Jim Du Molin offers dental marketing news and dental practice management advice for dentists.
Today’s Friday random video for dentists features “Porter” the driving dog.
Yes, you read that right.
He’s a Beardie Cross, a SPCA rescue dog and he can drive a Mini Cooper better than my 17-year-old son.
The New Zealand SPCA has been training dogs how to operate a Mini Cooper as part of a marketing campaign to show how rescue dogs make great adoption choices.
Click on Play and enjoy your Friday random video –
Think you can train one to take dental x-rays?
Today’s Friday random video for dentists features a dog and a cat.
What happens when you bring a new dog into a home where a cat and dog are already best friends?
A new dog that clearly doesn’t understand his place in the hierarchy of pets.
See how the cat handles the new dog –
Today’s Friday random video for dentists features a grumpy vampire who has a toothache and makes an appointment with a dentist, who promptly places a gold crown on his main fang.
He is tempted to bite the sexy dentist, and tries to go for her after she fits the gold crown on his tooth, to somewhat disastrous results.
The video short titled, “Vampire’s Crown” was produced at the University of Hertfordshire by Henry Mountain, Hiren Solanki and Nick Hughes.
Enjoy! It’s a fun 3 minutes –
I bet there’s a dentist out there who wishes seven-month-old Sebastian Leyack, the Star Wars Internet sensation was his or her grandson …
Earlier this week a Santa Rosa, California family uploaded a video of their crying son that soon catapulted him to Internet stardom.
It seems that mom was so desperate to find something to calm Sebastian down while they were on a family road trip that she turned on the car radio and the “Star Wars” theme was playing. The music immediately calmed Sebastian down, according to The Press Democrat.
His dad was thrilled. He’s a Star Wars fan who sometimes played the theme song while his wife was pregnant.
So when their boy begins to fuss for no apparent reason, mom provides the following –
Joe Plummer might be the unwitting hero to dentists and dental practices everywhere with his viral video series Real Actors Read Yelp.
The videos are the creation of the former TV producer and creator, who claims the idea came to him when he read some Yelp restaurant reviews out loud to his wife while she was driving on their way to dinner.
Plummer told Fast Company, “I am not kidding when I say we had to pull the car over because we were laughing so hard. Something about an angry lobster set us off. For the rest of the trip I continued to find restaurants and read the reviews out loud. By the time we arrived where we were going the idea was born.”
Dentists are no strangers to negative online reviews and what Joe Plummer is producing may put all online reviews in to the right perspective.
Here’s the first 3 videos so far –
Professional actor Chris Kipiniak of Law and Order and The Good Wife fame puts the full weight of his dynamic gifts behind this interpretation of an online restaurant review. (YouTube)
Award-winning audio-book narrator and actress Therese Plummer (Joe’s wife) of The Good Wife and Law and Order SVU lends her expressive talents to this rendition of a Yelp review. (YouTube)
Award-winning actor Brian O’Neill of Damages and The Sopranos uses his talents to reveal the deep pathos in this review of a concert venue in Santa Ana, California posted to Yelp by Garrett M. (YouTube)
Maybe the next time a dental patient online review begins to raise your blood pressure, why not try reading it like you are in a Shakespearean play?
It may put the review in a whole new light.
If you think it’s worth a parody by Joe Plummer . . . he is taking suggestions.
Just email a link to your review at joe(at)gottakidtofeed.com and maybe you’ll become the dentist who had a Yelp online review read by Christopher Walken — now that’s a negative online review worth smiling about.
Jim Du Molin is a leading Internet marketing expert for dentists in North America. He has helped hundreds of doctors make more money in their practices using his proven Internet marketing techniques.
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