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The Delivering WOW Dental Podcast

Founder of Dental Boss Academy and the Dental Boss Platinum Coaching program, Dr. Anissa Holmes helps practices grow by focusing on leadership, effective case presentation, systems optimization, and implementing high return marketing. Dr. Holmes is also dentistry's leading digital marketing expert, having trained over 5000 practices to leverage social media to effectively grow their practices. Dr. Holmes has been named one of Ultradent's Female Icons of Dentistry, Dental Product Report's TOP 25 Women in Dentistry, and has been featured in top publications such as Dental Economics, Dentistry IQ, Dental Products Report, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Dr. Holmes is also the author of the bestselling book, Delivering WOW: How Dentists Can Build a Fascinating Brand and Achieve More While Working Less. In addition to coaching and being an International Dental Speaker, Dr. Holmes has been a featured speaker at Social Media Marketing World and Funnel Hacking Live, and her Delivering WOW Dental Podcast has listeners in over 125 countries.
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Nov 2, 2020

Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW dental podcast. Today we're talking all about what to say to your dental patients when they say that the cost is too high. Now I don't know about you, but inside of my practice, sometimes we have people that come in that are saying, "Wow, that much for an implant?" Or, "Wow, I didn't know that Invisalign would cost so much." And so I wanted to share with you, because I'm sure I am not the only one that has patients saying that inside of our practices. And so one thing that I want you to really think about before we start thinking about even verbal skills, is really understanding the actual cost, the actual fee, your profit margin, what it actually takes for you to be able to run your practice and to be able to deliver services.

One thing that's really interesting is over COVID, with our mastermind, we started to have a lot of marketing intensives, and practice growth intensives, and business intensives, and numbers intensives. And so one of the intensives that we did was looking at making sure that every owner knew what their profit margins were. So profit margins are the actual cost to be able to do a particular service, and that is taking into account the supply costs to be able to do that particular service. That is taking into account our fixed expenses and our variable expenses per hour, to be able to do that. And what's really interesting is as we had the workshop, one of the first things I said was how many of you know how much it actually costs to run your practice per hour? And what I mean by that is looking at what are your costs per hour for salaries? What is your cost per hour, including your rent or your mortgage, your costs per hour, including your utilities, looking at your marketing cost, dividing that into the number of hours you work.

Because a lot of times what happens is that when we are not certain and sure of our actual expenses, when we're not certain of what it actually costs to do even a crown, taking into consideration that we have the fee for our materials, that we have the fee for our lab, and not just that breaking down our adhesive or our etchant or our tips or our burrs. Once we are not really understanding what our costs are, then sometimes we get into this whole thing in our mind of, well, maybe our fee is too high, or maybe I should try to reduce it.

One thing that worked really well for me in my practice that really gave me the confidence, and one thing that I teach our clients, is to look at your profit margins, because when you know that, for example, it's going to cost you $140, for example, to do a filling in your practice, then you know that if a patient says, "Wow, $160 for a filling," if that's what your fee is, hypothetically, that you know that you're not going to feel bad about it, because you know what your actual costs are.

It was really interesting, as we started looking at profit margins years and years and years ago, what we discovered is that, wow, it does cost a lot of money for us to be able to deliver a crown. And so when a patient came and said, "Oh my gosh, doc, a thousand dollars," for example, to do a crown, we're able to confidently say, "Absolutely." We know our cost. We know our expenses. And we know that the fee that we have set is extremely fair, based on our expenses. And so because of that confidence, now we had no problem quoting our fees.

And it's really interesting, is a lot of times you start getting into understanding case presentation and verbal skills. And for me, this is a foundational piece that's really important for you to know. And not only for you to know, but for your team, because as we know, many times, they're like, "Wow, the doctor's getting $1,000 for this procedure or $2,000 or $3,000." And without knowing the actual expenses, even when you start getting into full mouth reconstruction, full mouth rehab cases, once you're using a high quality lab, high quality adhesives, and you're taking the time to spend with the patient, which is looking at what are your expenses for rent for that time, salaries for that time, it really does add up. And so once you and your team understand what these numbers are, it's going to go a really long way. And so if you haven't done that exercise, looking at your profitability, looking at what you are actually making on profit margins, I highly recommend getting into our accelerator program so that we can teach you and your team very quickly how to be able to identify this.

Another thing that you really want to consider is how are you presenting your treatment plans? What are you doing to set the stage so that patients understand that there's going to be an investment that they will be making? And what's been very exciting is seeing our clients use our frameworks, where now they're coming in and they're saying, "What are your goals for your teeth, your mouth, your smile?" And the patients letting them know, "I want my teeth to be strong. I want a beautiful smile. I want to be healthy." They're letting you know why they're there, what they want, what they desire. And from there, asking a question of, you know, what else? And they're saying, "Well, I really don't like that there's this brown spot here on my filling. It's driving me crazy." Or, "When I'm eating, food is getting stuck," and we say, "Well, what else?" And they're telling us all of their issues. "Well, you know what? I also have a toothache here." Or, "I don't like the look of that dark line."

And from there, we're able to find out, emotionally, what are the triggers for the patients? What are their desires? And from there, we ask questions like, "What would it mean for you if you got this fixed?" And so now they're saying, "I'm healthier. I have more confidence. I don't have to be annoyed and frustrated with this food that's getting stuck." And from there, you can now offer your suggestions, offer your solutions, because you know exactly what they want, what they need, what they desire, and they understand what will happen for their life, or for them, once they go ahead and make that investment.

And so from there, you can now get their permission. "Is it okay if I take some time and share with you how we can help you and how we've helped other patients just like you?" And of course the answer's going to be yes. And at the end of it, you say, "Now, this is going to be an investment. The great thing is that once you have your smile makeover done, once you have the food that is going, this is what your life is going to look like. You're no longer going to have to have food getting stuck. You're no longer going to have to cover your mouth or have to worry, or even have to worry about your denture getting loose." And so from there, the question is, this is what you have. This is what you want. Do you want me to help you with it?

And when they say yes, then now you present your treatment plan and say, "This is certainly going to be an investment in yourself, and you're worth it. The great thing is that we have ways to be able to help you fit dentistry into your budget, and we're going to work with you and create a customized plan so that you can fit this dentistry that you so deserve and you so want into your budget."

All right, guys. So I wanted to take some time to go through this, because, again, a lot of the challenges that we have is that we don't know our fees. We're not confident in our fees. And so that, to me, would be the first step, investing in understanding where you are and then taking it a step further and investing in verbal skills training and case presentation training. Which, of course, if you're looking for help, we're here to help you with that, as well, within our accelerator program.

All right, guys. So hopefully this helps you. I love talking about case presentation, and how do we get our teams aligned, and how do we serve more people? And that's what we're here for. We're here to help people to get dentistry done, to get healthier, to give them their confidence and to help them live their best life. All right, guys, that's it. Take care. See you guys next time, and enjoy the rest of your week.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Oct 26, 2020

Well, hello, everyone. And welcome to another episode of the Delivering Wow Dental Podcast. Today, we're talking all about training a dental team member who's not good with patients. So question for you. Have you ever had a team member that was afraid to talk to patients or was not outgoing or really building connections with your patients? I can tell you, I certainly have had that throughout the years. And so I wanted to share some insight and tips to be able to help you navigate this if you find that you have introverted team members or team members who are just not making that connection. So, in particular, what I'd love to discuss today is really looking at behavioral styles, and how can we assess all of our team members to be able to understand their behavioral styles? And what's really interesting is, as you start to get deeper into understanding and learning how this works, what you will discover is that the same things that apply with our team members in terms of behavioral styles also applies to our patients and why they make the decisions that they make.

It also applies to our family and our friends. And so, what we're talking about today is really looking at different behavioral styles. And what's really interesting is a lot of times we may look at a team member and saying, "Wow, they're not making the connection with our patients," and we start to really investigate why this is happening. And some of it is really just inherent. They may be an introvert, but digging deeper into behavioral styles, it's really interesting because we start to look that there are actually four main types. So you may have heard of DISC assessments. And with this, there are four main types. There is the D, which is the dominant personality style. They tend to be the leaders. They tend to be people who are okay with taking risks. There's also another behavioral style, which is the I. The I is going to be the person who's very outgoing. They are the life of the party.

Really interesting with the I, what we tend to see is sometimes they are not very good with follow through. Not always, but that's something that we typically see with the Is. And also going back to the D, they definitely are that dominant personality, and as a result of it, sometimes they can come off as being pushy. So as we start looking at the S style, the S style are people who are very, very connected to other people. They're very sensitive. They have a lot of strong feelings of connection with people. And the flip side of the Ss is sometimes they are taken advantage of, because they're so kind, they're so loving. And then you have the C, and the C behavioral style is someone who is very detail-oriented. These are people that typically are going to be accountants. They're the type of people that may be surgeons. And the flip side of the Cs is sometimes they are very, very serious, and sometimes they are really slow as well to make decisions.

And so, as we start looking at behavioral styles and the roles of our team members and the roles that they occupy in our practice, it's really important that we really understand where they are in terms of a natural behavioral style. And what's really interesting is sometimes when we get into a work environment, we have an adaptive style. But what I've discovered over the years is, I remember in the early days wanting to have, for example, social media done in my practice. And I gave that task to someone who had more of an S style, so there were very calm natured, definitely an introvert, and they really struggled to be able to ask people for video testimonials. And we switched it up and we gave it to a team member that had more of the I style, very outgoing and very excitable and loved talking to people. And all of a sudden, it was really, really easy for her to make that connection and to get those video testimonials.

And so as we again start looking at building out our team, one thing that I always coach on to my clients is to think about what you have a lot of, and also to look at gaps in terms of behavioral styles. And so if you have a team that is full of I, you're going to have a lot of fun in your practice. There's going to be a lot of extroverts. And something to think about and consider is, again, that flip side of it, where if you're having so much fun and it's the life at a party, we need somebody to be serious and get into the weeds and get things done and make sure that everyone is being held accountable. And so, if you have a team that has an imbalance, thinking about your next hire and which role or behavioral style you're going to put in. The same thing, if you have a team that everyone is very, very sweet, very, very emotionally connected to patients, and they're very, very soft-spoken, and you don't have Ds on your team, strong leaders, then you can have weaknesses there as well.

And so it's really, really interesting how this whole thing works. There are lots of different assessments. We have a particular one that we administer within our Accelerator Program, as well as for our coaching clients in our Mastermind, and it's been really, really insightful to get feedback from doctors saying, "Oh, now I understand why my hygienist, who's very outgoing, struggles with writing chart notes." And so, as team members start to understand their behavioral style and team members understand each other better, then now what will happen is that, as you are assigning tasks to be done, again, maybe it is building a new marketing campaign, maybe it's making a decision to start doing Loom videos to go ahead and document the processes that are happening in your practice, maybe you're making checklists of what you do daily, weekly, and monthly, that particular task would be really easy, creating a checklist, for someone who's a C. You give that to a different team member, they may struggle with it. And so, as we start looking at getting into peak performance and high performance and scalability of our practices, we want to know, what are the strengths?

What are our weaknesses? We want to understand who's good at what. And the other thing that we can start looking at when we really start diving into this and really looking at how can we improve the performance of our teams is also looking at, what is it that each individual team member loves to do and is good at? What is it that they like to do? And they're good at? And then below the line were the things that they don't like to do and they're not good at. And so, as we start looking at that, it's going to be very, very nice to see the results that starts to happen in your practice once you start to assign tasks and really put people in their area of strength and put people in the area of their natural high behavioral style. And once you start doing that, now you're going to have a team that's really working in synergy and working together, again, all for the same goal, to be able to grow the practice very quickly.

So hopefully this helps you and serves you. I absolutely love digging into the psychology of what happens to make practices grow, the psychology of what makes patients make a decision to come into our practices. It's pretty exciting. And so if you haven't yet done behavioral styles, I highly recommend that you do the assessment within your practice. If you're wanting help with it, of course, this is something that we help practices with all the time within our programs. And so if it's something that you're interested in, feel free to reach out to me on Facebook or to have a look at our web site at deliveringwow.com. All right, guys. So that's pretty much it for today. Hopefully, this serves you and we look forward to chatting with you again, really, really soon.

Thanks again for listening to today's episode. Now, the next step is to join our free Facebook group, which is the Delivering Wow Hangout. Inside of that group, you will be able to mastermind and share with dentists and team members. And to join us, go to dentalbossmovement.com.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering Wow Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Oct 19, 2020

Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am super excited today. Today, we're going to be talking about three tips to grow your dental practice quickly. And what's going to be really exciting about today's episode is that everything that I'm sharing is actually part of a process that you could use to be able to ... Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of The Delivering WOW Podcast. Super excited to be here with all of you once again. So, today I am pretty excited to announce that we have actually done some pretty significant changes with our Facebook group. So as many of you guys may or may not know, back in April, I made a decision to, I guess it's now temporarily close our Facebook group, our Delivering WOW hangout group. And I did it for a few reasons. Number one, I wanted to really focus on my coaching clients.

As many of us know, we had lots of transition, lots of changes, lots of overwhelm, lots of stress with COVID-19. And so, during that time, I really wanted to just serve my coaching clients really, really hard. We winded up doing multiple, multiple workshops. There were several weeks where we were on Zoom calls for two or three hours, just using that gift of time to build systems and to really hone in on training their team and just looking at how can we use that time and that opportunity. I also really wanted to focus on looking at what was next in terms of our training programs for the dental profession. And so really honing in on really creating a virtual platform where there would be CE, not just for practice management, but for clinical. And so we started honing in and we invested tens of thousands of dollars into our practice accelerator program, which is now allowing us to be able to train doctors and teams and have live coaching calls and help with marketing.

So it's been pretty exciting seeing all of the work that we put in and seeing the results of our clients. And so now, guess what? We're back. I've decided to go ahead and open back up our Delivering WOW Facebook group, which is now opened and rebranded as our Dental Boss Movement, super excited. We actually created a doctor only Facebook group back in April, which is now rebranded as the Dental Boss Movement, Doctor Only Group. So super excited to have you guys back in the groups and we're going to be doing some pretty exciting things. I am, once a week in our Dental Boss Movement Group, doing updates for our community, sharing a lesson. And also, of course, making any announcements that would be helpful for you and your team. So if you've not yet joined us there, check us out, dentalbossmovement.com.

This is a great group for you as well as for your teams to be able to get insight to grow your practice. And to be honest with you, also to connect with like-minded dentists. To be able to post your questions, get feedback, collaborate with others, share your wins, share your struggles and super excited to have that group back open. So today, I am actually going to be talking about three tips to grow your practice quickly. And this is going to be pretty exciting. Because when many people come to me, they have a few concerns when they come to us and they're looking for coaching. Number one, people are saying, you know what? I want a stronger team. I want accountability in my practice. People are telling me, I want to have a way to make sure that things are not slipping through the cracks.

And what I also of course hear is, I want to make sure that we are growing, that we have more profits, that we're not just wasting our time going day by day, that we're serving our patient's hard and that we're doing more cases to be able to change more lives. And so what I'm going to share today is actually going to be a really simple way to be able to grow your practice quickly using actually one tool. And really, really excited to share this with you. So one of the things that we implement with our coaching clients in our mastermind, as well as for the members of our practice accelerator program, which of

Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am super excited today. Today, we're going to be talking about three tips to grow your dental practice quickly. And what's going to be really exciting about today's episode is that everything that I'm sharing is actually part of a process that you could use to be able to ... Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of The Delivering WOW Podcast. Super excited to be here with all of you once again. So, today I am pretty excited to announce that we have actually done some pretty significant changes with our Facebook group. So as many of you guys may or may not know, back in April, I made a decision to, I guess it's now temporarily close our Facebook group, our Delivering WOW hangout group. And I did it for a few reasons. Number one, I wanted to really focus on my coaching clients.

