May we post photos of customers in their new glasses?

Yes, when they agree, and many are pleased to be asked. Agreement is given in writing or at least by message, and for children by a parent. We keep the pictures free of anything from the prescription or the order. If someone asks later for a photo to be taken down, it goes the same day.

Someone complains under a post about glasses they ordered. How do we react?

Publicly once, briefly and politely: you are sorry, and you ask them to write privately or come in so the order can be checked. The details of an order or a prescription never appear in the comments. Other customers reading along judge the tone, and a calm reply that leads to a remake of the lenses is good publicity.

When is it worth paying to promote an optician's post?

When there is a date and a reason to come: a new collection, a day with a frame maker's full range, eye tests for children before the school year. The promotion is shown only to people living near the shop. A post that already drew messages from regular followers is the safest one to put money behind.

Does an optician need a new post every day to keep the profile alive?

No. A shop that posts something true twice a week looks more alive than one that fills every day with stock pictures from suppliers. Supplier material can be used now and then for a launch, but the posts people react to are those from your own shop, with your own staff in them.

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Social Media Marketing for Opticians

Social media for opticians shows frames the way customers need to see them, on real faces of different ages, posted on Instagram and Facebook with the customer's consent.

A customer who agreed to be shown in new glasses brings in the next one more surely than any shelf of frames.

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Optician using eye test results to help a customer choose frames that suit them in a modern shop

Market realities

Online challenges for opticians

Irregular posting, trends that do not suit the brand and hidden limits put off people who are already comparing you with others.

Posts only before a sale, then months of silence

A burst of posts before each promotion teaches followers to expect nothing but offers.

Between sales, the page looks abandoned to someone checking whether the shop is still open.
Followers who only ever see discounts wait for the next one before they book a test.

The workshop behind the counter stays invisible

Fitting lenses, adjusting frames and small repairs are the plainest difference from buying online, and customers never see them.

Short posts from the workshop show a care that a parcel cannot.
A frame adjusted while the customer waits is the moment people remember, and it is never filmed.

What we do

Social Media Marketing approach for opticians

For opticians, we plan social media around a few steady themes, proof from real work and paid promotion only where the result can be tracked.

Frames on real faces, on Instagram and Facebook

Glasses are worn on the face all day, so customers want to see how a frame looks on a person and not on a white background.

The steady content is new arrivals worn by staff or by customers who agreed, with a line on the face shape and the kind of lens the frame can take.
Instagram suits the pictures, while Facebook reaches the parents and older customers of the neighbourhood and its local groups. Other networks rarely repay the effort for a shop.

The workshop is worth showing

What happens behind the counter is unknown to most customers and is the plainest difference from a parcel.

A short clip of a lens being cut and set into a frame, a bent arm straightened or a nose pad replaced shows skill better than any slogan.
Staff take these with a phone by the window in daylight, from a list of shots we agree in advance, so a post never waits for a photographer.

A rhythm set by the shop's own calendar

A couple of posts a week, kept up all year, do more than a burst before each sale.

The plan follows what really happens: new collections arriving, sunglasses in spring, children's tests before school, an open day with a frame maker.
Messages asking whether a frame is in stock are answered the same day, because that question is a customer on the way to the shop.

Social Media Marketing process for opticians

Channel choice

We pick the channels your customers really use and leave the others alone.

What to show

We plan what to post, who takes the photos and a rhythm the team can keep. For opticians, we agree what posts never claim, such as a frame that cures headaches or anything that replaces an eye test.

Comments and messages

We agree who answers comments and messages, how fast, and what is never discussed in public.

Paid support and review

We pay to promote a post only when it has a clear job, and judge the work by messages and enquiries, not followers.

Discuss your project

At the optician’s: booking an eye test, advice on lenses and choosing glasses to buy

Measurable outcomes

How we measure results for opticians

We count eye tests booked and questions about frames that followed a post, rather than likes on a new collection.

Questions about Social Media Marketing for opticians

Plain answers about Social Media Marketing, written for opticians.

Yes, when they agree, and many are pleased to be asked.

Agreement is given in writing or at least by message, and for children by a parent.
We keep the pictures free of anything from the prescription or the order.
If someone asks later for a photo to be taken down, it goes the same day.

Publicly once, briefly and politely: you are sorry, and you ask them to write privately or come in so the order can be checked.

The details of an order or a prescription never appear in the comments.
Other customers reading along judge the tone, and a calm reply that leads to a remake of the lenses is good publicity.

When there is a date and a reason to come: a new collection, a day with a frame maker's full range, eye tests for children before the school year.

The promotion is shown only to people living near the shop.
A post that already drew messages from regular followers is the safest one to put money behind.

No.

A shop that posts something true twice a week looks more alive than one that fills every day with stock pictures from suppliers.
Supplier material can be used now and then for a launch, but the posts people react to are those from your own shop, with your own staff in them.

General questions about Social Media Marketing, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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Social Media Marketing for Opticians

Online challenges for opticians

Posts only before a sale, then months of silence

The workshop behind the counter stays invisible

Social Media Marketing approach for opticians

Frames on real faces, on Instagram and Facebook

The workshop is worth showing

A rhythm set by the shop's own calendar

Social Media Marketing process for opticians

Channel choice

What to show

Comments and messages

Paid support and review

How we measure results for opticians

Questions about Social Media Marketing for opticians

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