In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan is talking about growing on social media. A lot of people reach out to Dr. Yazdan about the same issue - they say their growth is slow and they want help gaining followers.

Dr. Yazdan is here to remind us - social media is a long game. The growth is slow. You’re not doing it wrong, you just have the wrong mindset. And she’s here to help you put things in perspective. Dr. Yazdan uses an analogy that a lot of people can relate to, to make her point.

She reminds us that more followers does not equal more business. Dr. Yazdan wants us to enjoy the journey and engage with the followers we already have. She explains why the number of likes you get and your metrics don’t really matter when you’re trying to grow a healthcare practice. She gives examples of other analytics within your business you can look at to gauge your social media success. She reminds us that growth comes in many forms. Dr. Yazdan uses a story from the beginning of her own social media journey to prove her point and inspire us to keep working toward our business goals through social media.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan is sharing a private workshop with all her listeners, as a thank you. This valuable workshop is titled Navigating Social Media During the Pandemic. This episode is different than most - it is a recording of a live training workshop held by Dr. Yazdan, in response to many questions about using social media for business during the current coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Yazdan thinks this is an integral time for your business to be on social media. She tells us the two things we should be trying to accomplish while on social media. Dr. Yazdan gives us the roadmap to growing our business on social media, with our unique goals in mind.

Dr. Yazdan shares her personal story of how she got started in her career and how she found success through social media. You can use Dr. Yazdan’s story to inform your own journey on social media. At the 13:00 mark Dr. Yazdan starts going into detail about actions that you should be taking on social media specifically to address the coronavirus pandemic. She gives suggestions on types of content you could post.

Dr. Yazdan goes into detail on how you should adapt your posts because of the current pandemic. She gives suggestions on how to connect with your ideal audience during this time. She helps us change the way we think about our posts in order to better serve our audience.

Dr. Yazdan uses well-known brands to solidify her point about building your brand. She defines what a brand is to help us understand how we can create the brand we intend on social media. She gives us questions to ask ourselves which will help us create quality content for our brand and audience.

Dr. Yazdan focuses on consistency and tells us several reasons why it’s so important. She gives us the perspective of our audience to show us the impact of consistency. She even has some tips for us to be able to stay consistent. Dr. Yazdan even takes things a step further and gives us brainstorming ideas for content creation which can be implemented immediately.

Join Dr. Yazdan at the end of the training session for a Q&A session while she answers questions from people around the country, and the world. You may hear a question you have as well, and will definitely get answers to questions you didn’t know you have.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan talks about building a strong team. She uses her personal experiences in her successful cosmetic dentistry practice to help us avoid mistakes she made early in her career. She now has a strong team she is very happy with, but that didn’t happen naturally.

Dr. Yazdan shares with us lessons she learned when she was first building her practice and hiring a team. She gives us tools and direction so we can avoid making the same mistakes. Listen to find out what Dr. Yazdan means when she tells us to hire people to execute solutions. This could be the advice that’s the turning point for your business.

If you implement Dr. Yazdan’s suggestions, you will save time and be a happier business owner in the long-term. She outlines steps you can take to help get you to your goals.

This episode also contains valuable tips and suggestions for hiring someone to help you with social media. If you are thinking of hiring someone to help you with social media, listen to this episode first.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan brings in Kiera Dent to talk to you about growing your business during the shutdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Kiera’s specialty is setting up processes & systems for healthcare businesses, primarily for dentists. They are here to discuss ideas for how you can strengthen your business during this time. Grab your paper & pen because you’re going to want to take notes during this one! Feel free to come back and listen as many times as you need to take it all in.

Kiera uses beautiful imagery to help us cope with the current changing landscape of our business and feel positive about this uncertain time. Kiera explains why the A-team’s motto of “We build practices on systems, not on people” works and why it makes things easier for everyone involved. Dr. Yazdan drives Kiera’s point home when she talks about accountability.

Lucky for our listeners, Kiera Dent is divulging her top 3 actions she would take to start implementing systems in an office right now. She explains how to get started and why you should do it this way. She gives direction on giving your team tasks and what you need to get done.

Dr. Yazdan and Kiera Dent talk best practices when it comes to implementing systems and processes with your team. They really break down their topics and get into the details of the “how and why” for each step.

Throughout this episode, Kiera shares valuable tips and information which have been proven to transform dental practices and healthcare businesses. Kiera and Dr. Yazdan are giving you answers to questions you didn’t even know to ask. This insider information from a business expert is invaluable.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Desiree Yazdan shares with us 5 things she has learned about running her own business. She is the owner/operator of a successful cosmetic dentistry practice in Newport Beach, CA where she sees patients from all over the world. She has grown, and continues to grow, her business through Instagram, and is here to help you do the same by sharing everything she knows.

Dr. Yazdan wants you to know how to do everything in your business. She explains why this is so important, even though it may seem overwhelming or unnecessary. She uses a poignant story to paint a very real and certainly scary picture of what was her reality. Dr. Yazdan also shows us how things can easily slip out of control if you delegate too much of your business to others.

Hiring can be a tough process for many healthcare practice owners. Dr. Yazdan understands this well. She tells us why we need to train our employees ourselves. She also explains the importance of having systems in place in the office. Dr. Yazdan shares her strategy for implementing systems, which can also be used as a tool to hold employees accountable and maintain consistency. Dr. Yazdan recognizes that this is not micro-managing and is instead about executing the specific, unique vision of the business owner.

