How To Break Up With Your Dental Marketing Company
What goes around comes around, they say, and we thought it was time for these questions to make an encore appearance. If you don’t have a dental marketing company, the odds are that you will at some...
View ArticleHow To Break Up With Your Dental Marketing Company, Day 2
Continuing on from the previous post, here are questions 6 through 1o of SmartBox’s Top 10 Questions You Should Ask Your Marketing Company… current or future. Do I own the website and all associated...
View ArticleGet All “A’s” On Your Dental Practice Growth Scorecard
The rise of the internet as the premiere marketing platform has created all sorts of metrics – so many, in fact, that it can be bewildering for dentists to try to figure out what truly matters when in...
View ArticleSmartBox’s “Save Your Back And Neck” Approach To Dental Practice Growth
Dental patients aren’t the only ones who often fear pain. Dentists themselves are right up there on the pain scale. The reason, of course, is that they spend far too many hours hunched over the chair....
View ArticleDental Practice Growth Tools You Need
With competition for new dental patients at an all-time high, savvy practice owners will take advantage of every effective tool to influence more quality patients to choose their practices. Attracting...
View ArticleProtect Your Dental Practice Schedule
One thing that SmartBox hears from dentists across the country is that they’re busy. In fact, most of them complain of being slammed with patients. That might sound like a good thing, but it’s not. In...
View ArticleThis Time, It’s War: ADA vs. SmileDirectClub
On June 27th of this year, the American Dental Association filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against SmileDirectClub (SDC), alleging substandard provision of services as well as...
View ArticleThe Path To Dental Success Is “Academic”
SmartBox is happy to announce the debut of the SmartBox Success Academy. This is a game-changer for dental practices at every level. Our online, on-demand, video-driven, practice growth curriculum is...
View ArticleIs Your Dental Practice Prepared For ALL The Threats?
On August 30, the media reported that ransomware attacks had hit some 400 dental practices across the United States, crippling their ability to function. As of that date, roughly 100 practices were...
View ArticleWhat Is The Sound Of One Dental Practice Thriving?
Bonus points (and one-handed applause) if you recognized the play on the Zen koan (teaching riddle), “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” This isn’t a riddle, though. Thriving dental practices...
View ArticleBottom-Line Growth For Dentists
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you know that SmartBox Dental has gone through a number of evolutions. Rather than recapping all of those stages here, suffice it to say that...
View ArticleAre You Sure Of Anything About Your Dental Marketing?
There are a few dentists in the United States who are absolute masters of marketing a dental practice. That’s a few out of some 120,000 dentists. Odds are, you’re not one of those fortunate few. In...
View ArticleYou’re As Good As Your Dental Practice Growth Tools
Growth-minded dentists know that they can’t afford to miss a single trick. That’s particularly true in markets with high levels of competition, especially corporate or large group practices. Growing...
View ArticleWhen Technology Is Not The Dentist’s Friend
The dental profession is definitely a technical and even demanding one. Nevertheless, it’s fairly easy for dentists to stay abreast of changes in the equipment, materials, and best practices of...
View ArticleWhat To Expect On A SmartBox Practice Growth Call
If you’re thinking about contacting SmartBox to explore the dental Practice Growth Services we offer, prepare yourself for a very agreeable experience. It’s essentially a two-part process: determine...
View ArticleDentists Who Do It Their Way
It’s a truism in the dental industry that the only path to success lies in getting more and more new patients. Back in the Golden Age of dentistry, that might have been true, but it certainly isn’t...
View ArticleThese Are Not The Dental Patients You’re Looking For
Unless yours is a highly specialized practice, routine dental exams are a fact of life. It’s a very necessary procedure, but it’s one that can become mind-numbing when most of your day consists of...
View ArticleDentist, Beware: More Is Not Always Better
This post originally appeared in August, 2017… but it’s still accurate. In the hyper-accelerated world of search engine optimization, that’s a rarity and means this is very important. Avoid this...
View ArticleWhat’s Yours? Dental Practice Growth, That Is
Like any other non-demographic group, dentists have varied expectations of what they want to achieve in their profession. Providing good care for their patients is probably the only universal....
View ArticleIs Your Dental Practice Prepared?
Not to go all doom and gloom, but economic booms always give way to contractions. In some cases, they give way to recessions. Did you know that the federal government has cleared the way for more...
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