As many of us know, we had lots of transition, lots of changes, lots of overwhelm, lots of stress with COVID-19. And so, during that time, I really wanted to just serve my coaching clients really, really hard. We winded up doing multiple, multiple workshops. There were several weeks where we were on Zoom calls for two or three hours, just using that gift of time to build systems and to really hone in on training their team and just looking at how can we use that time and that opportunity. I also really wanted to focus on looking at what was next in terms of our training programs for the dental profession. And so really honing in on really creating a virtual platform where there would be CE, not just for practice management, but for clinical. And so we started honing in and we invested tens of thousands of dollars into our practice accelerator program, which is now allowing us to be able to train doctors and teams and have live coaching calls and help with marketing.

So it's been pretty exciting seeing all of the work that we put in and seeing the results of our clients. And so now, guess what? We're back. I've decided to go ahead and open back up our Delivering WOW Facebook group, which is now opened and rebranded as our Dental Boss Movement, super excited. We actually created a doctor only Facebook group back in April, which is now rebranded as the Dental Boss Movement, Doctor Only Group. So super excited to have you guys back in the groups and we're going to be doing some pretty exciting things. I am, once a week in our Dental Boss Movement Group, doing updates for our community, sharing a lesson. And also, of course, making any announcements that would be helpful for you and your team. So if you've not yet joined us there, check us out, dentalbossmovement.com.

This is a great group for you as well as for your teams to be able to get insight to grow your practice. And to be honest with you, also to connect with like-minded dentists. To be able to post your questions, get feedback, collaborate with others, share your wins, share your struggles and super excited to have that group back open. So today, I am actually going to be talking about three tips to grow your practice quickly. And this is going to be pretty exciting. Because when many people come to me, they have a few concerns when they come to us and they're looking for coaching. Number one, people are saying, you know what? I want a stronger team. I want accountability in my practice. People are telling me, I want to have a way to make sure that things are not slipping through the cracks.

And what I also of course hear is, I want to make sure that we are growing, that we have more profits, that we're not just wasting our time going day by day, that we're serving our patient's hard, and that we're doing more cases to be able to change more lives. And so what I'm going to share today is actually going to be a really simple way to be able to grow your practice quickly using actually one tool. And really, really excited to share this with you. So one of the things that we implement with our coaching clients in our mastermind, as well as for the members of our practice accelerator program, which of course is our on-demand program. With live calls is having what we call a level 10 meeting. Now, some of you may have read the book, Traction, where you learned about level 10 meetings.

And so within our delivering wall programs, we use a lot of the principles and teach and help practices to implement a lot of processes and frameworks from EOS. And the level 10 meeting is one of them. And what we've done is we've really implemented and customized it for dentistry. And so, what that looks like is, every single week, having a meeting with your team where you can, number one, check-in and see, what are they sharing as their personal and professional best that they've had for the last week? Allowing you to be able to review and look at your numbers and see, what did you do really well to celebrate, again, success? And to look at opportunities for growth that week. To be able to look at all of the past projects that were important, maybe it is creating a new training manual, maybe it is starting a new marketing project, maybe it's committing to doing some research to purchase a new piece of equipment or taking a CE course.

It's also allowing you to really have an opportunity to hone in on cracks and discuss things that need to be discussed in your practice. Maybe you have broken appointments. And so, I absolutely love practices having this meeting. This is something that we've been doing in my practice for years, as well as something that we help practices implement, again, within our accelerator program and within our coaching program, our mastermind. And so, I want to share some of these tips with you and hone in on a few particular areas to go ahead and give you three things that you can look at specifically to be able to grow your practice. And number one is, having that opportunity to come together every week as a team. And the first thing that we do in our level 10 meeting is, we have where our team comes in and they share their personal and professional best.

And what's really interesting is that we have team members, everybody has their tasks that we're working on, but we're all people. And so you may have a team member that may have marital issues, you may have a team member that has a sick child, you may have a team member that is sick that week. And so, having an opportunity for your team to come in and say, this is my personal best. I was able to spend time and take a weekend away and spend time with my mom who's getting older. Or, you know what? This week I didn't have a personal best, I'm having some struggles. And they're able to share that. Then now the team can understand where they are and they can support them. And what's awesome as well is it's personal and professional best.

So the professional best they may say, I'm really excited, maybe it's a team member, maybe it's a dental assistant. Last week there was a patient that came in and she was very apprehensive about getting that bridge done. She had some dental work done in the past and it didn't work out really well. And I was able to talk to her and share with her that we are going to take time and we're going to listen. And we went ahead and started that treatment. And I'm really proud of how I contributed to that. And so that's a great way for the doctor to be able to really see all of the great things that our team members are doing. A lot of times, we just don't. We're stuck in a bubble or we're so focused and zoned in on treating the patients that we don't realize all of the extra things that our teams are doing.

And so this is a great thing that you can do is to have your team to share their personal and their professional best. And again, personal best might be like, I'm so excited. I was able to put time into myself and I spent the weekend reading a book or doing some self-care. Really, really powerful stuff. So that's the first tip. Because a lot of times we look at how can we build a strong team, and a lot of times it's really just having that simple time every single week to just connect with them and to learn a little bit more about them. And when we do, we give each other grace and we give each other support. And it's so interesting, I hear my coaching clients a lot of times, I say all the time, you might've heard me say as well, if we want to pick up a table, a big, heavy dining room table, it's really hard for me to do it by myself.

Even if I get my office manager or a team lead to help me, it's a little bit easier. But if we have the entire team picking up a little corner of the table, we're able to pick it up very quickly and walk across the room. And it's the same thing. It's these foundational core principles of just coming together, connecting, seeing what we're doing well, and not just the team, but the doctor. I'm really proud this week. I wasn't sure, I was very nervous. I know we've started doing and there's a line and I wasn't sure, but you know what? I went ahead and I did it. I did my first case and it went really well. It's great because your team hears you being vulnerable, they hear you being proud and even sharing, I've been working so hard, so hard, so hard, and I decided to take the day off yesterday and just spend time playing board games with my family.

And again, they see you as a real person. So that's my first tip. To be able to build a strong team and strong culture is implementing ... not only just implementing this weekly level 10 meeting, but having that time at the beginning of the meeting to just do that connection. And it takes literally five minutes, where everybody just shares that. That's the first thing. The second thing to grow your practice quickly is, you're definitely going to want to have a way to look at results and performance from the previous week. And by the way, these level 10 meetings, I have them in my practice on a Tuesday morning. That's typically what I recommend, first thing before you start seeing patients right after huddle. And that way you have Monday to go ahead and have your team to go in and to pull the metrics.

So that would be the doctor production per visit, hygiene production per visit, production collection, new patient numbers. How many patients last week left without an appointment? How many patients were rescheduled, that were unscheduled? What's your AR looking like from last week? So there are certain things that we recommend that you look at in your practice and have a team member to be able to put them into the scorecards that we've custom created for our accelerators and for our coaching clients. And within that, now on a Tuesday, you can quickly look and say, oh my gosh, these metrics turned green, we hit our numbers. And the ones that you hit, you can celebrate. And the ones that you didn't, then now further along in the meeting, you will have that time to discuss them. But this is really important, looking at your numbers week to week.

And once you have a system in place where you have a team member that can take five minutes and put the numbers in, then now you can have a way to be able to discuss, and again, celebrate and also analyze. And analyzation is never about, oh my gosh, you didn't do your job, or we let this patient slip through the cracks. It's about looking at, how can we come together and discuss? And so if the doctor production per visit last week was not as high as we want it to, where our goal was set, then we can say, okay, what can we implement this week? Can we go ahead and pull a list of unscheduled patients? And if you have a way to be able to send them an online email with a scheduling link, then now you can send a blast to a few hundred patients and give them another opportunity to schedule.

Or now you can look at same day rollovers, or now you can, perhaps if you feel that you need new patients, if you're looking at that metric, you can go in, do a Facebook live to talk Thursday video that we're talking about a specific procedure. And so you're able to change the dynamic of the month before the month actually ends, and change performance based on what you're seeing. If you see that your unscheduled patients rescheduled number is not where you want, you can focus on that this week. Or if your hygiene patients did not book their next visit and you had 87% last week now you know. And so you can say, hey guys, what happened last week that we failed to have the communication, that we failed to take the time to get the patient rescheduled. And now again, you can change the dynamics.

So that's another thing that we look at, is really looking at our weekly scorecard and utilizing it within a weekly meeting where that meeting time actually holds us accountable to looking at the numbers and not just having, for example, a team member go in and write down the numbers, but nobody's analyzing them. And to be honest, as we all know, there are lots of things that we implement. We have our teams doing things, and we never look at it, we don't follow up on them. And that's a big, big mistake. And so putting it into a system like this is going to be very helpful for you. The other thing that I recommend to be able to grow your practice quickly, and this is as it relates, again, to the level 10, is to go ahead and make sure that you are having that discussion time within your level 10 meetings.

So this is a time where you're bringing together any issues that you have. Maybe, again, you had broken appointments, lots of broken appointments from last week. Maybe your hygiene production per visit number is just not growing, you're staying flat. And so you can have that discussion about, what can we do to be able to increase hygiene production per visit? What's the issues? Maybe the team needs to have training, case presentation training. Maybe you need to look at, what are some additional services that you can implement in your practice? Maybe it's going ahead and getting certified and trained in Perio protect. Maybe it is looking at creating a reactivation project for unscheduled scaling and root planing patients. Maybe it is looking at your schedule and actually putting in block scheduling for scaling and root planing or a Perio Protect to, again, hold you accountable to having the conversations, to doing the marketing, to doing really good follow-up for patients who have treatment planned.

So having that time weekly, where you can, what we call IDS, identify any issues in your practice, discuss them and solve them is going to be extremely, extremely powerful. And what happens is really important when you're having these meetings, is don't just meet for meeting’s sake. At the end of the meeting, what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to look at, what are your next steps? Who's going to own the next steps and by when? And so if it's a situation where, for example, with the hygiene production per visit, you're saying, I want to be able to implement Perio protect. Then the question is, okay, what's the next steps? Do we need to contact Perio Protect so that we can become certified? Do we need to look into learning more about how this procedure will help our patients? Do we need to go ahead and do our reactivation project?

If so, who's going to own contacting those patients? Who's going to own setting up some emails to go out to our existing patients who have unscheduled scaling and root planing? So that's the next steps, is looking at, who's going to own it? In addition to who's going to own it, by when will it be done? And so now the next week, when you're having your next level 10 meeting, you can come back and you can discuss, was it done? Are there any questions about the task? Are there any issues? And you can continue that discussion until the task is done. And what's also really cool as well is utilizing a tool such as Asana. And this is something that we use in my practice, as well as what we train on in our accelerator program, is using Asana.

And with Asana, now you can have your level 10 task within the Asana platform. And now you can communicate on the different projects between any team members that are associated with that task. And you can ask any questions, you can upload files, get feedback. Pretty, pretty cool, what's available once you start looking at expanding your mind and thinking a little bit differently about creating systems and growing your practice. All right. So hopefully, this served you and helped you. I absolutely love connecting with all of you on this podcast, and I look forward to connecting with you guys inside of our Facebook group, dentalbossmovement.com. All right, guys, that's it for now, take care, and we'll see you next week.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of The Delivering WOW Podcast, with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Oct 5, 2020

Hi everyone. And welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I have recently had a bunch of people reaching out to me through Facebook Messenger, asking me about treatment plan acceptance, and how can they increase their revenue for their practice? How can they have their team get more confidence? And so I decided to actually take today to talk exactly about that. All right?

So we're talking about treatment plan acceptance, and how do we increase that? And there's actually three steps or three ways that you can increase your treatment plan acceptance. And the first way is for those who have reached out is actually the first step, is number one, understanding that there is no ceiling on how many cases that you can close with high value cases, setting your goals really big is really, really powerful. I've had people reach out to me as well and I said, "Okay, let me share some simple strategies with you to be able to grow your practice and significantly scale and get more revenue." And they come to me and they say, "Well, it's not possible. We are full. We are doing the best that we can. We're really busy. And I don't see that we can actually grow anymore."

And so the first thing that we want to look at in terms of increasing our case acceptance, our treatment plan acceptance is to really not limit our mindset. And what's been really interesting as I've worked with practices who've grown even over a million dollars in one year, the biggest shift for many of them is really shifting their belief of what was possible in their practice. And so that's one thing that I want you to really think about.

And I remember when I had my first coach years ago and she was sitting down and we were going through and we were creating budgeting and expenses sheets, and we were looking at reverse engineering how the practice would grow. And I set some goals and she said, "Okay, great. This is really good. And this is very safe. But what I want you to understand is that you can actually double or triple that goal and you can achieve it once you reverse engineer how." And so I was like, "Okay." We did it. And that's exactly what happened. And I've seen the same thing happened with all of the practices that have really adopted this philosophy that we've worked with. And so I say, "Let me see your goal. Okay, go ahead and double it, go ahead and triple it." And then they are able to now reverse engineer and design a plan. So, that's the first thing that I want you to think about. Okay?

The second thing that I want you to think about is that there are simple processes for you in your team to be able to increase case acceptance, right? And so, as we start looking at case acceptance, a lot of times people are like, "Well, if we educate people more or we show value, then now, patients will say yes." One thing that I want us to always understand is that when we are learning systems and processes and we're learning them in frameworks, all of a sudden, now we can repeat the process very simply over and over and over again. And pretty much guarantee that we're going to have the same result every time. And it's very similar to a principal. And what is a principal if you look at the principle of gravity? If we were to drop a pen, it would always go to the ground, right? Because, that is a principle.

Well, when we learn in frameworks and that could be frameworks for how do we hire effectively, that could be frameworks for accountability, that could be frameworks for, again, in this case, treatment acceptance. Once we're learning in frameworks, it's going to be really easy for your team, even if they've never had any experience before in verbal skills or sales, or even working in a dental practice. Once they're implementing the frameworks, they too will be able to get results. And so it's really important that as you start learning, and as you start looking at how you're going to grow your practice, that you start thinking about systems and frameworks for you to actually get results.

And really interestingly, I have recently had a lot of the members of our mastermind come to me and

they're like, "Oh my gosh, our practice is growing really fast." And what they're excited about is that they no longer have to do everything in the business. And I said, "The framework for success of where I want you to get to is number one, I want you to learn. And then from there, I want you to create a really good system or process. And then what we're going to do is we are now going to actually go ahead and create an automation of that process. And then now you're going to delegate that process." And it could be something like, how do we onboard teams?

"And we are going to create a process of when we onboard, we're going to do step one, step two, step three. And then you create a system. Maybe you're recording videos, you're putting those videos perhaps in Asana so that now, new hires can go into Asana. They can go ahead and watch those videos. So you're now automating that process. And then how do you scale is that as you continue to have more team members come on, there'll be able to watch that training. There will be accountability, and you won't have to micromanage them because you've already been very clear." Right? So, that's an example of that.

And so as we start looking at, again, treatment plan acceptance, there are definitely some frameworks that you could use. And so that now goes into step three, how can we increase treatment acceptance, right? And for me a framework that's very, very powerful and obviously it takes time to really understand this framework and to implement the framework, but it's very, very simple. And how it goes is really number one, with step one is always asking a question. And that question is something that we would say, for example, "There's something that we can do to prevent cavities. Would you like to learn more?" Or, "There's something that we can do if a patient has bleeding gums or is having issues with their gums starting to recede. There's something that we can do to prevent the bleeding and stop the gums from getting long. Would you like to learn more?" Or, "There's something that we can do to prevent that dark line at the gum. Would you like to learn more?" Right?

