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Practice Development

The dark art of practice valuations

If you’re looking to buy, we could save you an awful lot of money right at the beginning of your career as a business owner.
Jan 17, 2019
Marketing Practice Development

Why choose professional video in dentistry?

You need remarkable content, and you can get it if you are willing to make a moderate investment, enough to put a production team in your practice for a day.
Jan 10, 2019
Practice Development

What’s your best yardstick?

If you want to help yourself, compare yourself to who you’ve been: yesterday, last month, last year. You know best who that person was. But when you compare yourself to someone else you’re inevitably selective.
Jan 03, 2019
Practice Development

Stop faking it if you want to make it

Plenty of practice owners still use the bank account as a business dashboard and have no idea who on their team is profitable.
Dec 20, 2018
Marketing Practice Development

Five rules for growth

I hope you take away one of the five ideas below and try it out in your practice. If you want to do more, a Diagnostic Day is a good place to start.
Dec 13, 2018
Practice Development

Ask your staff to kill their darlings

In my experience the biggest hindrance to success in business is that people would rather be right than effective.
Dec 06, 2018
Practice Development

“We take IT responsibility away, saving you time, money and stress”

We caught up with Kelly Neill at Aerona the day after she got back from the BDIA expo.
Nov 29, 2018
Practice Development

Work loose to lose the bottlenecks

When someone came in to help our sales and marketing people improve their project management skills, I eavesdropped.
Nov 22, 2018
Practice Development

Extreme ways to play the long game

Humans don’t always act in their best interests when it comes to money because our minds are full of bugs.
Nov 15, 2018
Practice Development

The security-growth dichotomy

You need security — physical, emotional and financial security — but too much snuffs out your growth.
Nov 08, 2018
Case Study Practice Development

Discover how Charlie transformed his NHS practice

Charlie bought his practice in the North West of the UK 5 years before he got in contact with Hive.
Nov 06, 2018
Practice Development

Bottom line: what is the point of building your brand?

Brand building would look different in your dental practice because you are customer facing rather than B2B.
Oct 18, 2018
Accountancy Practice Development

Let go, and let your people take a punt

Bookkeeping is now cloud based and user friendly, so if you have a staff member who is keen to progress I can train them to use it.
Sep 20, 2018
Practice Development

The law of unintended consequences

When you’re running a business like a typical dentist, in the directional mode of “do this, then that”, what happens?
Sep 13, 2018
Practice Development

Dear lonely, risk averse perfection seekers

In this blog post we'll explore the reasons why speed matters to your dentistry business and how our Hive shadow board can benefit you.
Aug 30, 2018
Practice Development

Is this the start of the facial aesthetics explosion?

The cosmetic procedures market has grown fivefold in five years.
Aug 23, 2018
Practice Development

Don’t settle for one ‘why?’

Learning to ask about the ultimate cause when something goes wrong in your business.
Aug 16, 2018
Practice Development

Information only helps when it’s used well

Business owners dismiss EBIT sometimes, just like we dismiss information that doesn’t conform to what’s happening in our lives.
Aug 09, 2018
Practice Development

The dark art of practice valuations

If you’re looking to buy, we could save you an awful lot of money right at the beginning of your career as a business owner.
Jan 17, 2019
Marketing Practice Development

Why choose professional video in dentistry?

You need remarkable content, and you can get it if you are willing to make a moderate investment, enough to put a production team in your practice for a day.
Jan 10, 2019
Practice Development

What’s your best yardstick?

If you want to help yourself, compare yourself to who you’ve been: yesterday, last month, last year. You know best who that person was. But when you compare yourself to someone else you’re inevitably selective.
Jan 03, 2019
Practice Development

Stop faking it if you want to make it

Plenty of practice owners still use the bank account as a business dashboard and have no idea who on their team is profitable.
Dec 20, 2018
Marketing Practice Development

Five rules for growth

I hope you take away one of the five ideas below and try it out in your practice. If you want to do more, a Diagnostic Day is a good place to start.
Dec 13, 2018
Practice Development

Ask your staff to kill their darlings

In my experience the biggest hindrance to success in business is that people would rather be right than effective.
Dec 06, 2018
Practice Development

“We take IT responsibility away, saving you time, money and stress”

We caught up with Kelly Neill at Aerona the day after she got back from the BDIA expo.
Nov 29, 2018
Practice Development

Work loose to lose the bottlenecks

When someone came in to help our sales and marketing people improve their project management skills, I eavesdropped.
Nov 22, 2018
Practice Development

Extreme ways to play the long game

Humans don’t always act in their best interests when it comes to money because our minds are full of bugs.
Nov 15, 2018
Practice Development

The security-growth dichotomy

You need security — physical, emotional and financial security — but too much snuffs out your growth.
Nov 08, 2018
Case Study Practice Development

Discover how Charlie transformed his NHS practice

Charlie bought his practice in the North West of the UK 5 years before he got in contact with Hive.
Nov 06, 2018
Practice Development

Bottom line: what is the point of building your brand?

Brand building would look different in your dental practice because you are customer facing rather than B2B.
Oct 18, 2018
Accountancy Practice Development

Let go, and let your people take a punt

Bookkeeping is now cloud based and user friendly, so if you have a staff member who is keen to progress I can train them to use it.
Sep 20, 2018
Practice Development

The law of unintended consequences

When you’re running a business like a typical dentist, in the directional mode of “do this, then that”, what happens?
Sep 13, 2018
Practice Development

Dear lonely, risk averse perfection seekers

In this blog post we'll explore the reasons why speed matters to your dentistry business and how our Hive shadow board can benefit you.
Aug 30, 2018
Practice Development

Is this the start of the facial aesthetics explosion?

The cosmetic procedures market has grown fivefold in five years.
Aug 23, 2018
Practice Development

Don’t settle for one ‘why?’

Learning to ask about the ultimate cause when something goes wrong in your business.
Aug 16, 2018
Practice Development

Information only helps when it’s used well

Business owners dismiss EBIT sometimes, just like we dismiss information that doesn’t conform to what’s happening in our lives.
Aug 09, 2018

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