Chris Faul Give Your Practice a Boost - Future-Proof it by revamping your patient database The patient database is one of the practice’s most valuable assets. Optometry is fortunate in that other retailers do not have the luxury of routinely collecting every customer’s personal details. The... Jan 7, 2026 0 33
Chris Faul The R65 Million Question: Why South African Optometrists Must Escape the Mall Trap and Own Their Premises The traditional preference for mall locations among South African optometrists is a habit rooted in a bygone era. It is a strategic convention that is now actively eroding the long-term profitability ... Dec 30, 2025 0 90
Chris Faul Notes for the new graduate Learning over money From the day you graduate, you step onto the road towards becoming a mature clinician. The only way this can happen is by seeing patients, which means the more patient traffic you ... Dec 2, 2025 0 129
Humint, Chris Faul Do you have your finger on the pulse of your practice? As a graduate, you feature in the top 10% intellectually in the world. Yet, there is so much we don't know about the world we live in. Do I know how a light bulb is made? How does WIFI work? How does ... Oct 21, 2025 0 117
Humint, Chris Faul Planning your retirement from Optometry Planning your retirement from Optometry THE DECISION to retire or exit a career in optometry is a matter of choice. However, the necessity to plan and prepare for the financial, legal, and psychologic... Oct 17, 2025 0 154
Humint, Chris Faul What is the true value of Humint? It always amazes me how practice business software is often considered just another expense, like a lease on a copier or a courier fee. Yet, it can add huge value to the practice's operations and prof... Sep 26, 2025 0 692
Humint, Chris Faul Humint’s endless capacity for reports It is true to say that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. I am a firm believer that for effective management, you need the right information, in a format that you, as an optometrist, can re... Sep 22, 2025 0 197
Humint, Chris Faul Humint management of Gross profit percentage (GP%) Gross profit is the rand value of the difference between what you pay for goods and what you sell them for. The GP% is a representation of the gross profit as a percentage of turnover. The reason we r... Sep 19, 2025 0 409
Humint, Chris Faul Create a killer recall system with Humint Create a personalised recall system, called The Hook It is hard to imagine that an optometric practice can survive without repeat business. A recall system can easily fall into the trap of being gener... Sep 19, 2025 0 166
Humint, Chris Faul Differential Advantage – how to make patients choose you Preamble We live in a surplus world where similar businesses sell similar products to similar people, from similar locations, at similar prices, employing similar individuals with similar academic and... Sep 17, 2025 0 182
Humint, Chris Faul How to turn your practice into a high performance business with Humint Introduction Reading an article like this can provide good insight into how to improve the profitability of your practice. However, as a clinician, first and foremost, there may well be a natural resi... Sep 11, 2025 0 190
Humint, Chris Faul In 10 years, will optometry as we know it still exist? Will optometry be overwhelmed by AI technology? Kodak was once the dominant player in the global camera film and photographic paper markets. The board ignored the warning coming from middle management... Sep 11, 2025 0 192