Marge Axelrad, Sr. VP/Editorial Director
Marge oversees the overall editorial direction of
Vision Monday and its print publication,
VMAIL, e-newsletters,
VisionMonday.com and special events including the
VM Global Leadership Summit.
She is also in charge of general corporate and company news, industry developments and business trends,
financial news. Marge specializes in frame sunwear companies, practice management programs,
spectacle lens and contact lens companies, managed care, wholesale laboratories, and research.
She is also the editor of
CLICK, a twice-a-month e-newsletter. Contact Marge at
maxelrad@jobson.com.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, February 6, 2022 4:00 AM
After the two years we’ve all been through, you might think that relationships should no longer be taken for granted, right? It might be that living and working through a pandemic and everything related to that would elevate the importance of those connections.
By Marge Axelrad
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 1:16 AM
Here at
VM, we’re big believers that tracking news developments of the day point the way to identifying trends that are shaping business tomorrow. We pride ourselves on cultivating the relationships and sources to deliver the authoritative “word” but also help identify signposts that can shape business decisions for the “next” normal.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, October 25, 2021 2:02 AM
One of the many lessons that a lot of folks are realizing about the pandemic of the past nearly-two years is that things change constantly and nothing really stays the same. I mean, values, needs and ethics usually do stay the same, but getting to those things, how products and services that reflect those don’t ever stay the same.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, August 2, 2021 12:00 AM
It happens every year. When
Vision Monday solicits nominations for women across all sectors of the eyecare and eyewear fields to be considered for recognition in our “Most Influential Women in Optical” feature, our
VM editorial team will tell you that three things occur.
By Marge Axelrad
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 1:01 AM
There are many lenses with which to examine The Year That Was 2020. VM’s signature Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers Report is just one of those. But the optics within our 2021 report reflect many stories about what happened among the bigger players and point to several future trends. How you react to them depends on your vantage point.
By Marge Axelrad
Sunday, April 25, 2021 8:10 AM
I wish it didn’t take a pandemic for this to be true, but consumers and patients have embraced a new appreciation for all things “modern.” What is “modern” exactly? Well, characteristics would include descriptions such as “new,” “contemporary,” “recent,” “up to the minute,” “innovative” or “technology oriented.”
By Marge Axelrad
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 7:00 PM
Are we running out of adjectives yet? In a time of crisis (or crises?), as we are all still coming through the pandemic of 2020 and gazing ahead to the New Year, there are a litany of words to describe what we’ve been through, what we’re still going through.
By Marge Axelrad
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00 AM
In doing some of the research for this month’s cover story, I found a wealth of information supporting the fact that the coronavirus pandemic this year has amplified support among consumers and business leaders for the idea of sustainability. Just as it has for so much of everything else in our lives including new ideas in health care.
By Marge Axelrad
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00 AM
Hopefully all of you, dear readers, like all of us here on the editorial team at Vision Monday/VMAIL, have been having many conversations throughout this unbelievable year, to catch up on how friends, family and colleagues are doing, how business is recovering (or wavering), what’s working, what’s not, what’s still a question mark. And as you exchange ideas about how others are coping—sometimes to gauge how you, personally, are coping with such a large scale of changes—those discussions tend to point in certain directions.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00 AM
After the shock of the pandemic in February and mid-March, the closures, the quarantine, the gradual reopenings, we’ve now arrived at what’s “normally” the “start” of a new season—back-to-schools, cultural events, new movies and TV, autumn sports, travel.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, August 10, 2020 12:00 AM
First off, I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired. Time has become elastic, hasn’t it? Did that just happen in the last 10 days or 10 minutes? I’m thinking the last four or five months seem like 24 or 25. The VM team just put together this massive July-August special double issue. We’ve been racing to keep up with ‘what’s going on out there’ since the advent of the pandemic. And like everyone, we comment among ourselves, time is elastic, isn’t it? Either it moves waaay too slow, or way too fast.
By Marge Axelrad
Monday, June 22, 2020 1:00 AM
I’m sure you all, like me, have been “everything” in the last three months—mystified, shocked, overwhelmed, anxious, angry, fearful, moved, inspired, appreciative, grateful! Those are 10 adjectives that only just start to describe the range of emotional ups, downs and everywhere-in between that we all have likely been going through as the weeks go by. Weeks which can seem waaay longer than seven days, am I right?