 | Why the Web?
Reason #19
| Reduce Your IT Costs
According to a 2009 study by the Gartner Group IT services represent 14% of the total cost to implement new software. The actual software licensing fees represent only 9% of the total cost.
With a few simple assumptions we can estimate a dollar value of the IT costs. If you were switching to a fossil-fuel system like DENTRIX. Eaglesoft or other client-server system, your licensing fees will be around $7000. Given that number (or plug in your own number) the IT costs would be approximately $10,900 for the implementation only! You'll most likely pay additional fees every month for server, hardware and network maintenance.
It's not that your IT guy is evil or that their services is money wasted. It's that web-based dental software doesn't require a server, hefty hardware or a robust network. When you eliminate the source for IT help you naturally eliminate the costs as well.
You can read more about ROI at our website or you can call us to learn more: 888-910-4376.
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| Fun Dental Facts
| | Employed adults lose more than 164 million hours of work each year due to oral health problems or dental visits. | |
| Free Webinars
| You can see Web-based dental software in action by joining one of our regularly scheduled webinars. One of our friendly dental software experts will show you why your practice should be using the Web to manage the practice.
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| Classic Dental Humor
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Did you hear about the dentist who planted a garden?
A month later he was picking his teeth.
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Curve Dental, Inc.
424 W. 800 N. #202
Orem, UT 84057
888-910-4376
sales@curvedental.com
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How You Can Become a Fee-Friendly Practice
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Power Thought: McKenzie Management
- Establish a solid fee for each service.
- Study fees of other area dentists and income demographics of your patients.
- Base fees on the quality of your work and the quality of your team.
- Adjust fees on a consistent schedule.
- Provide treatment financing, such as CareCredit.
- Use fee psychology. Patients are more accepting of fees ending with $1, $2, $3, $4, $6, $7, and $8.
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Seven Ways to Reduce Overhead and Increase Profits
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Power Thought: Drevenstedt Consulting
- Reduce variable costs. Know the percentages to budget.
- Produce more in the same time. Learn the 90 second crown prep and how to delegate expanded duties.
- Raise fees.
- Increase treatment acceptance ratios by using patient education systems (see Curve Dental's free web-based system at www.curveed.com) or take courses that will improve your communication skills
- Reduce open time. Reduce broken appointments.
- Increase new patient flow by asking for and encouraging referrals.
- Focus the team on relationship communication and deliver outrageous customer service.
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Practice Management Thrown for a Curve: Curve Dental's Whiz Kid Brings the Cloud to Dentistry
| Learn More About Curve Dental's Matt Dorey: From the April 2010 Issue of DentalTown Magazine, by Benjamin Lund, editor
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First impressions can often be deceiving. Matt Dorey, 24, strolls into the lobby of Conrad Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, and unlike the half-dozen well-dressed hotel guests who rode down with him in the elevator, Dorey's striking appearance catches you off guard. This young entrepreneur looks every bit his age - and then some. He's wearing stylish jeans, a gray hoodie sweatshirt, and then there are those bright orange sneakers, representative of his company's lively brand. A haphazardly upswept hairdo and two or three days of uneven stubble complete the look. As he nears, this patently hip young man is singing a blues song.
"I love the blues," he says. "When I visited Chicago a couple years ago, I was just learning to play guitar. I found some hideaway joints here where I heard the best blues music I'd ever heard before. Changed my life."
At first glance, you visualize Dorey as a budding rock musician - not the founder of Curve Dental, a company offering what many consider to be the biggest game-changer in dental software in a generation. He has a base at Curve Dental's headquarters in Orem, Utah, and says he doesn't really have an office - yet he still works about 80 hours each week. He spends most of his time on the road, traveling from practice to practice, finding more ways to improve Curve Hero, his company's Web-based software platform, all the while staying connected to his customers - an ethos he adopted following revolutionary businessmen like famed British industrialist Sir Richard Branson or Howard Schultz, chairman and CEO of Starbucks.
Read the entire article here...
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