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Getting your on-line message read
Inexorably, dental practice marketing and patient management is moving on-line. Everywhere I travel (and I travel everywhere), those who...

Chris Barrow
Apr 11, 20162 min read


The Picture on the Box
We’ve been offered a quarter page advert in a local lifestyle magazine – I have to give an answer by end of play today – should I say...

Chris Barrow
Mar 31, 20161 min read


Whiter than white
A date for your diaries here if Tooth Whitening is part of your marketing and product mix (or you want it to be a more valuable profit...

Chris Barrow
Mar 29, 20161 min read


Then there’s the “D” word
There is growing evidence that 2016 will be the year that the UK will evolve beyond Digital Marketing, Digital Smile Design and Digital...

Chris Barrow
Feb 19, 20163 min read


Then again – Apple don’t know everything…
You thought you had seen it all yesterday didn’t you? The Campbell Clinic Treatment Plan – “The Box”? Well, they went one further than...

Chris Barrow
Feb 4, 20161 min read


If Apple made dental treatment plans
Do you, like me, keep the packaging from your Apple products, simply because it is beautiful? Do you, like me, love the tactile...

Chris Barrow
Feb 3, 20161 min read


What are you selling?
Are you selling a thing or a relationship? “buy my thing” or “buy me” “buy us” “buy our values” Your thing is just a different thing from...

Chris Barrow
Jan 28, 20161 min read


The Friday guest blog – The Personalised Humble Brush
Hi Chris, I wanted to offer yourself, your clients and your partners, an interesting little opportunity with the Humble Brush...

Chris Barrow
Jan 22, 20161 min read


The four R’s and the currency of marketing
Recall The way in which you engage with your existing patients to tell them that you appreciate their loyalty; you would like them to...

Chris Barrow
Jan 20, 20162 min read


Increasing your marketing ROI
I’m going to repeat myself – something I said last week and have said many times. Every week I meet prospective clients who are throwing...

Chris Barrow
Jan 18, 20161 min read


Your recall system is rubbish
Imagine that you are called in to advise a friend on the marketing systems in her beauty salon. She tells you that there are three...

Chris Barrow
Jan 8, 20162 min read


Bio Emulation Edinburgh Event
Hi Chris Happy New Year. Hope you are well and the wrist is healing. I was wondering if you would consider promoting the Bio Emulation...

Chris Barrow
Jan 7, 20161 min read


Shareworthy
What happens to good news? The 2-minute John Lewis Christmas Advert 2015 has now been viewed on You Tube over 22 million times. If you...

Chris Barrow
Dec 17, 20152 min read


Priorities in marketing
Here’s what happens in most of the practices that I visit. Priority #1 – let’s try and find some strangers to come and see us Priority #2...

Chris Barrow
Dec 16, 20151 min read


How marketing channels have changed over the last 20 years
The marketing channels through which you attract new patients have undergone a dramatic shift in priority over the last 20 years....

Chris Barrow
Dec 15, 20151 min read


Just
OK, that’s all done, so now it’s time to just pop next door for a quick clean with our lovely hygienist Mary The word “just” creeps into...

Chris Barrow
Dec 1, 20152 min read


Think of all the money we will save today!
In the heyday of The Dental Business School workshops, I used to make a politically incorrect joke about the long-suffering male Dental...

Chris Barrow
Nov 27, 20152 min read


Don’t ride your own rickshaw
I finished the New York marathon in 2011 so exhausted that I hired a rickshaw owner to take me back to my hotel – this gave me the...

Chris Barrow
Nov 19, 20151 min read


Make your patient newsletters earn a living
Here are some top tips: Send by email – print media is dead. Send monthly – less frequently and you will not get noticed. Avoid jargon...

Chris Barrow
Nov 13, 20151 min read


Gestalt marketing
A frog will not eat, even if surrounded by food. That’s because the frog has evolved to “strike” whenever it sees something small enough...

Chris Barrow
Nov 6, 20151 min read
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