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On Thursday I had the huge honor of speaking at the Spring for Life conference at Life West Chiropractic College. Many of you have written me asking me to explain the comment I made about being able to measure everything that happens in my offices through numbers. I am a huge fan of metrics. I firmly believe that you can't grow anything you can't measure. A book I highly recommend called "The Game of Work", Charles A. Coonradt, speaks well to the need for metrics. In his book he used a widget company as an example. He ...

29
Apr

One of my favorite questions to ask a prospective associate is where they see themselves in 3-5 years. I usually qualify he answer i am looking for by asking them to expand on their vision of what their practice looks like. Almost without exception the biggest unknown is how many patients they are seeing in one week and how much money they think that might equate to. And if they were to know how many patients they wanted to see... how many new patients they would need to see each week to achieve ...

13
Apr

May 31st is going to be a very big day for Specific Chiropractic! Will you join us for this monumental day? We have invited some of the most successful and influential Specific Chiropractors from around the country to fly in and share their success secrets with you. Not only that, for the first time ever, Dr. Shawn Dill will be opening up his "inner circle" and allowing unprecedented insight into the details behind the creation of the innovative marketing plan recently put into place at The Specific Chiropractic Center. We will also be unveiling the ...

Free Student Lodging

07
Apr

It has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Blair Chiropractic Society that the first 40 students registering for the conference this year will receive free lodging at the Adams Mark Hotel (soon to be a Sheraton) in Dallas, Texas. Learning from last year we have upgraded the Student program just a bit. First the students will be housed in the hotel that the conference is hosted in. Second we have included the Thursday night for those arriving early, so the lodging will be from Thursday through Sunday! Lastly it is ...

I am excited to announce that this years annual Conference will be held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The theme this year will be "The Office of the Future" and will be Sponsored by Future Health Software. Our vendors this year will remain in the Main Speaker room arranged in the formation of what the Blair Chiropractic Office of the future will look like. 2008 Blair Chiropractic Convention Sheraton Dallas September 26 - 27, 2008 Dallas, Texas Last year was the greatest year for us in both content and in numbers. This year we will ...

This is a great question and should be top of mind for students in their last year of school. Let dig into your options. Internship/Preceptorship This is a period of time spent in a college approved clinic. The most effective of these is a preceptorship in which you spend your last 3-4 months of of school inside a real clinical setting. This opportunity can super valuable for a number of reasons. First, you have little to no idea of how an office really works. In fact if you were to extrapolate your ...

The Revolution Begins!

04
Apr

The Dream Practice Revolution begins. This site and these blogs will serve as a resource for getting you out of school and building the practice of your dreams. There are many options when graduating and whether you decide to intern, associate or open your own doors this site will be important tool to make sure you make it happen successfully. This place will also be what you make it. I have been out of school for 6 years and believe me so much has happened that I have no idea what i was thinking while in school...maybe I ...