So asking a question is now going to have a patient say, "Yes, I'd love to learn more." Right? Because, you pointed out something that could be a potential issue based on what you're observing. Right? From there, you're now saying something like, "Great, it's called a..." And then now you insert in the name of the service. "Great, it's called a sealant. How it works is that we paint it on the top of the tooth. And once that's done food, sugar and bacteria cannot get through. What it is, it's called an all-porcelain crown. And so how it works is we're able to make a crown that looks exactly how your tooth looks. There's no metal. So what it is, it is called Perio Protect. And how it works is you wear simple trays, similar to a bleaching tray. And once you're wearing it, the bleeding will reduce. And you will also significantly decrease your chances of needing to have gum surgery." Right? So you're explaining in very simple terms, what it is.

From there, you'll now put out any resistances, right? "So here's the thing. Insurance doesn't always cover it." Right? If that's a resistance, a lot of times teams are afraid to talk about high value services or services that are not even high value, even sealants or fluoride or any of those services that really could help the patient. They are afraid to have those conversations, because they are afraid that there are going to be objection block, people are going to tell them no. Why? Because that's happened in the past, right? "So here's the thing. Insurance doesn't always cover it, but why our patients choose to do it anyway is because..." Right?

So now you're pulling the objection back, right? You're putting out the objection and then you're pulling it back, right? "Why our patients choose to do it anyway..." And then now you can go ahead and insert in the reasons why people choose to do it anyway, right? "It's typically a peace of mind benefit. They will have peace of mind because..." Or, "The reason why our patients choose to do it anyway," you go ahead and put out a time benefit. "It doesn't take a lot of time." Right? "It will save you time." And also money.  

"And it will save you money because now you won't have to worry about the cost of doing a filling," or, "Now, you won't have to worry about the cost of having to do deep cleanings over and over and over again. It will reduce your risk." Right? Or, "It will reduce your costs, because now you won't have to look at the costs of having surgery."

So typically, going ahead and putting out the objections, pulling them back, and then giving those benefits are really huge. And then from there, you'll always want to look at giving a call to action, right? "So we do have time today to go ahead and..." And whatever you have time to do, "Get started with your sealants, go ahead and take the scan so that we can get your trays made for you for Perio Protect." Right? Whatever that first step is, going ahead and giving that call to action is going to be very important and powerful. And so that's what we're looking at, right? To be able to let people know what the next steps are.

Now, my question, I always ask when I teach this framework and there are actually a few different case acceptance frameworks that we share, this particular one would be for a patient after you've presented treatment. There are also pre frameworks that you can learn for you and your team that would help you as you have a new patient to really find out what their issue is, why they're there, what's their real issue. No, no, what is their real issue, right? Which we're not going to speak about necessarily today on this podcast, but what's really cool and a lot of times when I teach this framework, I'll ask teams when we're having our training sessions, I'll say, "Now, do you feel like I'm selling you anything? Do you feel like I'm selling you anything?" And they'll say, "No." And they said, "It sounds like you're just letting me know about something that can help me. And you are giving me more information and letting me know how it will help me." And I say, "Exactly." Right?

A great framework, it's very simple for our teams to implement. It's very simple for us to implement. And it works, right? And the reason why this is so powerful is because the team members and the doctors are now feeling that they are giving patients solutions, right? And when that happens, confidence develops. And when confidence develops then now, you're having these conversations with patients and now you're having your patients actually get started on the treatment that will help them. Right? To help them to get confidence in their smile, to help them to get healthier, to help them to be able to prevent decay and damage to their teeth, which obviously once a cavity starts, it never goes back to its natural state, right?

And so, as doctors, as teams, as healthcare providers, this is something that's really powerful. And if you've not yet started to implement frameworks into your path of learning in your practice, this is definitely something that you're going to want to invest in because it's extremely powerful. It's going to help you to be able to help so many more people, help you to be able to give your team confidence, to be able to give yourself confidence, and allow you to be able to significantly increase your revenue for your practice. And as I always say, never feel embarrassed or ashamed about wanting to have a successful business. That's why we've gone into business, to be successful.

And what success looks like for us is being able to be able to have freedom, right? If things are needing to be replaced, equipment needs to be replaced in the practice, we have the freedom to do so, freedom to be able to invest in our education and our knowledge, to be able to keep growing. Freedom to be able to now have the finances, to be able to invest in a better team. Freedom to be able to now have time as we start to understand delegation skills and how can we delegate and elevate with our team to be able to have time freedom, to be able to spend with our families. And that financial freedom to guarantee our future success with our retirement, and being able to give and make an impact inside of our committees. Really powerful stuff, guys. So again, I really look forward to helping you to continue to increase your treatment plan. Acceptance is really, really powerful once you start to implement these frameworks.

There's no limit on how much you can grow.

All right, guys, thank you so much for listening to another episode. I really hope that this was helpful for you. If you've not yet done so, you want to make sure that you're joining us inside of our free Facebook group, our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, where we have dentists coming together for support and action-taking tips and motivation. And if you'd love to learn more about how we can help you, feel free to reach out to us deliveringwowplatinum.com. We have live one-on-one coaching that we do with practices helping you and your team understand how do you grow and scale your practices faster. And we also have on-demand training programs for you as well. All right, guys, that's pretty much it. Thank you so much for listening. Until next time, take care and keep Delivering WOW.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Sep 28, 2020

Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. Today, we're talking about how to use Google My Business in your dental plan and I'm just so excited to be sharing this information. Oftentimes you hear me talking about social media marketing, you hear me talking about making relationships with other businesses in your community so that you can build those partnerships. But what we're talking about today is something that I haven't actually talked about before. And it really is how can you utilize Google My Business, which is a free tool, to be able to bring more exposure to your practice. And again, so excited about this, because this will be once implemented correctly, transformational for your practice.

Now you might be asking me, well, what is Google My Business? Or I've already got a Google My Business listing. And so Google My Business, if you're going to Google, Google My Business, you'll see where you can actually go in and you can customize your listing for your practice. So you can put in your practice hours. You can go ahead and put in a link. So if people are wanting an appointment, you can go ahead and put in an online scheduling link. You can go ahead and verify your location so that a map shows up when people are searching for your practice. But what many people do not really understand with it is that you have these other functions and options. And one is to be able to go ahead and upload photos or upload videos directly to Google My Business. Now you might be asking me, well, what's the big deal about that?

Well, number one, Google is of course the number one search engine and what many people are focused on and you'll hear out there is like, we want to get more Google reviews. And so there's a lot of emphasis on deciding, and I hear it in Facebook groups. Like what companies should you use to help you get more Google reviews? Or should we just take the review link that Google gives us and we just put it into our emails that we send to our patients? Like what's the steps and process? But imagine in addition to that, you have the ability to have real live video testimonials that you've gotten for patients or real video testimonials that you've gotten of patients actually sharing their experience. And so it's not just a review, it's actually a video. Well, you can actually do that with Google My Business.

Now as you're going to Google My Business, you may notice that there are some businesses that have videos that are showing up. So you go into a main Google feed and you will type in a name of a business, and in the middle section you'll see videos. So sometimes you'll see Facebook videos, sometimes you will see YouTube videos. What's interesting about these videos is that you cannot actually pay Google to put those there. Those videos are put there organically by you showing up and being consistent over time with doing videos, again, either on your social media profiles or on YouTube. And so this is something that you do have to work for, but what's really cool about Google My Business is that you have the ability on the right hand side below where your practice map will be, will be to actually go ahead and upload and give Google information to show.

So imagine for example, that you are doing a video testimony in your practice, you've given a great experience at the end of the visit. You ask your patient, how was your experience today? And they say awesome. And we say, you know what? We would love if you'd be willing to share a little video testimonial or share a video, or allow us to take a video with you sharing your experience today. There are a lot of people that are afraid to go to the dentist and it just might change someone's life. Now, as you're getting that video, typically it's not a Facebook Live. It's just a recorded video. A lot of times what we're thinking is, okay, well, what are we going to do with that video? And then you are posting it on your Facebook page, you can create an ad with it, get a lot of exposure.

But one thing that you can also do in addition to that is you can take that video and you can actually

directly upload it to Google My Business. And what's really cool is that again, when people are searching for your practice, they see your listing, now they'll see your video. So what's also very awesome as well is that you have the ability to put in a button. And so after you upload the video, you can put in a button which would be a learn more button or schedule an appointment button. And this is where you can put in links for people to go ahead and schedule online. You can send people to your funnel.

So maybe you have a patient talking about dental implants, or maybe you've done a tooth talk Thursday video, where you're doing an educational video about dental implants, again, repurposing that video. If you are uploading it to Facebook, you can use that download feature by using those three dots, you can download the video, you can reuse that video, uploading it directly to Google. And with that again, and utilizing the buttons feature, you have the ability for people to either call your practice directly, and most times they are searching on mobile. So they click that button, immediately calls from their phone. You can put in a learn more button. You can put in a button, for example, if you're talking about implants or Invisalign, if you're using funnels. That would be a great application for you to go ahead and put in your link where people can learn more about the service. They can perhaps see if they're a candidate, take a quick quiz and you can go ahead and capture their email to continue to send them information about your practice.

So again, so excited to share this information with you about Google My Business. It is a free way to be able to get exposure for your practice and to be able to let people learn more about you and allow you to, again, continue to become that authority in your practice. What's really cool, as well is that not many people know about this. And so when people are searching and they're going to other practices pages, they may have a listing there. Your listing will now have those videos. Also, as you're posting to social media, different things that you might be doing in your community, maybe you're doing a charity drive where you are collecting clothes for a local charity, go ahead and repost that on Google as well. And what it does, again, even if people are not participating, it continues to really let people know what you're known for. And so when they're searching, they have that ability to get a sense of how you serve the community, your culture, and again, having those video testimonials, getting those from your patients and reposting and repurposing them on Google is really huge.

Another little tip, a side tip, and we're not specifically talking about this today is actually repurposing your videos that you're doing for Facebook to YouTube as well. And so YouTube is a huge search engine. And so taking those videos and again, uploading them, looking at creating a YouTube channel, it doesn't take very long to go ahead and get those videos uploaded again. Whole nother strategy for YouTube, which we'll talk about in the future episode of how do you get people to see them, the keywords, et cetera. But again, today, we're talking all about Google My Business. And so if you've not yet done so, go ahead and head over, take a look at your Google My Business listing, and start posting your photos and your videos.

All right. So hopefully this was a really helpful tip for all of you. We love serving. And for me, my big calling and purpose is to help dentists understand how to be able to grow your practices faster so that you have time and financial freedom. And so that you are in a position to make a bigger impact on your team's lives, your community, your family, and your world. All right, thank you so much for listening. If you've yet already joined us inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, we have dentists who are coming together every single week for action taking, learning, and support. And we'd love to have you inside of our free community. To join us all you have to do is go to dentalbossmovement.com. All right, guys, take care. We will chat soon. And until next time keep delivering Wow.

If you're ready to take your practice to the next level, I invite you to join me inside of our next marketing and practice growth challenge. Inside of this challenge, you're going to create a full 12 month marketing

lan, launch a marketing campaign that's going to allow you to be able to connect with your community as well as other local businesses. And I'm also going to show you how to use our whiteboard strategy that we've used with practices to be able to actually double their production, focusing on doing more high value services. Again, I look forward to working with you as well as your team inside of our marketing and practice growth challenge. And to get started all you have to do is go to deliveringwowchallenge.com.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

Sep 21, 2020

Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am so excited to be here. So today, I'm going to talk about something that is pretty real and honest, and it is about being an introverted dentist and how can we get more dental patients if we are an introverted dentist. So question for you, are you an introverted dentist? And the reason why I ask is that I, interestingly, am. So many people look at me and they're like, "Oh, Anissa, you're so extroverted. Like you get out there, and you're doing Facebook Lives, and I see you everywhere, and you're on social media, and you're having summits and doing all of this stuff." And people actually assume that I am an extrovert.

But what's really interesting is that if you go back to the first episode of this podcast, what you will hear, and it's almost embarrassing, is that it actually sounded like I was reading. And so my office manager, at the time, comes to me after my first episode, and she says, "Dr. Holmes, I listened to your podcast, and it sounds like you're reading." And I was like, "You know what? I'm not going to delete it. It's okay." And what I said to her is perhaps the turning point, and will be the turning point for you, and it's been for so many people that have been through our challenges where I'm challenging people to step out of their comfort zone and do a Facebook Live. What I said to her is that, "You know what? There's something that I have inside of me that I have to give. I have knowledge of how to help people. And what's really important for me is that they find me, that they hear my voice so that I can help them."

And so I continued to do my podcast. And as Facebook Live came out, I started to do Facebook Lives. And now it's really simple for me to do that. And I'm still an introvert, by the way. But what I recognize is that I have a gift and people need to hear my message. You're on this podcast right now. And if I had let being an introvert stop me from getting on the microphone and delivering the message, we may not be obviously where we are today.

So I wanted to really look at that for you and really ask you that question. And the question is do you have a gift? Have you taken time to learn how to place implants, or how to help so many people, and actually save lives, and help marriages as well by understanding how to help patients who have sleep apnea? Have you made a time investment in understanding how to do beautiful cosmetic cases? Because so many times we have introverted dentists that love to learn. You're at conferences, you're taking the courses. Your hands are amazing. You can do beautiful dentistry. And what happens is that no one knows who we are.

And so if you know that you have a message and a gift, it's almost your moral obligation to step out of your comfort zone, to do something that you've never done before, and to go ahead and put yourself out there, because that's the only way people will know about us. One of the fastest ways that I have found, at least to have people to start overcoming their shyness and their introvertedness and putting on an extroverted face, is by focusing on doing Facebook Lives. And what's been so amazing over the years, working with practices, and over the last year or so, working with practices in our marketing and practice growth challenges, I will from day one say, "You know what? I want you to come on. Do a Facebook Live. And guess what? It's okay if you do your Facebook Live and you stumble. It's okay if you stutter over your words. It's okay if the video is sideways."

It's okay, because if it's not perfect, you're learning. And when we learn, we figure out what we need to improve on and we keep getting better. And so even in that group, what I'll say is, "If it's sideways, that's okay. Get in there. We'll show you how to fix it." And guess what happens? Even now, I've been doing, I can't tell you, hundreds of Facebook Lives, and there are times when I get on and I start fumbling over my words. And what do I do? I just delete it. I delete it and I start over. And guess what? You can continue and not start over. You just keep going. And guess what? The next day is another day.

And what's been really interesting is seeing practices and owners and team members to start utilizing, using Facebook Live. And what happens is that now they get more clear with their message. It makes people think more about what is it that you want to say. And interestingly, a lot of the same things that we're doing on Facebook Live we're actually taking into the [inaudible 00:05:59]. And so when we're doing a Facebook Live about let me talk about three different ways to replace missing teeth, or here's why you actually need to go to the dentist. The difference between doing it at home and doing it in the office. Or anything that you're doing. Getting out of your comfort zone, doing the gift card giveaway to go ahead and get gift cards from other businesses. Man, that's really hard for people. A lot of times people are saying, "I'm very nervous to go and ask another business for a gift card."

And all of a sudden, I'm challenging you, yes, I am, to go ahead and do it anyway. And now you step out of your comfort zone and you realize, "Wow, that actually wasn't that hard. I asked someone and they said, 'Yeah, I would love to do that.'" And guess what happens? Now you get more confident and you can do it again and again and again, and build more relationships and market your practice.

And so again, today, I really wanted to talk about this because I see so many dentists who are introverted, including myself. But if your business matters to you, if your practice matters to you, if your patients matter to you, and people in the community that need to find you, then it's really urgent and important that you step out of your comfort zone and you do it anyway. So hopefully this serves you. I love helping you to be able to step out of your comfort zone. And so hopefully with this, you will take that next step.

