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May 31, 2018

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 66

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Jesse Green, Dentist, Author, Founder of Savvy Dentist Podcast and Practice Max

 

Watch full video of the interview by clicking here!

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Adding more new patients to your practice will highlight the problems in your office.
  • Success is all about making sure there’s net growth. You can’t just work to get new patients without making sure you’re taking care of your existing ones.
  • Make sure you have leadership in charge, not just in place.
  • Following systems allows for consistency but you can’t overdo systems, there should be some amount of flexibility.
  • Create frameworks for conversations with patients, instead of scripts.
  • The best strategy for retention is relationships. “Don’t be a dickhead.”
  • Having regular communication with your team and understanding what they want from you is the best way to retain your team members.
  • Make sure all decisions have a triple win: your business wins, the patient wins, and the team member wins.
  • If you can have alignment about the goal for the team then you’re moving in the right direction.
  • Every time you have staff turnover you’ll have a dip in productivity.
  • There’s a sweet spot for profitability. Bigger is not always better. Pay more attention to profitability than size.
  • In Australia, 4-5 chairs in a practice is a sweet spot. It’s small enough to manage, you can make it very profitable, and you can replicate it more easily.
  • You have to understand your positioning in the marketplace; whether you’re volume, boutique, etc.
  • Convenience is critical.
  • There are three ways to increase revenue:
    • See more patients (marketing, how do you get more out of your chair, etc.)
    • See those patients more frequently
    • Increase the average dollar spend per patient
  • Small changes in those categories compound across your practice.
  • Marketing Three R’s:
    • Recruit new patients
    • Retain existing patients
    • Reactivate people who might have fallen off the bandwagon
  • The things that move the needle most are “critical drivers.” What activities are your team doing that produce the best results? Focus on those activities.
    • Ask for referrals
    • Ask for Google reviews
    • Multiply the booking
    • Focus on presenting x number of treatments per day, from there you’ll have the conversions you’re looking for
    • Morning huddles, productive staff meetings
  • Proposed treatment vs. enrolled treatment (acceptance rate) – shoot for 80-85%.
    • Depending on your preferences, that acceptance rate can be closer to 66%.
  • Net profit: including salary of principal, your net profit should be around 20%.
  • Everything is about the cash flow.

References:

Retention: How to Plug the #1 Profit Leak in Your Dental Practice by Dr. Jesse Green

May 24, 2018

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 65

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Scott Leune, Founder & CEO of Breakaway Practice & Dental Whale

 

Watch full video of the interview by clicking here!

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Most DSO’s don’t allow for the dentist to work with them to continue growing their business.
  • Breakaway Practice provides DSO infrastructure to provide partnership and value for practice owners.
  • Breakaway Practice wants to take the best from corporate infrastructure has today and make it available to a private dentist through a partnership.
  • Traditional DSO’s are a great benefit for new grads who want guaranteed salary with a lot of CE and ability to move around the country.
  • Practice sale strategy all depends on the specific wants and needs of the selling dentist.
  • Most Breakaway dentists are entrepreneurs who want multiple locations.
  • 7 out of 8 practices should not be purchased by someone who wants to own multiple locations.
  • Invest in training, coaching, and learning if you’re interested in owning multiple locations. It’s a lot of hard work and isn’t for most people.
  • To get a really high EBITDA multiple you must own lots of locations with a ton of infrastructure and a solid path to continue rapid growth.
  • Leune has found there’s a tipping point at 11 days being booked out, profits start going down and no-shows start going up.
  • Once you’re at that tipping point you have a problem and must fix whatever is holding back the schedule.
  • January-March are the best months of the year for acquiring new patients, cost-wise. August is also good. Worst times for marketing are December, April-May, and September.
  • Dentists need to strive for both clinical AND business excellency.
  • Specialists are in the hardest position right now, as GP’s are taking over more and more of their business.
  • If you’re doing what you love and making a good amount of money, perhaps there’s no reason to change or do anything different. Not everyone has to be the CEO.
  • If you do what’s right for the patient, create a really good value-based practice, and have a good following there’s plenty of room for you to be successful in the future.
  • Figure out the “why” first so you don’t end up going down the wrong path. Once you’re clear in your decision making, decisions aren’t that hard.

 

Tweetables:

Innovation comes from pain, and not giving up. – Dr. Scott Leune

It’s so much easier to make a decision when there’s purpose behind it. – Dr. Scott Leune

May 10, 2018

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 63

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Mark Costes, Founder of Dental Success Institute

 

Key Takeaways:

  • There’s no one right model for setting up a dental practice, it must be tailored to the owner’s goals and the specific geographic area.
  • Boulden predicts the rise of the “Super GP,” a dentist who has skills and training to do more services than they have traditionally. Less will be referred out.
  • Technology is allowing a wider range of dentists to practice a wider range of skills.
  • “The grass is greener” is always psychology.
  • Most dentists don’t have a business. If you’re not making more than 30% as dentist owner then it’s a glorified job.
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