BuildMyBod Featured on Inc.com
Whether you read Inc.com or not, there are at least 349 other people that do…and they all shared a recent article about BuildMyBod! The article by John Rampton highlights 7 questions entrepreneurs should be prepared to answer when their Venture-Capitalist-in-white-shining-armor comes calling. The article mentions BuildMyBod when discussing the competitive advantage you want to describe […]
82% of Cosmetic Surgery Patients Experience Sticker Shock
BuildMyBod is a startup company based in San Francisco that allows doctors to provide out-of-pocket pricing information to patients online. In exchange for submitting a ‘wishlist’ that includes procedures of interest, the patient gets a detailed accounting of the cost of services and procedures they’re considering and the doctor gets that prospective patient’s contact info […]
What Cosmetic Surgery Were Patients Considering in July?!
The beauty of having a website that provides pricing information for cosmetic surgery, is that patients are very eager to submit a wishlist to get instant answers to their pricing questions. This in turn provides interesting insight as to what cosmetic surgery patients are considering this summer. In a first in our series, “What […]
BuildMyBod Highlights of 2013
What a year it’s been for BuildMyBod! Here are a few highlights of 2013 and these aren’t necessarily in order of importance, but rather chronological order. We started out 2013 with our first annual pricing report. This was the first ever compilation of cosmetic procedure pricing from across the nation as reported by plastic […]
10 Things You Don’t Know About BuildMyBod
1. BuildMyBod starts the conversation about plastic surgery. BuildMyBod is a consumer-searchable database of plastic surgeon-provided pricing information on cosmetic procedures that customers want. The ultimate question every patient has that’s interested in cosmetic surgery is, “How much is it going to cost?” BuildMyBod allows them to determine cost prior to going in for a […]
Controversy in Posting Plastic Surgery Pricing
Why is it so hard to find pricing on plastic surgery. Sure there are websites that list national averages but that’s not what you want. Not only are those averages often EXcluding operating room fees and other ancillary fees, but what if you want multiple procedures. Do you add the low end of ranges or […]
An Idea, a Little Money and the Brothers Mills
A couple of years ago while I was getting a haircut, I had this epiphany. I remember I was watching TV at the barber shop and SportsCenter was on. I even remember that my epiphany had no connection and was not brought on by anything I was watching on SportsCenter. As a plastic surgeon, […]
San Francisco is the Center of the Universe
So we just moved here 5 weeks ago and I’m recognizing that local, regional and national news always seems to come back to one truism – San Francisco is the place to be. Sure, sure, I know what you’re thinking – this is classic egocentricity because we just moved here. And while I won’t disagree […]