NASMM 2019 Early Bird Deadline is December 1! Save $100 — limited space remains!
There are many NASMM members who have made hotel reservations for NASMM 2019 but have not yet registered for the conference. Make sure you register now to save during Early Bird Rates! Not sure if you're registered? Email us at info@nasmm.org to check!

Set against the majestic shores of the Pacific Ocean, San Diego is home to NASMM 2019 -March 7-10 at the San Diego Hilton Resort & Spa on the Mission Bay Beach! From our Master Classes (featuring Teepa Snow,) our Learning Labs and powerhouse Speed Networking sessions to our jammed pack Expo and bonfires on the beach, NASMM 2019 is not to be missed.

The full list of Learning Labs is now available and this year's line up is better than ever! We don't disappoint! Click here to register and take advantage of Early Bird Registration Rates!

Overflow Rooms Added for NASMM 2019
Due to overwhelming need, NASMM has added an overflow hotel property to accommodate NASMM 2019 Attendees. You can now make a reservation at the Hampton Inn Mission Valley. This property is just seven minutes from the Hilton! The room rate is $149 single/double occupancy. You can make your reservation by calling 800-426-7866 and mentioning the "National Association of Senior Move Managers block" or code SM2 at the Hampton Inn San Diego Mission Valley. You can also book your room online by clicking here.

If you are currently holding a reservation at the San Diego Hilton Resort & Spa and are not planning to attend NASMM 2019, please release the room.

NASMM 2019 Speaker Spotlight — Katheryn Hunt!
Katheryn Hunt is a dynamic speaker and sales building enthusiast. Katheryn teaches business development strategies based upon over 20 years of sales management and field experience. She is equipped with a diverse business-building background including specializations in business start-ups, healthcare, long-term care, capital equipment, retail, service-based industries, and value-based selling. She has had the privilege of consulting and working with Senior Move Managers as well as many of their direct customers within long-term care communities. Katheryn's professional goal is to train and equip others in discovering the heart of their company, understand their customers and how to create active pathways for new growth.

Katherine will be presenting three (3) sessions at NASMM 2019!

• ACTIONS that Drive the Growth of Sales
• Create A 5-Star Website and Online Strategy
• Maximizing Online Reviews & Referrals

NASMM 2019 Speaker Spotlight — Krista Clive-Smith
Krista Clive-Smith is an internationally recognized expert in Personal Branding, Organizing, and Business innovation — inspiring high performance living. Named to the Top 40 Under 40 list of outstanding young business professionals, she is the author of the book "Get Noticed. Be Remembered: Creating a Personal Brand Strategy for Success." With a focus on creating business and life mastery, Krista gives her audiences simple strategies for creating a personal brand and shows them how to use that as an effective business model. Full of game-changing insights and innovative ideas, Krista's dynamic and authentic speaking style has been a hit with audiences around the globe.

Krista will present The Art + Science of Growing a High Performance Business. Get ready to revolutionize and grow your business! In a fun and interactive setting, learn how to transform your brand into more than just a logo and a website. Discover what it takes to build your brand into a tool that will help grow your business and attract ideal clients. Based on her experience with expanding her business, Krista describes how you can prepare for and implement growth strategies and asks, "What's the right size organizing business for my ideal life?" You'll walk away from this session with a set of tools and resources to truly help your business grow and you'll be empowered to create success for your brand — and your business — now.

NASMM Welcomes New Industry Partner — Junk King!
Junk King was founded from a garage in 2005 by two friends in San Carlos, CA. The idea was simple, offer great customer service and recycle more than the other guys.

Junk King is a nationwide recycling based junk removal and hauling service company. Our goal is to provide affordable junk removal services throughout the United States. Consumers and businesses turn to Junk King to receive the most professional and affordable junk removal services in the industry. Plus, we provide green solutions that people can feel good about. Today, Junk King is the #1 Rated Junk Removal Service in North America, with over 100 locally owned franchises in 32 states and Canada.We continue to do things the old-fashioned way, one customer at a time. We offer fair, up-front pricing, call you 15 - 30 minutes ahead of every job, and sweep up after ourselves.

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Ignite Presentation Submissions Due November 30!
Consider being part of an innovative and exciting learning format — NASMM 2019 Ignite — a showcase of five-minute talks that might be bold, possibly brash, maybe even brilliant — but never boring! It's the learning format that's fast, fun, and focused where each speaker gets 20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds, for 5 minutes total.

The international Ignite motto is "enlighten us, but make it quick!" Thus, Ignite is storytelling more than presenting. Given five minutes to speak with brief visual aides, what would you share with other SMMs? What would you most like to learn from your colleagues? Would you tell a humorous story? Teach a hack? Explain your passion for an unusual hobby?

NASMM 2019 Ignite is taking place during NASMM 2019 on Sunday, March 10. Are you up for the challenge? Submissions are due by Friday, November 30, 2018! Click here to submit your Ignite proposal.

What Media Content is Most Influential (or Meaningful?) to Boomers?
The media can tell you what to think about but not what to think.
That sentence paraphrases a famous mass media theory called "agenda setting" that was established in the late 1960s, and debunks an idea that media has a strong and powerful effect on audiences. I think this is an especially apt way to think about how media affects baby boomers. Consider the fact that they were becoming adults at a time when they realized authority — be it the Johnson and Nixon administrations, Madison Avenue or their parents — needed to be questioned. I like to think that boomers were the first generation of truly critical media consumers.
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Silver is the New Gold
If you've reached a certain age in life, you probably don't like to think of yourself as old. You've got a lot of company. People 50 and over are 40 percent of the U.S. population and growing. Advertisers are clueing in to the idea that silver can mean gold — if they get the message right. For decades, 59-year-old photographer David Harry Stewart has made a living taking pictures for glossy magazines and national brands. A few years back, he started to notice that the ad people commissioning his work were half his age. "What they're going to do is market to the people they know best. Themselves," Stewart said during a photo shoot at his loft in downtown Los Angeles. Stewart asked why he wasn't taking pictures of people who looked like him.
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Do Older Patients Want to Talk About Life Expectancy?
Family physicians care for patients of all ages, and many say it's that cradle-to-grave concept that draws them to the specialty. However, talking with patients about life expectancy can be difficult for even the most seasoned primary care physicians. This reluctance is seen even as clinical practice guidelines increasingly urge physicians to incorporate life expectancy into decisions about preventive care for older adults.
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When Excess Becomes Abundance
This table full of necklaces is amazing, isn't it? But the excess of it is a bit shocking. Sometimes a very large quantity of something, whatever that something is, is daunting and problematical to deal with. And sometimes that same excess can be seen as abundance, as plenty, as a bounty of riches. I was having difficulty seeing the upside of this huge quantity of jewelry. In our book and in our many blog posts, we suggest downsizing to rid ourselves of excess, to have fewer things, to streamline. We give this advice, as most people do, because we look at excess as a negative. And we stand by our recommendation to declutter because having too many things can get in the way of living our best lives. Yet there is abundance in excess.
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