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Chris Barrow
Nov 10, 20161 min read
10 top tips for 2017 in a 10-minute video blog
When you have pressed the play button just allow 30-seconds for the video to load – be patient!
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Chris Barrow
Oct 28, 20163 min read
Human Interest Marketing – Part 5
In the week in which Twitter announce that they are closing down their video application Vine as they post losses of over $100m for the...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 27, 20164 min read
Human Interest Marketing – Part 4
The purpose of your SEO (yesterday’s post) is to direct curious (and, preferably, pre-qualified) people towards your web site. In future...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 24, 20161 min read
Human Interest Marketing – Part 1
I’m going to spend the new few days creating a mini-series on the subject of Human Interest Marketing (HIM) – a philosophy that begins...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 21, 20161 min read
Things about dental practice marketing that I believe in (and some things I’m not convinced ab
Based on the last 6 months of listening to my clients…… Things about dental practice marketing that I believe in A well constructed web...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 18, 20162 min read
Recruiting the “stand out” business manager
The word “business manager” is important here. I don’t consider it part of my scope of practice to comment on the performance of a clinic...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 14, 20161 min read
The Marketing Champion
I’m especially grateful to Hannah Rhodes and the team at Genesis Dental Care for creating the document that I’m sharing with you here. We...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 13, 20161 min read
Your monthly management meeting agenda
Chatting to a Principal last night about her 3-year business strategy (a former client), she asked me “Chris are you just dealing with...
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Chris Barrow
Oct 11, 20162 min read
What are they searching for?
It is always worth a monthly check on Google Analytics to discover what the visitors to your web site were searching for when they began...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 30, 20162 min read
Friday morning reflections
Friday morning, Marylebone, London and off for a Groundhog Day with the BDA at Wimpole Street, there to repeat last week’s marketing...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 28, 20161 min read
Asking the right questions
Old school question: Q – “So how did you find us?” A – “I had a look at your web site.” So the marketing team record this as an internet...
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Chris Barrow
Sep 27, 20162 min read
A new home for the Coach Barrow blog
The new web site is live at www.coachbarrow.com and, whilst we are still snagging the site as we go along, I welcome you to the latest...
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Chris Barrow
Jun 10, 20162 min read
Digital marketing is a team event
Here’s a quick test to see how effective your digital marketing really is (and whether or not you are likely to be getting a good ROI)....
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Chris Barrow
May 31, 20162 min read
Invisibility in marketing
Selling the Invisible : A Field Guide to Modern Marketing was first published by Harry Beckwith in 1997 and yet when Jon Barrow recently...
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Chris Barrow
May 24, 20162 min read
Junk food
My definition of processed food is any real food that has been altered in any way in order to lower its production cost, lengthen its...
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Chris Barrow
May 23, 20161 min read
An updated Lifecycle Marketing Workflow
For those in dental practice marketing – we have updated our workflow to reflect the arrival of The Bridge (our exclusive read-only link...
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Chris Barrow
May 18, 20161 min read
Target practice
In an existing dental practice, the yellow bulls eye for your marketing effort is up-selling to existing patients. The red outer ring –...
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Chris Barrow
May 5, 20163 min read
Bums on seats
An observation of UK dental post-graduate courses suggests that it is getting tougher to sell places. Partly dilution? Mainly, I suggest,...
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Chris Barrow
Apr 15, 20162 min read
Attraction Marketing for Dentistry
Attraction Marketing became an understood concept in 2012. As a term it defines a specific method to gain patients through the internet....
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Chris Barrow
Apr 14, 20162 min read
The Optimiser, The Advertiser and The Marketer
There is a lot of confusion in the world of digital marketing that can lead the unwary to an inaccurate conclusion about financial and...
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