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Sell Benefits to Close the GCM or ALCA Sale to Assisted Living

June 20, 2023


Care managers must sell benefits of Geriatric Care Management to assisted living.

Sell Benefits of care managers because GCMs must sell benefits. Care managers are perfect professionals to help assisted living residents if they have just moved in, are unhappy with the move, not participating in activities, isolating depressed, or are lonely – just not thriving in the resident community.

Marketing care management to ALF’s takes some particular marketing tactics 

 

 

GCMs must sell benefits. Although it might seem counterintuitive, consumers rarely want to buy things for the sake of buying them – they want what they purchase to solve their problems.

To borrow from the example of an umbrella, features of this umbrella might be its unbreakable spokes or wind-resistant construction – but the benefit is staying dry even in strong winds that might break lesser umbrellas. The benefit of staying dry in strong winds that break other umbrellas – this makes the sale.

Clients who purchase home care or care management want to buy benefits – They want to know” what’s in it for me” when they buy your service  .

GCM Sell Benefits To Assisted Living 

Let’s take a third party. Care Managers often market to Assisted Living. ALF Directors want to hear how your ALCA or GCM  agency is going to help the Assisted Living site. Of course, you can describe your agency’s features, price, training of staff, gold standard service. However, benefits are what make the sale and keep the Assisted Living dry not flooded by the rain.

But here are some benefits you can offer to Assisted Living when you are seeking referrals and you have a service  for residents that involves Quality Of Life   

YOUR GCM ALCA AGENCIES MUST SELL BENEFITS

Sell Benefits-: Assisted Living does not want residents to move out. Most facilities are strictly non-medical and do not have a one-to-one companion and geriatric care management services. Your geriatric care management agency can solve that problem by selling benefits of 1-1 Companion

 

The assisted living and retirement community population sometimes have clients with needs that cannot be met with their nonmedical, non-one-on-one support services, (usually just an activities director)

  • You will help the facility with residents who are not adjusting to the facility or considering moving by engaging them in activities that will enhance the quality of their life, SO WHAT so they remain in the facility
  • You will help residents not engaging in activities to participate in the ALF’s activities program or outside activities and socialization program through a quality of life assessment & companion, SO WHAT so they do not want to move out of the facility
  • You will engage with new residents who are just adjusting both to the facility and their move, to engage in socialization and activity programs. You can help them make friends & engage in outside activities through a quality of life assessment and companion, SO WHAT so they do not consider moving out
  • You will make monthly monitoring visits to make sure the Companion is meeting all the client’s needs, keep in touch with the family and facility with frequent e-mails, texts or telephone updates plus send a monthly report SO WHAT so everyone is on the same page through your great communication skills.

So, selling the benefits to the third party, who will refer your agency to families of residents who are struggling, is a much more potent selling point that features your agency. 

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When: July 20 2023
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A feature is a fact    A benefit tells your customer the advantages of those facts   

 

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You will learn

The difference between selling features vs benefits

You will learn how to sell the benefits of your services to each 3rd party you  serve

How Benefits make your sale to wealth managers, elder law attorneys, and concierge physicians to get referrals for new clients

The Benefits that make you sell to upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, Hospice

Step by Step on how to set up meetings with 3rd parties to make the sale

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GCM Benefits Close the Sale to Assisted Living

June 14, 2023

Marketing Tactics – Use Benefits 

GCM Benefits led to a sale.ALCA members need to sell the benefits of Geriatric Care Management to assisted living. Care managers are perfect professionals to help assisted living residents if they have just moved in, are unhappy with the move, are not participating in activities isolating, or are general when they are not thriving in the resident community.

Marketing care management to ALFs takes some particular marketing tactics 

 

 

Although it might seem counterintuitive, consumers rarely want to buy things for the sake of buying them – they want what they purchase to solve their problems.

To borrow from the example of an umbrella, features of this umbrella might be its unbreakable spokes or wind-resistant construction – but the benefit is staying dry even in strong winds that might break lesser umbrellas. The benefit of staying dry in strong winds that break other umbrellas – this makes the sale.

Clients who purchase home care or care management want to buy benefits – what your product or service can do for them.

GCM Benefits To Assisted Living 

Let’s take a third party. Care Managers often market to Assisted Living. ALF Directors want to hear how your ALCA or GCM  agency will help the Assisted Living site. Of course, you can describe your agency’s features, price, staff training, and gold-standard service. However, benefits are what make the sale and keep the Assisted Living dry, not flooded by the rain.

But here are some benefits you can offer to Assisted Living when you are seeking referrals and you have a service  for residents that involves Quality Of Life   

YOUR GCM BENEFITS

The problem: Assisted Living does not want residents to move out. Most facilities are strictly non-medical and do not have a one-to-one companion and geriatric care management services. Your geriatric care management agency can solve that problem through the benefits of ALCA or geriatric care management.

