How to Build a Practice Growth Plan That Actually Works All Year
About this episode
Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah discuss effective strategies for building a dental practice growth plan that lasts throughout the year.
Most dental practice growth plans fail by January 10th. Gary Takacs and Naren Arulrajah explain exactly why, and exactly what to do about it. Four specific rocks, individual champions, a three-meeting cadence, and the team incentive that took one practice from two Google reviews a month to twenty-six. Plus, Naren on AI search for dental practices, the five benchmarks that define a real patient acquisition engine, and cost-per-lead tracking that shows which channels to scale and which to drop. A mid-year reset episode with real time left in 2026 to act on it.
People in this episode
Host: Gary Takacs
Guest: Naren Arulrajah
Topics covered
- practice growth
- dental management
- AI in dentistry
- patient acquisition
- team incentives
Keywords
- practice growth plan
- dental practices
- AI search
- patient acquisition engine
- cost-per-lead tracking
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