Essex Business Forum

Ongar

Optician seat open

Searching for a recommended optician in Ongar?

At Essex Business Forum, we only ever recommend businesses we know and trust. At the moment, our optician seat is open.

Which one are you?

I know a great optician

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I’m an optician

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For everyone

Can you recommend an optician near Ongar?

If you know an optician you’d happily recommend, tell us about them. We’ll invite them to a no-obligation breakfast meeting.
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For the right business

Work as an optician in Ongar?

There’s a seat with your name on it, and only one. Essex Business Forum will only have one optician, so any eyecare referral our members hear about comes straight to you. Ongar is just about 15 minutes from the meeting along the A128.
Claim the seat – book a free visit
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Where the work comes from

Why referrals work for an optician

The warmest leads don’t often come from online marketing. Instead, they come from businesses who already talk to families, older people and screen-based workers – often around a blurry screen or a new job. This is why GPs, audiologists and employers make such natural allies for any optician, in Ongar or anywhere in Essex.
Natural referral partners: GPs, audiologists and employers

Already at EBF from Ongar

Toby Acton of Pole Position Business Solutions is already part of EBF from Ongar. See all our current members in the directory.
Toby Acton of Pole Position Business Solutions
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Getting there from Ongar

Ongar is a historic market town with a long, independent High Street, the Epping Ongar heritage railway and, close by, Greensted’s church, said to be the oldest wooden church in the world.
Ongar is about 15 minutes from the meeting along the A128.
By train: Ongar has no mainline station, so most members drive in; Brentwood and Shenfield stations are the nearest.
Where we meet and where to park →

Membership

Why businesses join EBF

As a member, you’ll have your own profile page on the EBF website and a 60-second slot each Thursday to promote your business, and a chance to appear on our podcast, The Referral Effect. Each week also includes a short training session to help you improve your business. Once you’ve been with us a year, you can apply for our Mark of Excellence.

£25,000+

of new business a year, on average, for each member through EBF

Your own profile page

60 seconds or more every week

A spot on The Referral Effect podcast

Mark of Excellence after 12 months

The meeting room set out in a U shape with a member presenting

Inside a Thursday meeting

Members meet every Thursday from 6:30am to 8:30am, so it’s done before your working day starts. Each week you get at least a minute to tell the room about your services. Between meetings, members arrange 1-2-1s to understand who makes a good referral, and there’s a genuine social side too.

Questions

Does the optician have to be based in Ongar?

Not at all. EBF members travel in from all over Essex, so a trusted optician in the area is welcome.

Is there any obligation to join?

No. Your first visit is free, and you’re under no obligation to join. Come along, meet the members and make up your own mind.
Members laughing together around the breakfast table

Recommend someone, or take the seat

Whichever side of the table you’re on, we’d love to hear from you: introduce an optician you trust, or book your free visit if it’s yours.