 

The assisted living and retirement community population sometimes have clients with needs that cannot be met with their nonmedical, non-one-on-one support services (usually just an activities director)

  • You will help the facility with residents who are not adjusting to the facility or considering moving by engaging them in activities that will enhance the quality of their life, SO WHAT so they remain in the facility
  • You will help residents not engaging in activities to participate in the ALF’s activities program or outside activities and socialization program through a quality of life assessment & companion, SO WHAT so they do not want to move out of the facility
  • You will engage with new residents adjusting to the facility and their move to engage in socialization and activity programs. You can help them make friends & engage in outside activities through a quality of life assessment and companion, SO WHAT so they do not consider moving out
  • You will make monthly monitoring visits to make sure the Companion is meeting all the client’s needs, keep in touch with the family and facility with frequent e-mails, texts or telephone updates, plus send a monthly report SO WHAT so everyone is on the same page through your great communication skills.

So, selling the benefits to the third party, who will refer your agency to families of struggling residents, is a much more potent selling point that features your agency. 

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Sell Benefits, not Features &Grow Your$ Bottom Line

 Even if you cannot make the webinar, if you sign up, you will get a recording the next day

When: July 20, 2023
2 PM-3:30 PM PST
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A feature is a fact 

A benefit tells customers the advantages of those facts

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How to create a winning sales pitch to a third party

The difference between selling features vs. benefits

How to sell the benefits of your services to each 3rd party you  serve

What Benefits make your sale to wealth managers, elder law attorneys, and concierge physicians to get referrals for new clients

The Benefits that make your sale to upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, Hospice

Step by Step on how to set up meetings with 3rd parties to make the sale

Even if you cannot attend, you will get the recording of the webinar the next day if you sign up

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GCM Operations Manual Class Certified 57 CEU’s NACCM

May 23, 2022

Our GCM Operations Manual Class now  Certified for 57 CEU’s from NACCM

Now Available by Affordable Subscription Price 

Cress GCM Consult, LLC is approved by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM) as a continuing education provider, #21-

Certified for 57 CEUs from NACCM

 This activity was approved for 57 CMC NACCM contact hours. 

With 15 products AND 57 NACCM CEU’S

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 By taking The Class You Can  Be Certified for 57 CEUs from NACCM/ALCA or 3 CEUs from any of the 19 Classes  you choose

Your Own Agency’s Geriatric Care Management Operations Manual IN 12 MONTHS  ·      

  • With Your Own Logo·     
  •  Your Business Name·     
  • 15 GCM Products to Add to your Menu of Services·      
  • Procedures to Deliver Each Concierge Product·          
  •  Marketing plan for selling all GCM Products
  • 21 Hours of free consulting with Cathy Cress MSW
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 As an online student in this course, you will be Certified for 57 CEUs from NACCM while learning to use the MY Geriatric Care Management, Operations Manual. Purchased with the class to: · 

GET 57 CEUS FROM NACCM IF YOU BELONG TO THE AGING LIFE CARE ASSOCIATION

       Make your business more scalable to grow and expand 

  • Double the price of selling your geriatric care management agency as the Operations Manual makes it turnkey operation ·
  • Market your geriatric care management business to really increase profit through expert marketing steps for each of the 15 concierge care management products in the class ·
  • Start your new or existing aging life or geriatric care management business using 15 care management products/ that adult children need to purchase for their loved ones
  • Open and run a second agency with operating procedures that you have beta tested in your own operational manual  

        Offer a “4 Seasons” the gold standard of care that the top 10%  demand           

          Ensure risk management in your business with tried and true procedures to              deliver flawless care to “Someone’s Mother”  

  • Avoid legal disputes and malpractice litigation through procedures to deliver gold standard care ·
  •  Write monthly reports, and follow consultation guidelines on 15 different care management products  
  • Train and onboard new employees through the manuals  
  • Train new staff on how to set up, manage, monitor home visits accompany to a doctor appointment, write monthly reports and follow consultation guidelines on 14 different care management products  
  • Increase your sales by doing a two-step initial inquiry of a new client and close the sale  
  • Complete a client contact, get the deposit, and start a case in the initial inquiry call  
  • Set up GCM Procedures on-call procedures, COVID-19 safety procedures, and procedures to partner with Private Duty home care agency 4 staffing
  • Teach your staff how to document each client interaction in a service note that is comprehensive yet brief, billable, and can be accepted in court in a client dispute      

With 15 products AND 57 NACCM CEU’S

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If you do not have all or some of these skills, check out my GCM Operations Manual Class which includes 21 modules teaching you all these GCM skills to so you do not thrive profit and run a gold standard geriatric care management agency 

 

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Do You Know Best PR & Marketing Strategies to Find VIP Clients?

April 6, 2022

How to Find  VIP Concierge Clients

Who is Your Market in an Aging Life or geriatric care management business and how to find VIP Clients?

