The Dental Industry Academy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr. Eric Block
The Dental Industry Academy is a place for CEOs and leaders of the dental industry to help each other! The Dental Industry Academy Podcast is the go-to podcast of CEOs and leaders of dental companies to learn how to grow their businesses through other CEOs of leading dental companies across the country.
Smart people learn from their mistakes; smarter people learn from other people's mistakes. Do you believe in this saying too? Then, you will surely find this discussion between Brett Wells and Dr. Eric Block insightful.
Ever thought of getting funding to grow your dental company? While getting investments is a norm in the business world, in this episode, Jordon Comstock joins Dr. Eric Block to explain a different view; he explains why it is better to bootstrap your dental company by balancing your budget and being smart with your money and how you can make it work!
The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.
In this episode, Shawn Zajas joins Dr. Eric Block to discuss the brand-building process in the dental community!
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
In this episode, Darren Cassidy, the CEO of Net32, joins Dr. Eric Block to explain how a leader can use conscious management within a company as a CEO.
Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
In this episode, Dr. Eric Block interviews Dr. Jeremy Krell to get to know all about Investing in Oraltech.
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
In this episode, Dr. Eric Block interviews Jens Kuhn, the chairman of Kettenbach, to learn all about the secret behind the successful dental company.
Do you know what makes a dental company successful?
The answer to that question is solving the pain points of dentists! Dr. Eric Block interviews Darius Somekhian to talk all about creating a successful dental company by solving pain points experienced by dentists.
It’s critical to ensure that your company sells something exciting with growth potential. Without growth potential, it is impossible for you to attract the right investors, and you might also end up selling off a significant part of your business to a partner just to find funds. Some instruments enable you to grow your company with limited funding, and using these will help you avoid making the wrong investment decisions at the beginning of your business.
Darius shares how you can use observation to identify the pain points of dentists, how to transform the idea of solving a pain point to create a dental company that fulfills the purpose, the biggest mistake dental entrepreneurs make, the importance, and how to differentiate your company from the competition.
Give this episode a listen and learn tips to create a successful dental company that continues to grow!
If giving back to your community and becoming a guest of the podcast is something that interests you, then please click the link below to schedule your episode with Dr. Eric Block.
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Success doesn’t come from what you occasionally do; it comes from what you do consistently.
In this Dental Industry Academy Podcast, Dr. Eric Block is joined by Nick Azar, the VP of Sales & Marketing at Keating Dental Lab.
To achieve significant business growth, Nick Azar believes that the most important thing is to not just survive as a business but to strive. And this is what Keating Dental achieved with the help of effective communication with the customers, good leadership, and a pulse on the business.
With correct brand awareness creation and effective communication, your customers are aware of what is going on and what to expect, which leaves no room for surprises from the business. The leadership and the team play a significant role in identifying what the customer wants and delivering it in the best way possible. When you can do this with your team, you can indeed achieve business growth.
By listening to this episode, you will learn how to maintain good leadership with your team, deliver good customer service, and an interesting major shift in the dental industry!
If giving back to your community and becoming a guest of the podcast is something that interests you, then please click the link below to schedule your episode with Dr. Eric Block.
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Experience is the teacher of all things.
In this episode, you will get to know how using expertise will enable you to create a game-changing company!
The CEO of Ditron Dental, Micheal Stevens, joins Dr. Eric Block to discuss the elements that helped Ditron Dental become a young yet very ambitious dental company.
To be a successful CEO, you should be your company’s own brand ambassador. You have to communicate your brand consistently to your employees, customers, and shareholders.
It is also essential to stay curious about how the company can improve even more.
The dental industry can be considered a small ecosystem, and in order to make your dental company thrive in this system, you have to figure out the uniqueness of your product and use effective methods to communicate this to potential customers.
Listen to this episode to learn tips to use experts to build a game-changing company, how to use the influence of the right people to grow your company!
If giving back to your community and becoming a guest of the podcast is something that interests you, then please click the link below to schedule your episode with Dr. Eric Block.
https://bit.ly/36XeEEk
Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. When you want to start a business or keep running a business in the dental industry, you have to put aside your fears, feelings of uncertainty and work on improving.
We are all human. We make mistakes, and we learn from them. We may not know what will happen; however, we can choose to keep progressing.
If you know that your product or company can solve one or even several pain points dentists face, you have to be patient and trust that it will thrive. You have to believe in yourself and your product or company so much that you will be able to improve it without letting fear hold you back.
Listen to this episode as Dr. Eric Block interviews Matthew Jarvis to talk about why you should start believing in yourself as a business owner and why you should genuinely trust that your product/company will thrive in the dental industry. You will also learn to cope with fears and not let them hold you back!
Matthew Jarvis is the CEO of Dental Ops and President of Dental Ops. Dental Ops is leading the way in implementing fully-supported back-office services for dental practices and professionals.
If giving back to your community and becoming a guest of the podcast is something that interests you, then please click the link below to schedule your episode with Dr. Eric Block.
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Every successful business starts with an idea and the decision to do something with the idea!
Dr. Vilas Sastry identified that emergency rooms, in general, are being used for dental emergencies. This process doesn't make sense because patients should be going to the dentist for dental emergencies.
How did he solve this problem after making this single observation?
Well, he formulated a new idea to solve a significant issue in dentistry!
Dr. Vilas Sastry and his team wanted to solve one problem faced by patients, and they spent a lot of time coming up with a solution. Finally, they successfully solved the problem by introducing Teledentistry.com
In this Dental Industry Academy episode, you will learn the importance of the ideation process to build a successful business, how to make the right decisions in high-stress situations, why you should trust your team, and how revisiting your goals will help you achieve a higher level of success.
If giving back to your community and becoming a guest of the podcast is something that interests you, then please click the link below to schedule your episode with Dr. Eric Block.
https://bit.ly/36XeEEk
Dental Industry Academy is a community where CEOs and executives of companies that sell products and services to dentists come together. It is a community where you will get to network, learn and thrive! It is a virtual place where CEOs and executives serving dentists can share their lessons and challenges. It is a place where you can get help when you need it and help others when they need your help. It creates an opportunity for you to learn from others and grow together. The Dental Industry Academy will help CEOs and executives of the dentist serving companies in four ways. In the first episode of the Dental Industry Academy podcast, Naren Arulrajah, the CEO of Ekwa Marketing, and Dr. Eric Block, the Founder of Deals for Dentists, discusses what the Dental Industry Academy is, why it was created and what you can expect from it as a dentist serving CEO or executive.
If you are a dental company CEO willing to give back to your community by becoming a guest of the podcast, then please click the link below to schedule your episode recording meeting with Dr. Eric Block:
https://bit.ly/36XeEEk