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This week’s ezine

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Attention management

Attention management

My thanks to Simon Reilly for sending me this brief slide show: Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attention View more documents from merlinmann.

Free

Free

Last night on my flight to Glasgow I finished reading Chris Anderson’s latest and, yet again, was provoked into thinking deeply about dentistry and also my own coaching practice. I would consider this book a “must read” alongside “Tribes” by Seth Godin. In “The Long Tail” Anderson explained how the internet has opened up new [...]

Chris Barrow’s week of Twitters

off on my travels again – Salisbury today – IDH workshop on marketing ideas # too busy to even tweet – he tweeted…. # @markoborn ta mate in reply to markoborn # lights, action, camera! today's workshop is being filmed so I'm up early and in make-up # yay – emails all answered for the [...]

Trade Shows

Trade Shows

Here, yet again, are the unstoppable team at Ollie and Darsh – this time exhibiting at a legal trade show in Liverpool. ​ ​

Tell a story

Paddi made reference to this last week – and I was talking about it at yesterday’s marketing workshop. You have to give your patients a “story” to tell their family, friends and colleagues. I went to see my dentist the other day – and you’ll never guess what happened…… Nobody ever completed this sentence with…. [...]

Members only

Members only

​ At Ashby Dental in Wetherby, membership of the practice is not compulsory – yet. I am becoming more of an advocate of the “members only” practice as the j-curve of the recession turns into a “w” (as described on Radio 4’s Today programme – Monday morning). It seems that we are not yet out [...]

Chris Barrow’s week of Twitters

home for 12 hours – and then off again – Farnborough today….. # At The Aviator in Farnborough – very funky hotel http://tinyurl.com/n7tycf # great management meeting and team session today – client calls now – client dinner to follow # wakes in Dartford – IDH workshop today on customer service and selling skills # [...]

The life of the entertainer

I calculated (I’ll tell you why in a moment) that by the end of this year I will have presented to almost 7000 people in just under 100 workshops and presentations around the UK and Ireland. The fact is that my presentation style and content are not universally loved – but then neither is anybody’s [...]

CACCU

CACCU

Remember CACCU? The term I used to describe “cheap as chips check ups”. My last ezine mentioned that Sainsbury were in the CACCU market in Manchester. Here is Optical Express offering the new patient £15 check-up (reduced from £45) in York this morning. ​ As I mentioned in the ezine – the high street retailers [...]