Starting or running a better business

Just starting or running a business and need some answers from experts? Join us on the OSA stand at five stations to meet with experts that can help you. 

Station 1: Phil Mullens, MD NEG/Optinet - Streamline your business, to create more patient time, increased footfall and better returns. Phil will show the power of a buying group, with insight on how good record keeping and understanding data can propel your practice forward.

Station 2: Chris Clements, Eyeplan Ltd - Explaining how eye plan can improve business with returning patients. Chris will explain the advantages of using eye plans and their simple marketing and practice building potential.

Station 3: Georgina Myers, Myers La Roche - Advice on new starts, new premises or expansion and succession plans. Georgina, following on from Patrick her father, has a wealth of knowledge and examples to share with practice owners to assist with change.

Station 4:  Samantha Shayler, Snowbird Finance - Financing your business acquisitions, developing your business and softening tax payments plus assisting your patients with treatment finance. Samantha is a specialist credit broker to the optical industry with her knowledge built up over years of working with the profession.

Station 5: Bob Hutchinson, Eros Business Consulting - Budgets and sales forecasts, looking at stock control in a more productive and profitable way and of course de minimis and partial exemption. Bob is well known both to practice owners and industry for providing easily adoptable solutions and his knowledge on VAT remains long past his success in chairing the meetings with HMRC which eventually secured the return of over 650 million pounds to Opticians.

You will have up to 10 minutes on each station before moving on to the other stations.