The goal of this website is to help you with your practice. To do this, we offer free written material including several articles, guidelines and booklets that you can use to improve and expand your practice. You can also sign up for our free “Tips and Ideas” weekly articles. Under Paid Material, you can learn about our book, “Create the Practice of Your Dreams.” Our Free Services include a Practice Management Analysis and a telephone...

What is Your Strategy? How are you going to attract the new patients that you need? How are you going to handle all the changes coming up in the industry? How are you going to reach your financial goals? If you never have a good strategy, based on proven ideas, you will probably not reach your goals. The economy, the insurance plans, the government, your referral sources, your staff and your patients control your practice more than you control your practice. Your...

1. Do not use highly-paid people for low-pay jobs. Do not have your associates, hygienists, nurses or office managers do data entry work, schedule patient appointments or do clean up. Having them temporary fill in to reduce confusion can be very helpful, but do not let it become routine. 2. Add an extra treatment room or exam room. The extra space helps with emergencies, reduces stress and adds income. To help you decide, calculate the cost to rent and equip the...

You work hard to promote your practice and generate new-patient calls. To then fail to schedule these patients, because your staff are not handling incoming calls in a professional and effective manner, is an unnecessary waste. The way your staff handles callers forms the first impression of your practice. This first impression is often permanent and affects your image, reputation and profit. So it must be the best impression you can provide. The best way to...

“Seven Steps to Becoming a Happier, Wealthier Practice Owner” is a free 14-page booklet that describes the seven steps you, and everyone in the world, must take to achieve wealth and happiness. None of the seven steps involve mechanical changes, such as buying a piece of equipment or implementing a type of procedure. The seven steps are personal. Included in the booklet: How to take better control of yourself and your practice How the right goals will...

As you probably know, Steve Jobs built the most valuable company in the world and revolutionized the computer and entertainment industries. He was the Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of our times. In the April 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review, biographer Walter Isaacson outlines Steve Jobs’ leadership approaches. You can improve your practice with these four ideas from the article. Focus When Jobs took back control of Apple, it was...

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