by Zac Fine | Nov 28, 2018 | Acquisitions, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan, Movers and shakers, NHS, Recruitment, Site finding, Wealth management
Market research is invaluable when you are thinking about buying or selling a practice. Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has produced a document called The Dental Industry 2018: Staffing, Brexit and The Dentist Shortage. We thought there was an...
by Jonathan Fine | Oct 3, 2018 | NHS, Recruitment
The disintegration of NHS dentistry is speeding up, which will put pressure on private clinics as more dentists go private, driving competition up, but an upside is that it will be easier to recruit. In the two years up to September 2017, NHS dentists saw more than...
by Jonathan Fine | Feb 7, 2018 | Advertising, Business growth, Communications, Online marketing, Website
In the last two months no fewer than four of my clients have won significant national dental awards in the UK and Ireland. The question is do they actually do your practice any good or are they a waste of time and money? The awards are free to enter, they typically...
by Zac Fine | Dec 13, 2017 | Planning, Recruitment, Self-managing business
What can a restaurateur tell a dentist about building a business that runs itself? Everything, actually, especially our friend Pete Fraser, 57, who is the most laidback businessman we’ve ever met. Pete has done it; he spends one day a week in each of his acclaimed...
by Jonathan Fine | Oct 4, 2017 | Business growth
I’m often asked to describe the stand out characteristics of a typical highly successful private dental practice — what’s needed before growth is guaranteed? — and in response I always trot out my eight golden rules because they never fail my clients. The revenue mix...
