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Do I Need Social Media for Holidays?

November 8, 2022

Do I Need Social Media?

Do I need Social Media to attract new clients during the coming holidays? Many have a solo practice and it is one more thing to do on top of marketing your business, managing clients paying bills – all overwhelming jobs?? Some geriatric care managers own flip phones and dig in their heels and say what is social media marketing going to do for my kind of business and do I really need it?

 

Social Media Main Plank of  Care Manager Marketing Strategy

 Social Media is so important, especially in the coming holidays -critically to reach long-distance care provider who visits aging family members to celebrate the holiday, where they find frightening signs of parents needing care. and then know to call you. It doesn’t matter if you run a solo practice or a big national company. Social media is an essential piece of your business marketing strategy. Now in this busiest season for care managers, you cannot consider skipping social media, especially   in a small business like care management 

Social platforms help you connect with your customers, increase awareness about your brand, and boost your leads and sales. With more than 4.1 billion people around the world using social media, it’s no passing trend.

4 Ways to Get More Clients With Social Media–

You need social media most importantly if you are just starting your aging life or geriatric care management business or want to grow the number of cases you have to grow and thrive, which you can over the holidays, the busiest season of the year for care managers. So, this is what you can do to get more customers to use your services. Write a blog

How

Choose Word Press or another blog software and set up an account to start positioning information to potential clients. The platform can add links to social media so you just post easily on your blog instead of going to each social media site to post. To get more help sign up for my holiday webinar on technology 

 

 

 

          

How

Design the format (they have templates), write content, publish on a least a monthly basis, and consider services like Constant Content  

 

3. Open twitter Facebook, Linked in Pinterest Accounts

 

Sign up and learn how to use social media. Best if on your website and automatically posts

 Services needed to complete

4. Join Linked in for professional referrals: Develop a Profile, get testimonials, and join Linked in groups like Aging Life Care Asso  group 

Create a Facebook fan page for your GCM business 

Learn to use Pinterest for your business 

Create a Twitter account for your business  

Join Instagram for business

Sign -up for Google My Business 

5. Lack of Social Media Skills No Time to do? Hire Expert

If you feel you do not have the time or the skills to do this- very likely for folks over a certain age- we did not grow up with this language- hire someone to do this or best bet a grandchild.

You can also have a professional create marketing content, newsletters, and blogs for you using businesses 

To get more help sign up for my holiday webinar on technology 

 

SIGN UP FOR MY HOLIDAY WEBINAR –

Sign up for my holiday webinar on technology

Get Ready for the Holiday Rush

WEDNESDAY November 16th, 2022, FROM 2 PM – 3:30 PM PST

 Learn how to create!

  • Pre-Holiday Social media campaigns to reach worried caregivers
  • Pre- Holiday-Materials about the warning signs that a parent needs help
  • Pre-Holiday Marketing to help you sign up families who might face a serious decline in aging parents
  • How to sell services to desperate post-holiday callers from Normal dysfunctional & long-distance family
  • How to use tools to contain holiday chaos & arrange care in festive family fright
  • How to move the family to New Year’s stability
  • Position Your Agency ahead of Care Managers who do not have great pre-holiday marketing campaigns and lack the clinical skills how to work with Adult Children and families during the chaotic aging family holiday visit when adult kids find their aging parents need care
  • Featuring

 Cathy Cress MSW author of the Handbook of Geriatric Care

Management        

 

Sign-up for my Free White paper to learn to use the copy & keywords to sign-up for  home care or care management Concierge-VIP Clients who can afford  care management & home care as Medicare does not cover long-term care

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why Do Care Managers Need Social Media Holidays Through 4 Simple Steps

November 11, 2021

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Holidays Season Busiest Season 4 Care Managers

The holiday season is here when you will get the most referrals from adult children seeing their aging parents or relatives and alarms bells blaring that they need help. But how do they know your agency is 911- through marketing campaigns, especially now through holiday social media.

 

Why do you need social media?

Not having it is like being at a business meeting with an elder law attorney and pulling out your flip phone and wondering why your competition got her client instead of you.

But some geriatric care managers own flip phones and dig in their heels and say what is social media marketing going to do for my kind of business and do I really need Pre-Holiday Social Media?

 

Social Media Main Plank of  Care Manager Marketing Strategy

It doesn’t matter if you run a solo practice or a big national company. Social media is an essential piece of your business marketing strategy, especially Holiday Social Media now.

Social platforms help you connect with your customers, increase awareness about your brand, and boost your leads and sales. With more than 4.1 billion people around the world using social media, it’s no passing trend.

4 Ways to Get More Clients With Social Media

So, if you are just starting your aging life or geriatric care management business or one of those folks who has dug in your heels against Pre-Holiday Social Media this is what you can do to get more customers using social media, especially  now holiday Social Media now in care managers biggest season

1. Write a blog

How

Choose Word Press or another blog software set up an account to start position information to potential clients.

 

 

 

          

How

Design the format (they have templates), write content, publish on a least a monthly basis, consider services like Constant Content  

 

3. Open twitter Facebook, Linked in Pinterest Accounts

How

Sign up and learn how to use social media. Best if on your website and automatically posts

 Services needed to complete

4. Join Linked in for professional referrals: Develop a Profile, get testimonials, join Linked in groups like Aging Life Care Asso  group 

Create a Facebook fan page for your GCM business 

Learn to use Pinterest for your business 

Create a Twitter account for your business  

Lack Social Media Skills or Time to do? Hire Someone

If you feel you do not have the time or the skills to do this- very likely for folks over a certain age- we did not grow up with this language- hire someone to do this or best bet a grandchild. I have two grandchildren who have helped me over the years, although I now have a webmaster.

You can also have a professional create marketing content, newsletters, blogs for you using businesses like Elderpages

SIGN UP FOR MY HOLIDAY WEBINAR –

 

Get Ready for the Holiday Rush 

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021, FROM 2 PM – 3:30 PM PST       

 Learn how!

  • Pre-Holiday Social media campaigns to reach worried caregivers
  • Pre- Holiday-Materials about the warning signs that a parent needs help
  • Pre-Holiday Technology to help you move people from discovery to signing on the dotted line
  • How to sell services to desperate post-holiday callers from Normal dysfunctional &long-distance family
  • How to use tools to contain Holiday chaos & arrange care in festive family fright
  • How to move the family to New Year’s stability
  • Position Your Agency ahead of Care Managers who do not have great preholiday marketing campaigns and lack the clinical skills how to work with Adult Children and families during the chaotic aging family holiday visit when adult kids find their aging parents need care
  • Featuring Speakers

 Cathy Cress MSW author of the Handbook of Geriatric Care

Management        

 

 

 

 

 

Natasha Beauchamp- MSc, Webmaster and Research    Scientist at Elder Pages Online, LLC

 

 

THIS FREE WEBINAR IS Tuesday, November 16th, 2021, FROM 2 PM – 3:30 PM PST

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