All right, guys, hopefully this was helpful. I look forward to chatting with you guys again soon. If you haven't yet signed up for our Marketing and Practice Growth Challenge, you definitely will want to do that, deliveringwowchallenge.com, so that we can help you get to the next level. If you're using the code dentalbosschallenge, the challenge is completely free, so we'd love to be able to help you with that. Again, thank you so much for being a listener to our podcast. If you are a member of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, I look forward to seeing you every week where we have free training for you and your practice. And if you haven't yet joined us, make sure you're joining us in that group as well, dentalbossmovement.com. All right, guys, thanks so much for listening. Take care and we will chat next week.

If you're ready to take your practice to the next level, I invite you to join me inside of our next Marketing and Practice Growth Challenge. Inside of this challenge, you're going to create a full 12-month marketing plan, launch a marketing campaign that's going to allow you to be able to connect with your community as well as other local businesses. And I'm also going to show you how to use our whiteboard strategy that we've used with practices to be able to actually double their production, focusing on doing more high-value services. Again, I look forward to working with you, as well as your team, inside of our Marketing and Practice Growth Challenge. And to get started, all you have to do is go to deliveringwowchallenge.com.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast, with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

Sep 14, 2020

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Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. Today, we're talking about First Week on the Job Training for your dental team. Now, how many of you have had a new hire to come in and all of a sudden it's a month later, three months later and they're still not doing the key functions that you hire them for? If this is happening, oftentimes what that means is that we don't have a good onboarding system. And so what I'm going to be sharing with you today are some tips that you could use as you're starting to bring in new hires, to get them trained up as fast as possible. And believe me, not only do you want them to be trained and to be able to be efficient and being productive for the practice, they also want to be able to be comfortable in what they need to do. And once you create a great system then you will now have predictability.

Now, as we start bringing in our new hires, even backing it up a little bit, when we are looking for our new hire, when we are interviewing, there's definitely a proven framework for hiring. But part of that is making sure that that team member understands what they're being hired for. What are the roles, what are the responsibilities? And so it's one thing to say, "I'm getting a new office manager," but do they truly understand that their role will now be, for example, to make sure that a particular profit number is set for the practice?

Do they understand that their role is actually to work side-by-side with you to actually carry out your vision, to be able to lead the team, to be able to make sure that a certain number of unscheduled patients are being rescheduled? And it may not be them who's actually the scheduler, but they're holding that metric accountable. They're making sure that marketing campaigns are being done consistently, even though they may not actually be running the campaigns, right? Do they understand their roles and responsibilities? Does that team member understand your core values?

In fact, for my practice, even on the interview or the pre-interview application we actually asked the question of which core value in my practice resonates with you the most? And we actually have that as a question when we have our group interviews. And so as we start looking at onboarding, if we actually inside of our recruiting process, we actually are very clear on their roles, on their responsibilities, that really makes this training in onboarding a lot more beneficial, okay?

Let's go ahead and talk about the onboarding process and typically what that looks like. Now, the first thing that I think is very, very important is to have an orientation with your new hire. That is looking at making sure that they understand your vision for the practice, your vision for them, how you see them growing within the business. Really important for them to understand very, very clearly their hours, right? When are they working? People want to know when are they being paid? What about vacation time? What about sick leave? When do they get breaks?

These are things that oftentimes they are asking on demand when they have the question. If we can just go through this as an orientation then now there's a lot of clarity. Also, you want to make sure that you have a checklist for collecting information, such as a background check form, an employee application, making sure that you have all of the tax documents. If you are requiring certain vaccinations that you have that in place. Really important we also start looking at things like X-ray training, do they need to have that in place? And so these are the things that we're looking at, okay?

Also very important is that the team member again understands their essential functions. And so if they are for example coming in as a dental assistant, are they going to just be responsible for helping the doctor in the operatory? Will they also have to be responsible for sterilizing the equipment? Are they going to be responsible for actually having those conversations with patients about treatment? For example, in my practice, our dental assistant, one of them is responsible for doing all of the scans and talking about Invisalign.

Do they understand clearly the additional duties that they will need to do? Will they be ordering supplies, right? Because every dental assistant in every practice may have different roles and responsibilities depending on how big the practice is. And just because they're coming in as an assistant does not mean that they understand exactly what we will do in our practice so that's really, really important.

Now, as we start looking at training and evaluation what's really important is that your training is actually done in stages and that you have evaluations done at the end of each week. And so typically what I will recommend is that you actually have a six-week training period and you would again be able to make sure that this new hire has basic proficiencies in different areas. And so over the six weeks you'll be looking at their ability to suction, their ability to chart, sterilization procedure set up, how they're scheduling appointments, right? Making sure that they can take X-rays. They can take intra-oral photos, making sure that they can do an office tour.

And so as we start looking at breaking this down week-by-week, we can ensure that they actually have the skillset, that they have the confidence, that they're following what we're looking at in terms of that new hire. And so what this could look like for a dental assistant is on week one, having them to actually read the dental assistant manual. Typically, in a manual what I will recommend is that you have a manual that has photos of your setup, that has information about each procedure, right? So having them read your training manual is really, really important, okay?

Also making sure that they learn proper shutdown and start up procedures for the day, learning the office tour. Also important for them to understand basic instrument setup for hygiene and for exams because as you know, what will happen is that every dental practice is different. So taking time to not just throw them in there but actually taking that week to make sure that they understand how to set up for your procedures, making sure that they understand how to break down the room, sterilization. Make sure that they understand tooth anatomy, right? And at the end of the week then now you can go back and you can actually assess and say, "Go ahead and give me an office tour." And you can actually ensure that they are doing it in a way that you will like, okay."

Some examples for week two is having them to learn your process for intra-oral photo taking, introduction to X-ray training. What we also love is having our team members to actually watch videos on procedures. And so if you have a software that allows your team members to be able to watch educational videos or even go into YouTube, it's very powerful. We typically will do that in our practice as well. I'm having them to actually watch videos so that not only do they understand, but they understand how to communicate effectively about that procedure because as we know patients are coming in, they're asking questions and so now our assistants are also serving as an educator.

And if you're looking for training for your dental assistants on the business side of dentistry, how to be able to close more cases, how to be able to communicate effectively to get patients to say yes, how to be able to set goals and become an active versus passive dental assistant, we'd love to be able to work with you and your team inside of one of our programs. Making sure that they understand the setups for the advanced procedures for your crown and bridge through implants, right?

Moving into two surfaces numbering, you may assume that your dental assistant understands when you say, "We want to go ahead and do a MO on tooth number three, but maybe they don't know what that is especially if they have not been assisting for long. So making sure that they understand teeth numbering, make sure that they are understanding how you want them to suction, what's the best way and again at the end of week two going ahead and giving them an evaluation, okay?

That's typically how we will do week three. We're getting into perio chart training, learn instrument tray set up for root canal. Every week you're putting in more things, how do you use the autoclaves. Week four you can go into instrument set up for extractions, looking again at hands-on suctioning. You can start getting into impressions for whitening, creating whitening trays, understanding dentures and what needs to be done for denture adjustments. Then going into again week five and week six, and as you're going into week six, looking at how do you plan a treatment plan? How do you chart needed treatment, understanding on how to navigate the appointment book on week six, getting into phone training and introduction to scanners.

As you can see, having a weekly training schedule for onboarding is not only going to help your team to be successful but it's also going to make sure that you're able to be very clear about what you are looking for. And a lot of times I'll hear a doctor say, "I work too busy to treat you my team." And then what happens that years later you are at a disadvantage because every time you're asking for a particular instrument they don't know what you're talking about. Or you are doing things yourself and you're saying, "I'll just print this out myself." Or, "I'll just chart this myself," because you haven't taken the time to actually train your team, right?

As you get a bigger team what's really great is you can start elevating people up to become leaders. And so in my practice now we have a lead dental assistant, we have a few dental assistants. And so her role and responsibility is actually to go through this training and onboarding process with any new hires. And so now she is actually gone through this onboarding process with our dental assistants that have come in and now that has taken that off of my plate, as well as the plate of the office manager.

And again, you start looking at this and even with an office manager, many times they don't have the ability to actually go ahead and oversee the onboarding of a dental assistant. They may not have the knowledge of core skill steps of taking impressions or scanning, or understanding the tray setup. That's something that you can keep in mind as well.

Hopefully this was helpful for you. You are definitely going to want to create a training and onboarding process for all of the roles inside of your practice, right? This will allow you to be able to get your team members comfortable so that now you can start focusing on additional things, right? And this is going to be looking at what is their rock? What is the KPI? What's the one thing you want them to focus on again? How many same-day rollovers are you going to be helping the doctor achieve, right?

Having those conversations about Invisalign or implants, it's going to be really important to help the practice to continue to grow. And so the faster we can get through the foundational basics the faster we can get into those profitability conversations. I definitely recommend that you go ahead and start implementing, putting in your training processes and creating a system for this. This is something that we are definitely helping practices with within our Delivering WOW programs. And so if you're interested in having us help you we certainly are here to be able to lend that support. All right, that's pretty much it for today. Thank you so much for listening to another episode of our Delivering WOW Dental Podcast and we will chat again soon.

Thanks again for listening to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. Now, the next step is for you to join us inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, where dentists are coming together for support and action-taking tips and motivation. To join us in the group, head on over to dentalbossmovement.com. And if you're looking to grow your practice faster, make sure you join us inside of our next marketing and practice growth challenge. And to learn more, go to deliveringwowchallenge.com. Take care and we'll see you inside of our next episode.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

Sep 7, 2020

Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of The Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am super excited to be here with you today. So today I'm actually going to be discussing automation and how you can create an automated dental practice. Now, the reason why we want to create automation in our practice is that automation adds accountability in our business. And oftentimes where we really fall short is that we're very busy, right? As owners of a dental practice, we are doing the dentistry. We are managing patients' expectations. We are leading a team. We have families at home at the same time, right?

And so, many times what happens is, of course, we are putting a lot of things on our plate. Things slip through the cracks and at the end of the month, we're like, "Oh my gosh, I didn't get that done. And I really wanted to get that done." And so the faster you can automate your systems, automate your processes, that now can be even managed and handed over to a member of your team, you actually will have the ability to actually scale your practice and grow your practice and be more predictable. So super excited about that.

Now, I'll talk today about a few tools that you can use to automate your dental practice. And these are tools that I actually use in my own practice and tools that we also use for members of our Platinum Mastermind and our online virtual coaching and training program that we have for doctors and teams through our Platinum Gold Program. Okay?

And so what we're looking at here are utilizing tools like number one, utilizing whiteboards, right? Whiteboards allow us to automate the process of looking at how many new patients that we're getting day to day or even week to week. Right? It also allows us to look at the number of testimonials that we're getting. It allows us to look at how many crowns we're doing, or if our team is actually having conversations with our patients about services that we are starting to implement. So say, for example, you make a decision, "I am going to start implementing Perio Protect in my practice." Right?

And Perio Protect, for those of you who don't know is a great service that you can have for your patients where you're creating custom-fitted trays, similar to a bleaching tray. It delivers a gel solution where they can actually do this at home. And once they are using it, it will decrease bleeding, inflammation, pocket depth, decrease their chances of needing to have surgery. And this is a procedure that actually can bring in significant additional revenue for your practice.

And so say, for example, you take the course to become certified in Perio Protect, your team does your training. And all of a sudden, many times, if there's no accountability, then what will happen is that now it's the end of the month. And you're like, "Oh my gosh, we planned on starting, but we actually didn't start." And so if you can use a whiteboard as a tool for an automated process, then now what happens is that you will not have that goal slip through the cracks, right? You will know if you're not hitting the goal, that the team is not having the conversations, and now you can go back to the team and say, "I see, we're not hitting the goal. What can we do to hit the goal? Do we need additional training? Is anyone stuck? Do we have any issues with getting the cases to the lab?"

Because sometimes there are things like that, that as the owner, we may not be aware of. Maybe our dental assistant is still trying to get the lab set up and get everything put in place with the scanner, right? So these are things that we will want to know. And when you have an automated process for accountability, then now you will be able to quickly get to results. Okay? So, that's one of the things that we want to look at.

Another thing that we want to look at is how can we automate communication in our practice? And one of the tools that we teach, and one of the tools that we utilize again in my practice is actually a tool called Asana. And how it works is it is actually a software that you can use to number one, to be able to automate the process of having a place to put down all of the gaps in your practice, all of the issues, all of your wishlist items of things that you want to implement, right? And then from there, you can actually utilize a system such as a level 10 meeting so that every week now you can go into Asana and you can go ahead and have at the very top where are people at the beginning of the meeting.

If you're having this once a week meeting where your team members can come together and say what is their personal and professional best? What is the thing that they're proud of for that week that they've done in the business and personally? And again, having a level 10 meeting and even utilizing Asana now allows you to automate the process of doing this check-in with your team every single week. Some other things that you're doing on this level 10 or in this level 10 meeting that you're having once a week. And again, we use Asana templates so that we have this format where we just follow it so that nothing slips through the cracks. But we also have that opportunity to look at our practice performance.

And so weekly, we're looking at our scorecard numbers and scorecards are something that we have built into our Platinum Coaching Platform where practices can log in and now we can actually track their new patient numbers, their doctor, and hygiene production per visit. We can look at the accounts receivable week to week. We can look at how many unscheduled patients were rescheduled. We can look at the hygiene reappointment rate. So there are specific metrics that we can have the doctor team leader of the team go in and set goals for and we can see for that week, if you've hit the goal, right? If you've hit the goal, then it's an opportunity to celebrate your team for a job well done.

And if you've not hit the goal, then now we know where the opportunities are to have a discussion as a team and say, "Well, why did we not hit the goal?" And start looking at, "Okay, well, what can we do to get back on?" Which is where inside of our programs, we actually provide the coaching to now be able to get you back on to get those numbers up so that now, hopefully in the next week, you can go ahead and hit or surpass your goal. Okay?

So having this automated process to now have you hold yourself accountable to looking at your numbers is going to be very powerful. Also, inside of your level 10 meeting, you can look at previous to-dos. So say, for example, you had someone on the team that you had assigned to send out an email. Maybe it's an email that is stating that you're going to start doing Invisalign in your practice, or this month, you're going to be doing a special marketing campaign where you will actually be giving away gift cards for local businesses, and you want to have your patients to participate, right?

And so within this meeting, again, you can go ahead and look at previous to-dos. And now you can ask that team member, "Did that email get sent out?" Right? If not, why? Really, really powerful stuff. And then also, as you have things coming up, maybe that week, you had a lot of broken appointments. Maybe that week, you had insurance that did not pay on particular claims and you want to have a discussion about maybe your system or your process for following up with insurance. Or maybe you had made a decision to go ahead and for example, collect a copay for PPE, right? And it was not collected. And so now there's a time within that meeting that you can actually have that discussion and find out what happened, what was the real issue, right? So that you can not blame or create excuses, but actually just discuss it so that you can create a solution so that in the future, you won't have that issue again. Right? So that's extremely powerful again when you can automate the process of actually having these discussions.

And what's really cool within these level 10 meetings, is that typically, at least in my practice, and what we recommend for practices is that these meetings are held once a week on a Tuesday morning, perhaps before you start seeing patients so that you don't have any reason why you can't do the meeting if you're running late with patients. I don't recommend having it right before lunch, but if you have it in the morning before you get started, then now you have everyone's focused attention. And then the day before on Monday is when the team can go ahead and fill in the scorecards. Okay? So, that's typically how you can look at automating.

What's really cool about Asana as well, is that you don't actually have to even wait until this weekly meeting. What you can do is within the actual task, so say, for example, you have made a decision that you're going to treat 100 kids for free, right? So you're going to do a special drive where you're going to help and do something special in your community. Well, with that drive that you're going to do you have a particular team member that will own that task. Now it doesn't mean they're going to be doing all of the tasks, but they will own making sure that it gets done. And so they will perhaps collaborate with other team members and say, "Okay, who can call a company to get items donated? Who can go ahead and print out coloring sheets for the kids so that when they arrive, they'll have coloring sheets? Who can..." Right? And then you just start going from there. Right?

