Negative Reviews

If you are in business long enough, it is likely someone will post a negative review of your dental practice.  And it doesn’t matter how many positive reviews preceded it, that negative… Continue On +

Selling Your Home

 Article Highlights Individuals can exclude up to $250,000 ($500,000 for a married couple filing jointly) of gain from the sale of their primary residence. Generally, to qualify for the exclusion, the home… Continue On +

Dental Practice Building: Opportunities With Emergencies

Thomas Edison once said, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”  One of the biggest dental practice building opportunities missed by dentists and… Continue On +

Satisfy Your Dental Patients by Running on Time

How do you impress dental patients to stay with your dental practice and refer more of their friends and family? In an environment with stiffer competition and the potential for more corporate dentistry… Continue On +

What to Keep in Employee Personnel Files

No one enjoys dealing with paperwork, but the time spent to create and maintain personnel files will pay off over time.  A personnel file that is created and maintained over time will… Continue On +

Add More New Dental Patients to Your Practice

Even though you may want new dental patients, many of your existing patients just assume you have all of the business you need.  Patients look at all of the charts on the… Continue On +

You Can Do It!

As you all know; I’m a huge Martha Stewart fan.  I stumbled across a story she shared on LinkedIn called Best Advice: You Can Do Anything You Choose (February 26, 2013) and… Continue On +

IRA Distributions to Charity

Older taxpayers who plan to use IRA distributions to make charitable contributions should bear in mind that the favorable tax provision for doing is slated to expire at the end of this… Continue On +

Final Rules on the Individual Mandate of the Affordable Care Act

On August 27, 2013 the Internal Revenue Services issued the final rules for the individual mandate from the Affordable Care Act.  The individual mandate is a requirement that all individuals carry some… Continue On +

The Importance of Failure

Imagine if you were labeled “the merchant of death.”  Would you consider yourself a failure?  That’s exactly how Alfred Nobel felt after his invention of dynamite led to such a label. Despite… Continue On +

Motivation is Contagious

Since you are a leader, you often faced with how to motivate your team.  But how do you motivate yourself? The philosopher William James once said, “Act as if what you do… Continue On +

Dental Practice Insurance Audits: Proactive Steps

No one welcomes a dental practice insurance audit.  But the time to prepare for one is now, long before you receive notification from an insurance company.  Remember that an audit of a… Continue On +