Archive for October, 2006

Maximize Your Mailing List

What is the most important asset in your practice?
If your answer was anything but patients, you are dead wrong.
You see, everything else in your practice, the x-ray, the chair, the staff, and yes, even that DDS or DMD degree on the wall is useless without patients.
Over the life of your practice, you have developed a [...]

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Why Your Patients Leave

I just finished an article in the latest issue of Dental Economics regarding building trust in your patients.
The article cited a survey of 1000 consumers in which 25% of the respondents said they stopped seeing a physician due to communication problems.
You say, “But I talk to my patients all the time, my communication with them [...]

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Remind Your Patients What Time Of Year It Is!

Yesterday, I was browsing through the local paper looking at all the advertisements from the national retailers. These are your normal weekly ads from Lowes, Target, and Sears showcasing all of their fall special prices.
Everything was targeted at fall savings. Reminding me to buy the gutter cleaners, lawn rakes, and Halloween decorations that were all [...]

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Follow Up Systems

I receive a lot of questions asking me what kind of follow up systems that we recommend here at Jerry Jones Direct. This month I figured I would cover a couple of ways to follow up with those patients that scheduled, as well as those new callers that may not have scheduled.
First things first…You cannot [...]

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