Want a simple, no frills method of estimating profit each month?

Keep a consistent cash reserve in the operating entities checking account and transfer out the excess each month.

For example, if cash reserve is 25k and you ended the month with 125k, you would transfer out

I try to stick to mostly business stuff on here but had a clinical win that made me so happy today.

One of my son’s best friends had seen another orthodontist who recommended a surgery for his lower impacted canine.

I saw him for a second opinion.

Instead of going straight

I need a recommendation.

Who can make a super high quality video like this but specifically for our practice?

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Hey Christian Ruf 🚁 , how’d I do on this Mother’s Day brisket?

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Not gonna lie. A lot of orthodontists in this category.

Just chilling, making 1 milly in profit a year on 3 days a week of work.

You don’t always have to conquer the world.

Took the whole team for pedicures today.

Never seen so many ear to ear smiles.

Take care of your team and they’ll take care of you.

The 5 stages of the New Patient Acquisition process

1. Lead Generation
This is all your marketing. Paid ads, SEO, community marketing, signage, Spotify.
KPI- Cost per lead

2. Scheduling
Most dental patients still call the office to schedule. But online scheduling is growing

Public service announcement

If you’re going to a conference, don’t wear your name tag all over town.

Dude was still wearing his AAO name tag while pumping gas at the freeway.

Don’t be that guy!

Anyone else at the AAO?

I’m excited for Parker.

I dropped 6k hiring 2 digital marketing candidates with Pavago.

One has been on the job for a month and is absolutely crushing it. The other started about a week ago.

Payroll is around 20% of collections in dental (not counting associates). The chance

Anyone able to help Steven out?

We use open dental so I don’t think we run into this problem.

We have been using Moolah/Crown because it will write everything to open dental.

I make a payment plan in crown and 2 seconds later, it appears in open dental, allocated to the

All right, we’ve been renting this house out for 2 years now. Renters just let us know they don’t want to renew the lease.

Property manager thinks we can bump rents up $100. We’ll see how quickly we can get it rented again.

Anyone have questions?

Saturday mornings I take my boys 7 and 10 to the gym.

Trying to get them hooked on the iron game.

You gain so much confidence when you put the time in at the gym.

How old were you when you started resistance training?

Problem: We weren’t getting new orthodontic patients over to the general dental side at a high enough rate.

Solution: $10 Amazon card for a team member every time they schedule an existing ortho patient or family member for GP.

We probably won’t keep doing this forever, but

How do you track conversion rate on incoming new lead phone calls?

I’m not currently tracking this and I need to get started.

Would be ideal if I can track by phone so I know which team members are underperforming/overperforming.