marketing update

1. Manny went to Pennswood Village today and met with the physical therapist there. we are now on thier list.

2. He went to the BCCID. He will follow up tomorrow after faxing them a list of WC diagnosis.'

3. I put an ad for free wheelchair on craigs list.

4. Ron Brown has 2 possible wheelchair sales, he is getting the scripts tommorrow. He also has a place that is letting him post flyers and solicit in person. Manny is meeting him this Saturday to give him flyers, his 1099, and to get the info. for the 2 wheelchair sales.

Show at Ridge Crest Gardens

Manny did a wheelchair show/presentation at Ridge Crest Gardens. No sales from this one but all the flyers were given out.

sales rep

I put an ad on Craigs List for a sales rep.

Marketing update

1. newspaper ad in phila. Inquirer:

Ran one last week- only 2 calls, both HMO.
Ad is running in Monday March 26 paper in health/science section.

2. After making over 100 phone calls I booked the following:

1: wheelchair in service show with free coffee and doughnuts. Ridge Crest Gardens Assisted Living, Tuesday March 27th at 10:00am.

2: wheelchair In service to the Bucks County Council for Individuals with Disabilities, Thursday April 12th at 10:30am.

PENDING:

Another show at Lutheran Home for assited living. One pending for late April at Chandler Hall. One for September at another place. Working on setting up meetings with rehab. person at 2 facilities.

GOAL: sell a MINIMUM of 2 power wheelchairs per month. HOPING to sell 5-6 per month.

Even More Mail Hassles

I found out today that they did not put in the order to forward the mail under US Life Care, only under my actual name. (argggh!). The Bensalem post office is really messed up. I never had any issues with the old abington post office.

The woman on the phone told me I could do the forwarding on the internet on usps.com. not sure why no one told me this fact before?!!!?? They charge $1 to do a change of address/forwarding online, but after all the previous hassles I just wanted to get it done and forwarded already.

also, she said since it was in house (we are still in bensalem) she would have the mailman, Marty, send over my mail until its officially forwarded. why didn't they do this when I was there on January 12th!!!

OY VEY. I will be so happy to never have to deal with these bozos again in the Bensalem post office.

Hopefully by next week the mail starts showing up at the new office and I did not lose anything important.

Business cards update

went to pick up the 3 sets of cards. One set was messed up, the type set had missing spots. also, the bottom line with address had too small a font. the messed up set will be re-done for free, and i sent back my set, which technically was OK, but am having it re-done with the bottom line in a bigger size font. thye charged me $20 extra. I took Ron Brown's cards- we have to meet up with him to give them to him, and to have him do more wheelchair demo shows now that he has cards.

More leads to follow

We have a few leads for more electric wheelchair sales:

1. patient that we just delivered his chair-says his cousin wants a chair

2. Murray's aunt

3. another customer who called from an old ad but does not have medicare, so needs to switch

update: called pts wife and told her about our "finders fee." hopefully that motivates her to not only talk to the cousin but others as well. she said she would call if/when she gets thier info.

Murray's wifes aunt: wants scooter, not sure about ins.

Marketing wheelchairs: Bucks County

Manny and I decided that besides the sales reps, we would try to set up our own marketing demonstrations...I will make the calls to set it up, and he will do the in service.

I have a list of 40 assisted living places in Bucks County, so will start more aggressively calling and trying to set up some demonstrations.

We have a wheelchair that we can show, since the customer didn't want it, and then in a few weeks have a pending customer we will use it for, so no loss of revenue.