Do You Have a Speakers Bureau To Attract Alult Children ?

February 17, 2023

Schedule Speaker’s Bureau Now for Post Holiday Barrage of Calls

Your greatest influx of clients calling you is right now over the winter season. This is when there is a heightened awareness of the need for care of elders by adult children, as so many elders become ill and are hospitalized during the height of the flu season and the remaining covid variants..

What is a Speakers Bureau ? Why have one?

What is a Speakers’ Bureau

A Speakers’ Bureau is a series of hot topics presented to clubs senior networking groups EAPs or made into webinars that draw potential clients. We have put together a series of hot topics in the form of customized speeches for you to draw in local and long-distance adult children without doing the preparation yourself, like delicious premade meals you pop in the microwave

What Clients Does it Attract

The hardest to market to is adult children and a speakers bureau is a perfect means to find adult children. They are ravenous for solutions to their eldercare problems and finding those answers in community forums from experts with actual answers ( not pills, medical equipment, or health plans but actual experts with answers to adult children’s problems – a speakers bureau is the perfect forum for your marketing.)

What do you to prepare for Speaker’s Bureau
A series of hot topics in parent care problems. For example “when Adult Siblings are not doing their share,” When Should an Elder Move from their Home” ” 10 warning signs your parent may need help”
Pre-prepared speeches on a hot topic fully outlined and vetted with user-friendly language
You must create an outline plus handouts with your company contacts plus email contact sheet, so the audience walk away with something you handed them and you can add them to your Constant Contact or Mail chimp database
Start Your Speech?– a pop quiz on aging for example.
Sample -Have you and your aging parents planned for their physical decline?
Do you have resistance when you talk to your aging parents about planning for the losses of aging?
Are you worried about paying for your parent’s care?
What does a speaker’s bureau do for you?

 Promote your agency as an expert in geriatric care management in your area.
 Showcase your GCM aging knowledge of hot aging topics
 Establish your agency as an authority in our field
 Pinpoint your agency as the expert professionals, community potential clients will tum to when they need care
 Give you free publicity- you can advertise for free by sending out news releases ahead and after- through your social media platform

 most important establishes a future bank of clients among the community, the people you speak to by adding their emails to your social media platform

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Marketing care management to family caregivers? Wondering how to use free public relations to locate adult children in your community? Want marketing tools that will grow your business? The new Speakers Bureau Package has it all. Six pre-made presentations with handouts, a 20-minute presentation that covers major pain points and pain relief for adult children and family caregivers that will really engage your audience. The package contains complete directions & power points, and sell sheets to reach local service clubs like the rotary, women’s clubs, EAP, and musical societies drawing from the upper 10% of midlife members always looking for good speakers. Plus, a 30-minute free minute consultation with Cathy Cress MSW, to help set this up.

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4 Steps to Create a Webinar to Market your Aging Business During COVID

January 10, 2022

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What Do you do to set up a COVID webinar that gets lots of sign-ups and sales?

Set up a webinar on your agency’s Omicron Safety. When You set up a webinar on COVID you create excellent Public Relations that reach a really large audience that promotes your agency during the pandemic and the current Omicron surge. When you set up a webinar on COVID you position your agency against your competition when by featuring a webinar on omicron. You are using a major marketing tool to show your agencies follow CDC and state safety precautions. This is crucial to adult children seeking your services as COVID still rages through Omicron and Delta.

First Step to set up a webinar for overwhelming Sign -Ups

The first step to set up a webinar on omicron is to subscribe to a HIPPA compliant webinar platform. Besides ZOOM there are others that are less expensive or have way more customer support. All are less expensive than ZOOM and Hippa Compliant.

Nothing ELSE Matters Unless You Have The Right List of Recipients!

The second step when you set up a webinar on COVID is to create an email marketing database ( or use your own) to invite your target audience to the webinars. Nothing else matters unless you have the right list of recipients. You can use this for your e-newsletter. This is cheaper than mailing costs and also the most direct way to reach people both clients and target markets during the pandemic.

Create a Brilliant Title for Your Webinar

The third step when you create a webinar on Omicron for your care management agency is to pick a title for a webinar. Effective titles that bring sign-ups like this are one of 4 steps to market your aging business.

Create a Fantastic Description that Gets Tons of Sign-ups When You Set a Webinar on COVID

The fourth step is to schedule a webinar on COVID, on the webinar platform you chose. Add your great title, DESCRIPTION, PANELIST, BRANDING INFO, COPY INVITATION URL, SET UP EMAILS (confirmation, reminder (3), and follow up).

When you set up a webinar on COVID your panelists should include the Director of your local Health Department as each state sets its own rules for COVID ( Omicron) safety carried out by each county health department. So that person can speak to the level of COVID in your county, what the county safety precautions are, where people can get PCR testing locally, the availability of home testing kits, the importance of getting vaccinated and boosted, and where residents can get these shots. You can also have a local physician or virologist if you are in a large city that may have them.

You can have a nurse or social work from your agency go over your own agencies safety protocols, which you should have on your website

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Omicron Gone Nuclear-Are you Marketing Your Agencies COVID-19 Safety ?

January 3, 2022

How Do You Market the Safety Of Your Agency with Omicron Cases Exploding Nationally?

