New · A Digital Optometry Solutions product

The chains have a head office. Now you have one too.

The Practice Growth Hub puts a business department inside your independent practice — plain-language guides, working tools, a practice health check and front-desk training. Written for South African optometry, HPCSA and POPIA included.

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39
guides,
~30 000 words
24
health-check
questions
8+
calculators
& working tools
Practice Health Check · Your results
Keeping patientsPriority
Getting foundBuilding
Stock & dispensingBuilding
Numbers & moneyStrong
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What's inside

A business department, on a subscription

Every guide is short, plain and South African — no MBA language, no imported playbooks that ignore medical schemes and load shedding.

Start here

Health check & 90-day plan

Score eight areas of the practice, then get a week-by-week turnaround programme built from your own results.

Attract patients

Marketing within the rules

HPCSA-safe marketing, local search, social media, the referral network builder and a full marketing year planner.

Keep patients

Recalls that actually run

The patient journey, WhatsApp recalls done POPIA-properly, and reactivating patients who drifted away.

Grow revenue

Specialty clinics & money

Building a dry eye or myopia clinic, medical aid realities, private fees and collections.

Stock & products

A frame board that pays

The Frame Board Analyser, consumables and second pairs, and levelling the buying field against chain purchasing power.

Run the practice

Team, POPIA, load shedding

Hiring and keeping good people, privacy compliance in practice, and staying open when the power isn't.

Digital marketing

Websites, SEO & paid ads

A website that books, being found on Google and AI search, measuring what matters, and choosing an agency without getting burned.

Tools & assets

Copy, printables & calculators

21 copy-paste assets, waiting-room posters and printables, the paperwork pack and 8 practice calculators.

Reception desk

Front-desk training

Nine guides written for the reception role, tracked per person — with a printable reading record for each team member.

The flagship

From honest answers to a working plan

Thirty-nine guides is a library. The Health Check turns it into a starting point — and the programme turns it into a quarter.

  1. Answer 24 questionsEight areas of the practice, five minutes, saved on your device. "I don't know" is a real answer — and a finding.
  2. See where the money is leakingEvery area lands in a band — Strong, Building or Priority — ranked weakest first, with the exact guides to read.
  3. Get your 90-day programmeOne theme a week, generated from your results. Weakest areas first, in an order that fixes leaks before buying traffic. Tick off actions, print it for the wall, retake the check at day 90.
Your 90-Day Programme · built from your check
Week 1Stabilise
Turn the recall tap on
Pull every patient due or overdue for recall this month.
Send the recall message — service-message rules apply.
Make "next visit booked before they leave" the standard.
Week 2Stabilise
Win the map
Claim and verify the Google Business Profile.
Reply to every review — professionally, no clinical detail.
Team training progress
ThandiComplete
Sipho6 / 9
Lerato2 / 9
Print Thandi's reading record
For the front desk

Training your reception actually finishes

Nine guides written for the person answering your phone — professionalism, difficult moments, money conversations, privacy, the diary. Each team member reads under their own name.

  1. They read on the front-desk computerShort guides in plain language, with scripts for the calls that go wrong.
  2. You see progress at a glanceThe owner panel shows who has started, who has finished, and when — nudge and celebrate, don't chase.
  3. Print the recordA reading record per person, ready for reviews and personnel files.
Built for South African practice

Everything assumes you practise here

HPCSA-safe throughout

Every marketing guide, script and copy asset follows the rules — factual, verifiable, never comparative. "Describe, don't boast" is baked into the writing.

POPIA in practice

Service messages vs marketing, opt-outs, consent lines for referral feedback letters — compliance woven into the workflows, not bolted on.

Load shedding is a chapter, not a footnote

Keeping the doors open through Stage 4 — bookings, testing and payments — has its own guide and its own health-check questions.

Rand-denominated tools

Calculators for no-shows, recalls, attach rates, ad spend and dead stock — all in ZAR, all built around medical-scheme reality.

Pricing

One plan. No surprises.

Launch offer
R99 per practice / month

Billed monthly, in Rand. Cancel any time — your exported records are yours to keep.

  • All 39 guides — owner library and reception training
  • The Practice Health Check and generated 90-day programme
  • 8 calculators, Frame Board Analyser, referral network builder
  • Printables, posters and 21+ copy-paste assets, branded to your practice
  • Team training progress panel with printable records
  • New guides and tools added over time
  • The Prescription Visualizer — free with any subscription
  • Email support from the founder
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FAQ

Common questions

Do I need DryCheck to use the Growth Hub?

No. The Growth Hub is a standalone product — every guide, tool and calculator works on its own. If you do use DryCheck, the two connect naturally: the QR waiting-room poster links to your screening page, and the clinical-revenue guides show where screening fits.

Who is it written for?

The independent practice owner first — and the front desk second, with its own nine-guide training track. It assumes a small South African practice competing with chains and online retail, not a marketing department.

Where does my data live?

Your health-check answers, programme progress, calculator inputs and team reading records save on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, sold or shared — it is a workbook, not a reporting tool.

Is this generic business advice with "optometry" pasted in?

No — it was written for this profession in this country. HPCSA advertising rules, POPIA service-message boundaries, medical scheme realities, benefits-reset season, school terms and load shedding run through every guide.

Ready to run the practice like it has a head office?

Built by the same South African optometrist behind DryCheck — someone who still works in the industry, and answers his own email.