Dr. Korb was one of the best dentists I've had. However, his marketing efforts were too blatant.
After I had become an established patient, I found out that he advertised with coupons. I find that to be in poor taste. After all, would you go to a cardiologist who distributes coupons offering a free stent with every angioplasty? Coupons are for groceries, not for health and well being. If I wasn't already a patient, I never would have gone to him in the first place.
His waiting room became uncomfortable when he hung a giant picture of some large heads with sparkling white teeth. The whole thing was completely out of scale for his tiny waiting room. And no, seeing the giant white teeth didn't sell me on teeth whitening.
He didn't even have any magazines. Without year-old news magazines, how am I supposed to keep up with current events?
No, seriously, all the reading material in Dr. Korb's office was clearly placed there for one purpose: to sell.
If it weren't for the marketing, I would have recommended Dr. Korb to friends and colleagues. But I wasn't comfortable sending people I like to a place that was out to sell them something.
I still think Dr. Korb is a great dentist. But the marketing tactics make him look bad.
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