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Travis Rush, founder and CEO of Sightbox , talks about entrepreneurship, online contact lens retailing, and how things have changed (or not) now that Sightbox is part of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.

We're close to the midway point of the year. It's a great time to refresh your thinking. Gary outlines his favorite business books for your practice on this episode of the Power Hour.

How do long patient wait times affect your practice? Find out how...and what you can do about it...on this week's Power Hour.

Building on the previous show about staff meetings, this week Gary motivates you to figure out what motivates your staff--and what doesn't. 

Your staff feeling blah? Your staff meetings not generating excitement? This week, Gary helps you learn strategies to energize your staff meetings and engage your staff.  

Learn all about trunk shows! Find out why "trunk show" is a bad name, and discover how to have a great one in your own office. 

Step right up this week for an update on myopia from Dr. Thomas Aller.

It's April...time to close the books on Q1. Look back at your Q1 data to better forecast 2018 and plan your year. Tune in to Power Hour this week to hear Gary's suggestions for a Q2 reboot.

Contact lenses, the FTC, and optometry...what do you need to know? The deadline to weigh in is fast approaching. Get the scoop so you can make your voice heard. Find out more on this week's episode of the Power Hour.

Vision Expo was last week. As always, it was a great meeting with lots of classes & a lot going on. This week on Power Hour, we'll discuss some great things we learned at the meeting. Call in with what you brought home! Let's talk about it on this episode of the Power Hour.

Filmmaker Jane Weiner has turned to myopia for inspiration. She talks with Gary this week about her latest film. Losing Sight, her documentary on myopia, looks at how technology advances are put into practice. The story explores visual development throughout life and what factors trigger myopia.  Losing Sight is planned for a theatrical and TV release. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/jpweiner/myopia7mnsample.   

Vision by Design, THE country’s premier myopia meeting of the year is coming up fast.  Joining the show from VBD will be Drs. Cary Herzberg and Tom Weshefsky to talk about what’s new at this years’ meeting and why you should attend!

Join Jeffry Gerson, OD, FAAO on this week's show as he gets us up to the second on what's new in ARMD diagnosis, management and treatment.  Also joining the show will be Greg Jackson, PhD from Maculogix to discuss research around the link of dark adaptation and ARMD.   www.maculogix.com/powerhour

It's Valentine's Day! Let's talk about what you love...to hate about optometry! Gary discusses the top 5 things you love to hate about the profession and how to turn your thinking around to opportunity. Find out more on this episode of the Power Hour. 

With industry trends leading more doctors to provide specialty care (dry eyes, glaucoma, vision therapy, low vision, TBI care, specialty contact lenses etc), communicating with other professionals is a significant opportunity for practice growth.  Unfortunately, optometry has long been the "outcast" in the medical community making it difficult to break through to this group of doctors. On this episode of The Power Hour, Gary discusses how to configure your specialty practice from the ground up to ensure this large source of prospective patients is accessible to your practice.

Why did you become an OD?  Are you achieving your “why?”  Gary discusses his own personal journey on the road to his “why” and talks about how you can use the same technique to have your practice work for you instead of you becoming a slave to your practice.

Yes, at one time or another, uncollected fees, or accounts receivables that languish over time, are the same as working for free. On this episode we discuss ways to avoid this from happening and talk about how to “mop up” any existing receivables. You did the work, so how about getting paid for it?

Time? Money? Cell phones, cars and TV’s aren’t the only thing changing at warp speed. The technology we use in our practices is doing the same thing at the same speed. How can you afford to keep up when the least expensive piece of equipment you might buy can be same price as a nice car! On this episode of the Power Hour Gary gets directly to the point and offers up suggestions and strategies to help with this tech dilemma.

Can you succeed by seeing patients only 3 days a week? Dr. Nicholas Despotidis not only says yes, he discusses how he cut patient days from 6 to 3 days a week...25 years ago! If you want to earn more money and have time to enjoy it, working harder or longer hours is not the answer, says Dr. Nicholas Despotidis. Working smarter, begins with working with a good coach.

This time of the year, we all have the best intentions of improving our practices and personal lives. Yet somehow, no matter how hard we try, our best intentions get side tracked and derailed. Listen to this first episode of 2018 where Gary shares his consulting teams' strategies for setting goals and actually getting them done. Remember - SAYING you want to increase your practice revenues, cut expenses, see more (or less!) patients or for that matter lose weight is one thing. DOING any of those things is another! This episode will get your year jump started and show you how to keep the momentum you establish going throughout the course of the year!