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Getting exactly what you paid for
By pure coincidence I caught the first evening off-peak train from Euston to Stockport last Friday and the first morning off-peak back...

Chris Barrow
Dec 12, 20162 min read
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Food and Think
Food I fell off the Paleo nutrition tracks about 3 months ago and have steadily allowed the dreaded yet delicious carbs back into my...

Chris Barrow
Dec 8, 20162 min read
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The Forum for Independent Dental Entrepreneurs
On Saturday at one of my favourite London CPD venues Seminars at 38 I attended the inaugural meeting of FIDES. A total of 16 in actual...

Chris Barrow
Dec 5, 20162 min read
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Your destiny
In his celebrated work, The E-Myth Revisited, author and business coach Michael Gerber (inspiring me by still going strong at age 80)...

Chris Barrow
Nov 30, 20163 min read
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BUPA buys Oasis – and SCRTM
Rather inconsiderate, if I may say so, to issue the press release on the Friday morning that I’m frantically attempting to complete my...

Chris Barrow
Nov 18, 20162 min read
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10 top tips for 2017 in a 10-minute video blog
When you have pressed the play button just allow 30-seconds for the video to load – be patient!

Chris Barrow
Nov 10, 20161 min read
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Your monthly management meeting agenda
Chatting to a Principal last night about her 3-year business strategy (a former client), she asked me “Chris are you just dealing with...

Chris Barrow
Oct 13, 20161 min read
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What are they searching for?
It is always worth a monthly check on Google Analytics to discover what the visitors to your web site were searching for when they began...

Chris Barrow
Oct 11, 20162 min read
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Avoiding camels
Don’t shoot the messenger but someone famously said that if a committee were convened to design a horse, it would end up a camel –...

Chris Barrow
Oct 10, 20162 min read
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BDIA 2016
20 years ago I walked into my first Showcase at Birmingham NEC, spent the day wandering around, met one person I knew (Jeff Caddick,...

Chris Barrow
Oct 6, 20161 min read
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How not to be a d&*k through your dental career (a.k.a. what’s coming next for young dentists a
On Monday 10th October Chris Barrow and Colin Campbell have been invited to speak to a group of new graduates at a charity event in...

Chris Barrow
Oct 3, 20162 min read
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Effective versus Efficient
Today I’ll be working with a former client who has asked me back in (after a break of some years) to work on a business and personal...

Chris Barrow
Sep 29, 20162 min read
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Your Digital Reputation
In 1995, software engineer Craig Newmark created a private email distribution list to keep his friends informed on local events in the...

Chris Barrow
Jun 20, 20163 min read
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Gathering clouds
A dental business is now offering £5.75 per UDA to associates, as quoted by Kevin Lewis in his excellent presentation on matters...

Chris Barrow
Jun 14, 20162 min read
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Beyond the Laptop Lifestyle
Nicola Cairncross and Judith Morgan co-host a weekly Podcast called Own It! Your Business AND Your Life. After nearly a year and a half...

Chris Barrow
Jun 2, 20161 min read
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The Cognitive Dental Practice
Reading my latest issue of Wired magazine on the flight back from Portugal last night, I noticed an advertisement by IBM for “the...

Chris Barrow
May 16, 20162 min read
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How to get noticed.
Did you see the BBC News story CLICK HERE about the mystery war veteran whose photograph has gone globally viral? I’m not going to repeat...

Chris Barrow
Apr 15, 20162 min read
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The Chris Barrow Mentoring System – Part #1
The 10X SOI Digital Marketing System Over the next few weeks I’m going to create 4 posts, highlighting the areas of work in which I’m...

Chris Barrow
Apr 4, 20164 min read
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Survival Kit
The Island with Bear Grylls began its third (UK) season on Monday night and I found myself shouting at the TV screen again as unwise...

Chris Barrow
Mar 30, 20162 min read
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The 4 “F” Words in corporate dentistry
The fact that I joined my friend Gary Chapman from Portman Healthcare for our annual Christmas dinner last night (at the delightful...

Chris Barrow
Feb 18, 20164 min read
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