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		<title>Buzzworthy: Investing In Marketing and PR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Webinar on May 16th at 1:00 pm East I would like to inform you I will be speaking at an upcoming Senior Living Business Interactive webcast, Buzzworthy: Investing in Marketing and PR.  It takes place on May 16th at 1:00 PM ET, hosted by Irving Levin Associates. Too often, marketing is seen as an expense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting The &#8220;Life&#8221; Back Into Life for Seniors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In a previous blog entry, we discussed enhancing your resident’s quality of life.  This can come in many areas; the dining experience, their living areas and surroundings, interaction with the staff and, most certainly, with social, recreational and cultural activities. How are your activities contributing to your residents’ quality of life?  You can offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imprison the Elderly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When I came across this image on a highly visible social media site I cringed!!  I would like to think this is the opinion of just one person, but sadly, the response it got leads me to believe this is a view held by many, too many! As professionals in this industry, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing: Expense or Investment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too often, marketing is seen as an expense rather than an investment. With the difficulty and complexity of senior living sales growing, now is the time to make the proper investment in marketing. Given the right tools and resources, marketing teams working in concert with business objectives can produce maximum impact, boost occupancy, and improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Community Contributing to Your Resident’s Quality of Life or Merely Helping Them Exist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Are you really giving appropriate consideration to your residents’ quality of life or just providing them the services they are paying for? Are your residents actively living or merely existing?  Here are some important issues that can have an effect on overall quality of life for the residents at your community. Meals/Nutrition – No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are They Getting Younger By The Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As reported by CNBC and seen on SeniorHousingNews.com, some retirement communities are seeing an increase of younger residents.  Can your community relate to this? Are you seeing a change in your demographics? CNBC: Retirement Communities Seeing Influx of Younger Retirees read the full article from SeniorHousingNews.com here &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Is Employee Turnover Draining Your Cash and Productivity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Do you think twice about your employee turnover rate?  Should you?  If you only knew how much employee turnover really cost your organization in cash flow, you would.  If you’re one of the fortunate few that have a low turnover rate, you probably won’t need to spend too much time or thought on it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Housing On Social Media? &#8211; Real World Examples</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you followed our four part series on Senior Living and Housing in Social Media, Social Media – Have You Embraced or Missed This Current Marketing Strategy? Why the Senior Housing and Health Care Industry Needs to Be On Social Media How A Senior Care Business Can Use Social Media Family Caregivers Are Using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Dunks or Starbucks?</title>
		<link>http://m-d-s.com/2013/03/are-you-a-dunks-or-starbucks/</link>
		<comments>http://m-d-s.com/2013/03/are-you-a-dunks-or-starbucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDSadmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Senior Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As I was getting my morning coffee at Dunkin Donuts, I was looking around and had a stark realization.  Dunks and Starbucks are both very successful business models that serve basically the same products and yet have very different environments and price points.  Coming from the South I had never given it much thought, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Know You Have Company Policies, But Do You Know What They Actually Say?</title>
		<link>http://m-d-s.com/2013/03/you-know-you-have-company-policies-but-do-you-know-what-they-actually-say/</link>
		<comments>http://m-d-s.com/2013/03/you-know-you-have-company-policies-but-do-you-know-what-they-actually-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When was the last time you pulled out your company policy and procedures manual? When was the last time you actually looked at or read your company policies?  We always hope that operations are carrying on smoothly enough that we don’t NEED to refer to them. But, it is a good idea to review [...]]]></description>
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