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Consider these practice metrics to monitor as you look at 2025 performance and make goals for 2026
By Maggie Fernandez
Nov. 26, 2025
How well do you know the numbers behind your business? As 2025 comes to an end, take a snapshot of how the practice performed in the past year. Considering that data, have you identified goals you want to achieve?
Monitoring your metrics can help you get there. Take a look at four different ways to tap into your practice data to reach new records in 2026.
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The Most Important Practice Metric
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Metrics and Management
This Thanksgiving week, we’re thankful for our readers who trust Review of Optometric Business as their source for business management peer-to-peer advice and optometric news. We’re working on new ways to elevate your experience and can’t wait to share what’s coming in 2026. Stay tuned!
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Maggie Fernandez is the senior editor of Review of Optometric Business and Independent Strong. She brings 17 years of optometric editorial experience to this role, previously focused on Women In Optometry as well as other custom publications. To contact her: mbiunno@jobson.com |
