Why You Need To Exit the Implant Case Sales Game - Part 6 Today's post, the last in this six-part series (revisit Part 1 here) is about the bottom line with firing yourself and team from sales. Here are the advantages the come out of firing yourself and your team from most of the traditional way independents have had to approach the process for the full-arch implant case. Say No to Sales Finally you would… Only need to perform a good diagnosis and then deliver good treatment results not overly worry about selling or being sales ‘experts’ Not relying on [...]

Why You Need To Exit the Implant Case Sales Game - Part 5 Back to Mr. Gorilla from Part 1 of this series… Question: What are the three giant advantages that the national chain of implant centers? (This is the 800-pound Mr. Gorilla referenced early on) has had (until now) that most independents didn’t/couldn’t fully leverage/access. But there are answers. Let's discuss them. National Advantages Mr. Gorilla’s Advantage #1 – PRO SALESPEOPLE TAKE ALL SALES CALLS OFF-SITE Sales calls (the calls from the implant ads) are answered by professional salespeople OFF-SITE. NOT BY DENTAL STAFF sitting inside the practice doing [...]

Why You Need To Exit the Implant Case Sales Game - Part 4 Fortunately, there is a new way to break from the failed past and approach sales in a way that’s far more predictable (at least with Big Case Marketing): The pandemic was an economic boom period for implant practices who went into it with strong advertising already in place. Record months and two record years were on the books for many clients. But that gravy train couldn’t last. My gut said, ‘what goes up must come down’ and I believed things were going to get much harder as [...]

Why You Need To Exit the Implant Case Sales Game - Part 3 Even if you are an elite clinician, your personal odds of having significant success at treating a lot of cases is terrible, so what’s the solution? Here are the facts about sales as it relates to the profession and implant dentists: Implant dentists and the profession as a whole we are ‘hacks’ at selling our best services; especially with cases that cost as much as automobiles. Only 15% every get proficient at this important part of the business of implants and that is with years of work. [...]

Why You Need To Exit the Implant Case Sales Game - Part 2 It’s more than okay that most implant clinicians truly suck at sales and have almost no chance of that fact changing. All of the facts we’ve reviewed in Part 1 about sales capabilities and the odds working against great clinicians from ever being proficient at sales (85% chance against) are more than okay because the everyday reality for patients is that clinical outcomes need to be at high levels! If most dentists planned and treated their implant cases at the same level of proficiency as their practice [...]