Special Holiday Mailer Available

Posted on November 18, 2014November 18, 2014 by amsadmin

AmericaSmiles is providing ACDLA members with a special Holiday Mailer they can send to their customers. Use the Holiday Season to promote a special offer and begin 2015 with a jumpstart. For a single One-Hour marketing charge of $40, AmericaSmiles Marketing Advantage team will customize the postcard to include your logo, contact information and special offer. You will be authorized for a one-time mailing usage and for posting on your website for the period of your campaign. Once approved by you...

Setting SMART Goals

Posted on October 24, 2014February 12, 2016 by amsadmin

Whether you have employees, partners, or are a one-man band, planning and setting goals is one of the most important management activities that you should be addressing. It is particularly important that you help your employees establish goals and objectives that will be the basis for any sort of evaluation. If you are not on the same page at the beginning of the period (year, quarter, month or week) it is extremely difficult to coach throughout the period or to effectively evaluate at the end o...

Selecting a Milling Center

Posted on October 24, 2014November 7, 2014 by amsadmin

Selecting a milling center partner might seem a relatively simple task, and for the most part it is. Just try them and see if you like them. However, if you take the time to ask a few basic questions, you can have confidence in knowing that you are providing your dentists with premium quality milled restorations. Asking the right questions can also prevent you from selecting the wrong milling center and avoid potential problems that may results from a poor selection. Below is a list of questions...

ACDLA to be at LMT LAB DAY – Chicago in February

Posted on October 16, 2014February 18, 2015 by amsadmin

The American Cosmetic Dental Lab Assocation (ACDLA) announced today that they will exhibit at LMT LAB DAY as part of the United Dental Resources Corporation. AmericaSmiles Network, AMS Dental Technologies and ACDLA will jointly be represented in the AmericaSmiles booth at the 2015 LMT LAB DAY show scheduled for February 27-28, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601. LMT LAB DAY Chicago is the largest international gathering of the dental laboratory community ...

Building a Sales and Marketing Plan

Posted on October 16, 2014February 19, 2015 by amsadmin

Many small businesses struggle with establishing a detailed sales plan for growing their business. For many businesses, calling on potential customers is the start and finish of the sales plan. But if you spend just a few minutes thinking about how you make your own buying decisions, I suspect you will agree that few decisions are made on the spot and most of the time you take the time to really understand the details before making an major purchase. Below are the steps we believe you should b...

Privacy Policy

Posted on September 17, 2014September 17, 2014 by amsadmin

Effective September 1, 2014 Privacy Notice Table Of Contents Our Commitment To Privacy The Information We Collect How We Use Information Our Commitment To Data Security Our Commitment To Children's Privacy Use of Cookies How To Access Or Correct Your Information How To Contact Us Our Commitment To Privacy Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the ...

Growing in an Uncertain Market

Posted on September 16, 2014 by amsadmin

In the September 2014 issue of LMT Magazine, managing editor Kim Molinaro, reports that respondents to their 2014 Wage Survey overwhelmingly indicated they have made cuts in the last two years that have related to personnel. The most likely actions cited included freezing pay, cutting hours, laying off technicians and reducing overtime. The article focuses on increased costs of doing business, costs of benefits, and downward pricing pressure. What is most interesting is that these actions wer...

Be Proactive

Posted on September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 by amsadmin

One of the most influential books I have read teaches us to Be Proactive. If you haven't read Stephen Covey's"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", I would highly recommend it. I'm not exactly sure how I would have defined being proactive before reading Covey's book ,but I definitely thought it had more to do with trying to make things happen then about how I responded to things when they did happen. That's the big difference I learning from Covey. Between stimulus and response, we have ...

The Meaning of our Logo

Posted on September 9, 2014September 22, 2014 by amsadmin

Many have asked about our new ACDLA logo and how it came to be. While we suspect that you are familiar with association logos that include pillars and columns, or perhaps dental industry logos that include dentures or teeth, when it came time to establish a new image to take us into this new phase of our existence, we wanted something that spoke directly to our purpose. Josh Spiekhout, one of our terrific young marketers at United Dental Resources Corporation (UDRC) who often works with lab ...

AmericaSmiles Network Renews Sponsorship of ACDLA

Posted on September 8, 2014September 22, 2014 by amsadmin

AmericaSmiles Network, the largest Dental Lab network dedicated to the growth and viability of the Dental Lab Industry, has renewed their sponsorship of the American Cosmetic Dental Lab Association for 2015, announced today. The agreement includes sponsorship of the ACDLA 2015 Lab Days training events along with sponsorship of annual mailings and other marketing materials made available on the new ACDLA.net website. In addition, AmericaSmiles Network will continue to pay the ACDLA annual asso...