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By Tom Mann, Chief Marketing Innovation Officer, Love & Company Your Life Plan Community has controlled your market for decades and you’ve maximized your campus’ building potential. Now what? The answer might be a satellite campus. The term widely used when a...
By Christine Carruthers, Vice President, Health Services Marketing Earlier this year, I went to the annual Argentum (formerly ALFA) conference, where I attended a session featuring a panel discussion about senior prospects, their adult children, and what they each...
Choosing the right senior living advertising agency is an important decision and will be a key factor in the success of selling residences in your retirement community. So what questions should you be asking a senior living advertising agency before you hire them?...
By Sarah Fleischer, Strategic Services Director There is no debate as to whether digital advertising needs to be a part of your total strategic mix. In 2017, digital advertising outspent TV advertising for the first time ever, making up about 41 percent of the market....
By Tom Mann, Principal and Chief Marketing Innovation Officer On behalf of our LeadingAge clients, I went to the 2019 International Builders’ Show (IBS) looking for building trends. Interestingly, what I found was a show dominated by digital technology. And while...
By Tom Mann, Principal The reasons for growth Watch the recording of our "The Reasons for Growth" webinar featuring experts from LeadingAge, HumanGood, and Asbury! We all know this chart… Credit: US Census and Ziegler … more than 76 million baby boomers will start...
We did a lot of writing in 2018! Our Leaders’ Board blog covered all sorts of topics in the senior living field, including design, master planning, financing, market research, marketing tactics, trends, industry disruption and more. Here’s a list of our most popular...
How many of your management teams set your revenue budget by looking at last year’s sales goals and then bumping them up by some percentage (usually a stretch sales goal)? How many of you have set your sales goals with an eye towards the news of a housing market...
By Karen Adams, VP of Market Intelligence The competitive landscape of senior living has changed dramatically during the last two and a half decades with the rapid development of assisted living (AL) and the continued growth and repositioning of continuing care...
A Son’s Perspective on Life Plan Communities At the age of 45, I found myself holding my 80-year old father’s hand as he lay in his hospital bed. The second youngest of six children, I had grown very close to my Dad after the passing away of my Mom. Our transformation...
Getting ready to start the development planning process for a senior living project? Developing, marketing, selling, and operating a successful senior living project (active 55+, Life Plan Community, retirement community, continuing care retirement community, senior...
The most frequently quoted statistics about life expectancy (American men born today can expect to live to 76.5 years, and women can expect to live 81.3 years) are misleading. For those in our fifties, we have already outlasted those who have passed away (they skewed...
