What should happen right after a patient finishes a low-cost consult? Never leave the next step to chance. The worst thing you can do in selling is let a patient drift out the door with nothing scheduled. After the free or low cost consult, the doctor wraps up and a real person, your treatment planner or financial coordinator, walks the patient to the front. There you reinforce that it was good they came in, book them for the complete dental physical, take the fee, and tell them plainly what happens next. Always say it out loud. Let me tell you what [...]