And so what can happen is that throughout the week, there's actually conversations within the actual card, within Asana. You can actually go ahead and tag any individual collaborators. That means any of these other people on the team that are working on that particular project. And now people can communicate about that specific project within the card, which is really powerful. Because again, now you can get stuff done throughout the week and you don't have to actually wait until the next time that you're having a level 10. And what's really cool as well is that the doctor can be included in these conversations so that now the doctor, you don't have to necessarily even do anything as it relates to the test. But now you are aware of what your team is working on. And if they need your specific feedback, they can tag you and say, "Doc, what do you think?" So this is some really powerful stuff.

We also use in my practice, Asana to be able to, and we have a separate board from our level 10, to look at our bills, right? And so we have a private board between myself and my office manager, where she actually enters in all of the bills that come in, that needs to be paid. She actually scans a copy of the bill, which can be scanned directly into that card, or it can be imported in, in linked In from a Google Drive. So if you're using Google Drive, as we do in my practice and what we teach in our programs, then now you have really good organization of your bills that that link could actually be shared with your accountant or an external person that's going to help to audit all of the things that are happening in your practice.

But what you can do again in Asana is now you can have that, so that even if you're not in your practice, maybe you have an admin day when you're working from home, then now you can go ahead and go in, see what bills that need to be paid. You can see the physical bill. She can go ahead and even type in where there's a tab or field in there, the amount of the bills. So now very quickly, if you're paying your bills from home, you can also do that. And again, now this is a great automation process so that you don't have bills slipping through the cracks. I can tell you, it actually happened in my practice multiple times, where I'm just so busy, where all of a sudden the power bill hasn't been paid. And we even had one time, the power company show up to turn off our electricity. And it wasn't that I didn't have money to pay my power bill, I just didn't have a system. And so now we don't have those issues, because we have that automation already built-in. Okay?

So I really love automation. It's a great way to be able to get accountability, to be able to scale. There are so many other ways that you can automate your practice. We also put automation into our marketing. And so, one of the things that we do within our marketing, which is really cool, is we've built out marketing funnels. And so how that works is, say, for example, we're having a coloring contest. We've actually built out automation where we can issue out a coloring sheet. And when people download the coloring sheet, we actually collect their email address so that we can send them the coloring sheet. That's all automated, right? And then once that happens, then now we can get their email address so that we can start sending out automated email addresses, letting them know about the practice.

And we can even include in an online scheduling link, such as LocalMed or one of the other online schedulers, or we could put in our practice contact us page from our website, for example, if you don't have the online scheduling link. And so now again, it's automated where people can actually make appointments. We've done the same thing for implants. We've done the same thing for Invisalign. So we could do, for example, a Tooth Talk Thursday video, where we're discussing different ways to be able to straighten teeth. Maybe we're talking about Invisalign. And then we can say, "If you'd like to learn more and see if you're a candidate, go ahead and take the quick quiz," right? And then from there, again, it's automated where they're answering questions to a quiz and where at the end of taking the quiz, we can offer them an opportunity to come in and there would be an opportunity there for them to go ahead and schedule online.

So I absolutely love automation. Automation with creating systems is amazing. Again, using whiteboards, utilizing your scorecards, where you can automate the process of having a system where you know week to week, how many patients rescheduled, how many patients last week left without an actual appointment. It's really, really powerful stuff. I absolutely love having this automation in my practice and it's helping the practices that we serve grow really, really fast.

So hopefully this helps you and serves you. If you're looking to put in more automation into your practice, if you're looking to be able to utilize the scorecards and whiteboards and even understand how to automate your marketing, we'd love to be able to help you with that. This is what we love to do. This is what Delivering WOW is known for, helping you to grow your practice faster. And if so, we'd love for you to reach out to us. Once you go into our website, deliveringwow.com, you'll see our programs, you see how we can help you to be able to take your practice to the next level. All right?

So again, hopefully, this helps you and has inspired you to think about how can you automate more systems and processes to take things off of your plate. Once you start automating, then what will happen is that you will grow. You will scale. You will have opportunities to be able to do more, to be able to delegate more to your team and to allow your practice to be able to get to the next level. Again, I look forward to chatting with you. If there's anything I can do for you, again, feel free to reach out to our website, send me a Facebook message. And we look forward to helping you get to the next level.

Thanks again for listening to another episode of The Delivering WOW Dental Podcasts.

Now, the next step is for you to join us inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook Group, where dentists are coming together for support and action-taking tips and motivation. To join us in the group, head on over to http://dentalbossmovement.com. And if you're looking to grow your practice faster, make sure you join us inside of our next Marketing and Practice Growth Challenge. And to learn more, go to http://www.deliveringwowchallenge.com. Take care, and we'll see you inside of our next episode.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of The Delivering WOW Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Aug 31, 2020

Hi everyone. I hope that you are having a fabulous day. Welcome to another episode about Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. Today, we're talking about how to train our teams to collect payments well. So, this is a topic that a lot of people struggle with. A lot of people will struggle because they're not even quite sure how to have collections come in. And so, I wanted to share a few things with you that hopefully will be super helpful for you as you are navigating your practice ownership and becoming a better business owner.

So, one thing that we look at in terms of our collections is really making sure that we have a solid system for knowing if our collections are getting out of control. And unfortunately, what happens way too often is that people have a revelation one day, maybe you listen to this podcast and you go and you look at your collections and you're like, "Oh my gosh. Our AR is crazy and we need to work on it. Now, we need to hire a company to help us fix it." And it never had to be that way.

And so, typically, when you see AR or you see collections, what has happened is that you did not have a system for seeing where things were not paid on time and you're waiting too long to now have a patient know that they have a balance and now you're embarrassed to call them. Or perhaps you actually misquoted from the very beginning. Or perhaps you did not have good follow-up, right? With claims. And so, there you are chasing them. And so, the first thing that I do recommend is actually to utilize, say system, to be able to track your AR week to week, right?

One of the things that has been really effective in my practice and for many of you who are in our platinum program is actually having your scorecard. And so, one of the numbers that we're actually looking at weekly is our AR. And so, the question is, if we have a situation where our account's receivable is out of control, what are easy ways that we can get it in? How do we get our team to collect payments? What do they say? What's the process? And so, one thing that I wanted to share with you today is actually a process called amnesty.

Now, how does that work? Well, say for example, you have realized now that your account's receivable is $50,000 or it's $20,000 or a hundred or 10 or whatever amount. And many of the accounts are over 60 days, right? So many times what will happen is that a practice will turn those accounts over to a collection agency or they will say, "You know what? I don't like seeing this number. And so, I'll just erase it. I'll just write off these accounts and I'll just start fresh. And we won't have this problem again."

Which means that you're writing off maybe $50,000 and that could have perhaps paid for your kids to go to college for one year, right? And so, this is definitely not something that you want to do, right? So, there is a better way. So, with an amnesty program, how it works is that you are actually contacting those patients that have that overdue balance and you're letting them know that their account has actually come up for audit, right? And so, what that means is that you're giving them a courtesy call that their account has come up for audit but you're calling actually to help them out and to clear it up.

And so, what you want to do is instead of actually charging the full fee, right? Perhaps they have a balance of a thousand dollars. Instead, what you will do is to help them out, you will actually go ahead and lower the amount that they have to pay. That will help them and it will prevent them from having to go to collections, right? So, what that means is that you are reducing your fee and you will not have to now deal yourself with a collection agency. And typically, as accounts go to collections, many times they never become collectible or we're not getting very much. And so, this gives you that opportunity to get that cash flow back in.

 

So, how are we actually getting in touch with our patients, right? So, sometimes I'll hear, "Well, patients are not responding. They see our calls and they're not picking up." And so, a few things that you can look at is certainly using other methods to be able to get in touch with your patients. Obviously, phone is great because you can have that direct communication. And while you're on the phone, you're going to want to go ahead and get their credit card and let them know, "Once we clear this up today, we can go ahead and take off and you will save $225. For example, once you settle this today, we do take American Express and Visa and Mastercard, which of those three cards would you like to use today?"

All right? So, again, I've said today probably about four or five times. And so, that's some of the verbiage that you'll look at. But if you're not getting them on the phone, a few things that you can do is you can certainly look at sending out text message or email letting them know that there is an urgent message from their dentist and or from doctor and put in the name and that you need to speak to them today. "So, please contact us today. There's something urgent that we need to discuss," right?

And so, you're putting that word in there, urgent. We want to talk to you today and hopefully with that, you will get them to actually contact you right away. So, you definitely want to do that. And sending out one email mail and saying, "Well, they didn't get back to us," is not enough. As we know, people are typically not opening all of their emails. So, you'll want to make sure that you're following up with that. But ideally, what you're wanting to do is definitely get the person on the phone.

Hopefully, you're also getting a work number for your patients. And so, if they wind up in this situation, another option is to contact them with their alternate number. So, hopefully, this serves you and helps you. I have seen a lot of practices who have really gotten into a lot of trouble with their collections and they weren't quite sure how to get over it. And again, the last thing that you want to do is just say, "You know what? I'll just write it off and I'll just start fresh." That's different. Definitely not where you want to go. Okay? So, hopefully this serves you.

And again, in terms of training your team to collect payment, what you want to also let them know is that number one, they can do it. Number two, not every patient is going to have the ability to say yes right away. And so, you will get some people saying, "Man, I'd love to do that but I don't have the ability." In which case you can look at, "Okay. Well, let's look at giving them a second option," right? And that could be something like, "Your balance is a thousand dollars. Are you able to go ahead and do $50 a month?" And then from there you can set up for them to go ahead and have that financed over time with a third party.

So, definitely want to make sure that you have multiple options for them. But again, the key point, which is where we started is that you want to have a system. You don't want to get yourself into a position where you have to even be thinking about amnesty or thinking about collections. Once you have a good process where you are actually very aware of the fee that you will receive on the day of payment or a day of service, then you should not have this AR accumulating.

Again, making sure that you have good communication. Once you are accepting insurance, what is the amount that you expect to come from the insurance and how much would the patient actually pay, right? Having good processes. Again, looking at it weekly allows you to catch things as they're slipping through the cracks before it comes too late. Thanks again for listening to another episode of our Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I can't wait to connect with you inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group. And to get access to that group, all you have to do is go to dentalbossmovement.com.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes.

 

Aug 24, 2020

Hi, guys, and welcome to another episode of The Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am so excited about today's episode. Today, we're actually talking about, how do you pay your dental team? And actually this came up because a member of my mastermind actually sent me a message today. And she said, "I'm not sure what to do. I would love your advice." And what she said is that a team member had actually come up to her and had asked for a raise. So this is a very common thing that happens in our practice. We'll have team members say, "You know what? I really need to earn a little bit more. Can you help me?" So it puts us in this dilemma because a lot of times we're thinking, "Well, I'm not sure if I can afford to pay my team member anymore," or, "I'm not sure if they really have the skillset," or, "How can I pay them more?" And all these things go through your mind.

So I wanted to come on and really help you to navigate this because there are some really creative ways that you can actually empower your team to actually do more for the practice and ultimately give an ROI for the practice. And I'll tell you a quick story. Recently, we have had one of the ladies in my office and she had come in to help to follow up on insurance claims and to be a secondary person to answer the phones. And recently we decided to actually move her into the role of scheduling coordinator. Now what's really interesting is that because she was at a pay grade of where she started, I actually wanted her to be able to earn more. I thought that if she was now scheduling coordinator, she would have a different skill set. And now she would be able to actually earn more money for the business.

So, although she didn't have any experience in scheduling, I actually said, "You know what? I want to let you know that I feel that you can do this. And I have seen you interact with patients. so we're going to give you training. Of course, we're going to teach you these scheduling frameworks and the case acceptance framework. But as always, we are going to set some goals of how many patients you're going to get rescheduled." And we said that we would actually start with perio scaling and root planing. So we created a filtered list and she went through and what's really interesting is that at the end of the month, and I told her this, I said, "You know what? I want to pay you more, but I want to make sure that we can earn more for the company with the value that you're going to add.

So if you can show that you can add more value and more revenue, it's not going to be a problem to actually increase your salary." So we put in the training and we gave her the support and wouldn't you know it, she actually scheduled the number that we had given her. In fact, she actually exceeded that by about 25 or 30%. So I just want to say that to say this, once we are empowering our team, we let them know that they can do it. And we actually give them higher goals that will bring in more revenue. What happens is that now, if they are the right fit team members, who really want to excel, who want to get to the next level, who wants to keep evolving and elevating in their knowledge, they will actually be up for the challenge.

So it's our responsibility to look at training them. So going back to the doctor that said, "My team wants to have more. I'm not sure what to do." One thing that you can look at really is how can we be very clear with our team of our expectations for the different levels of pay that we offer in our practice. And this is actually looking at something called a pay grade system. So essentially how this works is that you can create different levels. So say, for example, you have a dental assistant and the dental assistant comes in and they have the skill set to do very minimal dental assisting skills. So they can assist in fillings. They can set up your trays. They can sterilize the instruments. Then that person would come in with the level one pay grade because they would have those specific things and skill sets that they can do.

Now, as the dental assistant starts to develop their skillset and they invest in themselves in additional training, then now what happens is that they're able to add more value. So some of these things would

be things like delivering night guards or doing in-office bleaching. So this allows the practice to actually make more revenue because those tasks can actually be delegated to the team who can actually earn revenue for the practice while the doctors actually in the other room, treating another patient. So looking at being able to check supplies and inventory, placing orders. They're now getting more into an admin level of being an assistant. So that would be a different pay grade. So as we start looking at level three, we can start asking ourselves, "Can the dental assistant do things like do ortho adjustments?" Or, "Do adjustments to dentures and relines, making custom trays."

These are things that are definitely a different skill set, being able to place sealants. And once you do, then what happens is that they can bring in more revenue. I actually have a dental assistant in my practice and she orders all of the supplies. She's amazing at making all of the temporaries. She also can work at the front. She can make phone calls. She can make appointments. She can discuss treatment plans. So what happens is that because of her skillset, she's able to actually bring a higher ROI to the practice because she can actually do certain procedures. She even actually does all of the conversations about Invisalign. She does all of the scans. She does all of the pre-photos.

This is a different level of dental assistant. So as you start looking at your current team, if they're wanting to earn more, what you want to do is actually look at creating a pay grade. And this will allow you to actually specify what would be a level one, a level two, and level three, and the pay that you would typically give for that level. So now they know their earning potential and they know that if they want to make, for example, $3 or $5 more an hour, what it will actually take. So hopefully that serves you. You can create a pay grade standards, not just for dental assistants, but you could also do it for your front desk. You could do it for hygiene and the same thing with that. Like there's a different hygienist that comes in, that is doing pro-fees and some scaling and root planing versus a dental hygienist who's coming in and now knows how to utilize lasers. Or can go ahead and have the patients get started with perio protect.

That's a different skillset and that can come in at a different pay. All right. So hopefully it serves you. I see so many dentists that unfortunately are actually losing team members, or they're saying things like, "Well, we can't afford to pay you." And what I always say is, "How can we? How can we support you? How can we help you?" Because when we do what happens is that our team works even harder for us because they want to continue to serve. They want to be able to let us know that they appreciate us helping them to grow. So hopefully this was helpful for you. And as you have team members come to you as they will in the future and ask for raises, I want you to actually have this document where you can go ahead and show them, "We would love to be able to pay you more. Let's go ahead and get the training put in place. And once we do, we can look at elevating your pay."

