Ben Pourani

BenPourani

Built brands. Sold one. Building more.

I run marketing operations for dental groups across Canada, write The Dental Marketing Pulse, host webinars for clinic owners, and make music that sounds like two cultures at once. Director of Operations, Mint Ops Marketing Division. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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The Dental Marketing Pulse

A biweekly newsletter on LinkedIn for people who own, run or market dental clinics. Practical, specific, and written from inside an agency that serves clinics across Canada. Read by 500+ subscribers.

  1. October 20266 min read

    SEO vs. GEO vs. AEO: What Dental Clinics Actually Need to Know in 2026

    Patients now find a clinic through Google, answer engines and AI recommendations. The goal is the same across all three: be easy to find, easy to understand, easy to trust and easy to recommend.

  2. September 20265 min read

    The Patient Has Changed. Most Dental Practices Haven’t.

    The question is no longer “Are we getting enough patients?” It should be “Is our practice designed for the patient we have today?”

  3. August 20266 min read

    AI Is Entering Dental Practices Faster Than Governance Is

    Diagnostic tools, imaging, patient communication. Before your clinic buys another AI tool, ask these seven questions.

  4. August 20266 min read

    ChatGPT Is Recommending Dental Clinics. Is Yours One of Them?

    Patients are asking AI which dentist near them has strong reviews and evening hours. The 10-minute AI visibility test shows how your clinic answers.

  5. July 20264 min read

    The New Patient Journey Has Changed. Most Dental Clinics Haven’t Caught Up Yet.

    Five years ago a new patient asked a friend and called the clinic. Today they search, compare, read reviews and book without talking to anyone.

  6. July 20266 min read

    The Ownership of Digital Channels: Your Online Assets Should Belong to Your Clinic

    The most important conversation in dental marketing is not about ads, SEO or social media. It is about who owns your website, your Google profile and your ad accounts.

Webinars

Live sessions I host with the Mint Ops team for clinic owners, managers and independent hygienists. Recordings are free; press play to watch here.

What I do

I lead the marketing division at Mint Ops, a dental company that does marketing. Our only clients are dental, hygiene and denture clinics. Every service is produced in-house, priced month to month, and starts with a strategy conversation rather than a package.

Music

I grew up between two cultures and ended up making music that sounds like both, and neither.

Persian roots, Canadian home, and a range that runs from ambient instrumentals to Arabic deep house, Spanish and French pop, Turkish dance mixes and cinematic fusion. Everything lands on YouTube first, with new tracks regularly.

Podcast

In the works

Conversations with the people who own, run and market dental practices: what is working, what quietly stopped working, and what they would do differently. The first episodes will be announced on LinkedIn and Instagram.

About

I build and scale marketing operations for dental organizations, from strategy to execution, across multiple locations and divisions.

As Director of Operations at Mint Ops Marketing Division, Canada’s dental business ecosystem, I oversee a multi-division agency serving dental clinics nationally: paid media, SEO, social, web and patient growth strategy. I work directly with clinic owners, DSOs and practice groups on measurable patient acquisition.

Before that I founded Luma Marketing Agency, grew it, and sold it in 2024. That gave me both the operator’s discipline and the entrepreneur’s instinct. My background runs through software development, graphic design and marketing, which is why I care as much about the tracking and the systems as about the creative.

Outside work I produce music, most of it in more than one language. Both halves of this site are mine.

Where I’ve worked

  1. 2024 to nowDirector of OperationsMint Ops Marketing Division, Winnipeg
  2. 2022 to 2024Founder and CEOLuma Marketing Agency, sold in 2024
  3. 2017 to 2022Freelance marketingSmall businesses and healthcare professionals across Canada
  4. EducationBSc, Computer ScienceUniversity of Manitoba

Where you’ll find me

  • JDIQ
  • TDE 2026
  • PDC 2026
  • MDA 2026
  • New Dentist Symposium 2026
  • ODHA 2026
  • Mint Ops webinars

Say hello

Running a clinic, a group or a DSO and wondering whether you have a marketing problem or an operations problem? Tell me about it. I’ll tell you what I’d recommend, including when the answer is “not marketing.”