Serious About Growing Your Business? Register for NASMM 2020!
Get your groove on and register for NASMM 2020 — the conference for Serious Senior Move Managers! NASMM 2020 features nationally acclaimed Thought Leader presentations, 24 Learning Labs featuring cutting-edge topics, un-matched networking, and an exhibit hall featuring products and services essential for Senior Move Mangers.

Remember, you cannot access the NASMM Hotel Block at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel — the site of NASMM 2020 — until you register! Don't delay — hotel rooms are going fast!

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NASMM Now Accepting Proposals for IGNITE 2020!
Consider being part of an innovative and exciting learning format — NASMM 2020 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 2020 Ignite is taking place during NASMM 2020 on Sunday, March 8. Are you up for the challenge? Submissions are due by January 10, 2020. Questions? Contact Mary Kay at marykay@nasmm.org.

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NASMM Health Now Features Dental Coverage
NASMM is pleased to now offer comprehensive dental coverage through our NASMM Health Program. Regional Care, Inc. is a leading third-party administrator that is here to provide you with comprehensive dental coverage. Negotiated rates make the dental network Aetna Dental Administrators program, powered by the national Aetna Dental Access® network, very competitive. In most instances, savings range from 15-50 percent on services from general dentistry and cleanings to root canals and crowns.

Plan Guidelines:

• Dependents are eligible to remain on the dental plan until age 26, regardless of status.
• Preventative services are covered at no cost to the member and the deductible does not have to be met to utilize this benefit.
• Aetna's negotiated rates make our dental network program very competitive.
• The dental network includes all 50 states. Of the nearly 210,000 available dental practice locations, over 157,000 are general dentists and more than 51,000 are specialists.

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NASMM Holiday Hours
The NASMM office will be closed from Tuesday, December 24 until Thursday, January 2, 2020.                        

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Author Adam Minter remembers two periods of grief after his mother died in 2015: the intense sadness of her death, followed by the challenge of sorting through what he calls "the material legacy of her life."
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Here are the Presents that Grandma Really Want
As an organizer who assists seniors, Karen Peterson has sorted through many well-intentioned and never-used gifts: slippers and sweaters still in their gift boxes, jewelry with the price tags still attached, framed pictures and decorative items stowed in a closet for lack of shelf space.
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Silver Wave Will Affect Some Real Estate Markets More Than others as Older Adults Move to Senior Living, Analysis Suggests
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The Pricing Battle: Charging for Your Time or Charging for Results/Value
I've talked to a lot of groups and questions come up about pricing strategy. There seems to be a lot of confusion around making the choice of hourly charges or value-based pricing / results-based pricing.
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Why Your Marketing Isn't Resonating with Baby Boomers
Most marketers these days have realized the value in targeting Baby Boomer audiences. They are a massive market with the most spending power — accounting for more than 70% of the disposable income in the U.S. But this very lucrative segment is more than just another target audience.
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Tax Code 179 Vehicle Guide For Self-Employed & Business Owners
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Home is now the most common place of death in the US
For the first time in a least a half century, home has surpassed the hospital as the leading place to die in the United States. A new analysis of death data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that dying at home surpassed dying in the hospital beginning in 2017.
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