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19 Sep 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management, Our News

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!

5 Sep 2014 • Marketing and Design, Our News

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.

29 Aug 2014 • Marketing and Design, Our News

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.

8 Aug 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

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.

6 Aug 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

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…

1 Aug 2014 • Marketing and Design

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’.…

25 Jul 2014 • Blog, Marketing and Design

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…

27 Jun 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Help – There are Gaps in my Appointment Book!

Kevin Rose takes a look at how to look at an issue from a different perspective when trying to fill your appointment book! One thing I’ve noticed from being out in the field and spending…

13 Jun 2014 • Marketing and Design

A Wig, a Scooter and a Lap of the Office

The year was 2001 and I was working at one the most respected design agencies in the North West, if not the UK at the time, Tucker Clarke Williams (TCW), and I loved every minute of…

23 May 2014 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Low Cost Ideas For Attracting New Patients

Les Jones, Marketing Director at Practice Plan, shares some low-cost ideas on how to attract new patients to your dental practice. 1. Networking The first thing you need to do is ‘get out there!’ and…

9 May 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

The Price Is Right!

The importance of positioning your prices correctly (as well as making sure you’re meeting GDC standards) – a handy tip from Regional Support Manager, Emma Sillars. Last year, a new series of GDC standards were…

11 Apr 2014 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Full English Please!

Enjoying time together with breakfast or lunch and offering practice managers the opportunity to discuss an array of business issues, everyday challenges, marketing initiatives, plus lots more, Amy D’Arcy-Burt, Regional Support Manager at Practice Plan,…

28 Mar 2014 • Blog, Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Have you heard about the new Facebook for businesses?

This week, social media gurus ApexHub fill us in on the recent changes to Facebook for business pages and how users of business pages can benefit from them! So, it may not be a brand-new…

21 Mar 2014 • Marketing and Design

Some People Think About Design As Putting Lipstick On A Gorilla!

Here, Marketing Director Les Jones talks us through exactly what he means… What I mean is that design is sometimes used to put a bit of surface gloss onto something that is fundamentally not that…

6 Dec 2013 • Marketing and Design

First Impressions – More Than Just Waiting

Here, we discuss why first impressions really do count and offer some ideas on how you can utilise your dental practice waiting room to help increase treatment uptake in your practice. Every day there’s an opportunity where…

8 Nov 2013 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

When 2 Become 1 – We’re Having a Spice Girls Moment!

It’s an exciting time in the Practice Plan Design and Marketing Team at the moment (isn’t it always?). Not only have we just launched our fantastic new website – the result of many months of…

18 Oct 2013 • Marketing and Design, Practice Management

Curtain Call For Practice Plan Speakers At BDTA Dental Showcase 2013

Danielle Quigley, Events and Marketing Coordinator of Practice Plan, is our guest blogger today. Danielle, who is currently at the show, tells us how it’s going so far!