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Oct 31st, 2012
Last updated on November 5th, 2025 at 01:51 am Working in the same environment day after day can, to a degree, numb the senses. I’ll give you an example: Years ago, I noticed a nine-inch stack of files on a co-worker’s desk. It was neatly stacked in the far right-hand corner. We worked together quite a bit, and every few…
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Hiring
When to Hire New Staff
Sep 12th, 2012
How should you determine the right staff complement for your office? When is it time to add a new position instead of making do with what you’ve got? These are important questions to ask because over-hiring can make your overhead go out of control, but on the flip-side, refusing to hire needed positions as you grow will cap your growth…
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Overhead and Profitability
Maintaining a High Quality of Care While Expanding
Aug 15th, 2012
If you’re doing things right, your business should be growing. While expansion and growth can be desirable, it can also carry along with it a slew of new challenges (or headaches). For a dentist (or other health care practitioner), a growing practice eventually translates into more staff and providers (associate doctors or possibly partners). Many things can “derail” during expansion…
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Associate Dentists
What’s Really Happening in the Dental Industry?
Jul 3rd, 2012
These last four years I’ve traveled across the Continental US presenting seminars to my peers and their staff. All in all, these “road trips” provided the opportunity to meet and/or lecture to close to 4,000 dentists (about 2.5% of the profession). While frequent travel can be taxing, I don’t think that anything short of this would have given me the…
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Marketing
Are Bad Reviews the End of the World?
May 2nd, 2012
Last updated on November 17th, 2025 at 07:56 pm Don’t panic. Take a deep breath. Calm yourself down. That scathing review that some anonymous person just left on Google is not the end of the world. It can be resolved. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s take a few steps back. You, as a hardworking professional, are undoubtedly doing…
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Hiring
The 4 Most Common Mistakes in Hiring Employees
Apr 4th, 2012
Last updated on November 17th, 2025 at 07:44 pm As the Director of Practical Application here at MGE, I work with our clients and office managers on a daily basis. A big issue—especially with new clients—is personnel—specifically how to find good employees. While there is quite a bit to this subject, the four most common, yet easy to fix mistakes…
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