Mature Market Experts

The blog for people who work with boomers & beyond

Archive for August, 2010

10 Steps To Sales Success For Selling To Seniors – Steps 2 and 3

In our last blog entry, we talked about step 1 to outbound sales calls success for selling to seniors, creating the proper enviroment. Today, we’re going to talk about steps 2 and 3 for selling to the mature market. Again, today’s topics are nothing new. In fact, several different sales training programs utilize these very [...]

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10 Steps To Sales Success for Selling to Seniors – Step 1

Selling to seniors? The success of a good senior housing sales team rests in their ability to build relationships over the phone. Why the phone? Because after a retiree requests information, they are WAITING for us to tell them what the next step is. In fact, the mature market needs us to help them break [...]

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“Must Attend” Conference Coming to Carolina

National Active Retirement Association Conference Set for Oct. 20-22 in Columbia, SC As many of you know, I speak at a lot of conferences on boomers, seniors, and the mature market, so I’m hard to impress but this is a conference that I can’t wait to attend (let alone speak at). America’s top professionals involved [...]

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Mature Market Experts Gem of The Day: When does “New” technology become mainstream?

Buzz in the press is good for all.  Articles about using technology to monitor aging parents — like the most recent two in the Thursday NY Times by Hilary Stout and Eric Taub can be great for the aging tech industry. They generate buzz and interest in the media; they are syndicated and carried throughout [...]

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