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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 markets by allowing minute purchases of obscure products and services to become profitable.

In “Free” he shows how the web has overturned many traditional economic beliefs around services that can be given away as “sprats to catch mackerels”.

Fascinating and very relevant to dentistry and consultancy.

My brain is beginning to ponder how that would look in dentistry – what would you have to/could you give away for free, so as to encourage footfall and the purchase of more profitable services?

Is the development of the CACCU, the first step in that evolutionary cycle?

About the Author

Chris Barrow

26 October 2009 by Chris Barrow

Chris Barrow is co-founder of Barrow Kwong Hing Group of Companies, a private dental corporate active in independent and retail dentistry and post-graduate dental education, operating in the UK and Canada. Chris has been active as a consultant, trainer and coach to the UK dental profession for over 15 years. As a speaker he is dynamic, energetic and charismatic. In 1993 Chris moved into business coaching and became one of the first UK students at Coach University, from where he graduated as a certified coach. In 1997, he created The Dental Business School (DBS) and the development of a 12-month business coaching programme for dental practice owners and their teams, delivered to over 400 UK dental practices in the following 10 years.

 In the last 5 years Chris has acted as a Non-Executive Director, Director and Consultant to a number of dental corporates, whilst maintaining his freelance activity as a dental business coach for independent practice owners. BKH is the culmination of his past experience in the business of UK dentistry

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