How do you find VIP Clients & Why? This market includes the ” rich and famous” like Mrs. Astor,  film /TV star Betty White or Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts  -people who were your VIP clients and four other wealthy groups in the upper 10% of the economy. Homecare costs between $4000-and 6000 a month.  Medicare does not cover home care or care management. This is why your market is in that top 10%. The upper 10% VIP client can afford you according to Pew research, in this nation of broad income disparity, and 90% below cannot.

 

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    • Understand how to find VIP Concierge Clients through hot mapping & Market Studies
    • How to Use Free Public Relations (PR) to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients
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Selling a Product to Assisted Living Makes the Sale

March 3, 2022

Selling a Product Assisted Living Makes the Sale

Selling a product to assisted living makes the sale. But GCMs or ALCA members rarely see themselves as salespersons. This is a fatal error. You may have a product, for Assisted Living residents but to make money from that product, you have to sell it.

What Product or Service Should You Sell 

Care Managers often market to Assisted Living. What ALF Directors want to hear is how your ALCA or GCM  agency is going to benefit the Assisted Living site. Of course, you can describe your agency features, price, training of staff, gold standard service. However, benefits make the sale.

As benefits  make the sale here are some benefits you can offer to Assisted Living when you are seeking referrals and you have a service  for residents that involves a Concierge Companion 

What Benefits Make the Sale is Assisted Living?

The problem: Assisted Living does not want residents to move out. Most facilities are strictly non-medical and do not have one-to-one companion and geriatric care management services. They do offer activities but only one activity director for all the residents. Your geriatric care management agency can solve that problem through the benefits of ALCA or geriatric care management by the geriatric care manager offering a quality of life program, like Concierge Companion, product in my GCM Operations Manual, to help residents who move in getting involved in activities at the facility and outside the facility, so they feel part of the  ALF community and do not want to move out.

ALF products help residents who move in getting involved in activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The assisted living and retirement community population sometimes have new residents with needs that cannot be met with their nonmedical, non-one-on-one support services, like loneliness and isolation

  • You will help the facility with residents who are not adjusting to the facility or considering moving by engaging them in activities that will enhance the quality of their life, THE BENEFIT  so they remain in the facility.
  • You will help residents not engaging in activities to participate in the ALF’s activities program or outside activities and socialization program through a quality of life assessment & companion, THE BENEFIT  they do not want to move out of the facility
  • You will engage with new residents who are just adjusting both to the facility and their move, to engage in socialization and activity programs. You can help them make friends & engage in outside activities through a quality of life assessment and companion, THE BENEFIT so they do not consider moving out
  • You will make monthly monitoring visits to make sure your Concierge Companion is meeting all the client’s needs, keep in touch with the family and facility with frequent e-mails, texts or telephone updates plus send a monthly report THE BENEFIT so everyone is on the same page through your great communication skills.

Who Makes The Buying Decision?

Even if it is a service, people are buying your product. To begin to put together a sales plan you need to identify who makes the decision to buy your GCM/ALCA Assisted Living

 

products or services. With older adults over age 85, the buying decision is generally made by the adult children or the third party (trust officer, etc.). Many times young older adults (65–85 years of age) make their own buying decisions.

 

What is Your Assisted Living Sales Plan?

Does this buying decision require personal contact in an intake by a GCM, an Assisted Living sell sheet for a Concierge Companion service you dropped off at the Assisted Living Director’s office, sales meeting with the director, meeting with the older resident, complimentary consultation with the Assisted Living resident’s family, word of mouth, paid advertising, through social media- if so what – blog, web site – what describe your sales plan to uncover customers needs. It will have to go in your business plan plus- be good enough to get you, customers.

What Criteria Does The Assisted Living Customer Use to Make a Purchase 

You then need to identify what criteria the person making the buying decision uses to evaluate your Assisted Living product. First, you have to figure out whether the decision to purchase your Assisted living product is made by the Assisted Living Director, the older resident, or the adult child. Next, you must decide what criteria do the resident adult child or Assisted Living Director uses to buy your assisted living product: price, features like not losing the resident, the parent not being happy, or having a poor quality of life in the facility. How will you give your customer, the adult child, enough information to say yes?

Find out More about Assisted Living Sales in my newest webinar

Free Webinar on Benefits to 3rd parties like ALFS

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When: March 15 2022
2 PM-3:30 PM PST
Learn
 

A feature is a fact    A benefit tells your customer the advantages of those facts   

 

Take Advantage of One Time Low Offers on Products

You will learn

The difference between selling features vs benefits

You will learn how to sell the benefits of your services for each 3rd party you  serve like Assisted Living

How Benefits make your sale to ALFs, wealth managers, elder law attorneys and concierge physicians to get referrals for new clients

The Benefits that make your sale to upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, Hospice

Step by Step how to set up meetings with 3rd parties like Assisted Living to make the sale

Even if you cannot attend you will get the recording of the webinar the next day if you sign up

SIGN UP 

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