📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/year-one-playbook
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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52 episodes. Hundreds of conversations. One dental practice that grew from $200,000 a month in collections to nearly $750,000.

In this anniversary documentary, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird revisit the moments that mattered most, pulling the most insightful clips from across 52 episodes and connecting them into a single framework for practice growth. This is the full story, told in the words of the conversations that built it.

If you have been following along, you will recognize some of these moments. If this is your first episode, this is the best place to start.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌 Why most dental practices plateau and what separates the ones that break through
📌How systems create predictable growth (and what happens when you skip them)
📌 Turning opportunities into accepted treatment without pressure or guesswork
📌Why the patient experience is your most powerful marketing strategy
📌 How to scale without losing the culture and care that made your practice great

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
01:22 Lesson 1: Growth Starts with the Owner
11:21 Lesson 2: Systems Create Predictable Growth
22:17 Lesson 3: Turning Opportunities into Accepted Treatment
36:12 Lesson 4: The Patient Experience Becomes Your Greatest Marketing Strategy
47:20 Lesson 5: Scaling Without Losing What Made You Successful
60:03 Lesson 6: The Biggest Lessons We Learned After 52 Episodes

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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Dr. Blake Hamblin was stuck at $200K a month and couldn't figure out why the ceiling wouldn't break. Then one month, his single-location GP practice nearly hit $750K in collections. Now he and Gary Bird are reverse-engineering exactly how it happened, so you can apply the same framework to your best month and make it repeatable.

🔍 What you'll learn in this episode:
📌 Discover how Dr. Blake scaled from $200K to nearly $750K in a single month at one location
📌 Calculate the hygiene-to-doctor production ratio that signals whether your team is pulling their weight
📌 Build daily production targets by provider so your associates stop guessing and start growing
📌 Learn the "Who Not How" principle that separates dentists stuck in the chair from owners building real practice growth
📌 Understand why stepping back from clinical production is the only path to hitting $1M a month

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamlin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 Introduction and Dr. Blake's Practice Success
03:20 Reaching $750K in a Month: The Mindset
05:17 Key Metrics for Practice Growth
10:07 Reverse Engineering Your Revenue Goals
14:08 Team Development and Mentorship
17:45 Optimizing Practice Capacity
20:02 Delegation and Systematization
22:12 Financial Planning and Risk Management
23:15 Time Management and Prioritization
25:47 Long-term Vision and Adaptability

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🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/ppo-growth-bundle
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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If you're in-network and feel like the walls are closing in, you're not imagining it. Insurance reimbursements keep shrinking, overhead keeps climbing, and the dentists who are winning aren't escaping the PPO game. They're playing it smarter with three specific systems most practices never build.

🔍What you'll learn in this episode:
📌Why your front desk is quietly screening out new patients while you stress about collections
📌The loss-aversion treatment framework that closes $20,000 cases without feeling like a sales pitch
📌How to present a filling-to-implant stair-step that makes patients say yes before they object
📌The patient financing move that converts an $8,000 case into $400 a month and removes the insurance conversation entirely
📌Why 10-15 minutes of daily TC training is the highest-leverage activity in your practice right now

Hosted by Gary Bird and Dr. Blake Hamblin, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 The Broken Dental Business Model
04:05 Training for Success in Dentistry
08:38 Effective Treatment Presentation
12:58 Financing Options for Patients
17:10 Building a Supportive Dental Community

🎧 Listen on:
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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://hubs.la/Q04lDhgr0
🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://hubs.la/Q04lFKjX0
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Thinking about going out of network, but worried about losing patients?

In this special My Dental Playbook episode, Gary Bird and Dr. Blake Hamblin share the exact systems that helped Blake grow from 20 new patients per month to more than 100, all while building a thriving fee-for-service practice. They break down the marketing, patient communication, financing, membership plans, and operational strategies that make the transition successful.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌Why PPO write-offs may be costing your practice more than you realize
📌The marketing systems you should build before dropping insurance
📌How to answer insurance questions without letting insurance control the conversation
📌The role Google reviews, patient experience, and internal marketing play in predictable growth
📌How membership plans and patient financing reduce dependence on PPOs 
📌A practical roadmap for transitioning out of network while continuing to grow your practice

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 - Introduction and the “Insurance Trap”
01:32 - Success Story: Transitioning to Out-of-Network
05:34 - Why This Matters Now: Declining Reimbursements and Rising Costs
06:47 - The Hidden Costs of PPOs and the Write-Off Math
10:19 - Shifting Write-Offs into Growth: Marketing and Membership Plans
24:44 - The Power of Patient Financing
28:03 - Marketing Engines: Internal and Local Visibility
37:25 - Case Content and Community Trust
41:29 - Avoiding Common Marketing Mistakes
48:02 - Advanced Targeting and Data Mapping
50:16 - Maximizing Google Reviews
55:01 - Phone Mastery: Redirecting Scripts and Handling Objections
01:04:44 - Words That Matter in the Chair
01:08:46 - The Future of Dental Practice
01:13:58 - Transitioning Out of Network: A Step-by-Step Guide

🎧 Listen on:
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→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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If patients keep saying they need to "think about it," your problem probably isn't pricing. It's how treatment is being presented.

