SageAge is a highly respected leader in senior living strategic marketing and sales consultation services. Proven experience strengthened by strategic marketing and sales excellence, creativity and a proactive approach provides our client partners with successful marketing and sales efforts. For over 35 years, we have partnered with senior living lifestyle clients who desire to efficiently and effectively assess, introduce, market and ultimately successfully achieve desired sales and occupancy goals.

SageAge provides comprehensive strategic marketing and sales services, including consultation, project/market feasibility assessment and research, strategic planning, marketing and sales planning and implementation and sales training, as well as advertising, public relations, media management and related creative support services for all stages of a lifestyle product development.

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Your Facebook Post is Now Dead and Buried! What You Can Do About It by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - The latest ins and outs of social media posting, with a focus on things that everyone can basically understand and… ...

Why LinkedIn Should Be a Critical Part of Your 2020 Marketing Strategy! by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - If you’re a LinkedIn “no show” you’re really missing out. LinkedIn has moved far beyond being a platform for job… ...

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What You Don’t Know WILL Hurt You: Q&A on Digital Marketing by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - In today’s world, digital marketing is the cornerstone of effective marketing. It’s important to get it right! ...

Why is This Community at 100% Occupancy with a Waitlist? by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Could this be the key to what senior care needs to stay vital and relevant? ...

Sitting and Waiting to Ruin Your Community by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Never let a negative review go unanswered. ...

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No One Sets Out to be a Bad Leader by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Leadership - No one sets out to be a bad leader . . . and who can disagree? Yet, they do exist.… ...

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If Brookdale Can Get This Right… by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Leadership - At any given moment, your community probably has 50 or more stories. How many are you sharing? ...

The Death of Auto Response, The Birth of . . . by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - What’s so bad about auto response? Nothing . . . if the year was 1999. ...

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They’re Easy, They’re Cheap, and They’re Turning People Off by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - “Easier and cheaper” may be undermining all the hard work you have done to make sure your website is optimized… ...

2 Ways to Drive Great Results from Pay-Per-Click — Plus a Google AdWords Update by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Proceed with caution before outsourcing your Search Engine Marketing (SEM), including Pay Per Click, to third parties. ...

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“Aging in Place” . . . Why I Hate that Term! by billmcclain Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Great concept… terrible term! ...

Strategic Pricing in Senior Living: You Gotta Know the Territory! by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - 5 simple steps to create your own personalized marketing strategy! ...

Killer Digital Marketing Platforms Will Soon Be Snagging Your Leads . . . by Susan Saldibar Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Old school lead generation and management processes are getting kicked to the curb by integrated digital marketing platforms ...

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Are you sitting on a pile of gold, or a pile of garbage – Do you even know? by John Gonzales Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Over the many years I’ve spent in senior housing, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had discussions about… ...

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Sage Age Strategies — One of America’s Fastest Growing Companies by John Gonzales Posted in: Development, Leadership, Sales & Marketing - Sage Age Strategies: Fantastic growth puts them on the INC 5,000 list. ...

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Sage Age Strategies Wins Big by Steve Moran Posted in: Sales & Marketing - The Generations Award is an international competition focused on excellence in senior marketing. Sage Age Strategies a Senior Housing Forum… ...

Senior Housing Forum Congratulates Sage Age Strategies by Steve Moran Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Congratulations to Sage Age Strategies for taking home seven awards in two different competitions. ...

New Habits of Old Decision-Makers by John Gonzales Posted in: Sales & Marketing - The way these increasingly influential baby boomers seek out and research potential communities for their parents is vital to staying… ...

Why Short-term Sales Goals can Kill You by John Gonzales Posted in: Leadership - Getting your senior community full takes both short-term and long-term strategies. It is easy to get let short-term goals get… ...

Hummingbird and Senior Housing Marketing by John Gonzales Posted in: Sales & Marketing - Google is quietly changing the way it presents search results using a new smart and intuitive algorithm aptly called, “Hummingbird.”… ...

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