by Karah Karah | Oct 4, 2015 | Bold Biographies
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- Maybe there was a system, or a system that could be created, that had all of those positive attributes of the multiple systems I was using and maybe I could simplify my life.
- If we act as it is impossible to fail, then it shall be. When you imagine that success will be guaranteed then you will simply take action, and when you act on that premise, a whole series of forces begin.
Very few people that experience achievement or success have everything planned out.
- There are a lot of guys retiring, so why don’t I interview them and see what their ideal retirement would be. So I interview dentists primarily in the areas that I thought I wanted to practice, and to my amazement, after I asked each of these dentists twelve questions, thirty-two of the seventy-two offered to sell me their dental practice.
- Realizing that I loved this whole environment of dental transitions, I took over a company called Phasing Out Seminars.
- I visited those nine practices (that had huge overhead and take-home) and put together twenty-four principles that those nine practices were using. A lot of procedures that we teach at Osteoready are procedures that these dentists that had uncommon success in their practices were using.
- Now I don’t teach on transitions anymore, I have my own private practice that we have co-owners or part-owners to.
Nobody likes the dark times, but in my life, they have helped me grow the most.
- Dr. Brady Frank would suggest every dentist look at E Myth by Michael Gerber, John Maxwell’s books on leadership, The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success by Brian Tracy, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, as Dan Kennedy’s books, as well as Multiple Streams of Income by Robert Allen.
If you would like to get in contact with Dr. Brady Frank, the best way to reach him is at his email – [email protected].
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by Karah Karah | Sep 18, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- The principle of scarcity basically says when resources become limited suddenly we want it more, simple as that.
- Believe it or not, limited quantity has more influence and more power than a limited time.
You are more apt to use this principle to get people to take action today.
- In using this principle you have to remember that in dentistry we are taught to sell the benefits of treatment. Well the reality is that people actually care more about what they stand to lose than what they stand to gain.
- The more principles that can be present, the more we can use contrast together just ramps up the whole effect.
- There is a huge opportunity for all of us. In the end of the year, like the end of October, you should have a postcard designed that says use it or lose it… If you haven’t used your dental insurance this year it resets this year.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 18, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- Consistency is an interesting topic because it is the number one thing that I
see that we fail at in dentistry today. It probably is the number one cause for the majority of the problems that happen in our dental office. - When people make a commitment to something, when they take a stand on something, then there is a lot of internal and external pressure on them to stay consistent with the stand they made.
- One of the ways I used that in my case acceptance is this: I have a new patient form that they fill out and I get them to tell me who they are and I make them write it out. I go over that in our first patient interview.
- I put that language in my telephone conversation. Now when my team ends the call, they say, “Will you please call us if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment?” (By responding yes, the patients are making a commitment to the appointment.)
- The more public the knowledge is of the commitments you made, the more powerful the consistency is for you to follow through with what you said you are going to do.
If the text or email alert has their first name or their nickname, in the subject line then they are more likely to show up.
- If you asked the patient to speak back to you their date and time before the call ends, you will decrease no shows another three percent.
- We try to get more automated, we try to do more pre-printed stuff to make it easier, more automated on everybody but the reality is you lose a lot of the influence, power by doing that.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 16, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- In the absence of understanding topics or what to do in a situation, we look to credible authorities to tell us what we should be doing in that situation.
- You wear whatever you want that is comfortable to you, but if you are giving treatment to someone or you are going over finances with somebody, you better put the white coat on.
You will be more successful with the white coat on than without it.
- It’s better to be an authority than in authority.
The best thing you can do is have other people present you as the authority before you get to the patient.
- Put your credentials on the wall…. get the staff credentials on the wall.
- Testimonials and reviews can build you up as the authority. Look at all of these people that come here, this guy must know what he is doing. If you have people that are in the same field, or the same education level, building you up as the authority, that has more influence.
- In the reception area, you want to put up things that will reduce their uncertainty about being in that practice.
- You have to figure out, what are you trying to influence this person, and what uncertainty are you trying to reduce in the place they are at, at that time.
- It takes a lot of time to build trust with people. One of the ways we can short-cut that is by revealing something negative about our case, revealing a weakness before we go into the treatment plan proposal.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 16, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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Just by changing that language slightly, you are going to get more people to pay on time, either today or by that first bill, as a result.
- Google plus reviews are one of the best things you can get right now for free search engine optimization. Your local search engine rankings will skyrocket if you get more google plus reviews.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 14, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- “All things being equal we, like to do business with our friends. All things not being equal, we still like doing business with our friends,” Jeffrey Gitomer.
- We want to do business with people we like. We also like to do business with people like us.
- One of the things you want to do from a dental example is don’t take the similarities we have between them for granted.
We want to do business with people that like us.
- The best dental example I can give for liking is it all matters in that first meeting.
- If you want to get your teams to work together better, to be more of a team, to like each other better, this principle works in that way. Get them to find similarities together and bring them to the surface; that will get them to build their liking and cooperation together.
