Ask one, do one: tips to be more productive and grow your practice
Ask one, do one: this is a simple way to keep the main thing, the main thing when growing the practice.
When looking for a simple, effective way to grow the size of the dental practice and to be more productive each day in the dental practice: ask one, do one ask.
Ask one: referrals from friends and family can be the best patients
Ask one means to ask for one referral every day. When you see a great patient, do they have a great friend or a great family member that needs to come in to see the dentist?
Ask is there a way that we can help one of their friends and have them come in.
Especially if you like the patient, you can tell them you’ve really enjoyed getting to know them and working with them. And generally, great patients have great friends. So if there’s a great friend who you think could benefit from our services, can we invite them to come in as well?
But ask for a referral every day. If everyone asks one person a day consistently,, that will help to grow the practice. Ask for referrals from friends and family.
Referrals from friends and family can be some of the best new patients that you get when they’re referred by friends and family.
Do one: take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves
The other half of ask one do one is: to do one more thing each day.
Every day you have plans for your schedules, and throughout the day, new opportunities arise. You identify things that are added to what needs to be done.
Patients may call in with emergencies.
We may see hygiene patients that we treatment plan for new procedures.
We may have a patient in the chair that has multiple treatment needs and just making the effort to do one means, making the effort to do one more procedure than originally planned.
When there’s a little bit of extra time, go ahead and do that procedure that needs to be done for the patient. The present moment is what we impact. We know we cannot go back and do something yesterday when that day’s already passed. Putting something off until tomorrow doesn’t get it done.
So doing it now is what makes the difference.
If we can commit to doing at least one more needed procedure than scheduled to help an extra person, when the opportunity arises, it can help get that emergency patient seen today, or help keep that patient who’s already here from having to return another day later to finish their treatment.
They can go ahead and get it done today.
So when you see a little extra time, don’t be afraid to go ahead and just take action and take the next step to do that One More procedure.
Ask one, do: improve productivity and grow your practice
Ask one, do one. It’s a simple thing to remember and it can have a big impact for the practice in terms of growing the number of patients and getting more done. At least once a day: ask one, do one.