April 2-4, 2025
Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX
Join Julie Podewitz, Grow Your Occupancy’s CEO & Founder, Amanda Daughters, Executive Vice President of Operations and Jessi Weldon, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Primrose Retirement Communities, and Heather Tussing, President at The Aspenwood Company, for an informative session titled, “Reaching the Profitability Milestone: Successful Strategies for Turning Around a New Acquisition in the First 90 Days.”
Turning around low occupancy quickly in a newly acquired senior living community is crucial to the community’s profitability and long-term success. Planning and implementing a sales and marketing strategy to achieve this in the first 90 days is challenging but not impossible. Our panel of senior living operators and sales and marketing experts share their experiences in achieving profitability in new acquisitions and offer concrete advice on the strategy, staffing, metrics, and leadership needed to make it happen.
Let’s meet up to talk about how we can help you grow your occupancy! Schedule a time with Julie Podewitz by clicking the green button below.
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April 4, 2025
Summit Event Center
Aurora, CO
Join Julie Podewitz, Grow Your Occupancy’s CEO & Founder, for 2 informative and content-rich sessions:
“Be Brilliant at the Basics: Mastering the Sales Fundamentals to Solve the Occupancy Puzzle.” Mastering senior living sales requires commitment. Selling senior living is difficult. It requires a perfect blend of action and skill. Sales is a skill that requires practice. Julie Podewitz, CEO & Founder of Grow Your Occupancy, shares the specific skills and fundamentals attendees need to master to increase occupancy in their senior living community.
“The Impact of Outreach: Building a Stronger Sales Pipeline of Higher Converting Leads.” Outreach, or nurturing relationships with professionals who are most likely to refer business your way, is key to growing a strong sales pipeline. In this session, Julie Podewitz shares the skills and knowledge senior living sales professionals need to successfully market their communities to professional referral sources, and refines the strategies to fill their pipeline with higher-converting, referred leads. Attendees will learn how to build a circle of influence and plan effective outreach meetings, and take away some impactful ways to nurture external referrers.
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May 19-21, 2025
Tampa Convention Center
Tampa, FL
Join Julie Podewitz, Grow Your Occupancy’s CEO & Founder, Christy Cunningham, VP of Sales & Marketing at Vitality Living, Staci Lynn, COO at Wickshire Senior Living, and Francine Bass, Vice President of Sales at United Group, for an informative session titled, “Going in Strong: Successful Strategies for Achieving Profitability Quickly in Distressed Acquisitions.”
As senior living owners and operators’ portfolios continue to grow by acquiring distressed properties, their successful transition and need to get them profitable quickly is among the top priorities.
Becoming profitable in the initial 90 days following an acquisition is a challenge, but it is not impossible. Our panel of senior living operators and sales and marketing experts will discuss the challenges of the first 90 days of new management, identify key sales and marketing metrics needed to plan strategy, how they assess sales talent, and share specific strategies for occupancy growth.
Let’s meet up to talk about how we can help you grow your occupancy! Schedule a time with Julie Podewitz by clicking the green button below.
Learn more about the conference and register here!