- You’ve got to bring them together as a team and make it, if you don’t do this, this is going to happen, and they will unite and rally together to overcome that obstacle.
Be sure to check out the next episode about social proof with Dr. Phelps which will air tomorrow.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 14, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- Reciprocity is one of those universal concepts we talk about, which is so powerful because of how societies were built. Someone had to give first, and then guess what? Other people reciprocated and they gave back.
- It is something so ingrained in us that it is part of our nature, we just can’t help it.
The principle states that if somebody gives you a gift of value, then we in turn, there’s a lot of indebtedness that we feel that we have to return the favor.
- Many times when I am talking to doctors and I say gifts versus rewards, they get the two concepts mixed up.
- There are certain things, especially where it is illegal in pretty much every state, to reward our patients for anything.
Gifts have to be unexpected, number one, but they have to be significant or valued to that person.
- The other mistake I see them make, is they usually give that gift at the beginning of the appointment, but then we don’t ask them for something until when? The end of the appointment.
The person that gives has to be the person that asks for something.
- What I do with these gift cards, that’s the gift I give. It’s unexpected and who doesn’t value free food and drinks?
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by Karah Karah | Sep 12, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- While it didn’t make it an original principle, I honestly feel that if he rewrote the book again, it would be the seventh principle of influence because it is so powerful and it is always present in any situation.
You can change the way anyone experiences something by controlling what they experience first.
- The big overriding lesson I want you to understand, if we want more case acceptance using contrast, we have to take them down the stairs. What takes more energy, walking up the stairs or walking down the stairs?
The second rule, which I like to tell people, is that you have to careful when the price is a big deal for someone, is a concern.
- In contrast, people always compare every number you throw at them with something else.
- We must control what the patient is going to compare our fee or service to. Otherwise, if we leave it in their control, they are going to compare it to something that they know in their home life and you are going to get shut down early.
- By making small little changes like that, and changing what they anchor into first will lead more people to say yes to what you are really asking for today.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 11, 2015 | Magnificent Marketing
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- Everybody needs a coach, no matter how successful you are. For me, my best coach has been something called the Strategic Coach.
- From a clinical side, there is very little I don’t do. But now I focus my time, because I have two offices and six doctors that work for me, so the patients I get are bigger cases. So my time in the clinic is more productive.
- When I heard Dr. Cialdini speak for the first time, I had another one of those moments, like holy crap, this is the answer. And I have to go learn the answer, and this guy has it figured out.
- The thing I love about this stuff (Dr. Cialdini’s research) is number one it is based in science.
Dr. Cialdini, what he did, is he figured out these principles which are so suddenly simple but yet so powerful.
- The powerful thing about it is that it works no matter what. The key to remember is that it is a universal concept; these six key principles are present no matter what society you’re from, what culture you grew up in, what part of the world you grew up in, they still apply.
- We’re looking for the first satisfactory clue or indication to make a good decision, and this decision basically has to have two criteria. It’s got to be a good decision, and it has got to be gone, meaning once we make it we don’t have to circle back around and deal with it again.
- We as clinicians and business owners, we have to be very careful about how we use these things. Because we have to protect our credibility and our authority with our patients in our practice.
- We try to recommend you be in all three of these areas, then you know you are safe and totally ethical in whatever it is you are trying to use the principle for: Is it true? Is it natural to the situation? Is it a net win-win for both parties?
- There are seven things we are going to talk about, the first of which isn’t really a principle, but it is a powerful phenomenon called the contrast phenomenon.
- Then we will dive into the six principles of influence:
- reciprocity
- liking
- consensus or social proof
- authority
- consistency
- scarcity.
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by Karah Karah | Sep 4, 2015 | Bold Biographies
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- My office is small, I do small numbers, and I like it that way.
- Just listen. Just listen. Could that apply to dentistry, maybe? Could that apply to being a better husband, better father?
- This particular situation (of stress to do well in dental school) was much of my own making, because I was just not good at coping with it.
Dental school was a formative part of my personality, and I clearly was scarred from it.
- I tell you that I got no perspective, and I am an emotional freak about school and I take everything personally, but I found something that made me feel better, and that was drinking.
- I had heard about opiates (Vicoprofen) giving you a buzz, so I tried some. And I realized right then and there that this was what I was missing.
- My habit took off, that’s how I coped with everything.
- I got married in September 2001, and essentially I don’t remember much of that until January 2002. It was just sort of this blur.
- I had tried so many times to stop myself, and I was intervened by my family. I just gave up right there and then. I couldn’t stop by myself and I was too embarrassed and scared to tell anyone.
I always think that I need an outlet to spend my time on. Podcasting happens to be it right now.
- It’s a struggle to get people who have troubles to even admit that this is a problem. If you are having trouble, or you are worried that you are having problems, you need to talk to someone.
If you would like to talk with Dr. Alan Mead, you can reach him at his email [email protected], even call his cell phone (989) 859-6302. Also, feel free to check out his podcast DentalHacks podcast at dentalhacks.com. Check out his official blog at meadfamilydental.com and the bloggingdentist.com.
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