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The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

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188: Saving Lives while Growing your Practice with Dr. Tom Larkin

How Dr. Larkin was able to successfully sell a dental practice before he had even graduated from dental school....Continue Reading...

Aug 31, 201758 min

187: Find your Operational Equity with Diana Thompson

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast I interview Diana Thompson, founder and CEO of the Dental Performance Institute....Continue Reading...

Aug 31, 201754 min

186: Collaboration at 7,000 Feet

Nerding out about dentistry in a boat on the banks of the Snake River in Wyoming… it doesn't get much better than that....Continue Reading...

Aug 29, 201742 min

185: Innovation and Shifting Paradigms with George Hariri

Talk to any dental student or young dentist and you immediately discover that their biggest concerns are: how to tackle crushing student loan debt, whether or not to become and associate or practice owner, and how to find and purchase their first dental practice...Continue Reading...

Aug 28, 20171h 3m

184: The New Dental Financial Landscape

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I interview two entrepreneurial endidontists, Dr. Howard Kang and Dr. Jeffery Hom....Continue Reading...

Aug 24, 20171h 11m

183: 100 Years Serving Dentists

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast I interview Julie Charlestein, CEO of Premier Dental Products. Her family started Premier four generations ago- 104 years to be exact....Continue Reading...

Aug 22, 201749 min

182: Vicki McManus - Increasing your Productivity, Profitability, and EQ

Vicki has decades of experience coaching dentists and dental teams. During our chat, we discuss:...Continue Reading...

Aug 18, 201756 min

181: Making Money After Dental School

With astronomical student loan debt and an ever evolving professional landscape, it's never been more important for dental students and young dentists to get connected and to get educated on the topics of practice management and business ownership....Continue Reading...

Aug 17, 20171h 2m

180: Multiple Practice Owner Rapid Fire

Strolling the exhibitor's hall, chatting at lunch or dinner, standing at the bar after the event... these are some of the places where I've met future business partners, associates, and preferred vendors....Continue Reading...

Aug 15, 201730 min

179: Scratch versus Acquisition

I love talking business. And there are some people who I can talk to for hours on the subject....Continue Reading...

Aug 10, 201754 min

178: Thinking About Starting a DSO?

Brian and his firm represent over 200 DSO groups in all 50 states in the areas of entity formation, compliance, mergers, acquisitions, working with private equity and just about anything else that you can think of in the DSO world...Continue Reading...

Aug 9, 201724 min

177: Verbiage, Standard of Care and Supervised Neglect

What's the best way to "retrain" a patient or an entire patient base that has been neglected under the supervision of another dental team?...Continue Reading...

Aug 8, 201742 min

176: Profit is NOT a Four Letter Word

Yep, that's what it says… I guess you can call me a bit of an entrepreneurial nerd (at least that's what my wife Leslie calls me) but there are certain authors and speakers in the entrepreneurial space that are like rock stars to me....Continue Reading...

Aug 3, 201751 min

175: Your Last Day of Clinical Dentistry

In today's episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I answer this question posed by a listener who is facing the above scenario, well before his time....Continue Reading...

Aug 2, 201738 min

174: Effective Associate "Onboarding"

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, Kiera Dent (DSI's chief in-office implementer and Regional Manager for Flagship Dental Group) and I discuss our process for on-boarding a new dental associate....Continue Reading...

Aug 1, 201722 min

173: Exponential Growth- It Ain't All Sunshine and Rainbows

This eternally appropriate quote comes from Theodore Roosevelt and it's a mantra that I've become accustomed to since I embarked on my journey of multiple practice ownership....Continue Reading...

Jul 27, 201741 min

172: The Whirlwind, Start-Ups, and Hacks for Inexpensive Expansion

During this Q and A session, you'll hear three members of my awesome team- Ashlee, Sam and Kay read some of the questions posed by our podcast listeners....Continue Reading...

