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Yvonne Pelkey, LDO, ABO, NCLE-AC
Director of Training & Education
About Yvonne Pelkey, LDO, ABO, NCLE-AC
Recent From Yvonne
Frame Board Reality: The quickest way to lose a fortune and how to fix it!
How do you manage your frame boards? If you’re not using modern technology, you’re probably not doing as well as you think. Frame sales are potentially the biggest revenue driver in your optical. Nothing beats a finely-tuned frame board. When your merchandising...
Frame Board Profitability
Join the EDGEPro team for a deep dive into understanding and stocking your frame inventory, including a “best practices” episode for setting up your frames in your PMS.
Best Practices for Setting Up Your Frames in Inventory
You want to have clear, detailed information about how your frames perform. To do that, it’s critical to standardize your data input practices so you get the most out of your data analytics program.
Tracking Your Frame Strategies for Long-Term Success
The one thing every single frame strategy needs is a way to track the results. Remember, we don’t “set it and forget it;” your frame board needs to be constantly evolving.
Maximizing Your Frame Inventory For Managed Care Success
A crucial method for working successfully with managed care plans in your dispensary is leveraging the right frame at the right price point and the right cost point.
Selecting Frame Brands That Build Profit in Your Optical Dispensary
In this installment of our step-by-step guide to better frame board management, we’ll discuss the ins and outs of frame categories, pricing strategies and price points.
How to Maximize Your Frame Board Space
By purchasing based on the needs of our patients and our practice, we can eliminate waste and maybe even uncover some unexpected opportunities.
Are Your Processes Helping or Hurting Your Practice?
When is “good enough” good enough? Never! Even if your practice is incredibly lean, running at high efficiency, and boasting healthy Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across the board. . .
3 Ways to View Your Practice Pricing
There’s more than one way to think about your pricing. Which one is most important really depends on what you’re thinking about or measuring at the time. In EDGEPro, we use three pricing models in our dashboards: List pricing, Patient pricing, and True pricing. Let’s...