Do You Use Videos in Marketing Your Staff Safety With New Delta Variant?

September 2, 2021

Will you use videos to show your agency’s commitment to COVID safety with the new highly transmissible Delta variant ? Online video content continues explode in growth and according to a 2020 study. 84% of people say that they’ve been convinced to buy a product or service by watching a brand’s video.

Video can be a tool to add to your home care or geriatric care management marketing plan to show the extreme safety protocols your GCM or homecare agency during the Delta variant Explosion of COVID19 to overcome adult children’s hesitation to use homecare and GCM services.

Why hesitation?

Older people still account for most Covid-19 deaths, and in many counties in the US, especially in the South and Mountain West, seniors without full vaccination make up more than 10 percent of the total population.

Even though the majority of seniors have been vaccinated, they now need a booster shot to prevent breakthrough infection from the Delta variant. This will only surge as the coming fall & winter makes everyone stay in the more risky indoors

So aging families remain very nervous about your agency coming into a senior home.

What families look for in your agency is assurance of 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.

As US clients are using services like care managers and home care again, it is critical that you build that trust by showing customers you are totally CDC safe. It is also important that you position your agency ahead of your local competition and that can be achieved through video. That can be achieved through using video video when your competition does not.

Videos are the new powerful Marketing Tool

The importance of video marketing shows in its growth to a $135 billion industry. Brands everywhere are realizing the value of video and creating them. According to ALCA’s marketing guru Courtney Pulitzer,75 million people watch videos every day and stunning viewers retain 95% of the message while watching compared to only 10 %-of reading text.

Use Videos in your own Care Management Marketing

Show your community your agency’s excellent safety through videos, done with a phone by a talented staff member. Take the example of Lifespan a 35-year-old geriatric care management home care agency that provides Quality of Life activities and adds videos about Lifespan‘s Well Being Program. They upload them to their YouTube channel another great way they build trust with their agency. Market safety from Covid-19.

Videos are not hard to make

You just need a smartphone tripod and a person to do the videoing. I have a YouTube Channel on Geriatric Care Management for years. I made most of them with an I phone.

However , I have gotten much more sophisticated and now two a videographers . An excellent one is Tapfilms , also used by Lifespan. A second is

East Coast Studios that does all my on-line classes in geriatric care management.

If you belong to the Aging Life Care Asso ( ALCA) use their excellent video marketing resources

Video Learn Business Skills to Start a Geriatric Care Management Business?

August 26, 2021

What Business Skills Do You Have To Start A Geriatric Care Management Agency?

Starting a Geriatric Care Management Agency does not take simply clinical skills but also business skills. Only 3% of geriatric care managers now have business skills because most are in the health field, nurses, and social workers. So it takes business skills you would get in an MBA to start of GCM business. What are those skills and how do you get them without an MBA?

GCM ALCA billing skills to develop a billing system that allows you to bill 85% of your time, control your cash flow, invoice promptly to make a profit
GCM financial forecasting skills to develop a 3-year financial forecast Excel spreadsheet to track your basic profit and expenses and to track the number of clients and billable hours needed to break even make a profit, pay back loans, hire new staff, and take a salary yourself
GCM organizational design skills to create your business flow chart and job descriptions, and outline how power flows down your staff to deliver gold standard care to clients
GCM marketing survey skills to pinpoint your area’s upper 10% clients and 3rd-party referrals to market, to make your business profitable
GCM competitive analysis skills to set the fee per hour your market will bear for your services and to gather information from each, to position your services vs your competition’s so clients will choose you
GCM timeline skills to identify and list (in a manageable, doable order), majortasks to complete before you open your business
GCM business planning skills to write a 13-part business plan to create a blueprint of measurable goals for your business’s financial success
GCM marketing skills to create a marketing plan to develop lead sources, conduct lead generation, launch social media and conduct content marketing to gain new customers
GCM sales skills
position your agency to sell your menu of services benefits to 3rd parties and clients through cold calling, 1-1 sales meetings, and inquiries, by knowing how to close the sale and sign the contrac

If you do not have all or some of these skills, check out my Online GCM Business Class which includes 10 modules teaching you all these business skills to start your GCM Business including two modules critical financial management so you do not go under and lose your dream start-up

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Do You Need To Learn Business Skills to Start a Geriatric Care Management Business?

July 7, 2021

What Business Skills Do You Have To Start A Geriatric Care Management Agency?

GCM ALCA billing skills to develop a billing system that allows you to bill 85% of your time, control your cash flow, invoice promptly to make a profit
GCM financial forecasting skills to develop a 3-year financial forecast Excel spreadsheet to track your basic profit and expenses and to track the number of clients and billable hours needed to break even make a profit, pay back loans, hire new staff, and take a salary yourself
GCM organizational design skills to create your business flow chart and job descriptions, and outline how power flows down your staff to deliver gold standard care to clients
GCM marketing survey skills to pinpoint your area’s upper 10% clients and 3rd-party referrals to market, to make your business profitable
GCM competitive analysis skills to set the fee per hour your market will bear for your services and to gather information from each, to position your services vs your competition’s so clients will choose you
GCM timeline skills to identify and list (in a manageable, doable order), majortasks to complete before you open your business
GCM business planning skills to write a 13-part business plan to create a blueprint of measurable goals for your business’s financial success
GCM marketing skills to create a marketing plan to develop lead sources, conduct lead generation, launch social media and conduct content marketing to gain new customers
GCM sales skills
position your agency to sell your menu of services benefits to 3rd parties and clients through cold calling, 1-1 sales meetings, and inquiries, by knowing how to close the sale and sign the contrac

Find Out More

CHECK OUT OUR GCM BUSINESS CLASS

How To Get Free PR Through a Speakers Bureau

June 30, 2021

Use Free PR to Use to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients

A Speakers Bureau is the best way to find worried adult children who are wondering how to approach their failing and frail adult parents who are both wealthy and ignore their children pleas to get care .

You create 4 Hot Topics, like “Mom Loved you Best-“ Working with Siblings Over Older Parent Care”, “The Dutiful Daughter- How Women Can Take Care of Themselves while Taking Care of Mom”.” ” Parent-Sweetheart Scams – How to Understand Undue Influence and Protect Your Aging Parent From Being Scammed”

Tasha Beauchamp, an Aging life Care Webmaster, Research Scientist owner of Elder Pages Online, LLC had this tip in an ALCA blog about in-person presentations

“You provide enough information to demonstrate your expertise, but as someone mentioned already, not enough detail that you are giving away the store. One way to get an insight into what people are interested in and will attend a speakers Bureau presentation is to look at the top eldercare-related searches on Google compiled by the Pew Internet Project:” according to Tasha Beauchamp, Aging Life Webmaster and research Scientist

Dementia and memory loss
Long-term care options
Paying for care
Handling the stress of caregiving”
Other ideas from other Aging Life members include were
Hospice & Palliative Care
Dementia Care
Beauchamp pointed out that dementia is the number 1 feared disease only behind cancer
Getting Free PR and Bookings from your Speakers’s Bureau
My newest webinar will cover complete step to set up a Speaker Bureau to find adult children with VIP client’s in need of care. We will cover how to get a perfect free venue to do the presentation- and to arrange speaking gig’s at local women’s clubs ,like AAUW clubs service clubs like the rotary, how to get free PR for your agency through pre- presentation radio interviews covering the important topic you will present and how to get leads through sign ups after the presentation