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Dental practice scheduling is the difference between a $2,000 day and a $7,000 day in the same eight hours. One solo dentist saw 41 patients and finished feeling like he’d been run over by a truck. Gary Takacs gives five specific recommendations: a defined daily production goal, a dedicated scheduling coordinator, rock production blocks, new […]
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Dental practice cybersecurity is a patient-retention problem, not an IT problem. Health and Human Services counts a ransomware infection as a reportable…
Should you buy a dental practice or start one from scratch? Gary Takacs says the patients are what you are really buying,…
Most owners of dental practices have never afforded themselves the luxury of asking the one question that changes everything: If your practice…
Most dental practice owners are spending money on marketing without knowing if it is working. Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah change that…
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…
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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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