 Hello everybody, Andrew Maeski here with Dentilel. So it's actually 9.30 right now and I tend to go to bed early like 10.30-11 but I'm already in my pajamas hence why I'm not you know showing you guys what I what I look like I've taken off the makeup I'm in my pajamas you know the whole works but I had a meeting this evening talking about hygienists in Canada specifically here so we're not talking about the US we're talking about Canada talking about us earning commission from what we sell meaning so you probably heard me talk about the whitening toothpaste you probably heard me talk about electric toothbrushes if you're a it's if you are an ambassador for the burst toothbrush company as an example everything you sell if you sell a toothbrush with them if you sell they sell whitening strips they sell toothpaste pretty much anything you can make a commission but with us being in Canada we are not allowed to make a commission so the company has actually turned that off for us so we are still more than welcome to recommend it as with me personally I love that toothbrush because it's at a much cheaper price point than any other electric toothbrush out there and I like how it will send the patients a toothbrush head every three months so they are actually changing their toothbrush but I'm not talking about the company right now I want to talk to you guys about earning commission and I want to give you guys like a firsthand talk about we're not allowed to earn commission because if you guys go to any of the dental hygiene forums on social media right you will hear all kinds of things you will see different people selling different things but you can still do all of that but you're not allowed to earn a commission it's very sad actually I think for us who live in Canada because here we see all of these hygienists let's just say in certain parts of the US where you are allowed to make a commission and then you see them you know posting about how much money they made how they're how they're able to go on on trips and how they're able to do other things well we can't do that even dentists technically there's a little bit of a fine line there so I can't really talk about them too much because I'm not a dentist but they can earn commission but they cannot you know sell something for more than it's worth and make a profit off of that but anyways that's kind of another story for another day but it's just very disheartening and it's just kind of nice to talk about it with all of you guys I kind of wish I was live but I should actually probably do a live and just talk about this how we just have so many different rules and what I said at this meeting was how is it any different then let's say a maxill company or a dental company of pretty much any kind coming to your office to do a lunch and learn well they make a commission when they sell to us right like dental reps make a commission when we obviously buy from them so they're allowed to do that but we're not allowed to recommend a toothbrush or a toothpaste that we do honestly feel is number one yes we are making a commission from that but even if we weren't we would still be talking about it anyway right but we're not allowed to make commission so make sure that if you are selling for the or I shouldn't say selling because we're not making commission but if you're talking about a product where you have signed up to be the ambassador the referral programmer you know turn off your commissions you're not allowed to make any commission and if you think about it losing our license isn't worth making let's just say $200 in commission a year you know yes it's probably more than that but is it worth it even making hypothetically $10,000 to me no you know we don't want to lose our license from it and I get questions all the time of people asking me oh well you're selling this and this and this are you making a commission no I'm not because I turn that off but I I don't know about you guys but I live in breathe dental literally 24-7 that when somebody when a friend a family member just has a 2-3 teeth question I just light up right like I just love talking about teeth and dental so me just talking about toothpaste and toothbrushes that's what I love to do as silly as that probably just sounds at the moment but I just love it and it's very hard and and I'm sure you're all thinking the same thing it's so hard for us because we want to be able to talk about it and patients listen to us you know and somebody at the meeting actually brought upon a good point you know how is it any different than when we get samples from crest or Colgate or you know whoever with the $2 coupon we are putting those samples or giving them to the patient how is that any different because anything we talk about to our patients we recommend well you know are are we making money from that Crest or Colgate sample of toothpaste no but we're still going to talk about it if we love that toothpaste but again we're not allowed to make money from anything even if you're like me and you guys have your own office like I've been a mobile hygienist since last year and I you know order like Sensodyne I order all kinds of things right because if I'm going to somebody's house and I'm telling them Sensodyne is the best toothpaste for you I'm not making any money when I tell them this right but to take it a step further is I do I carry usually about five different Sensodyne like at a time so that if I'm telling a patient well you should you know you should try this if I say that they'll go oh okay well can you make a note of that for me thanks I'm gonna