Delta Variant -Are you Marketing COVID Safety of Your GCM or Home Care Agency?

August 9, 2021

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

What is the best way to show the extreme safety protocols your GCM or homecare agency with new Delta Variant exploding COVID cases once again? You must overcome adult children’s hesitation to use homecare and GCM services. Why hesitation? Although about 50.6% of all American are vaccinated and — and over 92.4% of seniors over 65-74 and are vaccinated 87.7% of seniors over 75 — COVId is exploding with Delta Variant , anti-vaxers the Majority of new COVID cases , American deaths for gone nuclear from 50K in late April to 600 K August 6th. So aging families remain very nervous about your agency coming into a senior home.

During this new COVID-19 Delta Variant surge what families look for in your agency is your staff’s safety- 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 SAFETY MARKETING PLAN ?

A key element that goES into that marketing plan would be an e-newsletter,with a marketing campaign sent out in formats like Constant Contact or Survey Monkey other choices

This will boost the clients you can serve, as COVID has made adult children and elderly clients are still nervous to have visitors come to their homes, exposing elders and unvaccinated family to the virus. Health care providers have a choice in getting vaccinated and potential clients need to know the care staff and care managers you use are incentivized to get vaccinated.

Other Ideas to Add to your e-newsletter about COVID

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
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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Using Telehealth During Covid? Learn to Market GCM COVID -19 Coaching

January 28, 2021

COVID-19 Coaching Service for Aging Families

If you have designed COVID -19 coaching services for your agency or attended my last webinar to learn how to create one using telehealth coaching ( If you missed it click on this link to watch )

Take the next step

Take the next step and learn to market COVID coaching and sign up new clients for your Aging COVID-19 coaching services, for both long-distance and local- adult children. These services need to be based on science and sound public health policies. Help family care providers faced with a pandemic, support aging love ones through a COVID Hospitalization and recovering at home.

Mixed Messaging by Feds creates Chaos 4 Aging Families

Be able to offer care management COVID services that help fill the gap that the new administration is attempting to recalibrate from the last administrations bungled in the federal government, state, county, cities, and CDC‘s mixed messaging, leaving family caregivers confused and frustrated, with no clear path to safety from the raging pandemic,

Gain new customers and help aging families stay safe from COVID using care management’s most potent tool – navigation- through the potholed path they have to safety right now.

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You Need a Virtual Rolladex on Speed Now to Market in Covid-19

May 20, 2020

What is a Rolladex on Speed?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, when many geriatric care managers are shut down, they need a virtual rolladex on speed- or an email marketing and marketing automation platform. An email marketing database is essential for keeping your prospective, existing customers warmed up and ready to buy your services or products. You store your contacts or customers and send information that will entice them to use your agency. Constant Contact is the most common. I use it because it has great customer services for non-natives in technology like me plus excellent templates. But other alternatives like Survey Monkey and Moosend and many others can be considered. Think of this as your old Rolodex on speed.

During this pandemic, this gives you the ability to let your third parties like elderlaw attorneys and existing an potential new clients know you are still here, still care about their needs and show them what preventative steps you have taken in

Advertise Your Agencies Coronavirus Universal Saftey Precautions

Use the e-mail newsletter to update contacts on your staff’s training in universal precautions and use of all the necessary masks, gloves, and PPE . You should assure that caregivers are required to take their own temperature prior to each shift and all shifts are available.

Share Community Resources During Pandemic

You can let clients and 3rd parties, know helpful information about coping with “shelter in place”, in your town. For example, a list of all the grocery stores that deliver, as older people are not supposed to go shopping or if they do -the times when only they are allowed in the store. If your care providers can do that shopping you could add this to the newsletter.

If you do a Virtual Quality of Life Program for lonely and isolated seniors unable to get out during Covid-19, share your service in the newsletter. If you do not offer a Quality of Life program, point them toward geriatric care manager Nina Herndon’s excellent virtual quality of life program.

If you have a partnership with your county health department, which is a very good idea, you can add that in your newsletter. You can keep customers up to date on Covid-19 information in your area. You can both use it in your agency and share it through your newsletter. Other ideas are adding photos of your staff in PPE or even staff making masks if you have sewing talents. Or there is a volunteer group in your county making PPE for hospitals, share that and with photos in your newsletter

Care Management Start-Ups -Start an E-newsletter Now

Any aging life or geriatric care management business has to start out with a foundation of great customer relationships. Get an email marketing database now or before you open your doors and fill it up with contacts including old, new and potential clients,3rd party referral sources like- elder law attorneys, trust officers, concierge physicians, and all target professionals who refer families to you who need GCM.

You, the aging life or GCM marketer, must connect with aging families who need your product at this time of the pandemic and at all times in the future. The best way is through your social media database.

As your company expands these Aging Life or GCM business connections grow more sophisticated. You start to manage a myriad of connections, across time, within each referral contact you do business with.

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