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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

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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
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Build A Small Business With Technology-OR The Wolf will Blow it Down

June 6, 2022

Build Your Small Business on Technology Not Paper or the Big Bad Wolf Will Blow it Down

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Build your Small Business with technology, not paper so that your small geriatric care management businesses can work closely with your upper 10% of clients to provide them with products and services that add value to their lifestyles while solving their elder care nightmares. Going from an idea to a finished product or service requires small business owners and their employees to collaborate with each other and external vendors. E-mail and instant messenger tools paved the way for online sharing and collaboration. With the ability to instantly connect, share information and get feedback, e-mail and instant messenger are beneficial technological advantages for small businesses. Web-based care management database programs update team members and clients, track time, and share documents in real-time creating care plans, billing, and delivering fast gold standard services.If you build your business of paper, not technology none of this is possible. If you choose technology a care management database is at your fingertips through care management technology. Plus for small businesses, this means up-to-date information available in a central hub, regardless of a person’s location.

Social Media Is a Must Have

Social Media is a Must-Have for Care Management

Today, social media is a must-have for any small business like care management – regardless of what industry you’re in. SEO or Social media has evolved from space for personal interaction into a vibrant marketing channel for small businesses. T Whether you already have a strong social presence or are looking to step up your game, learn more about the benefits of social media marketing for your business.

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1-1 interviews with CEOs of major care management software platforms
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Can You Market Care Management During a COVID-19 Shut Down?

April 6, 2020

Marketing geriatric care management in the midst of coronavirus is like a ventilator for your business. The damage has been done to your small business through the coronavirus closing order. However, you can both help keep it on life support and give it time to recover until you can open again.

What Do you need?

First of all, to market while closed, you need social media in the form of a newsletter through email marketing programs like Survey Monkey or Constant Contact. What you are creating is a call to action. That action is to say “use our GCM agency during and after the coronavirus because we have a great service to solve eldercare problems now and in the future for you.” To do this you you need a marketing strategy campaign

with 7 touches so that your customer or potential customer ” hears your “Call to Action.” These touches can come in a variety of ways but the only ones you can use in the COVID-19 epidemic is a newsletter and an email marketing program because 1-1 marketing has vanished.

Ideas For E-Mail Marketing During COVID-19

Here are some ideas of what you can include in an email marketing

marketing campaign using a newsletter format in Constant Contact or Survey Monkey

Local information about home food delivery from local grocery stores used by seniors or designated shoppers as elders should not even get out and shop
A list with links of religious services for upcoming holidays- Easter, Passover. that can be accessed by Radio TV and social media for all those with” Stay at Home “orders
Quality of Life activities that your agency or another agency like the Hummingbird Program offered virtually for seniors who are even more isolated, lonely and depressed during the pandemic
Offer A Home From the Hospital or Move Management product/service if you have one to help families deal with discharge from hospitals after COVID -19 and not end up back in the hospital and or can move to a safer place to recover like their long distance relative.

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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