In this special training episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin, his lead Treatment Coordinator Paige, and Gary Bird walk through the exact patient financing system that's helped dramatically improve treatment acceptance, increase collections, and create a better patient experience.

From scripting and financing conversations to handling objections and phased treatment, you'll learn the practical process high-performing practices use every day to help more patients move forward with care.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌 Why doctors should focus on the clinical conversation while treatment coordinators own the financial conversation
📌The patient financing script that makes treatment feel more affordable without discounting
📌 How to answer common financial objections using the "Four Promises" framework
📌 Ways to handle denied financing, low approval amounts, and phased treatment plans without losing the patient
📌 Why scripting creates more natural conversations and higher treatment acceptance
📌 How patient financing helps practices increase collections while shifting the conversation away from insurance

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, with special guest Paige, Treatment Coordinator at Hamblin Family Dentistry, sharing the communication systems and patient financing strategies their team uses every day to improve case acceptance and collections. 

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 - Roles in the Treatment Process 
04:31 - Effective Financial Presentation
06:01 - Intentional Verbiage and the Financing Script
08:58 - The Application Process and Managing Denials
10:25 - The Importance of Scripting and Team Training
13:00 - Handling Financial Questions: The Four Promises
15:05 - Monitoring Treatment Acceptance Rates
16:14 - Navigating Low Approval Amounts
22:05 - Sidestepping Insurance Conversations
24:24 - Long-term ROI and Growth Strategy
26:40 - Managing Large, Multi-Step Treatment Plans
33:07 - Optimizing Appointment Flow and Timing
35:55 - Maintaining Control of the Financing Process
42:30 - Why Choose Cherry Financing?
45:53 - Auditing the Patient Experience

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/run-effective-meetings
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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If your payroll is creeping past 30% and you keep saying yes to raises you can't afford, the problem isn't your team, it's the system you're missing. Christian Mullin, a Virginia Beach practice owner who scaled from $1.1M to $2.6M+ while doubling his team, breaks down exactly how to stop avoiding the conversation and start leading it.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌Reframe every raise request into a value conversation using 3 specific questions
📌Build tiered pay bands with real accountability, including downward movement 
📌Use scorecards and 1-on-1s so raises are earned, not demanded 
📌Track the 3 hygiene metrics that actually predict SRP production and collections
📌 Make practice economics transparent so your team connects effort to compensation

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 - The Challenge of Giving Raises
03:14 - Connecting Raises to Value Creation
08:25 - Implementing Career Tiers and Responsibility
09:23 - The Importance of One-on-Ones and Scorecards
10:30 - Establishing Effective Hygiene Metrics
12:25 - Leadership and Accountability
15:53 - Tracking Non-Clinical Metrics
16:50 - Simplifying Focus with Departmental Metrics
18:34 - Leading vs. Lagging Indicators in Hygiene

Connect with our Guest Here: ⤵️
Website: https://www.shoresmilesva.com/

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→ Give us 5 stars ⭐ if this episode helped

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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Most dentists assume you need a wealthy market to build a thriving practice.

Dr. Michael McKay proves the opposite.

After buying a struggling Medicaid practice for just $240,000 in one of the poorest counties in Washington, he transformed it into a thriving multi-doctor practice that now attracts 120 new patients every month.

In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin, Dr. Michael McKay, and Gary Bird break down the strategies behind that growth, including:

📌 How to attract more new patients, even in a rural market with limited population growth 
📌 Why patient financing, membership plans, and the right offers can dramatically increase case acceptance
📌 The key numbers every dentist should track to improve profitability and build long-term practice value

If you're trying to grow your dental practice, increase profitability, improve patient retention, or build a stronger fee-for-service model, this episode is packed with real-world lessons you can apply immediately.

Subscribe for more dental marketing, practice growth, patient acquisition, and business strategies that help dentists grow faster.

