April 4, 2006
If your dental practice could generate an extra $10,000 or $20,000 in revenue every month, what would you do with it?
If you’re like most people, you’d weigh your personal needs against those of your business, and spread the wealth around according to your unique priorities and goals.
Maybe you’d take part of that money and add it to your retirement fund, pay off debt or purchase other creature comforts never before within reach.
And maybe you’d use the rest to update your equipment or systems, offer innovative and competitive new products to your patients, freshen your marketing or enhance your staff’s benefits.
Like those hidden treasures in your basement, that revenue might be lurking in your practice – out of sight but easily within your reach – if you only knew where to look.
Athena Consulting can help you find it – starting with our complimentary practice analysis.
And once it’s found, we’ll help you blend those professional and personal goals into a hearty brew that’s pleasing to your unique tastes and nourishing to your special desires.
We want to know what makes you happy as a person. We aren’t some cookie-cutter consultant who gives you a book or a tape that sits on your shelf and gathers dust.
Discovering what’s unique about you and your office is what our free practice analysis is all about. Are there inefficiencies? Are your patients quietly slipping away? Do you know when to add another doctor, or maybe a part- or full-time hygienist? Does your fee schedule need a tune-up?
Most practices don’t know these answers. A lot of doctors will work until retirement only to find out when the practice is in transition to be sold that they were sitting on a million-dollar business which only achieved $500,000.
What our team discovers will be an eye-opener. Worried about paying a consultant’s fee? It’s likely to be a drop in the bucket compared with the gallons of extra profit we can show you how to generate.
For your practice, that treasure chest of opportunity might lie in a place as obvious as your appointment book.
Maybe you have 2,000 patients on file but only enough schedule to service 1,200 of them. When somebody calls to set up an appointment, you need to see them while they have the need, while they’re willing to come. If you put them off more than a couple of weeks, maybe they’ll still make an appointment – but then they’ll be going to the Yellow Pages and calling the competition.
Maybe that’s why you haven’t seen Mrs. Smith in two years: maybe she couldn’t get in promptly enough, or maybe she was treated inappropriately by someone at your front desk.
And for yourself, those unrealized opportunities may include developing a strategy to jump-start your retirement plan at an early age. Then by 50 you can start thinking about early retirement – or at least a gradual handoff of your practice – to enhance your quality of life instead of watching it ebb away while you’re still working at the chair.
That free practice analysis is where your dreams become solid goals in plain sight.
What happens next? You and our team will sit down for a strategy session. Together we’ll develop a plan to help you reach your goals. And just as you assure your patients: It’ll be painless!
A lot of doctors are afraid that if a consultant comes in, they’ll turn the office upside down and the staff will bail. Instead, our role is custom solutions with low-stress intervention.
That’s the Athena Consulting difference: the focus stays on you.
What opportunities are hiding in plain sight? Schedule a complimentary practice analysis, and let us help you make the most of them.
This won't hurt a bit!
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