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How Do I Get My Team to Work as a Team?

Are your team working together to meet their fullest potential? If not then read on to find out Emma John’s five top tips on how you can get your team working together more effectively.

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Create Some Buzz Agents

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing some top tips on various business topics from our consultants and colleagues in the industry. And who best to start with than our very own Les Jones!

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When is it Okay to Deny Flexible Working?

Many employers are under a misconception that an employee has the right to change their hours and work flexibly if they want to, however, this isn’t strictly the case. Here, Employment Law and HR specialists…

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What is it About Selling That Makes You Uncomfortable About Selling to Your Patients?

It won’t come as a surprise that being able to communicate is a top-of-the-list requirement for any modern-day, forward-thinking dental practice, especially when past research from the BDIA shows that patients are now keener than…

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What’s in Store For You at This Years BDIA Dental Showcase?

Sarah Whittall, Events and Marketing Coordinator at Practice Plan, gives us an insight into what we can expect from this year’s BDIA Dental Showcase.

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Accidentally ‘not bad’ at this design lark!

The year was 1988, Bros were number 1 and I was a 15 year old schoolboy being asked what I wanted to do for a career. Our careers officer was called Mr Simms. All I…

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How to Market Your Dental Practice

Practice Marketing Coordinator, Becky Lawrence, shares her experience of heading over to Solihull to hear Les Jones impart his wise words of marketing wisdom!

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Measure This, Measure That – But Does It Really Matter?

Do you measure the success of everything you do in your dental practice? Is measurement a way of life for you and your team? Do you think it’s important? Here, Nigel Jones talks about the…

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Learn How You Can Turn Your Telephone Into A Business-Building Tool

Sarah Whittall, Events and Marketing Coordinator at Practice Plan, introduces the new event series Ringing the Changes, and gives you an insight into how it can help you to boost your profits.

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How To Market Your Dental Practice

Events and Marketing Coordinator Danielle Quigley explains why Practice Plan’s latest marketing events will have you bouncing back to your dental practice, bursting with new ideas.

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The Importance Of A Contract Of Employment

Looking for some clarity on what should be included in your contracts of employment? Here, employment law and HR specialists Peninsula Business Services simplify what’s legally required from you in a contract of employment and…

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The Best Kept Secret in Town – Part Two

Following on from our first blog from Michael, here’s what happened next! The week of our shopping centre awareness campaign soon came. It was a windy and cold one, but my team were undeterred and…

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Time Flies Even When You’re Not Having Fun

Do you find there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done? Well, to help you squeeze the most out of your time, Regional Support Manager Emma Sillars shares her top time-management tips!

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Are You Really Meeting Your Patients Needs?

Sheila Scott explains why understanding your patients and listening to what it is they need is the most important and worthwhile area of your marketing strategy.

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The Best Kept Secret in Town – Part 1

What I love about my team is their enthusiasm to see the practice succeed. Last year, I threw it open to them to help me shape the practice’s marketing plan for 2014. One of the…

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Five Top Tips From Marketing Expert Les Jones.

Les Jones, The Business of Dentistry Magazine’s Editor and Marketing Director of Practice Plan, will be touring the UK in September, delivering a series of one-day marketing masterclasses entitled ‘How to Market Your Dental Practice’.…

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Is Your Social Media Etiquette up to Scratch?

Believe it or not there is some etiquette to how the big wide world of social media works. Here, social media agency ApexHub discuss what they consider to be bad social etiquette (or ‘netiquette’) and…

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Why You Can’t Afford to Miss This Year’s Practice Plan Workshop Tour!

After seeing this year’s speaker, Joy Marsden, in action for ourselves, here’s an insight into why the Workshop Tour is shaping up to be an unmissable series of events. When brainstorming themes for the Workshop…

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