What is the best way to show the Covid -19 safety protocols of your GCM or homecare agency with new Omicron surge exploding COVID cases once again? You must overcome adult children’s hesitation to use homecare and GCM services. Why hesitation? Although about 62% of all Americans are now vaccinated -while— more than 87 percent of adults 65 and older — have been fully vaccinated, yet terrifying the public and adult children who care for aging loved one’s needing care at home —as COVID exploding again with the highly contagious omicron variant accounting for an estimated 58.6% of sequenced U.S. virus cases in the week ending Dec. 25, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Nowcast model showed, was up from an estimated 22.5% a week earlier ., 22% self identify as anti-vaxers, So aging families remain very nervous about your agency coming into a senior home.

During this new COVID-19 Omicron surge what families look for in your agency is your Covid 19 safety of staff- the care providers, care managers, and office staff’s vaccination rate, your safety protocols, PPE equipment use, and evidence that you work with your local department of health, state and CDC to stay compliant.

DO YOU CREATE A COVID -19 SAFETY MARKETING PLAN?

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A key element that goes into that marketing plan would be an e-newsletter, with a marketing campaign on your covid-19 safety sent out in formats like Constant Contact Survey Monkey other choices

This will boost the clients you can serve, as the Omicron surge has made adult children and elderly clients are nervous to have visitors come to their homes, exposing elders

States and individual health systems have historically addressed vaccination requirements for diseases such as influenza and hepatitis B. You must follow your state’s COVID regulations. Today, more than 2,500 hospitals, or 40 percent of all U.S. hospitals, have announced COVID vaccination requirements for their workforce. They span all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Potential clients need to know your care staff and care managers you use are incentivized to get vaccinated.

newsletter to market COVID -19 safety

Other Ideas to Add to your e-newsletter about COVID

Warning about Omincron surge

Include Videos in your e-newsletter like this terrific e-newsletter that Lifespan, a care management agency in Santa Cruz, Ca. uses introducing their staff products and services during COVID.

Tell a story with the COVID safety you want to show future clients and their adult children
Use your i phone to record your video
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If you are a care manager, include a list of great reasons that a client or customer should work with an ALCA or Geriatric Care Manager during the Coronavirus pandemic. ALCA members get this in a flyer “Why Work With An ALCA Member During A Crisis “.The Aging Life Care Association has huge resources for dealing with coronavirus impact on geriatric care management. This makes joining ALCA now a great idea in this lethal pandemic and its deadly effect.
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3 Steps to Create Great Webinar Content to Market Your COVID -Safe Aging Business

May 12, 2021

What Do you do to create a webinar that gets you lots of new clients as COVID Slows but Clients still hesitate ?

Creating a webinar during COVID , even in the US downtown, is a critical marketing tool to show your excellent CDC safety precautions

WHY

to overcome hesitation to use homecare and GCM services as

World Wide COVID spikes,
Elders not fully vaccinated,
US COVID still spikes
variants explode
COVID is the #1 Cause of Death in the US
1-4 Americans refuse vaccines,
herd immunity is no longer possible in US due anti vaxers

Webinars are a highly effective media tool to show your CDC safe precautions The importance of webinars is growing but your webinar’s content is key.Using a more interactive content format,

allows your webinars let to better connect with your audience . They also are one of the top five types of content that can naturally attract links to your site.

The First Step to Great Content is to Create Great Structure

Don’t just improvise the webinar. You need to clearly sketch- out the session to ensure that you deliver the content to sell your services.

Any webinar should include the following elements:

1.a compelling introduction,

2. order of main points to be addressed

3. motivating close, and

4. a relevant call to action.

Using these 4 studs for your webinar structure helps the session stay on the path and avoids straying from selling your agencies safety.

Nothing ELSE Matters Unless You Have Compelling Script

Step 2 is to engage your audience with content from a compelling script that’s powerful and interesting. You can use a lot of facts and stats, but make sure the tone speaks to your target audience. It can be a challenging task to keep an audience engaged for

more than 30 minutes.

Tell a story that will draw the audience to the session and keep them listening

Create Readable yet Aesthetic slides for Your Webinar

The third step is to create easily read slides that pop out for your webinar.

Slides filled with text will not do the trick.Break slides into bullet points – no more than 5 with lots of space in between. Add plenty of visuals that make your content pop -out

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Start-Up Geriatric Care Management Marketing and PR Checklist

April 7, 2021

To grow an ALCA or Geriatric Care management business, you must use- marketing and public relations (PR). ( usually social workers and nurses have never done )Here is a helpful start –

Start-Up Geriatric Care Management PR/ Marketing Checklist

1. Brand Identity- including logo design and collateral material design

Services needed to complete

Research competition, develop key differentiating features, develop a brand positioning statement, and develop business names, graphic design for the logo.

, colors for business communication. Consider consulting a branding firm.

2. Business Identity –

Get coordinated business card envelopes, note cards, and folders

Services needed to complete

Graphic design, printing, and delivery

3. Products sheets or Sell sheets, Brochures

Services needed to complete- Copywriting, graphic design, printing, and delivery

4. Identified and 3rd party targets – including a prospect profile

Services needed to complete-

Identify targets ( elder law attorneys, assisted living, concierge physicians, trust/wealth management departments) in your services area. Research develops prospect profiles, mailing lists, key factors in specific communication messages per target audience. Add to marketing excel sheets.

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