All right. So hopefully that serves you. I really appreciate you taking the time to invest in your knowledge, to be able to grow your practice, and to invest in listening to this podcast, to show you how.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of The Delivering WOW Podcast, with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Aug 17, 2020

Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering WOW Dental Podcast. I am so excited to be here with you today. So today we're here to talk about how to discuss a treatment plan with your patients. And this is one of the questions that I get asked so often from dentists and dentists inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group. And so I wanted to take some time to actually go through how I do treatment plans in our practice and how we have helped others all over the world, really, to be able to understand how to deliver treatment plans and have success.

Now, one thing that I talk a lot about is how can we learn how to do things for our practice? How can we grow our practice using frameworks? And the reason why frameworks work and why they work every single time is that frameworks are a lot like gravity and gravity is a principle. And so if we drop a pen, the pen will always go to the ground because gravity is actually a principle. And so I love when I am coaching our clients or when I'm teaching and sharing that I talk about frameworks. And so when we start looking at how do you discuss a treatment plan with your patients? I think what we need to actually do is back up to how can we get patients excited and asking us to start treatment without us even having to think about how we're going to present the treatment plan. So stay with me here.

So as we start looking at frameworks, I want to go ahead and share one with you. There are many frameworks that we can implement, but this one is one of a few different frameworks that we have created with delivering well for increasing your case acceptance, for getting more patients to go ahead and get started with their treatment plans. And so this case acceptance framework will help you to be able to, again, close more high-value cases, it will help you to have your team become more confident when they're speaking to patients, it will give them the confidence because patients are going to start saying yes, and they're going to get excited and they're going to want to have conversations even more. So really, really excited about this. So how it goes is actually, let me just go ahead and give you a quick example and then I'll break down some of the strategy. All right.

So as we start looking at procedures that we want to discuss with patients, and this could be Invisalign, it could be veneers, it could be all-porcelain crowns, it could be Perio Protect, it could be Velscope, it could be sealants. What's always going to be most important is that we truly believe that the service that we're offering, the service that we're suggesting, recommending is something that we truly believe in. Because if we don't believe in it, if the hygienist or the dental assistants of the front office doesn't believe in it, then it's not going to be easy for us to talk about something. And in fact, we shouldn't. And so that piece is really very, very important. And so when we start talking about, for example, VELscope, if you don't believe that VELscope can help to reduce the risk of oral cancer getting worse, then you shouldn't discuss it. So I'm going to give an example, an example of sealants.

So recently I actually was on a phone call with a doctor and she was saying that she's just not sure how they can grow their practice even more, like everybody's working really, really hard and they're tired, they're overwhelmed at the end of the day. And she said, "Honestly Anissa, I don't think we can produce anymore." And I said, "Okay, well, let me ask you a question." And she was actually a pediatric dentist. And I said, "Do you truly believe in sealants?" And she said, "I absolutely believe in sealants." And I said, "Are you sure?" She said, "Yes." And I said, "Okay, great. Well, are you always recommending sealants when you know that they can benefit a patient?" And she said, "Well, to be honest with you, not all the time." And I said, "Okay, well, when would you not?"

And she says, "Well, sometimes what happens is that maybe a kid has come in, maybe they've had sealants, maybe even done somewhere else. The sealant has come out and so now we are a little bit shy

and don't always have the conversation because we know that parents are more than likely not going to want to pay for it because the sealant has already ... They've already paid for it." And so I said, "Okay, thank you so much for sharing that." And that's really important because a lot of times we're not having conversations because we are afraid of being objection blocked. And honestly, the reason why we're afraid of being objection blocked is that we've not yet learned the skillset that I'm actually going to share with you now. All right.

So say, for example, in my practice, we have a general practice. We see kids, we see adults inside of our practice, and I am a true believer of sealants. In fact, when I was in dental school, Dr. Filler, who had the clinic for dental students to have their teeth cleaned, he was the first person that really talked to me about sealants. And it was in my freshman year of dental school. And he said, "There's something we can paint on your tooth that would prevent cavities. Would you like to learn more?" And I said, "Yes." And so he told me about a seal and he's like, "We have time today. You want to go ahead and get them done?" So I got them done. And what was really interesting is over the years, every time I would have a cleaning, I would always say, "How are my sealants? Are my sealants okay?" So clearly it was important to me.

What I really thought about later on, as I started looking at strategies to grow my practice, how do I better communicate with my patients? How do I train my team? What I discovered is we were not talking about sealants to adults. And the real reason was just like, the story that I shared earlier is that we were afraid that because insurance might not have covered it, that patients would say, no, I don't want to do it. In fact, we, more than likely had had discussions with patients and patients were saying, is insurance going to cover it? Is insurance going to cover it? No, it's okay. And after hearing that so long, we just stop talking about it.

So let me go ahead and share something that you can utilize to actually become more confident, so your team can become more confident and so that you can help patients get their results and get the treatment that can serve them and really help them. So here's an example with sealants. Ms. Joe, there's something that we can do to paint on your tooth. And it would prevent a cavity by up to 80%. Do you want to learn more? So the patient says, yes. And we say, great. It's called a sealant. How it works is that we paint something on the top of the tooth. And once we do, bacteria and food and sugar can't go through it. And because of that, you're 80% less likely to get a cavity.

Now here's the thing. Insurance doesn't always cover it, but why our patients choose to do it anyway is that they know that number one, it doesn't cost a lot of money. In fact, it's just a fraction of the cost of if you had to have a filling. It doesn't take a lot of time. In fact, we can go ahead and get these started today for you and it typically takes 5 minutes, no more than 10, depending on how many we're doing. And it gives you that peace of mind that you don't have to worry. Now we do have time today to go ahead and get started with doing your sealants. We can do more than likely, maybe four or even six of them today. Would you like to go ahead and get started with getting those done today?

All right. So as we start looking at that framework, my question to you is, do you feel like I was trying to sell you anything? All right. I would love to know, like do you feel, like go ahead and think right now in your head and answer that question. And so I know the answer is no. I said, there's something that can help you. Would you like to know more? They said, yes. I told them what it was, really simple terms. I was not bringing out photos, I was not showing them before and after pictures, I was not breaking down exactly how I do a sealant. I just said it's simple. It's something we paint on the tooth and sugar, food and bacteria can't go through it. So now they're putting that picture in their own mind and then I put out the objection. Now here's the thing. Insurance doesn't always cover it. But why our patients choose to do it anyway.

Now, as we start breaking down the strategy here, what's really powerful is that we are starting with

asking that question. There's something that can help you. Do you want to know more? And this could be, there's something that can help you to reduce the bleeding, that can decrease the chances of you needing gum surgery. And that can prevent your teeth from looking long. And this could be a patient that has perio. Do you want to learn more? They're going to say yes. If the patient has a dark line at the gum, because they've had a PFM crown, there's something that we can do to beautify your smile and remove that dark line. Would you like to learn more?

And so patients say yes, they give you permission. It's almost like when we go to the mall and someone is handing out samples of teriyaki chicken and they're saying, would you like to have a sample? You say yes. Next thing you know, you're looking at the menu and you're enjoying the sample and you're buying Chick-fil-A for lunch, or you're buying Chinese food. It's the same exact thing. And so we get their permission, we go in simple terms. Great. How it works is, really simple, really, really simple terms. So Perio Protect could be great. It's called Perio Protect. How it works is we give you a tray that's very similar to a mouth guard or bleaching tray. There's special gel in there that's made specifically for patients who have bleeding gums and who have gum disease and who are at risk for surgery. And you wear the trays. And once you do it decreases, those risks. Now here's the thing. Insurances not always cover it, but why our patients choose to do it anyway.

So you want to go ahead and make it simple. You want to go ahead and put out the objection. So if the objection that they're going to typically tell you is insurance doesn't cover it, then you will say, here's the thing. Insurance doesn't always cover it. So you put out the objection so that now you can speak to that. Why our patients choose to do it anyway. That is so powerful because people want to understand how they can get things done. And when you let them know that other patients are still doing it anyway, now they realize that they can too. What's really important as well is to go ahead and put through the benefits. I love giving a time benefit. So here's the thing. It doesn't take a lot of time. So even with Perio Protect, it doesn't take a lot of time. In fact, instead of having to come in for many visits where we have to numb you. Now, those visits in office for deep cleaning will decrease because you'll be able to have this tray and you'll be able to do it at home.

Or you can go ahead and get your sealants on it. It just takes five minutes. So you want to put out a time benefit, you want to put out a money benefit. So Perio Protect will save them money because now they will not have to do as many deep cleans in the office. The sealants will save them money because they won't have to do the fillings. And you also want to providepeace of mind. And you will have peace of mind because, and let them know why they'll have peace of mind. All right. The last piece of it is putting out a call to action. And that call to action would be, we do have time today to go ahead and get started with whatever their first steps are. All right.

So that could be taking your scan for your Perio Protect trays. It can be taking your photos, your before photos or your pre-impressions for your diagnostic wax up for your veneers. We do have time today too, I could be doing the procedure and let them know that you have time. And then go ahead and put out the question. Would you like to go ahead and get started today?

All right. So hopefully this serves you, and this helps you. Again, this case acceptance framework is something that I created. I was really frustrated hearing a lot of people talk about case acceptance. And so a few years ago, I really went on this journey of really trying to understand the psychology of why people make decisions, the psychology of why patients make decisions on what's really holding practices back. And I invested hours and hours and hours, and a ton of money, really working one on one with people who are teaching advanced psychology and really started to dive into creating this framework and many other frameworks that will help you grow and get you your results and give you that confidence to be able to help your patients, to be able to get the treatment that they truly deserve. So hopefully this helps you.

Again, thank you so much for listening to our podcast. If this served you if you could do me a huge favor. Inside of our iTunes, inside of our Google, you'll have a place to go ahead and review this podcast. I'd love it if you can just share some feedback, maybe of your takeaways, and how this podcast has helped you. And if you've not yet had a chance to join us inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, I invite you to join me there. dentalbossmovement.com, every single Wednesday I'm coming on and doing training for you for completely free, helping you to grow your practice. We're also bringing on dental bosses who have done amazing things, where they're sharing their journey from getting started to having success. Again, can't wait to see you inside of our Facebook group, dentalbossmovement.com. And I look forward to chatting with you again, really, really soon.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Aug 11, 2020

Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the Delivering Wow dental podcast. We're talking all about startups today and how you can launch your startup without spending a ton of money. So what brought me to create this podcast is, recently, I was actually in a forum in Dental Town, and one of the marketers that was there made a really good point, is that a lot of times when we have startups, a lot of times people are not thinking about their marketing. They're budgeting for their equipment. They're budgeting for their supplies. They're thinking about costs for their team, but many people are not actually budgeting for their marketing. And they actually made a recommendation that dental practices put in between 20 and $25,000 in their budget to launch their startup.

And what was really interesting is that a lot of times I see those numbers, and because I've seen so many startups launch with a thousand dollar budget, or even less, I know that there's actually another way. And so today what I'm actually going to be doing is sharing that framework and how we're able to get startups to be able to get to success. And what I've seen happen so many times are startups that are coming in and they are typically being able to fill up one or two months of their schedule. I've seen startups follow the framework and become fee for service. I've seen them hire an associate within six months. I've seen startups go to a million dollars. And so the framework actually absolutely works, and so super excited to be able to share.

To give you a little backstory, how this actually started was, about maybe three or four years ago, Ashley [inaudible 00:02:07], many of you guys know her, she is the founder of the Startup Facebook Group. She actually reached out to me and she said, "Anissa, I was listening to your podcast, and I heard you talking about the power of Facebook Live. And I've never done a Facebook Live before, but I actually went onto my personal page and I did a Facebook Live, and so I wanted to share it with you." And it was actually her and it was really, really, a really great video. She was at the site of her startup. She was in her car and she was making a huge announcement that she was leaving her associateship and that she was going to be creating this amazing dental practice.

Now, when you look at the office location, it didn't look so nice. Like it was old, it needed a lot of work, and she said, "Isn't it beautiful," right? And she says, "Well, not yet, but it will be, and I'm going to have you to follow me and to be able to see what we're doing."

So she reached out to me and she shared that video and I said, "Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Let's go ahead and create your practice's Facebook page right away." And she said, "But I don't have any patients yet." And I said, "No, let's go ahead and do it and we're going to document the journey." And so through that process, she started to document her journey, and between documenting her journey and some strategy with Facebook marketing, she was able to get about a 1000 or maybe 1100 people following her practice. By the time she opened, she had over 50 patients booked, and it really led to a lot of success and people in her community knowing what she was known for.

Now, if we fast forward three or four years, what's been really exciting is how many startups who have come to me and said, "I saw what you did for Ashley. Can you help me?" And the answer is yes. And so, what's been really cool is being able to utilize this framework on practice after practice after practice, and it works every single time. It's almost like a principle or almost like a principle which is gravity, which is if I drop my pen on the ground, it's going to go to the ground. Why? Because it's a principle. It always works.

And so when we start looking at learning how to grow our practice through frameworks, whether it's going to be a marketing framework, a startup framework, whether it's going to be how can we hire our

team, case acceptance leadership, once we work in frameworks of proven processes and systems, it's going to be pretty simple to be able to get the same result.

And so, what we have in terms of startup framework is really looking at, first of all, being willing to step out of your comfort zone. There's a lot of time spent in going to dental school and in building our startup and then having our dream, and there are so many people out there that need to hear our message. They need to know about us so that we can help them.

And so, what's really interesting is that the first episode of this podcast, if you go back and listen to it, it was terrible. My office manager said, "Dr. Holmes, it sounds like you're reading." And I said, "It's okay because I have a calling and I have some way that I can help people. And so I know that once I continue and I'm consistent, I will get better, and people will hear my message and I'll be able to help them." And so that's the first thing that I encourage all of you to do as you're looking at building your startup, is to be willing to step out of your comfort zone, be willing to stretch out and say, "You know what? This really matters."

From there, what's really important is showing up. And I always recommend that you do your first Facebook Live as a video to come on and let people know what you're doing, why that community matters, why you're launching your startup, what your practice is going to look like when it's open, how your patients are going to feel when they come to your practice, right? Those are the key elements. And from there, you're going to want to be consistent. What's been really cool, and we have evolved over the years and we've seen things that have really worked very well, such as, every Thursday, coming on, even when you're not open yet, and doing a Tooth Talk Thursday, talking about dental topics, talking about why it's important to go to the dentist, what's the difference between cleaning your teeth at home and in the practice, talking about three different ways that you can replace missing teeth, or what's the difference between a veneer and a crown, right?

These are ways that you can start building a following. And once you do that, what will happen is that people will start to look forward to what you're doing, taking people behind the scenes of, "We are getting our sign and I'm so excited. Let me show you our sign," and they will see your excitement, right? Getting on and sharing your story is so powerful.

One of the startups that we had, Dr. Paul Win that we work with in New Orleans, his second video had 15,000 views. And what's really, really special is that he came on right before he actually opened his practice and he did a video and he talked about what it really took to become a dentist, that he had tried multiple times to get into dental school and he didn't get in. And he was wondering if he was good enough. And he went through the dental school, he got in. And over the last few years leading up to opening this practice, he's been given an opportunity to work in a practice where they've done very advanced dentistry, and this is his calling and he's there to serve. And he's so proud of what they're building and what they've built and how they're going to be able to help people. And it's so powerful.

And so the first thing is showing up, taking people behind the scenes. Now, there is a second step and this is where a lot of people, they can do the first step, but they get stuck on this second step, and it's really understanding the power of Facebook marketing. What's very special about Facebook is that Facebook has some very unique features, where once you're getting on and you're doing your videos, where you can actually start to accumulate what we call a retargeting audience. So anyone who's watched your videos, anyone that's commented on your videos, now you can actually start grouping them in an audience, so that when you're boosting future videos, and ultimately when you start running ad campaigns for your high value services, your implants, your Invisalign, once you open your practice, now you will be able to show those future posts to people who have already seen you, people who have already connected with you.

