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Don‘t sell yourself short. Find ways to optimize sales, improve customer experience, differentiate yourself in a competitive senior living, active adult, 55+ living market. Hear what your prospects, residents, influencers have to say. Learn from sales experts both in and out of the senior living business. Elevate sales processes, shorten sales cycle, become one of the top 10% in a growing industry. With staffing becoming as much of a concern as occupancy, guests who specialize in attracting talent, identifying talent, hiring, onboarding and retention will also be featured. Grow Your Occupancy podcast offers everything from sales coaching, the psychology of sales, the buying cycle, the complexity of the emotional sale, informative discussions, and casual, fun conversations. The senior living and active adult markets continue to explode. Are you ready to GROW?
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Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Join Grow Your Occupancy's CEO and Founder Julie Podewitz and Vice President of Strategic Development Dani Merlino as they share what's on their minds!
In this episode, they talk about "cool vibes" in senior living communities, 90s music, and freshly cut grass!
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
In part 1, Grow Your Occupancy's senior living sales specialists shared some of the most common challenges they see when they're in the sales seat at senior living communities, and offered solutions that work to overcome them.
Here in part 2, our sales specialists are back to share some specific advice for senior living salespeople.
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Grow Your Occupancy's senior living sales specialists talk with CEO and Founder Julie Podewitz about some of the most common challenges they see when they're in the sales seat at senior living communities, and offer solutions that work to overcome them.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
10 move ins in a month at a senior living community may seem impossible, but with a success mindset and systems and processes in place it can happen.
Grow Your Occupancy Founder and CEO Julie Podewitz and Vice President of Strategic Development Dani Merlino share 5 tips for making it happen.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Grow Your Occupancy Founder and CEO Julie Podewitz talks with Dani Merlino, Vice President of Strategic Development, about how she started in senior living as a dietary aide and the path she's taken to lead her to her position at Grow Your Occupancy.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, recently conducted 4 in-person mystery shops for a client.
What's it like to be a senior living prospect visiting a community for the first time? It's exhausting, confusing, overwhelming.
Find out what really things really stand out, and what you can do to improve your prospect's touring experience and sales outcomes.
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
What are they doing over at Claiborne Senior Living that is not only cutting-edge, it's also shocking to many?
Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Brooke Saxon-Spencer, Vice President of Marketing at Claiborne Senior Living, about their decision to eliminate virtually all paper from their marketing department! Find out how their strategy of driving prospects toward the valuable content on their website instead of handing them printed materials is paying off!
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Laurie Schultz, Principal and Co-Founder of Avenue and Viva Bene.
Avenue is a full-service senior living development company with a purpose: to address the crisis of affordability in the senior living industry. The result is Viva Bene, an active adult platform focusing on affordability and incorporating primary care coordination for their residents.
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Sylvia Kurinsky, Sales Advocate at Charter Senior Living. Sylvia shares her PRIDE, her story and her advice for others walking through their own journeys in this special PRIDE Grow Your Love edition of the Grow Your Occupancy podcast.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Julie Podewitz, CEO and Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, talks with Joshua LeBlanc, Director of Sales & Marketing with Paul Davis Restoration, Inc., about having accepting, supportive and proud parents from a young age, and why coming out to his peers was a challenge.
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