How Can You Harness the Power of Reviews – GF009

Published: July 29, 2021, 12:04 p.m.

Online reviews for Dentists are a big thing in 2021 and it's only really just lifting off now. A few years ago I had an appointment with an ENT consultant and the first thing I did was google his name. Most of our patients are googling us and our online reputation is critical. In this episode I am joined by the founder of Doctify, Dr Suman Saha to help you get more high quality reviews for your practice. https://youtu.be/LiHSvoWBuPA Check out this  full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: How to increase the success rate of capturing review: Consider text messaging and/or having a tablet in your practice so they can leave it immediately after treatment. In this Group Function we discussed: What is the role of patient Reviews dentistry? (07:02)Doctify vs different online review sites/apps such as Google Reviews (08:39)How can we make sure the reviews are accurate? How to overcome fake reviews (12:18)How to create a win-win scenario between Principals (the practice) and associates (that want their reviews to stick with them) (17:48)How to get dentists (who might be introverts) to have awkward conversation with patients and ask for reviews (24:20) If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like this episode Think Comprehensive – Communication Gems with Zak Kara Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: You know even if you're not paying for it yourself just knowing that actually this person's an expert or can deal with the condition that i know i'm going to see him for or her is like it's so powerful and i think that's what we want to try and solve... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I’m Jaz Gulati and welcome to this group function where we answer a really big and important question i get quite a lot from our colleagues. Now you guys know that I’ve been using something called Doctify to collect reviews but the number one objection or query I get from dentists is that hey Jaz, you use Doctify but my principal is being really funny about me collecting my own reviews. How did you overcome this or something related to the fact that there’s some sort of friction between principals and associates? Like even if you collect google reviews as an associate when you are doing all the hard work to gain the google reviews to uplift the goodwill and the reputation of the practice but what if you leave that practice those reviews don’t go with you. So we asked Dr. Suman, who is actually an orthopedic surgeon, who actually created Doctify to answer this very important question as well as how to harness the power of dental review so even if you don’t use Doctify you will gain something about how to use reviews in a clever way. How to collect more reviews and how to actually improve the social proof of your practice. Hope you enjoy this group function.  Main Interview: [Jaz] Part of this podcast is journeys. Learning what motivates people learning about the different routes people take. So Suman, do you practice clinical density at the moment?  [Suman] No, so my background is so I’m not a dentist. So I’m gonna put it out there now, I’m not a dentist.  [Jaz] You know, what I totally thought you were. I totally thought you were.  [Suman] So this has been super interesting learning because I’ve been in and around dentistry for three, four years now and I’ve got a lot of dental friends. So I’m an orthopedic surgeon by background so i trained in London, myself is an orthopedic registrar when we found the Doctify and then I guess we’ve been in dentistry because we started the healthcare and medicine and surgery because that’s what I knew but we suddenly went on to our site and I think the third most searched thing was dentistry even though we had no dentist, we weren’t working with dentists about four years ago and so we basically just knew one of the things people not even patients just people care about is...