Gary Bird

Dental Marketing Goat

Business EN ↓ 286 episodes

Welcome to the Dental Marketing Goat Podcast, where we discuss proven dental marketing strategies that consistently attract predictable new patient flow to your practice. Whether you're a solo practitioner or part of a larger group, we'll provide valuable insights and actionable tips to help your dental practice thrive. Tune in as we explore the latest trends and techniques in dental marketing and how you can use them to drive predictable, sustained growth for your business. 

Author

Gary Bird

Category

Business

Podcast website

dentalmarketinggoat.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

#234 Pre-Deposit for First Date? 28.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Ready to transform your front desk? Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist: https://bit.ly/48RHMt2 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird explains why charging a new patient deposit is quietly destroyin...

#233 Our 2025 Average Client Numbers! 27.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down real 2025 dental practice benchmark data to show what actually drives dental growth, marketing ROI, patient referrals, and collections per new...

#232 This Simple Change Doubles Treatment per New Patient 26.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail 📥 Download the Free Guide (Cherry Financing): https://go.smcnational.com/resources/dental-case-acceptance-guide 🚀Ready to transform your front desk? Check out our new Dental AI Receptionist: https://bit.ly/48RHMt2 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how de...

#231 5 More New Patients per Month - One Simple Phone Hack! 23.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down a simple but powerful dental phone conversion strategy that can add 5 or more new patients per month without increasing your marketing spend. Y...

#230 Delegation is the Reason Your Marketing isn't Working in 2026 21.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail 📥 Download the Free Resource: https://bit.ly/4jBEGhV 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down why delegating your dental marketing may be the very thing holding your practice back fro...

#229 How this Dentist DOUBLED Average Collections Per Patient (Without Adding New Patients) 23.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/4p48qoC ➖➖➖➖ If you want to grow your dental practice, increase production, and close more comprehensive cases, this conversation gives you the exact blueprint. SMC founding owner Gary Bird sits down with Dr. Jancy Parkerson of Chattanooga Dental Arts to reveal how her practice doubled production per patient and is...

#227 From 17 to 30+ New Patients (Out-of-Network!) 12.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/4p48qoC ➖➖➖➖ In this episode of Dental Marketing Goat, host Gary Bird sits down with Dr. Parth Patel to break down how he grew his fee-for-service dental practice without joining insurance networks. Dr. Patel shares the exact strategy he used to increase new patients from the teens to over 30 per month by focusing...

#226 Why Low ROI Might Actually Mean BIG Growth 10.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, host Gary Bird breaks down a surprising truth about dental marketing ROI and what actually drives long-term practice growth. Using real data from high-performing dental offices,...

#225 The 2026 Growth Accelerator System 08.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 📥Free Resource: https://go.smcnational.com/resources/growth-accelerator-package 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt Your path to scale comes down to five core components. Together, they make a simple growth syste...

#224 Major News in AI Marketing!!! 05.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down the major announcement that Sam Altman and OpenAI are preparing to roll out ads inside ChatGPT responses and what this means for dental marketi...

#223 How to Do a HARD Reset on Growing Your Practice in 2026! 03.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc 🚀The mastermind fills fast - apply now and start scaling with confidence: https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down how dentists can perform a hard reset on their dental practice growth heading into 2026. Gary explains why dental production, collections, patient referral...

#222 Dentists made $17,000 LESS in 2024! 28.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc ADA data says dentists’ average income dropped by $17,000 in 2024. American Dental Association (ADA) data indicates the average net income for general practice dentists dropped by over $17,000 in 2024, from $225,230 in 2023 to $207,980 in 2024, primarily due to practice expenses outpacing reven...

#221 2x New Patients & 37% Collections Growth in 60 Days! 26.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Apply here to Double Your New Patients in 90 days: https://go.smcnational.com/case-study 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/4p48qoC ➖➖➖➖ In this episode of Dental Marketing Goat, host Gary Bird sits down with Dr. Dave Agia to unpack how his practice doubled new patients, increased collections by 37% in just 60 days, and 2x’d Google reviews. Dr. Ag...

