Imagine you get a call from a childhood friend who has big news to tell you.
He approved the treatment plan for his full mouth reconstruction today.
But you sense a major problem. His neighbors created the treatment plan. And none of them are dentists. The neighborhood wrote up the treatment plan during a few picnic conversations that involved online advice.
Can you feel your stomach sinking?
When you try to talk sense into him, he tells you that he is proud of the treatment plan. He believes it’s a good one because each of his neighbors had done online research and came up with ideas and opinions. In fact, one even had a crown done last year.
WHAT?!
Would it ever make sense for a patient to ask their neighbors for a treatment plan?!
Of course not. You know online research and a bunch of opinions could NEVER take the place of a full examination by a licensed dentist. And even then, it has to be the RIGHT dentist.
If your mother needed full mouth reconstruction, would you take her to a pediatric dentist? Or a general dentist? Of course not!
Would you take her to the dentist who has never done full mouth reconstruction? Or someone who has done it once—or even twice??
It’s like that for your dental startup.
Many dentists love giving their advice on social media, even though the so-called “experts” have only opened ONE startup. Or maybe someone had a best friend from dental school open one and told him all about it.
Don’t let this happen to you. The impact is severe.
See, this dental practice will be one of the biggest investments of your life. It deserves proven, predictable results, not a mashup of a few dozen unproven online opinions.
That’s why group “opinions” about startups are so risky. Today, social media is kind of like a neighborhood with the experience of having one crown.
This kind of advice causes painful and expensive mistakes in dental practice startups.
For your startup ownership planning, do this right, the first time. Create a customized dental practice business plan, based on proven processes—like Dr. Gerry and Dr. Lauren did.
If you want a predictable path for Startup Ownership…
First: Create your vision for your practice.
Second: Reverse engineer your customized dental business plan based on your vision using the 13 Stages Timeline.