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The currency of advertising and marketing – a choice you can make
Advertising The currency of advertising is CASH. If you throw enough money at the problem, you will get a result. Do you want to be page...

Chris Barrow
Jan 23, 20182 min read


Investing at the top end in your practice video – example #3
I’m frequently contacted by people who have products and services of relevance to my clients. For over 20+ years I have maintained a...

Chris Barrow
Jan 19, 20181 min read


Using You Tube to promote your practice to dentists and patients
My first question this morning is whether it would be useful to have 80 minutes of Chris Barrow, live and uncut, talking about: tips for...

Chris Barrow
Jan 12, 20181 min read


The right answer to the wrong questions
Up at 05:00 this morning and back into my weekday routine for the first time since Friday 23rd December (which feels like 3 months ago...

Chris Barrow
Jan 10, 20182 min read


What a former Chinese premier teaches us about marketing ROI
Back in the day, I spent 25 years in financial services, ultimately becoming one of Britain’s first fee-based financial planners. When it...

Chris Barrow
Dec 8, 20173 min read


Why even the best practices are only getting 2 out of 3 steps right with their internal marketing
Initially, it seemed there were two phases to getting dental practices focused on internal human interest marketing (and weaning them off...

Chris Barrow
Nov 30, 20173 min read


Why Black Friday could make a BIG difference to your December sales figures
With retail sales for the last 3 months dropping well below previous years and in the aftermath of a hard economic outlook in Tuesday’s...

Chris Barrow
Nov 24, 20173 min read


Reviews are growing in importance – what are you doing about that?
There’s a quiet war developing between Google and Facebook for our attention when it comes to both writing and collecting patient...

Chris Barrow
Nov 23, 20171 min read


Christmas is coming – and the goose is getting thin – what are you going to do?
Last week The Guardian newspaper reported that UK retail sales in September were at their lowest since 2009, an ominous sign that...

Chris Barrow
Nov 2, 20172 min read


Why you need editors and reporters in your dental practice
One of the more common mistakes I’m coming across in independent dentistry is the internal or external appointment of a person with the...

Chris Barrow
Oct 25, 20173 min read


30 Instagram posts this morning – did any capture my attention?
our new practice logo me in the pub with my mates me on a dental course my patient’s new lips my patient’s before and after full face my...

Chris Barrow
Oct 10, 20171 min read


The inexorable rise of Instagram and how to get the best out of your social media activity
At the beginning of 2017, pundits estimated that 31 million people in the UK had Facebook profiles, of which around 75% visit them every...

Chris Barrow
Oct 9, 20172 min read


What “the world’s greatest person” doesn’t seem to understand about branding
There’s a great comedy moment in the new Justice League movie where Bruce Wayne (Batman) is asked “so what’s your super power?” He...

Chris Barrow
Aug 4, 20173 min read


Marketing Plans are dead. Enter the Practice Growth Plan
“Marketing” is misunderstood and it’s costing you money. Marketing is not Advertising. Advertising – telling strangers how clever you are...

Chris Barrow
Jul 13, 20173 min read


Why telling people about your capabilities is pointless and what to do instead
There is little point in advertising a list of your capabilities to the public. Most of them don’t care: how experienced your clinicians...

Chris Barrow
Jul 6, 20172 min read


Why you simply cannot ignore Facebook in your internal marketing plan
A lovely message from Facebook this morning to thank me for being one of their community of 2 billion members worldwide. I’m arranging...

Chris Barrow
Jul 5, 20172 min read


Why measuring the ROI on your advertising is much harder than you think
There is never a week goes by that I’m not asked how to measure the Return on Investment (ROI) from digital and direct advertising. At...

Chris Barrow
Jun 28, 20173 min read


How on earth can you find out whether your marketing is working or not?
The answer to the question depends on what type of marketing you are doing: External marketing – shouting at strangers either in print,...

Chris Barrow
May 31, 20171 min read


The Unsupervised Algorithm
This morning’s news about Google (that they are losing big corporate advertising accounts following the revelation that those same...

Chris Barrow
Mar 20, 20172 min read


The Message and The Method
Two questions to ask yourself. Question 1 – what is our message? It is no longer adequate to answer “our message is that we are...

Chris Barrow
Dec 19, 20161 min read
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