It’s hard to believe that very soon we’ll be watching that glittering ball drop over Times Square to ring in the new year – and a new decade. 2020 is on approach, and the landscape for senior living – and marketing for senior living – is a completely different beast...
Advertising
3 Quick Optimization Tips to Maximize Your PPC Campaigns
Have you ever wondered how Google and Facebook became the behemoths that they are today? Particularly since they don’t really, well, sell anything? The answer is ... drumroll, please ... ad revenue. Everything these companies provide is free to use because they make...
Is Traditional Advertising Dead?
Short answer: No. Please excuse our slightly off-the-cuff response, but this question is something we hear (or read) every single day since we’re in the marketing business. There are countless articles out there touting the demise of traditional advertising and why...
Meet Your Prospects Where They Are – Literally: Introducing SageAge’s New Geofencing Services
“Put yourself in your consumers shoes,” they say. “Meet your prospects where they are in their sales journey,” they say. “Get relevant messages to them ASAP so it’s still fresh in their mind when your value proposition hits,” they say. While for many years, marketing...
Location, Location, Location! How Geotargeting Boosts Leads in Senior Living
Every basic marketing course teaches the importance of the “marketing mix” as designated by the Four Ps: product, place, price and promotion. Simply speaking, marketing is about providing your prospective customers with the right product at the right place at the...
Understanding The Importance of Diversity in Advertising
On our blog, we’ve talked often about the importance of knowing your audience. If you’ve followed any of our advice, you hopefully understand why it’s critically important to know your audience if you’re hoping to create effective messaging and marketing that...
Frequency or Reach – Deciding Based On Your Campaign’s Goals
Any time you set out to create and run a marketing, public relations, or media campaign, you likely have a big picture idea of what you want to accomplish. Increase your prospective customer base, boost your sales, increase visibility and strengthen customer loyalty...
Understanding and Leveraging the Value of Hyperlocal News
Everywhere you look, experts are touting the importance of focusing on digital and online when it comes to your organization’s media and public relations efforts. By and large, given today’s media landscape, that’s a smart strategy. It’s true that the public relations...
Selling Your Story: Developing Compelling PR
You know as well as anyone that your community, from the residents and their families to the staff, is chock full of great stories worth telling. You probably hear them nearly daily, in fact. From the resident who breaks records in his or her chosen sport and the...
Keep It Clean: Focus on Clutter-Free Design
For many industries, design has gone from a sole department, and even an afterthought, to an extremely critical part of the overall business strategy. It’s no longer enough to make a design that works; consumers are judging products and services on new and different...
Dynamic Email Marketing for Better Customer Experience
If you’ve ever received a handwritten note of thanks, you know that the written word is far from a dead communication medium. Done well, written communication can reach your audience in ways traditional advertising, billboards, social media and other avenues cannot,...
The Importance of Audience: Effective Daypart Targeting
In years past, advertising – or, at least, choosing where to advertise – was a pretty simple task because there were only so many mediums to work with. They are what we refer to today as “traditional” advertising avenues and are largely print-based. From magazines to...