your dental plans
Patients failing to attend their appointments can be one of the most frustrating parts of running a dental practice, especially when you may have turned others away due to being fully booked. Not to mention, that unattended appointments can impact your bottom line. Therefore, finding a way to reduce the number of Failed to Attends… Read More
There’s an often-quoted story where a CEO asks, ‘What if we train our staff and they leave?’, and the CFO replies, ‘What if we don’t and they stay?’… It’s a scenario that many people involved with running a business may feel familiar with. Training is an investment of time and money, and it can run… Read More
Many dental practices would admit that their marketing can often fall down among their list of priorities. There are a couple of understandable reasons why this is the case, such as most practices not having a team member specifically focused on marketing, and the general busyness of practice life. Budget is also often seen as… Read More
Louise Beddow is the Sales Manager at DPAS, heading up the team of Business Development Consultants. With her experience both at DPAS over the past nine years, and prior to this as a manger of UK sales teams in the industrial and commercial advertising sector, she has a wealth of skills in team-management. Here she… Read More
Deborah Bell examines the benefits of steady cash flow and how to achieve it in your dental practice… Cash flow may not be the reason you wanted to become a dentist, or what you dreamed about while studying, but it is a good barometer of your business’ strength and performance. It is key to ensuring… Read More
What does a typical day managing a dental practice look like? Well the first thing to say really, is that no two days are the same – ‘curve balls’ constantly and consistently come along, smashing your well-laid plans to pieces. Be prepared for that and learn to roll with the punches, getting stressed or angry… Read More
