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Marketing a Retirement Housing Business
There is little room for error in marketing a retirement housing business in today's economy. Fortunately, we have the information you need to stay ahead of the curve and outperform the rest of the field.
Marketing a retirement housing business can be challenging, especially for business owners who lack a marketing background.
When done effectively, marketing is a coordinated and comprehensive strategy that raises the visibility of your retirement housing business using a carefully crafted mix of techniques and tactics.
When It's Time to Rebrand
Looking for a way to re-catalyze your marketing program? If you need a quick fix, rebranding might not be the right tool for the job. That's not how rebranding works. Instead, rebranding should be performed for the right reasons. In a retirement housing business, brands are tied to specific stages in the life of a business. If your company is expanding, you will inevitably outgrow your brand and it will be time to prepare for a comprehensive rebranding effort. Unless you are confident that you possess the skills necessary to rebrand your business, we advise consulting with a professional marketing firm before you introduce a new brand to your customers.
Price Matching
In a difficult economy, consumers expect businesses to engage in a certain amount of price matching. Without price matching, if they can locate lower pricing from a competing retirement housing business, buyers will jump on it. Survey the marketplace. If competitors have adopted price matching strategies, you have no choice but to adopt price matching as well, even if it means reshaping your business model to accommodate a new pricing structure.
Market Segmentation
In today's environment, it's impossible to market a retirement housing business to every possible buyer. Market segmentation has been around for decades and it has enabled many smaller companies to dominate parts of the market, even when they face competition from larger firms.
Filtered mailing lists facilitate market segmentation by focusing your resources on customers within your segment. The best list providers are equipped to accommodate various segments for contained within your retirement housing business promotional efforts.
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