Jul 27, 201730 min

171: Norman Gelfand - Knowledge-Based Negotiation

Whether of not you agree with these two quotes above, if you're about to sign a lease, renew your current lease of purchase a commercial property, this episode is a "must listen."...Continue Reading...

Jul 25, 201745 min

170: Driving Progress with Effective AM Meetings

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, Kiera Dent, our lead in-office implementer and I discuss how we run our morning huddles and the method to our madness....Continue Reading...

Jul 25, 201717 min

169: Who is Policing Dental Insurance Companies?

While we have a standard of care and our patient's best interest as our primary concern, dental insurance companies have an entirely different focus and objective- profit....Continue Reading...

Jul 19, 20171h 4m

168: Building Your Empire Through Practice Acquisition

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I'm rebroadcasting Dr. Peter Boulden's interview of me on his show, The Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast....Continue Reading...

Jul 19, 201749 min

167: Heidi Arndt - 7 Keys to a Wildly Profitable Hygiene Department

One of the most important decisions that I made early on in my career was to surround myself with people that were smarter than me....Continue Reading...

Jul 19, 201755 min

166: How to Find, Hire and Keep an A-Team

But if you've been involved in the dental practice game for any length of time, you know that sometimes it's harder to find a qualified team member than a herd of unicorns....Continue Reading...

Jul 18, 201726 min

165: Double Your Income without Increasing Production

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, you'll hear a live keynote presentation that covers exactly how one doctor was able to increase his take home income by over $200k without doing any additional dentistry....Continue Reading...

Jul 14, 201754 min

Increase Case Acceptance, Create Passive Income and Decrease Patient Attrition

If you're not offering in-office membership and savings plans in your practice you're missing out on a huge opportunity....Continue Reading...

Jul 12, 201753 min

163: Are you the Bottleneck in your practice?

We're all given the same 24 hours in a day so how is it that a single person can run such a huge organization with countless moving parts while so many entrepreneurs and small business owners struggle to get it all done in businesses a fraction of the size?...Continue Reading...

Jul 12, 201750 min

162: Creating an Effective Onboarding Process

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I chat with our Regional Manager and head of in office consulting, Kiera Dent on how to effectively train and transition a new team member into your practice....Continue Reading...

Jul 11, 201728 min

161: Dr. Steve Rasner - Multimillion Dollar Protocol

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, you'll hear Dr. Steve Rasner presenting a key note presentation at the 2017 Dental Success Summit in San Diego, CA....Continue Reading...

Jul 7, 20171h 40m

160: How to Make PPO's Profitable

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I am interviewed by Jordan Comstock (Boomcloudapps.com) and Ben Tuinei (VeritasDentalResources.com) on their show called Navigating Dental Insurance Podcast....Continue Reading...

Jul 6, 20171h 12m

159: This Guy Makes Demographics Sexy

What do all of the most successful companies understand? Before they open a new location and spend their time, energy and resources on expansion, they engage in exhaustive market research and demographic analysis....Continue Reading...

Jul 5, 201749 min

158: Dr. Mark Costes - Be a Fly on the Wall at HQ

Last week I ambushed Jake Conway in his office and stuck a mic in his face with no topic or agenda....Continue Reading...

Jul 3, 201734 min

157: Execution in the Age of Distraction

Never before in the history of human kind has there been a greater volume of free information available on every subject imaginable....Continue Reading...

Jun 30, 201745 min

156: Craig Cody - The Dentist Tax Whisperer

Over the years, there's been some debate over the length of the tax code, but according to Andrew Grossman, an attorney at Congress' Joint Committee on taxation, the current tax code is approximately 2,600 pages long....Continue Reading...

Jun 29, 201746 min

155: The Thread that Holds it all Together

But as a practice owner, the CEO of your organization, unless you take the time to cultivate one personality trait, there will be a perpetual struggle to continue to grow, progress, and implement the three pillars....Continue Reading...

