Cathy and I believe that The Vision Council is a great resource for ECP's and recommend that you utilize as much as you can. We just interviewed Rene Soltis, The Vision Council's Director of Training and Education and we asked her to talk about optical practice evaluation. Here is the information: Grow Your Practice with The Vision … [Read more...]
Ad Week- NEW YORK Even if economists are correct in detecting "green shoots" in the economy, a new survey shows the cumulative effect of the recession still growing in its impact on U.S. households. And, with all due respect to the joys of frugality, many people resent having had to downsize their lifestyles. In ABC News/Washington Post … [Read more...]
Continuing our series of interviews with leaders in the field of optometry here is Interview Number 3 with Eric M. White, O.D. This follows Doctors Vision Center Interview with Sherrie Rogerson - VP of Strategic Marketing and our second with Joseph C. Mallinger, OD, MBA, FAAO - President/CEO of Vision West, Inc. I have known Eric since 1996 when … [Read more...]
During our recent interview with Eric White, OD he spoke a lot about optimizing new opportunities and products in order to provide his patients with the most up-to-date and effective technology. Computer Vision Syndrome, (OVS) was one area of particular interest as we all spend more and more time in front of a computer screen. Relevant to this, I … [Read more...]
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Our Friends over at EyeOverheard- posted some interesting articles this week: One article- Patient's and the Laws about giving out PD's.- brought up some points I never thought about! ...It is about the plight of a patient wanting information and how they were denied. It ends up with a look at how online ordering is progressing. fter … [Read more...]
Some optical retailers are seen as product/retail orientated and others as patient/health orientated. Doctors Vision Center is a much talked about company in the optical industry as it has a reputation for being a business that does the best of both worlds. I saw that one of our subscribers is Sherrie Rogerson who is VP of Strategic Marketing for … [Read more...]
Today is the day to Practice What We Optically Preach. We all know that the best way to build your optical business or any business for that matter is from customer referrals. Therefore in the practice what we optically preach spirit we are asking you to refer this site to your optical associates and optical buddies. Yes, this is a shameless plug … [Read more...]
I can't believe I am writing a post on this but as there is so much jargon being used I thought it would be a good idea to know what it all means as it doesn't matter what industry you are in Optical or not, it is the same jargon! However, the Optical Industry is in a much better position to make it through this recession than many other industries … [Read more...]
I don't read many consumer magazines and only subscribe to one, Real Simple Magazine. I like it because it always has good simple ideas and usually the focus is on making life easier. This relates very well to business as well. In February's issue there is a great article talking about 10 business strategies from author Patrick Lencioni. The … [Read more...]
The other day, I was tooling around on the web looking for some good business resources for us. Us, being The Optical Vision Site- we need to be 'Linked In' and connected in the whole social media genre. Got to thinking- the exact same resources for us, are the exact same small business resources for any small business owner and entrepreneur. … [Read more...]
OK, it is almost that time of year again when we are supposed to make our New Year resolutions. This year I am going to take the personal resolutions and see how they apply to my business as well. So for me it is the same old list really: Eat better, exercise more, lose weight Be more productive with my time, less TV, … [Read more...]
I was sorting through my old copies of optical trade magazines last night, trying to clean up my office for the coming year. I could not bring myself to throw away the July 21, 2008 edition of Vision Monday as it is the Success Stories Optical's Most Influential Women. I can't believe it is the sixth year of this already and it is just as exciting, … [Read more...]
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