Category Archives: business

A guest post from Dr. Marcos White

Build your own digital lab in 3 easy steps. For 3 easy reasons: profit, control and personal reward. All these digital innovations in our everyday life. Always promising to make things more efficient. Dentistry has always been an industry of … Continue reading

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Monday

Respond to the emails you received over the weekend Review your calendar for the coming week Refresh the list of your tasks for the week ahead prioritise into A, B and C time activate Consider the resources you will need … Continue reading

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The Commoditisation of Professionalism

A recent Facebook post that shared a recruitment advert from a micro-corporate, looking for young qualified dentists to join as salaried apprentices, generated a significant thread of comments. Those who took the trouble to express their views were equally divided … Continue reading

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Salty dog

  I want you to imagine your dental team attending a practice meeting on business planning. You are interested (after all, you have your skin in the game) and they are reluctantly dragged along. At least it’s a break from … Continue reading

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Relentless

Running your own business. Relentless. That’s why, when young dentists approach me at conferences and courses and ask “I’ve been thinking about opening/buying my own practice – what do you think?” My answer is always – “don’t do it!” Why? … Continue reading

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Are business cards a relic of the past?

Are you old enough to remember the days when we kept a leather folder with transparent pockets to hold all of the same sized business cards that were handed to us by suppliers and patients/clients as well as our advisors? … Continue reading

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Epic

I’m really into the concept of surrounding myself and my clients with EPIC people at the moment. Maybe it’s the dystopian political and footballing landscape to which we are rapidly becoming accustomed (will we regain our national mojo at the … Continue reading

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Clinical Photography – October 2016

Here’s a flyer for a good-looking course from my friends at Longborough Dental in Dorking, Surrey and presented by Dt. Koray Feran. Photocourse

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The Sparkle returns

Around 4 years ago I wrote the following post: The Sparkle Sometimes there are people in your business who have that “sparkle”. The little something extra that makes them shine. I met two of them yesterday. One was an apprentice … Continue reading

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Quintess Denta newsletter

Here’s a copy of the latest newsletter from my friends at Quintess Denta. QD Newsletter Vol 1 Summer 2016  

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