Dr. Yazdan speaks a hard truth when she tells us that nobody cares about your business as much as you do, until you show them how to care for your business. And she helps us understand how to do just that. Dr Yazdan believes in the team mentality and office culture. She shares with us how she achieves a positive work atmosphere, for herself and her staff/coworkers.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan focuses on a common thing she hears from people when they say social media isn’t working for them - “I need more followers.” Dr. Yazdan wants you to know that you don’t need a large following to have a successful social media campaign for our business.

Dr. Yazdan gives some tough love regarding your following and how you are serving them. She points out that it’s not about the number of followers you have, it's about how many clients you are gaining. She wants you to focus on the people already in your community and focus on converting your current followers to clients, and she gives you ideas on how to do that.

If you’ve signed up for Dr. Yazdan’s Grow with the Gram program, everything is broken down in detail. Dr. Yazdan goes into some specifics here for those not yet enrolled. She wants us to use good photos and tells us why that’s important. Dr. Yazdan tells us why we need to be authentic in our social media postings. Dr. Yazdan takes it back to identifying your ideal patient and focusing on creating content for that person; she shows us why that strategy works so well. She tells us we need to show up consistently and uses an effective analogy to make this point. She explains how collaborating with others can be beneficial, when done right.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan is addressing COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. Being in the healthcare industry, Dr. Yazdan is talking to us about what we can do as healthcare professionals during this time. She has several ways for you to let your patients know how you are keeping them safe, as well as the staff and employees. She helps us put things in perspective and reshape how we think about perceived negativity. We also get ideas of how we can spend our time to further reach our goals and stay productive, even if the office isn’t open. Dr Yazdan points out why this is a great time to be on social media and interacting. She has a positive outlook and inspiring message we all need to hear.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan gets candid and analyzes her early career so we can learn from her. Dr. Desiree Yazdan gives us an inside-look at how her career has evolved and some things she does differently now as a result. Dr Yazdan has grown her successful cosmetic dentistry practice through social media and now that her practice is thriving, she is able to look back and reflect on how things have changed since the beginning. Dr. Yazdan is here to help you and doesn’t want you to make the same mistakes she did, so she is here to share 5 things she did when she was first starting out that she no longer does now that she has a busy practice.

Dr. Yazdan points out that the busier she gets, the more she has to say no. She uses a poignant quote to make this concept even more understandable. Things are put in perspective when Dr. Yazdan points out that when you are saying yes to one thing, you are saying no to something else. She uses examples to make this point clear and show why it’s important to be aware of.

Dr. Yazdan shares a personal story from when she was first starting out which we can all relate to. She takes that story and uses it to show us why this wasn’t the best decision, even though it felt like it at the time. She tells us why this wasn’t the best way, what she would do differently and how she does things now. Dr. Yazdan wants you to be strategic about how you spend your time and she gives us ways to do that.

It’s hard to believe that Dr Yazdan didn’t make all the right decisions when it comes to her social media campaigns and strategies, but she’s here sharing with us her mistakes so we don’t make them too. She talks about social media collaborations and gives insight on how to choose the collabs that are right for you. She also talks about social media partnerships and how to stay focused on the goal of your social media page. Dr. Yazdan also goes into product promotion and makes the distinction between talking about products you use versus marketing a product.

Dr. Yazdan goes into setting boundaries which can be directly applied to all health care professionals running their own business, but can also be applied to any field where there is a customer with a need. You don’t want to miss this valuable episode from Dr. Yazdan, packed with information and anecdotes you can use and learn from.

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In this episode of The Social Dentist Dr. Yazdan addresses a topic that comes up often - how to deal with negativity on social media. Dr. Yazdan starts the conversation by sharing the story of how and why she first decided to commit to growing her dental practice through social media, and some of the negative reactions she received. At 5:10 Dr. Yazdan gives valuable advice that you’ll want to remember.

Dr. Yazdan has strategies to deal with the hate that exists when you start marketing your business on social media and she is sharing them with us. She shares a personal story that shows that the way you deal with the haters could turn them into loyal followers. She then shares another story of how negativity can get out of control and what to do when that happens.

Dr. Yazdan puts things in perspective when it comes to negative comments on social media. She helps us view them as a good thing and reminds us to focus on the positives. Dr. Yazdan has the inspiring words we need to hear to block out the hate and tells us a story that shows how detrimental it can be if we do listen to the others’ negativity.

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Dr. Yazdan knows that juggling life as a healthcare professional can be hectic and feel hard, and that it may feel difficult to get everything done, especially social media. In this episode of The Social Dentist, Dr. Yazdan gives us advice on finding and making time in our busy lives to prioritize our social media strategy, in order to grow our business.

Dr. Yazdan explains how important prioritizing your time is and how that can help you further your goals. She also helps us actually map out our priorities. Dr. Yazdan debunks the idea of “a balanced life” and explains why that doesn’t work for her. She gives us insight into her personal prioritizing strategy so we can apply the same ideas to our lives. She even divulges how she likes to schedule her time to maximize on her priorities. Dr. Yazdan gives advice on how to be intentional with your time. She explains how important it is and how beneficial it can be.

Dr. Yazdan is sharing her secret on how she finds free time and enjoys it to the fullest, without being distracted. She makes it easy to understand and explains it in a way that we can easily apply it to our lives.

After listening to this episode of The Social Dentist, you’ll feel inspired to prioritize your time and make time to commit to your social media strategy. Dr. Yazdan is inviting you to take her Free Masterclass - How To Grow Your Business Using Social Media which is linked below.

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