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Ask HN: Scaling a Traditional Business

2 pointsby moonsuover 5 years ago
I own a small optometry clinic with my wife and we&#x27;re reaching the upper limit of what it can provide for us with the current business model. All of our income comes from eye exams (we don&#x27;t sell glasses or other products) and our doctors are fully booked so the next logical step is to get more space and hire more doctors. Being a software developer I am trying to find ways to increase revenue that isn&#x27;t limited by the number of we exams a person can perform in a day. The city is saturated with optometrists so at some point we&#x27;ll be fighting to get more patients.<p>Other ways to grow could be:<p>* sell glasses - don&#x27;t want to but probably enevitable<p>* increase prices - done recently and currently pretty high compared to other clinics<p>* service add-ons - extras tests and whatnot that can be charged on top of the base exam fee. Don&#x27;t like this because we don&#x27;t want to &quot;sell&quot; services. If it&#x27;s needed it should be a part of the regular exam. We have an all inclusive price which I think is a good differentiator.<p>* increase efficiencies to allow more eye exams in a day<p>* package some in-house software to be sold to other clinics - not much to offer at this point<p>* help other clinics digitize their processes or improve security of their systems<p>I am hoping I can seek the wisdom of HN for novel ideas of how to grow, especially if it doesn&#x27;t include getting paid dollars for hours

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