Design Your Graphics and Your Life with Russ Perry

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 83

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Russ Perry, Founder and CEO of Design Pickle

Key Takeaways:

• Secret to the success of Design Pickle

• • Hire designers full time, treat them well, let them work directly with customers
  • Cultivate relationships
• Key elements of great content
• • Simple is always better
  • Emotional, different, disruptive graphic
  • Do not over communicate
  • Provide visual inspiration about design needs
• Design Advice
• • Deploy, just roll with it
• Warrior Week (Wakeup Warriors)
• • Training program for men
  • Reprogram men: health, wellness, relationships
  • Not a masculine program, but a man program
  • There is equality but there is a difference in man, woman, age
  • Men and women have different challenges when approaching situations
  • Eliminates the sedation that entrepreneurs experience
• Get 25% off your first month of Design Pickle HERE

References:

Russ Perry

In My “Fillings” Challenge

Warrior Week

The Blackout Experience

Tweetables:

Simple is always better. – Russ Perry

If you borrow from one, it’s plagiarism. If you borrow from many, it’s research. – Dr. Craig Spodak

Something is better than nothing. – Russ Perry

Do what you’re good at and hire out the rest. – Russ Perry

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 82

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Reese Harper, CEO DentistAdvisors.com

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Key Takeaways:

• Average retirement age for dentists is 69
• Most dentists retire when they think they can, they don’t wait longer

• When to retire

• • Calculate total net worth, retirement accounts, cash, investment to determine
  • Make 30-35 times what is spent in 1 year at any age younger than 70
  • • Example: $200,000 spent in a year, net worth should be $6-7 million
  • TT Score: Net worth divided by annual spending
  • • Wealth should grow at 3.3% or more at a TT score of 30 to never run out of money and maintain principle
• A lot of people don’t have a clear picture of how their net worth is growing, so they don’t make any changes

• Track personal net worth statement and progress report quarterly
• Spending 30% of your total gross rate is ideal
• • This will allow a 20+% savings rate
  • Average savings % is 21
• Focus on net worth not savings
• People often pursue accumulating assets in the wrong order
• • Focus on practice equity, then liquidity, then qualified assets, then real estate

• More practice equity leads to higher investment returns

References:

Explore the Elements

Tweetables:

If you’re not getting a roadmap, how do you know where the roads are? – Dr. Peter Boulden

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 81

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden

Guest: Jacob Puhl, DEO Dental Group

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Key Takeaways:

• Perspective on dental industry
  • Operationalizing: Consolidation of the highly fragmented dental industry
    • Practices are becoming legitimate well-run businesses
    • Locations are going from a lifestyle business to cost & convenience
    • Consolidation allows the easy button to be hit in the dental industry
  • Create efficiencies in the practice
    • Tendency is to open more locations but the goal is to expand your current location
    • Duplicity of functions under 1 location is key
  • Success Formula
    • Just make what you’re doing is the best that it can be
    • Instill sound principles and think like an executive
      • 1 step at a time vs taking 10 steps
      • Abundantly thinking towards next step
      • Decide what your next best dollar is
      • Open an extra 2 hrs/day, add specialties, reduce cost or raise revenue
    • Nature vs Nurture
      • Entrepreneurship can be learned by dentists
        • The key is to know yourself and know what you’re capable of
        • Have at least one business-minded person on your team
        • Hire for your inadequacies
        • Have a support system with like-minded people
      • DEO
        • Based on Mastermind Formula
        • Focus on 3 things; grow yourself, grow your people, grow your business

References:

Scrum Methodology

DEO 2018 Fall Summit – Should I Build, Sell, or Partner?  Use code BULLETPROOF for $100 Off Registration

Dr. Marc Cooper

Mastering the Business of Practice by Dr. Marc Cooper

Tweetables:

Make what you’re doing the best that it can be. – Dr. Peter Boulden

Don’t shrink your way to greatness. – Dr. Peter Boulden

Grow yourself, grow your people, grow your business. – Jacob Puhl

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Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 80

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Guest: Dr. Cory Glenn, VP of Technology for Blue Sky Bio

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Key Takeaways:

• Quick Genesis: Dr. Cory Glenn
  • Graduated in 2008, started in solo practice right away
  • Treated Leukemia but back pain never got better
  • Sold the practice due to health issues
• Overview of where the digital workflow is and where it’s going
  • Digital isn’t new but it is finally accessible
  • The digital space is not a cost impediment
  • Example: Practice Clear Liner Ortho for under $300 a case with a $5k 3d printer
• Pros and Cons for 3D Printers
  • Moonray
    • Quality printer
    • Plays nice with more materials
    • Simple printer
  • Formlabs
    • Quality printer
    • Closed approach on what materials they will develop profiles for
  • Recommended Digital Printer: Moonray
    • Not because of accuracy but because of materials
    • Speed of print
    • Multi-functional
  • Scanner used to capture information: Shining 3D DSEX Scanner
    • Scans in 5 minutes
  • PVS vs Digital Scanning
    • PVS is preferred, cost is better, builds experience, is less demanding and easier
    • Digital Scanning makes you a better Dentist
  • Discovery of Scanning Impressions
    • Relatively new 2-3 years ago
  • Digitizing workflow and improving accuracy
    • Never send a physical impression to lab
    • Take a physical impression then scan
    • Send STL file to Lab Pronto (Uber for Dentistry)
    • Lab will send back a digital crown made from file
    • Do not need a printer for this process unless you want to print a model to cross-check
  • Recommend Digital Wax ups on everyone because it’s valuable
    • Hire 1 employee that only makes digital wax ups
  • DSD vs Digital Wax Up
    • DSD offers a higher level of service
    • DSD is more expensive
  • Denture Technology
    • One of the most important things a new Dentist should learn
    • Insurance reimbursement for Dentures is very poor yet the lab bill is the highest
    • Dentures are time consuming
    • Digital dentures do not solve these issues
    • Digital dentures are more expensive, does not cut down on time, does not cut down on appointments
    • Blue Sky Plan helps solve these issues with free software, Lab Pronto, printers & scanners
  • Technology is ready to deploy in dentures. A few options include:
    • Print teeth in white and print base in pink then bond together
    • Monolithic denture
    • MFH is a fav
    • Print base, place teeth, then let lab process

References:

Moonray 3D Printer

Formlabs 3D Printer

Shining 3D Scanner

Blue Sky Plan

Lab Pronto

IDT Dental Lab

Darin Throndson

Tweetables:

You can’t unring the bell when you show patients what they can look like. – Dr. Peter Boulden

Cheaper, easier, better is the goal. – Dr. Cory Glenn