired by Tim Grover’s book ‘Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness,’ Dr. Dave delves into the art of triumph in your business.

  • Redefining Success: Explore how expanding your vision of victory can transform your practice’s trajectory.
  • Team and Wealth Dynamics: Unearth the crucial role of team unity and smart financial strategies in driving your practice to victory.
  • The Only True Opponent: Learn why facing and overcoming your inner challenges is the ultimate battle for your practice’s triumph.

Don’t just ponder; act. Listen now and embark on a journey to elevate your dental practice to a championship season.

Take the next step towards transforming your dental practice. Take Dr. Dave’s Dentists Ascend Quiz to discover the hidden potential in your business.

Key Quotes:

  • “Winning is not just about clinical excellence. It’s about crafting a vision, building an outstanding team, ensuring profitability, and mastering yourself.”
  • “Value creation is the ultimate goal. It means going beyond routine procedures to deliver an exceptional experience for each patient.”
  • “The owner sets the rules. These rules extend far beyond clinical procedures, encompassing the practice’s values, culture, and patient experience standards.”
  • “Team excellence drives victory. Your team’s collective excellence is key to the success of your practice.”
  • “The only real opponent is you. Dental practice owners are on a perpetual journey of self-mastery, seeking improvement both professionally and personally.”

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The Hospitality Mentality: How to Attract More and Better Patients

Are you a dental practice owner striving to stand out in a saturated market? What if the secret to success lies not only in your clinical skills but in something more, something often overlooked in healthcare? Imagine transforming your practice by embracing a hospitality mentality, where patient care goes beyond procedures, fostering genuine connections and unforgettable experiences.

In this episode, Dr. Dave reveals how embracing the hospitality industry’s standards can benefit you and your practice.

Discover the Power of a Hospitality Mentality:

  • Elevate the patient experience.
  • Attract a flood of high-quality dental patients.
  • Uncover Healthcare Challenges: The current standards often fall woefully short.
  • The 10 Tenets of a Hospitality Mentality: These are the keys to 3x your word-of-mouth referrals

Dental practice owners: tune in now and embark on the path toward a healthier, more prosperous practice.

Take the next step towards transforming your dental practice. Take Dr. Dave’s Dentists Ascend Quiz to discover the hidden potential in your business.

Key Quotes:

  • “Black and white means you’re doing your job with competence and efficiency. Color means you make people feel great about the job you’re doing for them.”
  • “Getting the right plate to the right person, at the right table, is service. But genuinely engaging with the person you’re serving, so you can make an authentic connection? That’s hospitality.”
  • “Your dental practice can adopt this hospitality mentality to create an inviting environment that not only retains existing patients but also attracts new high-quality ones.”
  • “In the realm of a typical healthcare and typical customer service within healthcare, numerous challenges undermine the patient experience.”
  • “By adopting this [hospitality] mindset, you and your team can elevate the patient experience, attract more and better patients, and ultimately drive improvements in our healthcare industry.”

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SEO Marketing Strategies for Dentists with Mike Pedersen

SEO Marketing Strategies for Dentists with Mike PedersenThis week on the Relentless Dentist Podcast, Mike Pedersen from TheDentalBoost.com will help you improve your SEO marketing strategies. He is on the forefront of digital marketing for the dental industry. If you are looking for ways to connect with your ideal client, SEO can help bring that target client to your front door.

He’s one of the most knowledgeable people I know regarding online marketing for dentists. You may have heard of the term SEO, but not know enough to be dangerous. Dentists may be gun shy about working with online marketing agencies because of lackluster results in the past. Mike can revitalize your website search traffic and improve your marketing efforts.

As dentists, we want to occupy the first page of a Google search for keyword phrases central to our practice, specialty, and location. Your appointments fill up when clients searching for the dental services you provide land on your website. Since every dentist has a website these days, SEO marketing techniques can help you stand out from the crowd. Mike will help you put on your geek hat for a few minutes a month and dig into just how important good SEO strategies are for your business.

 

Key Quotes:

  • SEO is being found when someone types in a specific search term for dentistry in Google.
  • Google is trying to consume more of their first page with ads.
  • The maps listing is only found for certain phrases.
  • Over 50% of people know that the Google ads are first and they skip them and they go right to that first organic result.
  • The searcher is using search engines more specifically. They’re getting smarter.
  • When somebody types in “cost of”, we called them a qualified searcher.
  • Long-tail is where you’re getting 5 – 7 keywords in a search phrase.
  • You should have individual content for each one of your service pages (interior pages).
  • It’s giving Google what they want so they reward us with the ranking.
  • Every dental website page should have a minimum of 2-3 calls to action on each page.
  • Voice search is becoming more and more popular.

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Establishing the Link Between Oral and Physical Health with Dr. Tom Larkin and Dr. Brad Bale

Establishing the Link Between Oral and Physical Health - RD PodcastThis week on the Relentless Dentist, I share a fascinating conversation with Dr. Tom Larkin and Dr. Brad Bale from the Voices of Dentistry 2017 conference. This dynamic duo is leading the effort to highlight the link between oral health and arterial disease – the root cause of many forms of physical illness in this country.

Tom and Brad are collaborating on an initiative to raise awareness about the link between periodontal disease and arterial wellness. The Bale-Doneen method is revolutionizing the treatment of ailments and putting an emphasis on oral wellness. We talk about the research underway which is helping to establish the relationship between heart failure and poor oral health.

On this episode, we also discuss the programs that Brad and Tom have created to train dentists and their staff to focus on a patient’s holistic oral well-being. They’re working to help open the minds of both dentists and patients to help everyone understand the link between oral diseases and a patient’s long-term, overall physical health.

Key Quotes:

  • Inflammation is what drives arterial disease.
  • You really need to maintain the health of your arteries to maintain an excellent quality of life.
  • Understand that our work maintaining a healthy mouth is actually saving lives, not just making people’s smiles look great.
  • The beauty of the Bale-Doneen method is that it’s an exact diagnostic protocol.
  • There are three areas of inflammation that the dentist can address.
  • Our method does actually halt and regress disease. That’s been shown.
  • Most dentists aren’t anchored in insurance.

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