What We Discuss: 
00:00 - Advantages of Rural Dental Practices
08:26 - Patient Financing Strategies
10:55 - Multimodal Marketing and Capacity
13:13 - Conversion Rates: Insurance vs. Cash Patients
15:58 - Shifting Skill Sets for the Modern Economy
17:43 - Knowing Your Numbers: The importance of using data and AI tools 
19:48 - Mentoring Associates and Practice Systems

Connect with our Guest Here: ⤵️
Website: https://www.selahcreekdental.com/

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🚀 Ready to grow your practice? Book a free strategy call with Gary Bird's team → https://bit.ly/3IXIN9D

🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
🚀Watch this Case Study: $293K to $610K… What They Fixed First
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Dentists are more overwhelmed than ever with coaching offers, and the cost of choosing wrong can be massive. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird expose the hidden traps in the coaching industry and reveal how the right guidance can unlock fast growth. If you’ve ever wondered whom to trust, this episode gives you the clarity you’ve been missing.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌How one practice jumped from $100K → $200K in 3 months with the right coaching
📌The 5 coaching traps that quietly drain time, money, and momentum
📌Why the size of your problem determines whether coaching works
📌How to vet a coach using people who’ve already achieved what you want
📌Why coaching isn’t a quick fix, and the mindset shift dentists must make to grow

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 Is Dental Coaching a Scam?
01:58 Finding the Right Coach
08:09 The Importance of Problem Size
10:44 The Role of a Coach
12:41 Long-Term Commitment to Coaching

🎧 Listen on:
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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/google-reviews-toolkit
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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A single negative Google review can feel like a punch to the gut. Dentists often worry that one unhappy patient could damage their reputation, hurt new patient flow, and slow practice growth. In this episode, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird reveal why the way you respond to criticism matters far more than the criticism itself and how negative reviews can actually become a powerful marketing asset.

🔍What you’ll learn in this episode:
📌Discover why patients often trust a lower rating more than a perfect http://5.0
📌 Learn the response framework Dr. Blake uses across 1,300+ Google reviews
📌Avoid the common mistake of changing systems for the 5% of patients who create problems
📌Build a review strategy that helps bury negative reviews with consistent positive feedback
📌 Improve dental marketing visibility by leveraging service-specific reviews for Invisalign, veneers, and more

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices.

Subscribe for weekly playbooks that help dentists grow faster, lead better, and build a practice they love.

What We Discuss:
00:00 Introduction to Negative Google Reviews
02:26 The Mental Impact of Negative Reviews
07:10 Responding to Negative Reviews
09:19 Turning Negative Reviews into Opportunities
14:07 Burying Bad Reviews with Good Ones
15:53 Leveraging Reviews for Business Growth

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

#DentalMarketing #DentalPodcast #PracticeGrowth #MyDentalPlaybook

📥 Free Resource: https://go.mydentalplaybook.com/resources/5-pillars-before-opening-location-2
🚀Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist! It schedules better than humans: https://hubs.la/Q04mc4V_0
🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/496YYLb
🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind: https://shorturl.at/AenIt
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Too many dentists spend thousands on dental marketing without knowing whether poor results are caused by marketing, team execution, phone conversion, scheduling, or patient follow-up. In Part 2 of this conversation, Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird break down the five pillars every dentist should use to diagnose where growth is really breaking down and how top-performing practices create accountability across both marketing and operations.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
📌Discover the 5 pillars that separate marketing problems from operational problems
📌Learn the KPI scorecard top-performing practices used to track new patients and growth
📌Identify whether your biggest bottleneck is marketing, phone conversion, scheduling, or team accountability
📌Understand why successful practices meet with their marketing team every month
📌Stop relying on vanity metrics and focus on the numbers that actually drive collections and practice growth

Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, sharing real strategies from real practices, backed by data from 1,195+ dental offices and Blake's journey from $200K to nearly $500K per month in production.

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What We Discuss:
00:00 Preparing for Expansion: The Importance of Systems
01:56 Understanding Profitability Before Scaling
06:20 Marketing Strategies for New Locations
09:09 The Role of Leadership in Multi-Location Practices
15:00 Attracting and Retaining Dental Talent

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🙌 About the Show:
My Dental Playbook gives you real strategies to grow your dental practice from a dentist who's actually doing it! We cover everything: financially, operationally, mindset and clinically. Hosted by Dr. Blake Hamblin and Gary Bird, each episode delivers a new play you can run to get results with your team.

⬇️HOSTS INFO⬇️
🧑🏼‍⚕️Dr. Blake Hamblin:  Doctor/Practice Owner at Hamblin Family Dentistry
🌐Website: https://hamblinfamilydentistry.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blake.hamblin

🐐Gary Bird: Founding Owner at SMC National, a Dental Growth Partner
🌐Website: https://thegarybird.com/
👋Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegarybird

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