And so that's one of the most powerful features of Facebook marketing. And so a lot of people will ask me, "Anissa, well, what sort of audiences should we set up with startups?" And it's typically going to be, because many people don't have a website, you don't have patients yet, right? But what you do is have the ability to keep showing up and doing your videos. And so you have your video views audience, you have your engagement audience, right? All of the people that have commented and shared.

And then from there, what you can do is you can actually build what we call lookalike audiences. And so you can go to Facebook and you can say, "Facebook, give me a group of people that are just like people who have commented on my videos. They like similar Facebook pages. They have similar Facebook friends. They live in similar locations, and let's get that expanded." And so that's the strategy of how we're able to get startups to be able to have this audience of loyal followers.

Now, there are some other little tips that you can utilize such as, on your Facebook Lives, you're going to want to ask people, "What part of town are you watching from?" And those comments will increase the number of newsfeeds that Facebook actually puts it into. There's some strategy there, right? Also, letting people know, "It would mean the world to me if you share this with everyone that you know. We are so excited about being in this community and this message that we're sharing today," especially with your Tooth Talk Thursdays, "this message can be very helpful. So if you can do us a huge favor and share." And so, what happens is that, again, you start to build this following.

Now, there are some additional things that you can look at. One of the things that we put in place with Ashley, and one of the things that we've done for the other startups that we work with, is starting to actually create an opportunity to collect emails. And so, as we start getting closer to opening, one thing that we love is actually integrating in what we call a funnel. And it's something that takes honestly about 30 minutes to an hour to set up. This is something that we show our startups how to do, and it doesn't take very long. We actually give them the template.

And so now, they can actually go ahead and collect email addresses, giving people an opportunity to be able to be able to register to become a VIP of the practice, to be able to register to have an opportunity to win a $5,000, sorry, a $1,000, that would be a great 5,000, a $1,000 gift card or free teeth whitening for life. And so, you give that opportunity. You also give them an opportunity to get a special bonus gift, to be notified when you are opening, are taking appointments, to be notified when you have your VIP grand opening party. And again, they get a bonus gift.

And that bonus gift can be something like when you schedule within whatever time if you are already making appointments, then we will be able to give you special pricing off of your first visit, maybe a $50 off, right? So it won't be every visit, but maybe that first visit, and there's a timeline there. So that creates that urgency for them to go ahead and schedule.

And so between, like I said, showing up, between understanding how to boost and use Facebook and implement Facebook ads correctly, understanding on that next step, again, how to be able to collect email addresses. And that's very powerful because as you are opening now, you can eat email everyone and say, "We're open." And if you have an online scheduling link, you can go ahead and send it out for them to go ahead and book your appointment.

And so, in this last 12 minutes, hopefully this has been super helpful for you to share. It doesn't take a lot of money. A lot of times, people are spending on mailers and Google ads and all of these things that are incredibly expensive. And to be honest with you, the problem there is that, a lot of times, people don't know who you are. And so you have to now not only spend a lot of money on marketing, you know, mailers, you're looking at sometimes $5,000 for a mail drop, but they don't know you, which means that a lot of times now you have to put in discounts.

And for me, that's not the way to get started with your career in dentistry. You want to be able to attract

the right fit, people who are looking at you and saying, "You know what? I know you're the expert, I know you can help me and I'm ready to come in." And that's exactly what you're able to do with Facebook.

So hopefully this helps you. I love working with startups. What's been really cool over the last few years is seeing so many of them grow. Now, we actually have a startup mastermind where startups are coming together every month, which is really cool, sharing what they're doing, what they're working on, coming together to discuss where they are in their marketing journey. And it's really amazing to see. And typically, people will ask me, "Well, how soon before we open should we get started? How soon before we open should we contact you and get started with our marketing?" And typically, it's between three and four months of opening is what I would typically recommend. We do have people contact us ahead of time and I say, "Just wait until three or four months. That's a sweet spot."

And what's really cool, and I'll share this quick story, is does this always work? And I'll share the story of Cassandra. Cassandra came to me and she said, "You know what? I've seen you work with Shana Home. And I've seen what you've done with Tiffany and Tiana. I've seen what you've done with Ashley and so many people. And so I knew if it's worked for them, it'll work for me." But what was really interesting is that she started doing her posts. She started showing up and doing our Facebook Lives and, well, the engagement did not come.

And she came to me, she said, "Am I doing something wrong? Like what's going on? I'm really getting frustrated." And I said, "You know what? The only thing is that we haven't given it enough time. Like you've been doing this for three weeks, four weeks. So just trust the process, trust the framework." And sure enough, when she opened, she had two months of patients there for her. Within two months, she actually decided to go totally fee for service. Within six months, she's now looking at bringing on an associate and she's actually saved cash out of profits to be able to equipped new operatories for expansion. And the only marketing that she's done is social media and Facebook marketing, implementing the framework.

And so, if she can do it, if others can do it, you certainly can too. So one of the most common questions I get is, "Anissa, Can you help me?" And the answer is yes. And so whether you have just purchased a practice and you're ready to get patients, or you're building a brand new startup, our framework is here to help you. I'm here to help you and to lead you so that you too can have the same level of success as so many startups that we work with. Feel free to reach out to me on Facebook, Facebook Messenger, or reach out through our website. I'd love to be able to have a chat.

All right, guys, I hope this was super helpful for you. We look forward to seeing you inside of our Dental Boss Movement Facebook group, where we have dentists that are coming together for support and action taking. And again, thank you so much for listening to the podcast. We'll chat soon.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Delivering Wow podcast with Dr. Anissa Holmes. We'll catch you next time.

 

Jun 25, 2020

With so many toothbrushes on the market, it can be overwhelming to choose the best one for yourself, your family, and your patients. Well, I’m happy to inform you that you can finally stop searching for the best toothbrush brand (we’ve found it!).

BURST toothbrushes are clinically proven to remove up to 10x more plaque than a manual toothbrush. They reduce gingivitis (bleeding gums) and have an incredible one-month battery life, which means you can take yours with you anywhere. This top-rated toothbrush has got everyone in the dentistry industry talking and is quickly becoming one of the best toothbrush brands in the world.

On this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Brittany Stewart, the President and COO of BURST to talk about their amazing product in more detail. She also reveals an exciting opportunity for dentists (and their teams) to generate passive income with BURST sonic toothbrushes!

In this episode, we discussed:

  • What BURST is known for beyond their incredible toothbrushes
  • How the BURST toothbrush was created
  • Unique features of the BURST toothbrushes
  • How you can turn BURST into a source of passive income for your practice
  • A brief overview of BURST’s new dental floss
  • How to become a BURST ambassador

 

If you’d like to find out more about BURST, you can check out their website.

To find out more about BURST’s incredible ambassador program, head over to burstoralcare.com/ambassadorprogram

For more information and to explore other episodes, click here.

Jun 11, 2020

Sleep apnea is more common than you might think. If left untreated, sleep apnea can lead to potentially serious health risks, which is why it’s so important to target the root cause of sleep-disordered breathing.

To help further understand what sleep apnea is and how we can help treat patients suffering from the condition, I invited Bryan Ferre, Chief Evangelist at Vivos Therapeutics Inc., on this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast.

The Vivos® System is a clinical breakthrough in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing for individuals of all ages. Their treatment even includes more difficult cases of sleep apnea, including mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea resulting from underdeveloped upper and lower jaws.

But, how does the Vivos® System work? And, why should you consider integrating sleep medicine into your dental practice? Bryan explains all in this episode of the podcast!

 

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How sleep apnea treatments can help increase production per visit
  • The touching story about why Bryan is so passionate about sleep apnea treatment
  • The percentage of people who suffer from sleep apnea
  • How the Vivos® System treats the underlying condition of sleep apnea
  • How to seamlessly implement sleep medicine into your practice
  • The real value of sleep medicine and helping patients to overcome the issues that come with sleep apnea
  • Reasons why underdeveloped jaws have become so common

If you’d like to learn more about the Vivos® System, you can check out their website and visit their conference website, breathingwellness.org.

To listen to this episode of the podcast, go to: deliveringwow.com/179

Jun 4, 2020

What’s your story? Every dental practice has a story and sharing your story with patients can do remarkable things for the growth of your practice. But, how can you tell your story in the most authentic way possible?

Joshua Scott, the CEO of Studio 8E8, believes that creating authentic stories and bringing your story to life is key if you want to ‘captivate and connect’ with people. Studio 8E8 is dentistry’s story-driven marketing agency.

I’ve always believed that stories are the heart of a great dental practice, which is why I’m a huge fan of Studio 8E8 and how they can help dentists create incredible campaigns and strategies. I’m thrilled to have Joshua Scott join me on this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast to learn more about his business and how they can help propel growth.

(On a side note, we recorded this episode just before the last Delivering WOW Summit in New Orleans. Joshua had some great insights, so I wanted to share this episode with you and who knows, maybe you’ll catch Josh at the next Delivering WOW Summit!)

In this episode, we discussed:

  • How Studio 8E8 helps dental practices tell their stories
  • Discovering your story and learning how to tell it the right way to the right people
  • The importance of using authentic story-driven marketing and how this type of marketing can help grow your practice
  • Using video to tell your story, gain credibility, and engage with patients
  • Why you need a stand-out website to catch patient’s attention

Want to learn more about Studio 8E8?

Head over to the Studio 8E8 website to find out how they can help you bring your story to life!

To listen to this episode of the podcast, go to: deliveringwow.com/178

May 28, 2020

Waiting rooms are far from being the most exciting places in the world. However, there is a way that you can make your practice’s waiting room entertaining, educational and even (dare we say it) fun for patients.

On this exciting episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Michael Sernik, the CEO of Channel D, a company that creates fun, engaging, and customizable videos to play in your dental office reception area. Their bite-sized videos are high-quality and designed to stimulate interest in the treatments your practice provides. You can even customize videos to incorporate things like your team’s photos, names, logo, and a call to action that drives engagement and practice growth.

Channel D is so creative and unique. By showing short, fun, and informative videos to patients as they wait in your reception area, you can keep them entertained while showcasing a consistent message that educates patients on your latest treatment options. This is an incredible service that I highly recommend, especially if you want to make sure your patients come back to your practice for their next dentist appointment.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How Channel D was founded and what they are known for
  • How dental videos can create interest in your treatments
  • How to drive patients to accept treatment by focusing on the damaging result of the existing condition
  • The importance of using videos that contain emotional triggers and humanize the dentist
  • A brief overview of the process of working with Channel D
  • Tips to get patients to pay attention to your videos
  • How dental videos for your waiting room can help improve your team’s clinical knowledge

To listen to this episode of the podcast, go to: deliveringwow.com/177

May 26, 2020

Hi guys, I hope all as well wanted to come on today and tell you some really exciting news. We are, as many of you guys know starting our YouTube channel, which is dental boss TV, I am so excited about it. But actually wanted to share a little bit of the behind the scenes of getting started with this YouTube channel and why I decided to actually go ahead and create the channel. Okay, so today is all about how I decided to start a YouTube channel, what we're going to be helping people with, and quite frankly, what I had to do to figure this thing out because as many of you have heard me talk about before, I don't know anything about YouTube. As you guys know, I love social media. I love Facebook marketing, but YouTube is something that I have not spent any time on. And so as I started to look at how can I help more people How can I do more teaching? How can I spread the word? I thought you know, what would be really cool is to create a YouTube channel, dental boss TV, where every week I could give a lesson, right? And it would be a quick lesson to be able to help you to grow your business. But the issue a few things is I did not quite know the tech. I didn't know the format of how to how to be able to communicate and teach effectively on YouTube because I've typically done it on Facebook or inside of our coaching programs. Or if I'm speaking on stage, and I actually did not understand the whole keyword thing, and all of that stuff. And so what I actually decided to do was to seek out some friends who had really great YouTube channels that had a lot of followers. followers that were doing exactly what I wanted. And so I reached out to one of my, one of my mastermind members in my inner circle. And he said, you know, you've got to speak to the sky, Scott. And so I spoke to Scott and decided before the end of the conversation, that he was going to be the one that was going to help me to launch my YouTube channel. And so what's been interesting is that you know, sometimes we are the teacher, and sometimes we are the students. And I went in and I said, Listen, I don't know, anything, but I know that I want to be able to have this opportunity to help. And I know that at first, it's going to maybe suck. And as I do it over and over again, it's going to get better kind of like when I did my first podcast if you go back For the first episode, it was pretty bad. And now I can get on and talk, you know, without, without any effort, right. And so I told him, I said, I know. The first episodes may not be as great as we're going to be. But I want to shortcut and fast track that time. And so if you can, if you can mentor me if you can coach me, I also know that I want really cool thumbnails. I want to be able to make sure that
the thumbnails are interesting and unique and it grabs people's attention so that they will want to watch the videos. And so what's been really cool is I actually hired him about a month ago. And so far, what we've actually done is I've actually done a complete photo shoot with him giving me the exact poses of what I would need to do for my thumbnails given me examples of Other people, he actually went in and did keyword research for, for our industry. Interestingly, he used to own a dental lab, and he's got a bunch of dentists and his family, which is awesome. So he already knows the dental space. But we actually created a plan of different categories or types of content that I would teach and looking at keywords of what people are searching for, what people need, where they're getting stuck, what dentists need help with, and that would allow me to be able to actually speak to what people are saying that they need help with, which is really cool. Now, there are so many lessons here because I, you know, I had a desire to do something. I didn't know how to do it. I essentially found someone who already had the knowledge I decided to know what This is my result, I want to shortcut my path. And so I said, you know, I'd love to hire you so that I can get your knowledge. And the lessons are that also because of that, I said, You know, I want an interesting thumbnail. And not only was he able to help me with that, but he was able to say, here are other poses or thumbnail photos that people have done, that have already worked have already been proven to work. Instead of me trying to figure it out. I'm literally in the photoshoot looking at all of these examples. And so as you are going to our YouTube channel, you're going to start to see these images that are created and these thumbnails and, and you'll be like, Oh gosh, I remember that. She said that she did that. The other really cool thing is, you know, having an expert. It was so cool because I didn't have to do the research. I didn't have to guess what people need help with. There are actually, you know, their systems already created of how to do that research. And having someone to step in and say, this is the plan, this is the system. Really, really easy for me to follow. And, you know, now we are actually going back to the past videos that we put on YouTube that have been more of an interview style. And for consistency, we're changing out those thumbnails. And he's given me instruction of how to train my internal team with delivering well to actually go in and up to update those images as well. So giving me instruction of how to train my team now. Why am I telling you all of this right? What was
the purpose of this story?
Number one is just to take you behind the scenes of what we're doing with our YouTube channel and why I decided to create it. But also, there are so many lessons and so many people come to me all the time and they say, Anissa How is it, that you're able to do so many things? Right? How is it that, you know, other people are trying to figure things out, and all of a sudden, it looks like you are already an expert. And the fact is that I'm really not an expert on YouTube. But one of the actions that I take and the action that people like us take, who get to results faster, is that we seek out the experts, we seek out the mentors, we are okay. with not being great at first and going ahead and doing it anyway. And constantly saying, This is what I did, how can I make it better? This is what I did. And what's really interesting as we started to look at the tech right and I'm so used to using my phone to do Facebook Lives, and You don't even use my phone right now for this podcast. And I, you know, have a nicer camera. But that's more of a learning curve right with video and transferring of files and different lenses. And I know that if I had to now incorporate that, in addition, to also all the other things that we're doing, which is do your photoshoot, and just start doing content if I had to now learn a new piece of technology, in order to get started, it might be a block. And so it was really important for me and decided to start this channel was thinking about what are the things that are going to keep me stuck from taking action and eliminating them and so although it would have been nicer for me to record with a DSLR camera, I knew that that would be a block for me, right? One thing that he recommended, you guys hear my dogs barking in the background. One thing that he recommended was that I actually record in my office, right instead of recording in my home office or recording, you know, out somewhere, he said, you know, it'd be really cool to record in your office. And so now I had to create a specific time where I can go into my office. And I found that time, right. So I said, You know what, I can go in on a Friday afternoon because we close the half-day, and I can record my videos then. And so it's just, the whole point of it is guys, like, whatever you want to achieve, right? Whatever you want to learn. Maybe it's going to be, you know, how do you build systems that will last How do you understand how to use social media, right now to be able to increase productivity or profitability, how to be able to improve case acceptance, right? Anything that you want to learn, right how to schedule effectively, how to become a better leader. There are always people there that have the knowledge. You know, maybe it's asking your friends, your colleagues, you know, who have you used that's been successful. You know, maybe it's making a post inside of our delivering wall movement, Facebook group for all of you who are dentists, right? Maybe it's seeking out maybe it's messaging me directly, and saying, Hey, I'm struggling with this. Can you help me with this? Or is there someone you recommend, right? Because there's always knowledge out there, you just have to. Once you make a decision that that's what you want. Then you just have to go ahead and get Started and so that's my message for you. Hopefully that's helpful for you and that serves you. As always, I really love connecting with all of you guys,
and I look forward to chatting with you guys on our next episode.

