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28 Mar 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Social media for dentistry – Using LinkedIn

Although you may think of LinkedIn as a site to publicise a job search or recruitment exercise, it still has a use for dental practices, according to Gemma Starkey, aka Miss Social, as she explains…

7 Mar 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Branding and what it should say about you

What is branding? Many people think it’s a logo and some stationery. However, as the Design team at Practice Plan will tell you, it’s much more than that. And they should know! With more than…

20 Feb 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Social media in practice made easy with Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social

In the next blog in our series about social media, Gemma Starkey, aka Miss Social, suggests ways to make the life of your practice social media officer much easier. Let’s face it, social media is…

10 Jan 2025 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Empowering Dental Practices to Master Video Content for Social Media

Practice Plan Social Media Executive, Jordan Gale, provides useful tips to help Dental Practices embrace video content and overcome their fears. Why Video Matters for Dental Practices Did you know that 67% of marketers say…

18 Dec 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Uncategorized

Unlock the power of automation!

In this guest blog Neil Stephen, CEO of specialist dental CRM software company, DenGro, outlines the benefits to practices of automating repetitive tasks. Amidst the noise, the hype and the buzzwords like AI, robotics and…

8 Nov 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Uncategorized

Social media – Facebook good practise with Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social

In the first of a series of blogs about the benefits of social media for dental practices, Gemma Starkey aka Miss Social, talks about how to get the best out of your use of Facebook.…

22 Aug 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Make your marketing work for ‘Margaret’

Are we getting marketing wrong? In this guest blog, Content Marketer and Creative Director of Big Bee Content, Niki May Blane, explains why a bigger audience isn’t always better when it comes to digital marketing.…

5 Jul 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Reasons to #BePracticePlan

If you cast your mind back to the meetings you had with your careers officer at school. What was the first question that usually set the conversation going? More than likely, it was ‘What do…

9 Feb 2024 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Helping to make informed changes – how a Practice Plan Consultant helped a practice to meet its challenges

Practice Manager at Eccleshill Dental, Emma Denton, explains how Practice Plan Consultant, Richard Collard, helped get the most out of their marketing by tapping into their phone system. We asked for help with both our…

3 Nov 2023 • Blog, Marketing and Design

The importance of marketing in a dental practice

Practice Plan’s Creative Director Les Jones, spoke to Hayley Irons Director at HI Marketing Ltd about marketing for dental practices. Les: You’ve been involved in marketing for a number of years now Hayley, what for…

25 Aug 2023 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Top 10 tips to increase referrals

Regional Support Manager, Amy Hansford, shares her top 10 tips for increasing referrals from existing patients. Frequently, when I’m in practice discussing overall business plans, the subject of marketing comes up on how to attract…

11 Aug 2023 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Reaping the benefits of automated marketing

Neil Stephen, CEO of dental software company, Dengro, puts the case for automating your marketing activity. With more and more practices looking to go private, owners will need to grow their list of private patients.…

3 Jul 2023 • Blog, Marketing and Design

The importance of a social media strategy

CEO and founder of Diamond Dental Staff, Emma Anastasi explains the importance of using social media in practices. A number of practices struggle with their social media because they’re clinically oriented most of the time.…

10 Feb 2023 • Blog, Marketing and Design

A Game-Changing recruitment hack stumbled upon by accident!

Shaz Memon, founder of Digimax dental marketing agency shares a great recruitment tip that he came across by accident. If your birth year starts with a 19, you will likely remember a world where no…

21 Jun 2022 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Five seconds to move your patients up or down

Les Jones talks about the importance of setting the right tone during the first few seconds of a patient’s visit to a practice. I was recently reminded of how important first impressions are in any…

22 Apr 2022 • Blog, Marketing and Design

How to create a website that instantly connects with patients

What does your website say about your practice and how can you ensure it makes the right impression to potential new patients? Here, our very own Les Jones talks about how you can achieve this…

15 Nov 2021 • Marketing and Design

Social media pressure on dentists and how to deal with it

Practice Plan Area Manager, Suki Singh, caught up with dentist and Confidential trustee John Lewis, and newly qualified dentist Hiraa Jamil, to discuss the positives and negatives of using social media to promote your dental…

13 Nov 2021 • Marketing and Design

Three top tips to boost your digital marketing

Business coach Chris Barrow takes you through three tips on how to best utilise digital marketing, and looks at how Covid-19 related changes could be here to stay for some practices… Utilise all social channels…