Consumers In Control. Building Relationships in a Digital World.

Mary Beth Fritz, Greystone Communities 2009 AAHSA Janel Wait, GlynnDevins, Advertising Services Annual Conference Randy Eilts, GlynnDevins, Advertising Services 1

Consumers in Control. Building Relationships in a Digital World. 2

Today we’ll cover: ‣ The digital fundamentals ‣ Digital media opportunities ‣ Social networking 3

‣ Digital is changing how senior living communities communicate with prospects and provides powerful opportunities for building relationships. ‣ Users gather information and engage via the web before they call, email, ﬁll out a form or visit your community 4

Latest PEW Data: ‣ Are Seniors Online? ‣ 78% of those 50-55 ‣ 71% of those 55-59 ‣ 62% of those 60-64 ‣ 56% of those 65-69 ‣ 45% of those 70-74 (up 25% since 2005) ‣ 27% of those 75+ Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project, Generations Online, 2009 5

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The Digital Fundamentals 7

Digital Fundamentals 1. First Impressions. ‣ Your web site is often the ﬁrst impression a prospect or adult child will have of your community. Bring your community to life so prospects are intrigued enough to want to come and visit your community. 8

Digital Fundamentals 2. Web sites are living, breathing organisms. ‣ It is incredibly important to feed your site with new content, promotions and any other content, photos or graphics that might be appealing to your web site visitors. The days of building a web site and leaving it on the shelf are over. 9

How Do People Find You Now? 2005 Sample Community Lead Sources ‣ Advertising-Placement ‣ Networking/Events ‣ Direct Mail ‣ Referrals ‣ Signage/Drive-by/Other 10% ‣ Internet 90% Other Internet 10

How Do People Find You Now? 2009 Sample Community Lead Sources 3. Make sure your site converts. ‣ Our communities experience approximately 23% of initial inquiries via the web. ‣ Incorporate promotional 77% call-outs, forms for prospects 23% to provide information, easy-to-ﬁnd phone numbers and more. Other Internet 11

Digital Fundamentals 4. Optimize your site for search engines. ‣ Incorporate appropriate keywords, include title tags and more. Smart, natural optimization will put you on top of search engines’ lists. ‣ Help people who don’t know you ﬁnd you easily! 13

Digital Fundamentals 5. Readability. Usability. Functionality. ‣ This goes without saying for the industry we are in, but be sure to optimize your web site for the 65+ prospect. Increase the text size, choose colors that work well together, include simple navigation. 14

Digital Fundamentals 6. Interactivity is key. ‣ Include interesting, sticky interactive components to your web site to encourage users to spend more time on your site. ‣ Include calls to action to these interactive components in your ofﬂine materials. Don’t just list your URL. 15

Digital Fundamentals 7. Start a conversation. ‣ Be sure to capture email addresses in simple forms on your web site. ‣ Seniors use email, and mining a substantial email database will allow you to cost-efﬁciently sell, build relationships and provide information about your community via email in the future. 16

Digital Fundamentals 8. Social Media. ‣ Start incorporating social networking principles into your web site. Start by adding a blog to your site, giving users a way to interact with you and/or your unique residents. Maybe even post a video on YouTube. 17

Digital Fundamentals 9. Speaking of video. ‣ Don’t miss the chance to add video to your site. ‣ User-generated content is really changing the way video is perceived on the web. 18

Digital Fundamentals 10. Testimonials are powerful. ‣ Promote video or text testimonials with residents, adult children, caregivers, the executive director and anyone else who helps make your community shine! 19

Digital Fundamentals 11. Analytics. ‣ The beauty of the web is that everything is measurable and can be easily updated for better results! 20

Sample Index GlynnDevins Digital Index 21

Digital Fundamentals 10. Analytics. ‣ Set Goals ‣ Track Them ‣ Optimize Site 22

Digital Media Opportunities 23

Digital Media Opportunities 1. Develop your email list 2. Send e-newsletters 3. Develop an editorial calendar 24

Digital Media Opportunities 1. Behavioral Targeting A. User visits the health section of a news web site 25

Digital Media Opportunities B. User searches: Senior Care Communities C. User seeks out Senior-related Health Information on multiple research sites 26

Digital Media Opportunities D. After seeing this user across multiple different data points, behavioral targeting ad networks can serve up an ad speciﬁc to the user based on their preferences. 27

Social Networking 28

Social Networking Arena 30

Social Media 1. Why Social Media? ‣ Increase awareness about a community/sponsor ‣ Tell a community’s story through the voice of leadership, staff, residents and others ‣ Educate the public about benefits and experience of living in a senior living community ‣ Facilitate a forum where Virtualization powered by Spiral16 Software people unfamiliar with senior living can learn from others 31

Social Media Top techniques to be successful ‣ Keep content fresh and timely ‣ Remember content should be transparent; don’t come across with “marketing speak” ‣ Share thoughts, and ideas; promote ‣ Encourage conversation; be ﬂexible ‣ Tell stories; use pictures Virtualization powered by Spiral16 Software and video 32

User-Generated Content 34

Public Relations Opportunities 35

Online Communities 36

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 37

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 38

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 2. Twitter 39

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 2. Twitter 3. Linked In 43

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 2. Twitter 3. Linked In 44

Social Media Outlets 1. Flickr 2. Twitter 3. Linked In 4. YouTube Video Component. Please View in Corresponding QuickTime File. 45

Great. So now what? 48

Thank You. 49

Mary Beth Fritz, Greystone Communities 2009 AAHSA Janel Wait, GlynnDevins, Advertising Services Annual Conference Janel Wait, GlynnDevins, Advertising Services 50

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