#220 Dental Growth Lagging vs Leading Indicators 24.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc In this episode, host Gary Bird breaks down the exact KPIs dentists need to track to drive real dental practice growth, explaining the difference between leading indicators and lagging indicators. Gary Bird shares how metrics like qualified leads, scheduled appointments, new patients, productio...

#219 "AI Search" in Dental: Some Things You Should Know! 12.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://withcherry.com/partnerships/smc  In this episode, host Gary Bird breaks down the truth about AI search in dentistry, and what it means for your marketing strategy. With tools like ChatGPT, Atlas, and Google’s new AI features, search results are changing fast, and dentists need to know how it impacts their visibility online. G...

#218 Fee for Service: From 15 to 75 New Patients 04.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/4p48qoC ➖➖➖➖ Learn actionable, real-world strategies to grow your dental practice without sacrificing your team culture or patient experience. In this episode, Gary Bird and Dr. Jancy Parkerson share practical steps for scaling sustainably, covering leadership clarity, team alignment, financial planning, and patien...

#217 Maximizers vs. Optimizers: Why Your Thinking Style Builds or Breaks Your Business 31.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, we’re breaking down two powerful types of thinkers: the maximizers and the optimizers. Maximizers chase growth, momentum, and opportunity, often thinking in top-line terms; how big can we make this? Optimizers, on the other hand, focus on efficiency, sy...

#216 Why Isn't My Marketing Working? 24.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down one of the most overlooked reasons dental practices struggle to grow: doing the right things in the wrong order. Gary explains why many dentists believe “Google Ads don’t work” or that they’ve “hit a ceiling” in new patient volume,...

#215 Doubling New Patients with 300%! 22.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow Your Practice with Cherry Payment Plans: https://bit.ly/4p48qoC ➖➖➖➖ Discover how Dr. Kim doubled new patients, increased production by 40%, and achieved a 300% ROI through smart dental marketing, team training, and internal referral strategies. In this episode, Gary Bird from SMC National breaks down the campaigns, systems, and leadership mindset that helped Smiles for...

#214 Free Dental Growth Training: How to Increase Production by 44% 20.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Grow your office by 44% for FREE! https://go.smcnational.com/resources/20-20-strategy/dmd   🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt   In this episode, Gary Bird reveals a powerful and completely free training that can help you grow your dental practice revenue by up to 44%. Gary breaks down how improving yo...

#213 Did You Hit Your 2025 Goals? How to Grow Your Dental Practice in 2026 17.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Here's a practice growth audit for Q4: https://go.smcnational.com/offer/q4-practice-growth-audit 🚀What are top-performing dentists doing differently? Find out inside the mastermind:  https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird shares a proven framework to help dental practice owners hit their growth goals and scale smarter in 2026. As 2025 comes to an end, Gary wa...

#212 Single Brand vs. Multi-Brand in Dental 15.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀Spots are limited - secure your seat in the mastermind that’s changing how dentists grow: https://shorturl.at/AenIt In this episode, Gary Bird breaks down one of the most common questions in dental marketing and dental group growth, should your dental practice operate under a single brand or multiple brands? Learn the pros and cons of multi-brand vs single-brand dental strategie...

#211 The #1 Indicator of a Successful Marketing Campaign 06.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Gary Bird reveals the number one indicator of a successful dental practice and why it determines whether your dental marketing strategy actually works. After years of analyzing data from hundreds of practices, Gary explains why dentist involvement in marketing is the key to dental growth, patient acquisition, and long-term success. You’ll learn how operationa...

#210 Why More Leads Didn’t Bring You More Patients 01.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀 Join the Dental Growth Group on Facebook to connect with practice owners leveling up marketing, AI, operations, and collections: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1128133131694060/ 🚀 Download Our Free phone Scripting to turn more calls into appointments: https://go.smcnational.com/redirect-questions 🚀 Get More New Patient Referrals With Our Free Checklist: https://go.smcnationa...

#209 How Many Leads Do You Need to Get One (1) Patient Through the Door? 26.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail 🚀DOWNLOAD FREE CALCULATOR HERE:   https://go.smcnational.com/resources/dental-practice-goal-calculator / In this episode, host Gary Bird breaks down one of the biggest challenges in dental marketing: how many leads it actually takes to get one new patient through the door. Dentists often get flooded with “leads” from marketing companies but struggle to see real growth in new pati...

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