Warranties & Remakes: Are They Damaging Your Practice?
Approved for: 1 ABO Credit, 1 NCLE Credit, 1 COPE-PM Credit, or 1 CPC Paraoptometric Credit
Length: 60 Minutes
Often times, if an optical professional is not comfortable presenting the features and benefits of premium lens options, they resort to selling the patient on the warranty of the lens product. In many cases, selling the “warranty” may actually damage the practice as it has shown to prevent the patient from returning to that ECP until their lens warranty has expired. This course is designed to empower opticians with the knowledge necessary to reflect on their own office warranty and remake policies in an effort to create practice growth.
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Sell Something More Profitable Than Low Price: Positioning Your Practice
Sell Something More Profitable Than Low Price: Positioning Your Practice
Approved for: 1 ABO Credit, 1 NCLE Credit,1 COPE-PM Credit, or 1 CPC Paraoptometric Credit
Length: 60 Minutes
A private practice without a marketing plan or unique selling position is in a commodity-like business, where the only basis for choice is price. The result is a default strategy of becoming the “low-cost provider.” This course is designed to assist eye care professionals in determining their Unique Selling Position and provide examples of how to effectively differentiate themselves from their competition.
Beyond Clear – Five Latest Innovations in Photochromic Lens Technology
Beyond Clear – Five Latest Innovations in Photochromic Lens Technology
Approved for: 1 ABO Credit
Length: 60 Minutes
Despite incredible advances in technology and availability, many eye care professionals still perceive the performance of photochromic lenses as they did 5, 10, or even 15 years ago. Advances in visible light activation, variable polarization, production processes, and testing methods have led to an expansion in photochromic availability in lens materials, designs, and colors as well as unique performance capabilities unheard of just a few years ago.
Making the Impossible Possible. Transitions® VantageTM Lenses with Variable Polarization
Making the Impossible Possible. Transitions® VantageTM Lenses with Variable Polarization
Approved for: 1 ABO Credit
Length: 60 Minutes
Light is essential to vision. By controlling the amount of light, direction of light and color of light that reaches the eye, eye care professionals can enhance vision in powerful ways. For the first time ever, new technology enables us to prescribe a lens to a patient that helps their eyes do something it cannot to on its own with Transitions® VantageTM lenses; the first ever variable polarizing photochromic lens. This course illustrates the new technology behind this lens and illustrates how to provide a superior wearer experience and increase patient satisfaction by understanding how these products work, how they address glare and how to position the right product to the right patient.
Combating Online Eyeglass Sales
Combating Online Eyeglass Sales
Approved for 1 credit hour with ABO, NCLE, CPC, COPE Live or Internet Courses, NACOR and COO
Length: 60 Minutes
Competing with online retailers is becoming a challenge for many eye care professionals. This presentation provides first-hand insight into the online patient purchasing process and pricing available from top online retailers. Learn about the four pillars of marketing, how to implement important messaging throughout the patient journey, and tips for how to differentiate yourself from the competition to prevent patients from walking out the door with their Rx.
Creating Remarkable Patient Experiences
Creating Remarkable Patient Experiences
Approved for: 1 ABO Credit, 1 NCLE Credit, 1 COPE-PM Credit, or 1 CPC Paraoptometric Credit
Length: 60 Minutes
While most practices talk about the importance of taking care of their patients and their focus on customer service, very few REALLY create and deliver remarkable patient experiences. A remarkable experience is so different that anything else a patient has encountered that it makes them want to tell their friends and or family about it. Word-of-mouth referrals are the most powerful form of advertising. This course will step through each touch point of a patient’s visit with your practice, and provide strategies and tactics to transform each touch point into something remarkable. You’ll learn how taking a fresh look at those you have the privilege to serve can change everything.