Jun 28, 201733 min

154: Dr. Ben Kacos - Killer Team Meetings

Done incorrectly, team meetings can be a huge time suck and demoralizing for your team. But if executed well, they can lead to fresh new ideas, practice growth and a bullet-proof team culture....Continue Reading...

Jun 27, 201722 min

153: Dr. Roshan Parikh - Growth at Breakneck Speed

Dr. Parikh bought his first 650 square foot, two operatory practice in 2008 and since then has expanded his group into a growing network of 12 multi-specialty dental practices....Continue Reading...

Jun 23, 20171h 9m

152: Dr. Summer - Rising from the Ashes

This past weekend I had the privilege of spending two full days with some of the smartest, most ambitious and successful dentists that I've ever met at our Elite Practice Mastermind meeting in Denver....Continue Reading...

Jun 22, 201736 min

151: Dr. Jesse Green- The Savvy Dentist

In a wildly chaotic and competitive marketplace, sometimes it's nice to be able to quiet the noise and to get back to the basics such as building and maintaining an organized, sustainable, and profitable dental practice....Continue Reading...

Jun 20, 201752 min

150: Engineering a Growth Practice with Dr. Cole Brenny

When I opened my first dental practice, I had no idea how much I didn't know about practice ownership and operating and growing a successful business....Continue Reading...

Jun 14, 201759 min

149: Technology, Inventory Control and Overhead Reduction with Tiger Safarov

Recently, Tiger flew in to DSI Headquarters to train my team on how his company utilized technology to track and control inventory....Continue Reading...

Jun 13, 201726 min

148: Are you a Boss or a Leader?

In this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast, I interview Dr. Kara Maloley. Kara is the co-founder of the Relentless Dentist Podcast, and founder of ...Continue Reading...

Jun 10, 201750 min

147: Dr. Chris Phelps: From $600K to $6.5M in six years

Chris is the founder of CallTrackerROI.com, a surgical implant placement instructor and a certified trainer in the Cialdini Method of Ethical Influence and Persuasion....Continue Reading...

Jun 7, 201758 min

146: Navigating the Challenges of Partnerships and Multiple Practice Ownership

Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur, practicing dentist and multiple practice owner. During our discussion, we discuss:...Continue Reading...

Jun 6, 201753 min

145: Converting Passive Visitors into Active Patients

Beth's company works as an extension of your front office team by adding an interactive element to your website....Continue Reading...

Jun 1, 201740 min

144: Team Incentives: The Win-Win Approach

I've seen incentive programs that are based on production, collections, new patients, five star reviews… and just about any combination imaginable....Continue Reading...

May 24, 201726 min

143: Making Money is Killing your Business

I know it sounds counterintuitive, but sometimes focusing solely on revenue generation without considering the "bigger picture" can actually stifle your business....Continue Reading...

May 24, 201753 min

142: Forever Eliminate Low Value Activities from your Life

Special thanks to Dr. David Dunning, the Practice Management professor at the University of Nebraska School of Dentistry for the invite and arranging the whole trip up and to Dr. Anissa Holmes, host of the Delivering Wow Podcast, for showing me around her hometown....Continue Reading...

May 23, 201720 min

141: Do You Have a Book in You?

If you've ever fantasized about being a published author - about creating something that could be your mark in time, your legacy, but you don't know where to start, then you need to listen to this episode of the Dentalpreneur Podcast....Continue Reading...

May 15, 201740 min

140: Swipe and Deploy: Benchmark Calendar

To learn more about how we utilize our Monthly Benchmark Calendar, and how you can immediately implement this tool into your office, make sure to check out this episode....Continue Reading...

May 15, 201717 min

139: How to Play Dental Practice Money Ball

Together, they came up with the hypothesis that statistics used by baseball insiders such as runs batted in, stolen bases and batting averages were important metrics, but not the most important metrics to gauge the true value of a player… and the players with the best at the conventional stats garnered the most money....Continue Reading...

May 11, 20171h 15m