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2 Mar 2020 • Blog, Marketing and Design

The blurred lines of personal and professional on social media

Lynne Clark asks Sarah Buxton for her advice for employers and employees when it comes to posting on social media sites… When you’re quickly updating your personal Facebook or Instagram pages, do you stop and…

3 Jan 2020 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Are you a white rabbit with your marketing time management?

Do you often find yourself ‘late, late for a very important date’? Whether looking to host an event at the practice or create seasonal marketing literature, we’re all familiar with the pressure of looming deadlines. In this blog, we’ll be providing a few handy tips to help you stay one step ahead when it comes to your marketing strategy.

9 Dec 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design

Your dentistry questions answered: social media

Once upon a time it felt like there was only Facebook to contend with when it came to social media. But over the past couple of decades several other platforms have emerged and gained popularity, such as Instagram and Twitter, while others have fallen by the wayside, like Bebo and MySpace.

4 Dec 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Is your team geared to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

I’ve recently carried out a secret shopper exercise with a number of dental practices across the UK and the results have been a real eye-opener. It seems that the majority of practices are well-versed and skilled in their ability to ‘snatch defeat from the jaws of victory’.

18 Nov 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design

7 tips to make your website more engaging

Your practice website is your digital shop window, so when looking at it objectively, do you think it’s working as hard as it can be to convert prospective patients into new members at your practice?…

4 Oct 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design

How to create quality video testimonials…

Sarah Barnard looks at the questions to ask patients and practical tips to create great video testimonials and why they’re important… We all know that patient testimonials are a must-have. And while written case studies…

22 Aug 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design

How to get more Google reviews – and why it’s important

We hear lots nowadays about asking for reviews, it’s nothing new – dentists have been asking patients for testimonials for years. We used to put them in a little book in the practice or perhaps…

5 Jul 2019 • Marketing and Design

How to create an effective newspaper advert

Newspaper adverts are one of the ways you can attract new patients. But for people to actually pick up the phone or visit the practice, your adverts need to be compelling enough. The key to…

7 May 2019 • Marketing and Design

How to tell if your practice needs a rebrand

Laura explains some of the key signs to watch out for as ‘red flags’ that illustrate your practice brand might be in need of a refresh and the potential impact of not updating your brand…

6 May 2019 • Marketing and Design

Creating the perfect membership toolkit

It’s really important to have up-to-date membership plan promotional literature on display in your practice. Without current membership literature, you could be losing a steady stream of new joiners as people are left confused by…

15 Apr 2019 • Marketing and Design

A beginner’s guide to radio advertising

Laura Manston from our Practice Marketing team looks at the key things to consider to create successful radio adverts…

3 Apr 2019 • Marketing and Design

Creating a bigger better brand for your practice

Contrary to popular belief a rebrand is not simply a ‘new logo’. It’s a large-scale project to create the visual representation of who you are to your patients, which will be carried through everything from…

18 Mar 2019 • Blog, Marketing and Design

A quick guide to responding to people via social media

The rise of social media has given dental practices and their employees the opportunity to reach patients and online communities with timely updates and information, at the click of a button. While this can be…

6 Mar 2019 • Marketing and Design

Putting your practice images in focus

Have you thought about the images you use on your various platforms such as your printed marketing communications, social media or website? Badly considered images could be costing your practice new patients by being a…

5 Mar 2019 • Marketing and Design, Podcasts, Practice Management

Issues you’re overlooking in practice

Les Jones discusses the possibility that your patients see things differently to you when it comes to the ‘little things’ you’ve learned to live with in practice. He talks about the potential damage this could…

22 Feb 2019 • Marketing and Design

5 easy ways to tell if you need to consider rebranding

How you brand your practice (through your logo, marketing literature and décor) is essential in making the right connection and impression with your target audience. But is your branding truly reflecting the personality and positioning…

13 Feb 2019 • Marketing and Design

What’s your signal to noise ratio?

Imagine, for a moment, that I am a prospective patient in your area looking for a new dental practice. Of course, I’m a modern consumer, so I’m not an easy catch. I’m looking around a…

17 Jan 2019 • Marketing and Design

Writing for your target audience

How much do you consider your audience when you create a marketing campaign, or even a poster or flyer? Every marketing campaign should be targeted towards a particular type of person. Do you know who…