Heather Nottingham, VP of Training and Phone Skills Instructor at All-Star Dental Academy, joins the show to discuss sizzling-up phone skills. Heather has over 24 years worth of customer service, training, and phone skills experience and designed the All-Star Dental...
Every role in the office is important in a dental practice, but success starts and ends with the dental front office training. The front office represents the practice to potential patients who call in. It’s where your existing patient's schedule appointments, and the...
For lasting success, the New Patient Phone Call is one of the most critical systems you need to optimize. Beyond the obvious reason – that you MUST get new patients into your practice – there is a lot more to “success” on new patient calls than just getting...
Or... Does this happen in your practice? DON'T Let Phone Mistakes Cost you a Million Dollars in Patient Life-Time-Value Revenue "We used to see around 65 to 70 new patients a month. After training with All-Star, we see about 250 new patients a month!"-- DR. CLYDE...
How to Make Sure Callers WON’T Make an Appointment DON'T Do This When You Answer the Phone: A Million Dollars in Patient Life-Time-Value Lost From Phone Call Mistakes Failing to convert new patient phone calls is costing your dental practice literally HUNDREDS OF...
We all know how frustrating it is to have canceled, broken appointments, or no-shows on your schedule. The Problem: From speaking with hundreds of dentists and team members each year, we know that cancellations are one of the biggest, if not the biggest, issues...
We've been talking recently about monitoring your practice's performance. Taking a close look at different practice data - payroll, overhead, production, case acceptance, etc - yields what practice managers, coaches, consultants, and others call Key Performance...
Most businesses, especially small and medium enterprises (including private dental practices) are still feeling the effects of poor dental staff training. In such circumstances, most businesses focus on survival and reduce funding to anything that seems non-essential....
Although a potential patient may discover your practice through the internet or personal contact, most prospective patients will get in touch with your dental office on the phone. Your receptionist will have to manage the appointments of existing patients through the...
Many dentists believe that all their revenue problems lie with case acceptance. But there is an interesting financial reality that parallels the patient journey from first contact through case presentation, case acceptance, treatment and follow-up. Essentially, there...
Training mistakes to avoid include a reliance on the two "S Words." The first word is “selling.” Selling mean to impose on someone to have them to do something you want. Good at business? A focus on manipulating a patient is a losing proposition. Yes, as a dentist you...
A critically important challenge for a dental practice is banishing broken appointments. There is nothing more insidious than a patient failing to show up. When you combine the time and energy spent preparing for the appointment with the inability to recover the lost...
"The five-star reviews are rolling in and the phones are ringing off the hook!" - Dr. Jennifer Wayer
1. Get QUALITY patients without selling
2. Banish broken appointments
3. Reduce turnover by 25%