have to go to the store to buy that now patients often won't take the time to look for something if they don't remember the name so I like to have it with me so that I will actually sell that to them but what I'm getting at is I cannot make any profit off of that Sensodyne so I have to sell it to them at cost which makes sense but then again I'm also thinking well if I'm taking the time to pick up the Sensodyne or you know order the Sensodyne why can't I make an extra two dollars per two because they don't have to go to the store to pick it up so they're happy I'm happy but no I have to sell it to them at cost even I've heard a couple times patients say to me oh is that old Sensodyne is well how come you're not selling it for more like you're nice enough to come to my house you're selling me Sensodyne well you should really sell it up for a little bit more to make a profit and I'm saying to them well we're actually not allowed to do that so lucky you is you don't have to pay more right but anyways I guess I'm just kind of rambling on because it's very hard for me to be so passionate and to want to recommend things to my patients and I do all the time but then I'm still getting like messages all the time about oh oh you have to be careful because you're making it sound like you're making a commission but I'm not and I wanted to talk to all of you guys too to just let you know that if you are selling for any of these companies be careful make sure to turn off the fact that you can make a commission and the best way to do that is is to not sign up for like a payment what's the word a payment processor like you know how when you sign up for these companies they ask you to enter in your bank details well don't don't even do that so you're still technically earning commission you know but you won't actually get that if that makes sense so if you guys need help with knowing how to turn that off let me know and I can I can help you with that if you have been earning commission now is the time to go into your account profiles and just turn that off you guys take out your bank info because you don't want your license taken away so let me know you guys if you have any questions about that just a quick thing to talk about so at this meeting that I had like talking about commissions and you know all of that there's no way around it like a lot of hygienists were saying things like well if I donate to charity my commission is that okay well they say no because anything that you can potentially make money from you might not be well they say you're recommending that product only because you have a chance to make money you might not actually believe in that product as you say you do so does that make sense so even if you give the money to charity if you do anything you can't you can not make any money from it so even you know think of when you recommend oral be Sonic air well that's okay because you're not making any money I love this new burst toothbrush because it's an electric toothbrush that is so much more affordable and a hygienist made a good point you know she said you know I love to talk about oral be in Sonic air but a price of an oven electric toothbrush shouldn't be the price of my car payment but with burst it's a lot less expensive I believe and sorry guys I have to double check the price again because I keep thinking in US dollars for a toothbrush if you use a promo code so for a burst toothbrush you are only paying about $53 and that's taxes in but it is a pretty awesome toothbrush like the charts last for weeks it is awesome and how I see it from a hygienist perspective is you know patients will love it they will use their toothbrush twice a day because it makes their teeth feel clean they're happy we're happy but just make sure to turn off commissions and and that you're not earning anything from that because if they try to buy a burst toothbrush and not use your pure promo code I believe it would be like $89 or something like that or it could even be more like $93 but if they use your promo code as a dental professional they only have to pay like $53 for a toothbrush and they can sign up to get a toothbrush I'm delivered to them every three months and trust me people love that you guys but for you to give them a promo code you have to sign up to be a burst ambassador which implies you make a commission right so just don't sign up for making that commission and then you're perfectly fine but again I can't say it's enough please comment if you guys have any questions I might have forgotten something I literally just ended the meeting with them like 20 minutes ago so I wanted to hop on right away well I still had it all pretty fresh in my in my mind I'm going to actually I will post this now so it should be lives or it should be on YouTube soon let me know if there's any questions and we'll go from there because I don't want anybody to lose your license over this it's not worth it okay so thank you guys so much for listening I will probably do a live when I have some more time the board exams coming up so you know there's not a lot of time I've been tutoring 24-7 but I promise to come online hopefully in a couple weeks if you guys would like to be a part of that let me know and then I can leave the link for you guys in the bottom of this or the video once I do have it so thank you so much for listening and everybody have a nice night just remember you cannot make commission off of anything yay lucky us right this is only in Canada so I'm talking specifically for Canada thank you guys have a good night and I will talk to you all very very soon