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Most dental practice owners are spending money on marketing without knowing if it is working. Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah change that in this episode with five specific numbers every practice should track each month, a two-chasms framework that pinpoints exactly where patients are being lost, and a conversion grading scale that reveals why the […]
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Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah reveal the data most dental practice owners have never seen: in 2025, 60% of all high-value cases…
Most practices do a little of everything. The ones patients talk about do one thing exceptionally well. Gary Takacs calls it a…
Gary Takacs breaks down the five-step checklist every dental practice needs to complete before resigning from a single PPO plan. Built from…
In this episode of The Thriving Dentist Show, Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah tackle one of the most common and most expensive…
Most dental marketing focuses on getting the phone to ring. This episode is about what happens after it does. Gary Takacs and…
Case acceptance is the number one coaching question Gary Takacs gets asked in every room he walks into. This episode is his…
Most dentists have no idea how they actually stack up against the practice down the street — and that blind spot is…
What separates a dental practice that thrives for decades from one that quietly stalls? On this episode of The Thriving Dentist Show,…
In this episode of The Thriving Dentist Show, Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah spend an hour on one of the most underserved…
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Gary became a successful practice owner the same way he teaches others: by living it. As co-owner of LifeSmiles, he led the practice through a complete transition away from insurance dependence — resigning from all 34 PPO plans, keeping 80% of patients, and raising profit margin by 36%. Every system he teaches today was built and tested in his own practice first.
An award-winning entrepreneur on a mission to deliver out-of-the-box digital marketing for dental practices. After ranking a small website above Amazon, a Chicago dentist asked Naren a question that changed his career: “If you can outrank Amazon, why not help me dominate my city?” Today Naren leads Ekwa Marketing — and a team of specialists who turn marketing spend into measurable patient growth for hundreds of dental practices.
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