May 21, 2020

On this episode of the podcast, I’m thrilled to be joined by Jennifer Turner, our very own Dental Hygiene Profitability Coach at Delivering WOW.

Jennifer helps dental practices drive growth with key metrics, KPI's, scorecards, and business process improvement systems. Essentially, she gives you what you need to run a successful dental practice. Jennifer has had many incredible accomplishments throughout her career, including her former role as the Editor in Chief of Preventive Dentistry Canada, developing numerous webinars and authoring articles within the dental hygiene industry.

Nowadays, Jennifer’s primary focus is helping dentists get ‘the lightbulb moment’ where they learn to believe in themselves, grow their careers and scale their dental practices.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Who Jennifer is and what she’s accomplished throughout her career
  • Why Jennifer enjoys making dental professionals see that they are capable of achieving more
  • How Jennifer can help the hygiene department increase revenue
  • The importance of focusing on education to help scale your hygiene department

If you’d like to learn more from Jennifer and find out how you can grow, scale, and market your dental practice, consider joining the Delivering WOW Platinum Mastermind group, where Jennifer is an active coach and you’ll learn about practice growth, marketing, and so much more!

To explore other episodes and for more info go to: deliveringwow.com/176

May 19, 2020

Hi, guys. Wow, it has been a long time for one of the podcast in my car. And I'm super excited to be coming back on we have had so many changes over the last eight weeks in, in the world in dentistry in my practice and delivering Wow. And, boy, it's finally where I am coming up for breath. Prior to COVID-19. Of course we had our Delivering WOW Summit. And it's so interesting because the summit as the summit ended, which was on the Saturday, it was actually the Friday before that things started to shut down and we really all became aware of what was really happening. We had no idea where we would be today, but really interesting. The summer

It ended on Saturday a little bit early. And on Sunday morning, headed back home. And then Monday, I'm actually closeed my practice. And so it's been a really interesting few weeks. So I just wanted to catch you guys up on what has been happening and what we are currently doing, to make recommendations of how you can can reopen your practice and things that you should be focusing on. So, for the last eight weeks, we have been honestly working our butts off helping practices helping owners helping teams, many of you guys know of course that I'm the founder of the Platinum mastermind, we went into overdrive, realizing that doctors are going to need so much not only just supportive, what to do to work on their businesses, but just mental support, to be able to get them through this time.

And you know what we're working on was distractions honestly just working on your business.

We went into teaching virtual meetings, how to use zoom. We went into making sure that you knew how to effectively work on your business things you could work on just sharing a few things that we helped practices with.

was really looking at creating, for example, KPI calendar. So what are the things that you do daily, weekly and monthly?

That

that will allow you to have that checklist. So if you are hiring a new team member, or you are having a team member, that's out everybody has that checklist of what's done for each individual team member, we actually went a deep, deeper and a bit further for our practices that we had done these calendars with. We started talking to them about the power of documentation.

Documentation of exactly what you do. And so looking at, you know, for example, the 10 things that a scheduling coordinator does in a day writing down where the whatare the steps of each individual action item that you're doing. And if you have the ability to create recordings to talk through exactly what you do, or to even screen share how you are, how you're doing your different steps of your procedures really, really powerful. We went into showing you know how to save these videos, save these documents in folders within Google Drive and then organizing it within columns and different categories within Asana. So we started geeking out on some pretty, pretty amazing stuff. So that now practices have virtual SOPs or standard operating procedures.

We obviously had our virtual summit which allowed us to

restream our summit videos, which is really awesome our speakers really brought it this year and I think it's because they realize you know what they were there for a purpose and they were going to give and pour out all of themselves into the attendees who made a decision to

to fly in for the summit and so pretty, pretty dynamic event, we wind it up again, streaming that photo for three weeks on our delivering wall Facebook page is pretty, pretty awesome. We're able to get that

started pretty quickly. Of course, we had lots of videos and interviews with experts and hiring Virtual Console. I started teaching you know, marketing systems and then we we ended up having

over 900 practices join us in our Platinum mastermind gold program, which is I totally did not expect that but

What it really showed me is that doctors really understood the power of training and working on their businesses and they stood up and said yes, I need help me coaching. And so we opened up our platform we made major pivots and shifts. So in the past we have had our monthly marketing campaign service that provided

images and the copy or the words for Facebook ads, articles, etc. Monthly campaigns that included flyer suppose in the office and the newsletter words to send out to patients and all that stuff. You know, we have that service. We incorporated that into gold. We started having weekly challenges with that, that free access that we gave to those practices in gold. It was really cool again seeing them do their KPI calendars.

Seeing them create

a ton of engagement and grow their Facebook audiences, we actually worked on setting up Facebook audiences. And so many of them had so many people reaching out even during these times asking for appointments. So pretty awesome stuff. So where are we now we are essentially two months.

Two months in and practices are opening back up. And so what's going to be really important now is looking at how you schedule and block scheduling and how can you maximize your revenue and in the year really, really well. And I can tell you, I've been on vacation before for a month, come back and we still had our best year ever. And so I'm going to encourage all of you to be really strategic about cash flow, looking at historicals in terms of what were your production numbers, breaking it out down into services, you know, what was the revenue per service was

Is what was the collections historically? What were your expenses historically and really looking at planning? And saying, Okay, well, how fast can we not only get to where we were before, but how fast can we surpass the revenue that we had, because we do have a huge opportunity, we have a clean slate, in terms of a schedule. And so making decisions to look at our time and be very strategic about where replace patience is going to be huge to be able to determine the revenue that we have and how we end the year. And so what I'm recommending is that you look at time blocks, and the only thing that gets placed into those time blocks are specific services. So and the services are based on on revenue, right? So if you have a time block for an hour, and you're able to do four fillings in an hour, then that's what you're doing.

going to want to do so making time blocks where you're either doing a crown, or you're doing four fillings or you're doing a root canal, anything that allows you to be able to predict your revenue for that hour, it's going to be significant. Also, looking at hygiene, once you're able to start bringing in your hygiene patients, and looking at scheduling those, those perio patients, it's going to be really, really

important because those patients are the ones who need the most help, right? They have active infection, many of them and disease and so we want to make sure we prioritize those, those patients and then again, being strategic about placing them on our schedule in those blocks will ensure that we're able to be

be able to predict

our revenue. So really, really powerful stuff.

One thing that we have to look at as well

With the additional cost of PPV, and the shortage of appointments, the importance of really looking at getting patients in from multiple procedures per visit and letting them know, you know, we have many patients we're wanting to schedule, you know, when you're calling them and, you know, maybe they have three crowns that are unscheduled or they have seven fillings or, you know, five fillings and saying, we want to make sure that we give you priority, because this work, we know is really important that we get you scheduled for so we're giving you that call to give you priority to get you scheduled. But this is the thing, like once we schedule you, it might be a while before we can get you for your next visit. And and so what we're recommending that you do is do come in and do all of your treatment that you can in one visit, you know if you've got to look at financial arrangements, then look at that, but really it's going to be very powerful.

And the thing is that many people are working from home and they have flexible schedules. And so in the past, they might not have been able to do these longer appointments, but now they have the ability to do so. Which is, which is going to be very helpful for them. And then also in terms of your actual expenses in your, in your practice, if you're able to do three patients in a day instead of eight patients, and that's going to decrease the risk because you have fewer people in and out of your practice. You also have, you know, less time so you have to be breaking down cleaning down the rooms, less PP because you are with one patient for the day instead of six or seven. And so it's going to make more financial sense and even for the patient again, if they're having to come and do one filling, one filling, one filling the peep the PP for that, you know section of seven fillings is going to

be significantly higher than if they come in one visit. So definitely recommending that you have those conversations with patients in terms of multiple procedures in one visit. Alright, so hopefully this was super helpful for you. I have really missed doing these podcasts in my car. But I think it's a really great way to kind of take you behind the scenes of, of what we're doing, what's working, how we're helping people, and giving you some really clear tips in and ideas of how you can grow your business. All right. Hopefully that's helpful and we will chat soon.

May 14, 2020

I’m super excited to be joined by Jay Glazer and Howie Friedman from the Crazy Dental Price Club on this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast to talk about how you can save a lot of money on dental supplies.

Crazy Dental Prices is a dental company and manufacturer authorized dealer. They specialize in finding and offering guaranteed cheapest pricing and the very best in class logistics.

Founded in 1985, Crazy Dentist Prices has decades of experience helping dentists save money on essential supplies. The company operates as a member only service, granting dentists access to crazy low prices on all of their favorite brand name products.

On this episode, we discuss:

  • What Crazy Dental Prices is known for and how they help dentists save money on supplies
  • How Crazy Dental Prices can help you plan for profits
  • How to make purchasing supplies less stressful and less time-consuming
  • How to know if you need help from an account manager
  • Why you should seriously consider shopping for dental supplies with Crazy Dental Prices

To find out more about Crazy Dental Prices, check out their website and sign up today to start benefiting from their incredible service.

If you want to save 10% off your order with Crazy Dental Prices, use code WOW10 at checkout.

When you checkout with your first order that’s over $1000, use the code WOWLIGHT and Crazy Dental Prices will send you a FREE curing light!

To explore other episodes and for more info go to: deliveringwow.com/175

May 7, 2020

Have you ever worried about what would happen to your dental practice if you were unable to work?

Jordan and Bryan Brenner wanted to create a safety net for dentists so that they would be protected in their time of need. So, they co-founded Dental Safety Net, a company that connects dentists to help support each other during difficult times.

Dental Safety Net is a network of dentists and practitioners who are willing to go above and beyond for their fellow doctors. Their mission is to provide peace of mind for dentists and their families in times of need. If you have to unexpectedly stop working for whatever reason, Dental Safety Net has your back. They make sure that your business is protected as well as you and your family’s financial well-being.

In this episode of Delivering WOW, I talk to Jordan and Bryan Brenner about their company and how they can help dentists when life takes an unexpected turn.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How Bryan and Jordan launched Dental Safety Net
  • What Dental Safety Net is and how they can help give dentists peace of mind
  • The power of forming groups of dentists to support each other
  • What it’s like to be a member of Dental Safety Net
  • How Dental Safety Net has helped real dentists in difficult times
  • How to become a member of Dental Safety Net

To learn more about Dental Safety Net, you can visit their website or give them a call (206) 880-0513

To explore other episodes and for more info go to: deliveringwow.com/174

Apr 30, 2020

As dental professionals, we all want to provide the best care possible for our patients. But, it’s not just about your capability and skill as a dentist. Delivering ‘WOW’ to patients starts with the front office team and making sure patients have a great experience from the moment they schedule an appointment to the moment they leave the practice.

So, how can you make sure you’re delivering a WOW experience to each of your patients?

Joining me on this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast is Laura Hatch, the Chief Vision Officer at Front Office Rocks. Laura is committed to learning how to manage and empower team members. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Dental Office Managers, a national and international speaker for dental authorities like AADOM, Patterson, and Mid-Atlantic Dental Society, and has been recognized as one of DPR’s Top 25 Women in Dentistry for 2016.

She and her team at Front Office Rocks help dental practices train their teams in a way that makes sense for them. They focus on patient retention and carry out training online through videos and webinars, which means you can train your entire team whenever and wherever your staff learns best, desktop, phone, or tablet.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Tips to improve training processes in your practice
  • Why you should always schedule a time for training
  • The importance of investing in training
  • Why investing in your team is the best investment you’ll ever make
  • The connection between the front and back office of your practice

 

Want to learn more about Front Office Rocks and their training? Visit their website and discover how they can help change the way you train your team!

Don’t forget to grab a copy of Laura’s book, ‘Step Away from the Drill: Your Dental Front Office Handbook to Accelerate Training and Elevate Customer Service.’

To explore other episodes and for more info go to: deliveringwow.com/173

Apr 23, 2020

Are you thinking about creating a dental membership program for your patients?

Dental membership programs can help dentists better-serve their patients. But, this type of dental membership can also help generate predictable recurring revenue for your practice and in this episode of Delivering WOW, you’ll find out how.

I’m joined by the founder and CEO of BoomCloud, Jordon Comstock. BoomCloud is a dental membership software company that enables dentists to reduce dependence on dental insurance by creating an in-house membership program for their practice. They make it easy for dental practices to administer membership programs that generate recurring revenue, attract uninsured patients, retain patients and help increase case acceptance.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How BoomCloud helps dental practices build dental membership programs
  • How a dental membership program can help you to create and maintain an additional income stream for your practice
  • The benefits of building a dental membership program
  • Why patients want to sign-up for dental memberships
  • The problem with traditional dental insurance companies
  • How a dental membership can reduce your dependence on third-party insurance companies
  • How dental memberships help to increase patient loyalty and retention
  • A brief overview of monthly and yearly pricing plans

To find out more about creating Dental Membership Programs with help from BoomCloud, visit their website or email Jordon directly – jordon@boomcloudapps.com

You can also download Jordon’s eBook – How to Create & Grow a Dental Membership Program.

To listen to this episode of the podcast, click here.

Apr 16, 2020

Patients who have periodontal disease often struggle the most between office visits, which is why I invited Tanya Dunlap, the Managing Director at Perio Protect LLC, onto this episode of the Delivering WOW Podcast to talk about their non-invasive trays.

Perio Protect LLC use Perio Tray Therapy to give patients with periodontal disease an effective option with prescription tray delivery of a low concentration of hydrogen peroxide gel deep into periodontal pockets. Using this type of non-invasive tray therapy delivers treatment deep below the gum line, helping patients achieve much healthier gums.

Tanya joins me for a highly educational discussion about tray therapy, how you can help patients get healthier gums and how you can implement this type of treatment in your own dental practice.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How Perio Protect helps patients get healthier
  • What type of patients would really benefit from Perio Protect’s non-invasive trays
  • What makes the Perio Tray Therapy different to anything else on the market
  • How the Perio tray works and what drugs you can use with it
  • How to select patients to be a candidate for tray therapy
  • Financial aspects of Perio Protect’s Tray Therapy including insurance and billing information

To start implementing Perio Protect’s Tray Therapy treatment in your own practice, head over to providers.perioprotect.com or email support@perioprotect.com – remember to mention Delivering WOW to get the discounted rate and receive your first set of Perio Trays for FREE!

To listen to this episode of the podcast, click here.

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