HeyJaredDental Drills Bits
Sandy Pardue of Classic Practice Resources & Dana Salisbury discuss issues facing the dental practice owner of today.
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The Right Patients, the Right Marketing | Grace Rizza (opens the original)
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Getting more dental leads isn't always the answer. The real goal is attracting the right patients and giving them a reason to choose your practice. In this episode of Dental Drill Bits, Dana Pardue and Sandy Pardue welcome Grace Rizza, founder and CEO of Identity Dental Marketing, for a conversation about what dental marketing looks like as AI, automation, Google Ads, Meta advertising, and patient expectations continue to change. Grace explains why effective marketing can't be one-size-fits-all.
The Employee Costing Your Dental Practice Its Best People (opens the original)
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Every dental practice has probably had one. They're great at their job. Patients love them. They've been there forever. Maybe they even make the doctor's life easier. But behind the scenes, they gossip, intimidate coworkers, ignore rules, create drama, or make new employees feel like they'll never quite belong. In this episode of Dental Drill Bits, Dana Pardue and Sandy Pardue tackle a difficult question: What is that "indispensable" employee actually costing your practice? Dana and Sandy discus
Part 3 of Systems. Staff. Training. | Your Team Isn't the Problem. Your Training Might Be. (opens the original)
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You hired good people. You gave them a job description. Maybe you even told them to "go sit next to Jessica" for a few days. But did you actually train them? In the final episode of our Systems. Staff. Training. series, Dana and Sandy tackle the training gap inside dental practices and why expecting employees to "just know" how to do their jobs can be an expensive mistake. Today's dental team is expected to do far more than answer phones and schedule appointments. They're handling insurance conv
AI, Accountability & the Opportunities Hiding in Your Dental Practice | Cory Pinegar of REACH, Part 2 (opens the original)
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Technology can help your dental practice do more—but it shouldn't replace the human experience that keeps patients coming back. In Part 2 of our conversation with Cory Pinegar, CEO of REACH, Dana Pardue and Sandy Pardue continue the discussion about the future of the dental team, beginning with the balance between automation, AI, and personal connection. Cory explains why technology should amplify good people rather than eliminate them and why some responsibilities are perfect candidates for aut
Rethinking Dental Staffing: People, Technology & Creating Capacity | Cory Pinegar of REACH, Part 1 (opens the original)
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What if your staffing problem isn't simply about finding more people? In Part 1 of this special two-part Dental Drill Bits conversation, Dana Pardue and Sandy Pardue sit down with Cory Pinegar, CEO of REACH, to explore how dental practices can rethink staffing, training, technology, and the way work gets done. Cory shares the story behind REACH and explains why practices often have more than a hiring problem. Missed calls, inconsistent follow-up, turnover, limited training, and too many competin
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