Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Robbie Voloshin, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at United Methodist Communities. Robbie shares what her sales and marketing teams did to maintain occupancy in their senior living communities during the Great Recession and what they're doing for the year ahead.

Grow Your Occupancy guest host Jeff Gronemeyer, Vice President of New Business Development at Conversion Logix, talks with David Smith, Sales Director at New Perspective Senior Living. David, a three decade veteran of the senior living industry, shares why ongoing sales training is so important in the industry, no matter where you are in your sales career.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Kara Marinko, Vice President of New Development at Phoenix Senior Living about best practices for new senior living community construction lease up, expectations for a timeline to stabilization and what she is committed to during 2023.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Alex Smith, a Certified Pricing Professional and Senior Vice President of Pricing Optimization at Further, about the art and science of pricing senior living communities competitively.

Alex developed CompIntelPro, a tool to proactively price, position and promote senior living communities within their individual local market, and is now building upon that product at Further as they develop the Further Pricing Assistant. Learn more at talkfurther.com.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Margaret Henney, Director of Marketing at Covideo, about using personalized video as a sales tool for differentiating your senior living community from your competitors.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, and Chris Hoard, Chief Development Officer at Distinctive Living, reflect on the lessons of 2022 in the senior living industry and their takeaways for 2023.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, and Matt Reiners, Co-Founder of Eversound, cover a wide variety of fun topics in this first Grow Your Occupancy podcast of 2023!

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Scott Bell, CEO, and Ana Cristina Reaves, Key Account Manager, at High Level Marketing. Scott and Ana share their insights, advice, and clarity on digital marketing.

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Julie Podewitz talks with Matt Reiners, Co-Founder of Eversound, about how senior living sales outcomes can benefit from assistive hearing devices. By enhancing their sense of hearing, older adults with hearing loss can experience a tour of a senior living community more fully, as well as be more present during the inquiry and decision-making process.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with independent living resident Marilyn Breed about her experiences while researching, choosing, and living in a senior living community. Marilyn's advice? "You need to stay interested in things - it makes you more interesting!"