Get Off the Dental Treadmill Podcast: Great Dentistry by Dentists Who Lead

Understanding that while your expertise are going to be what gets your business off the ground however, you actually practicing Dentistry, might not be what scales it. Today we sit down with Steve Parker to discuss the process of scaling, and how that actually looks for you, the Dentist, and Business owner.

Jacob Puhl started started Firegang Dental Marketing in 2010, building that company up to one of the most successful marketing companies in dentistry; he left in 2016, having helped thousands of dentists build practices new patients love. In 2016 Jake met Marc Cooper and they founded the Dentist Entrepreneur Organization (DEO). As current President and CEO of the DEO, Jake works exclusively with emerging-market group dental practices by building a community of like-minded group practice owners.

How is being part of a PPO hurting you? Lois Banta and I dive into the web that is PPO insurance, what it means to you, how it effects you, and how it effects your patients.

Lois Banta is CEO, President and Founder of Banta Consulting, Inc., a company that specializes in all aspects of dental practice management.  Lois has over 32 years of dental experience and consults and speaks nationally and internationally.

Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, and Top Tier Skill Sets. These are just a few things that the influx of women into dentistry will bring. Anne is helping Dentists get their ideal lifestyle out of their business, and shines a light on several new ways to understand what is happening in multiple aspects of dentistry.

Dr. David Rice is the Founder of the nation’s largest student and new dentist community, igniteDDS and he travels the world speaking, writing and connecting today’s top young dentists with tomorrow’s most successful dental practices. He also maintains a team-centered, restorative and implant practice in East Amherst, NY. With 23 years of practice in the books, he has completed curriculums at the Spear Center, The Pankey Institute, The Dawson Center and the school of hard knocks…

Dr. Wayne Kerr earned Mastership in the Academy of General Dentistry and was honored in 2011 with its presentation of the Life Long Learning and Service Recognition Award.

He has been awarded Fellowship in both the American and International Colleges of Dentistry, as well as the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Implementing processes allows the leader of the organization (You) to be able to step away from certain areas of the business and focus on what you are best at. This also allows for real, and substantial growth to occur, which only happens when the team as a whole is capable to make decisions on their own. Putting processes in place to allow this to happen is simply the best way, if not the only way, to grow your practice in a way that allows you to make more money, in less time, and get off the treadmill!

What if we could make one of the most time consuming, tedious, and convoluted parts of running your practice, and streamline it to actually create operational efficiency?

Core Values, you might have it in mind that these are just for big companies with thousands of employees, but that couldn't be further from the truth! When IBM, or some other company with thousands of employees that has been doing this for 100 years hires 3 people, they pretty much get shoe horned into the position. When you hire your 10th person, if they are not a good fit with your team, that is 10% of your work force! It's time to get smart about designing a culture that pulls our practice in the...

Steve Parker is the President/CEO of The Profitable Dentist, LLC and Editor-In-Chief of The Profitable Dentist Magazine, where he brings a renewed energy to continuing the work of founder, Dr. Woody Oakes. Under his leadership, The Profitable Dentist has grown to be the nation’s most read periodical for dental practice owners, by delivering the kind of relevant, high-value content they demand at every transition point throughout their career, from student through retirement.