Dani Merlino, Vice President of Strategic Development at Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Tiffany Marino, Founder, Creator, and Host of the Manis With Grannies Podcast, about helping seniors share their stories and the importance of passing them along as part of their legacy.

Check out the podcast here: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/qbijn-2bdfdd/Manis-with-Grannies-Podcast

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Paula Rathgaber-Gomez, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sequoia Living, about how putting people first and leading by the heart has impacted her career and company outcomes.

We hear it all the time: "Outreach is dead." We also see outreach becoming a priority only when occupancy growth becomes urgent.

Julie Podewitz, Grow Your Occupancy's CEO and Founder, talks about outreach in senior living sales, the value and results it brings, and why it needs to have an ongoing place in your sales and marketing strategy. She also shares some new ways to approach it that you may not have thought of (hint: they're digital!).

Dani Merlino, Vice President of Strategic Development at Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Debbie Tedesco, Director of Admissions & Outreach at ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, about outreach in senior living sales the importance of making connections for outreach success.

Dani Merlino, Vice President of Strategic Development at Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Katie Churchill, Managing Partner at Full Spectrum Search Group, about recruiting top talent into senior living sales positions.

Katie shares the importance of treating job candidates like sales leads, why culture and training matter, and the cost to senior living operators of vacancies in sales director positions.

There are many valid reasons why it's challenging to grow occupancy in senior living communities today: higher monthly rates, stronger competition, the economy, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are just a few.

Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks about why investing in the success of your highly skilled salespeople can be the key to help them make a difference in your bottom line.

Grow Your Occupancy's Dani Merlino, VP of Strategic Development, and Dresden Cincurak, VP of Training & Internal Development, talk about Virtual Sales Specialists: what they do for senior living communities to warm up cold leads in prospect databases, and some of the results they've produced for our clients in 2023.

Grow Your Occupancy's Dani Merlino, VP of Strategic Development, and Heidi Benard, Senior Living Sales Specialist, talk about the importance of creative follow up and how to build genuine connections with your prospects.

Heidi also shares the benefits of teaming up with Grow Your Occupancy's team of skilled and talented Virtual Sales Specialists to meet your senior living community occupancy goals.

Julie Podewitz, CEO & Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Lori Wimmer, CEO & Founder of Simplified HR. Lori is an entrepreneur and master recruiter who helps her clients fill job openings with her signature recruiting methods. Lori talks about facing her fear of leaving corporate America to start her own company, what benefits are important to today's job candidates, and the importance of KPIs: Key Performance Indicators.

Grow Your Occupancy's CEO & Founder Julie Podewitz and VP of Business Development Dresden Cincurak share some special tips for senior living specialists to stay motivated and keep the leads warm during the holidays and through the winter months.