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How To Make Money and Help Seniors???

by Natasha2003
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Any ideas would be great pleasure. I'm trying to avoid opening a senior home care agency but I'm open to all ideas :-)
My background is sales, medical and basic internet marketing (Usp, call to action)
#make #money #seniors
  • Profile picture of the author rizy
    If you want to make money from Seniors? Then you should use your medical background to offer them health advice and educational courses for their bodies.

    If you want to make money but not from seniors themselves. Then you could offer your services in marketing and or design to Senior Homes Managements to help them do better I guess.

    You could also sell something useful, or something that brings a smile to seniors, by talking to the senior home management and selling them on how this one thing should be in every senior's room, something small on the side table or again something useful.

    What I personally would do is start a website and put free Senior Homes Listings, and then go to Senior Homes and on the car of the visitors put your site's name and ask them to review this business or association. This way Senior Homes will be lining up to buy your premium services. This way you make money from ads, and seniors and their kids get to find the perfect place. Everyone wins.
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  • Profile picture of the author misterkailo
    maybe open up some Bingo places
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    • Profile picture of the author Meharis
      Things are really getting bad.
      Some people already sold their so call brain...

      Meharis
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      • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
        Being a senior, I can tell you that contrary to public belief seniors are not heavily into illegal drugs other than for medicinal purposes and their major drug is alcohol.

        O.k. Seniors are like no seniors that ever went before. Today's seniors are into sex, exercise (could be the same thing!), fishing, boating, cycling (a good one that I'm into, along with the sexercise!), travel, walking/cycle trails, glamping (glamorous camping), motorhoming if they have money, surfing the 'Net (many are challenged by it), realty investment, and some strange hobbies like pigeon racing, bird-watching; these are the legal ones. I won't comment on what the illegal hobbies of seniors might be.

        So if you can build a site that sells alcohol, sets up seniors sexy dating while fishing when on a boat with a bike onboard for cruising walking/cycle trails with provision for snuggling up in a tiny tent and the occasional weekend away in a motorhome with access to the Internet so they can choose investment properties and open their baskets of pigeons, then you have a winner, my friend!

        PS, I'll be the first to signup!
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    • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
      Originally Posted by misterkailo View Post

      maybe open up some Bingo places
      You serious? That's the seniors of the '80s and '90s!

      Seniors of today want ACTION!
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  • Profile picture of the author Fantastic
    My girlfriend is a LPN at a local nursing home.

    With that being said, I go up there on the weekends and hang out with a few of the patients I like (she works in the Psych unit).

    Find a product that you can accept insurance payments for and sell it?

    Scooters, walkers, diabetes supplies, etc.

    Other than that, I really don't know.
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    • Profile picture of the author Natasha2003
      Thanks everyone. I know seniors love their pets and treat them like people.
      Maybe I can incoporate seniors and animals?

      I thought about selling medical equipment/supplies. I've read its a lucrative business but of course very competitive.

      I also read that teaching seniors how to surf the net can be a service I can provide to the local community. I'm just trying to figure combine what isn't done with seniors that's also lucrative. I do know home care agency is one of the top 10 businesses to start
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by Fredbou View Post

        You serious? That's the seniors of the '80s and '90s!

        Seniors of today want ACTION!
        Judging from what I've seen around my neck of the woods, it's also seniors IN their 80s and 90s...:p

        As a borderline senior myself (I'm old enough to order from the senior menu), I can tell you that my crop of seniors doesn't see themselves that way.

        One of my parents' friends is a woman in her nineties, has bionic hips and knees, and still bowls (and often dominates) a weekly league.

        I know a lot of folks in their 70s and 80s who still hold down jobs because they don't want to be bored. The "rocking chair in the sun" isn't cutting it anymore.

        Natasha, pick the seniors you want to serve. If healthcare is your thing, look at ways you can help folks with medical challenges stay in their own homes as long as possible. Or target the adult children of seniors with failing health, offering information and referrals to support groups and services. If you set it up as a non-profit, you may even be able to monetize the business with government and community grants.
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        • Profile picture of the author rrm
          Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

          Natasha, pick the seniors you want to serve. If healthcare is your thing, look at ways you can help folks with medical challenges stay in their own homes as long as possible. Or target the adult children of seniors with failing health, offering information and referrals to support groups and services.
          Right on the money. Think outside the box. Home care agencies, per se, are a dime a dozen. Not to say that they don't have their place or that you shouldn't enter that arena. But be different and better.

          Thanks to an aging population and the growing emphasis on staying at home as long as possible, adult chidren are looking for ways to minimize costs and maximize care for their parents and grandparents. Think about problems that affect seniors. If you have not done so, pay close attention to this thread:

          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ey-online.html

          Note especially this quote from Willie:

          You find a group of people with a very painful problem
          that they are willing to pay to solve and you step in
          front of them and prove to them that you have the solution.

          Ideally, you step in front of them where the pain is most
          accute for them, and they feel like they MUST have that
          solution NOW.

          You are looking to step in front of them when they are in
          that stage of the buying cycle where they've largely passed
          the research stage, and now just want to resolve things.

          There are a lot of painful problems (physical, emotional, etc.) in the senior set that you can tap into.

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    • Profile picture of the author NewParadigm
      Originally Posted by Fantastic View Post

      My girlfriend is a LPN at a local nursing home.

      With that being said, I go up there on the weekends and hang out with a few of the patients I like (she works in the Psych unit).

      Find a product that you can accept insurance payments for and sell it?

      Scooters, walkers, diabetes supplies, etc.

      Other than that, I really don't know.

      do you are anyone know how the insurance payment works for those type items? Is it a reimbursement? How do you get approved? etc...

      thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author eflo
    Open a service that helps seniors save money when filing taxes. They're an under served region in the tax industry. They qualify for a lot of medical expenditures, senior only credits etc, and many of them don't get to use all of their credits.

    You can save someone tens of thousands of dollars and charge a nice fee to do so.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrgoe
    Originally Posted by Natasha2003 View Post

    Any ideas would be great pleasure. I'm trying to avoid opening a senior home care agency but I'm open to all ideas :-)
    My background is sales, medical and basic internet marketing (Usp, call to action)
    Build guides. Old people like to read, they like guides that help them, it`s a win win
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    Worked as a senior editor on ThePricer.org, experienced in financial topics
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  • Profile picture of the author Natasha2003
    Brilliant ideas everyone!
    I recently called an assisted living to see she was interested in a referral marketing and she was. So would a local family caregiver website filled with resources toward the adult families and tie that with a referral program?? Healthcare is all I know.
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