Start Making Plans for NASMM 2025 — October 16-19 in Dallas, TX
Plans for NASMM 2025 are underway! We're excited to bring our 2025 Conference & Expo to the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, TX! The room rate is $235 single or double occupancy.

NASMM will start accepting proposals for Learning Labs right after the holidays, so start brainstorming!

NASMM Navigator is Now Available!

• How do you guarantee a smooth and satisfactory experience for your moving clients without a playbook to guide your team through every step of the move?
• How can you ensure consistent service quality across all your operations without a standardized guide?
• How do you effectively onboard and train new staff without a comprehensive resource to reference?
• What steps have you taken to minimize errors, oversights, or potential legal issues during the relocation process?
• How can you efficiently scale your business if there's no documented process for replicating success in new locations or with increased clientele?

An operations manual addresses each of these concerns by providing a standardized framework for conducting business, ensuring consistent service quality, facilitating staff training, mitigating risks, enabling scalability, and ultimately enhancing client satisfaction. Introducing NASMM Navigator!

To purchase NASMM Navigator, click here!

Won't You Be Our Neighbor? NASMM Launches Revamped NASMM Neighborhoods — Regional Virtual Networking!
We have reached our goal of offering NASMM Neighborhoods in all of North America.

• New England Neighborhood (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT)
• Midwest Neighborhood (OH, MI, IN, WI, IL, KY, TN)
• Middle Atlantic Neighborhood (NY, PA, NJ, MD, DC, DE, WV, VA)
• South Atlantic Neighborhood (NC, SC, GA, FL, MS, AL)
• West North Central Neighborhood (MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, NE, KS)
• Pacific Neighborhood (AK, HI, WA, OR, CA)
• West South Central Neighborhood (OK, AR, LA, TX)
• Mountain (MT, ID, WY, UT, NV, CO, AZ, NM)
• Canadian Neighborhood (ON, QC, NB, NS, SJ, AB, BC)

We encourage you and/or your team to participate in your regional neighborhood. You'll learn about new programs, best practices, innovative tools, and meet other NASMM members from around your region and more! Please watch for communication from your Coordinators.

Check the NASMM Neighborhood page under the Connect section in MyNASMM for information on your Neighborhood Coordinator and upcoming meetings!

A huge thank you goes out to our National NASMM Neighborhood Coordinator, Suzanne Ellerbrock, NASMM Board Member and Owner of Golden Bridges in Quincy, IL for leading this charge. It's no small effort to manage 1000+ busy business owners. NASMM Neighborhoods will also have a booth at NASMM 2024 where you can stop by and learn more!

You're Invited! Webinar: "Don't Fear the Reader: Practical Advice for Writing at Work" sponsored by MaxSold

Are you ready to transform the way you write at work? Whether it's a social media post or an employee manual, effective writing is essential for communicating with employees and clients.

Join us for an engaging webinar with downsizing expert and professional writer Anna Novak, designed to help you master practical writing techniques for the workplace.

Date: October 30th 2024
Time: 6:00 PM EST
Zoom: Register HERE

1.0 CE will be awarded for participation.

• How to Tackle Writing Projects at Work: You'll practice a simple writing formula that can be applied to any audience and purpose.
• Tailor your Writing to Get the Results You Want: Apply the writing formula across different business needs—internal communications, customer service, and marketing.
• Save Time and Effort with a Content Library: Build a messaging inventory you can consult and reuse for training, newsletters, emails, and social media.

The Boomer Stuff Avalanche
Every time Dale Sperling's mother pops by for her weekly visit, she brings with her a possession she wants to pass on. To Sperling, the drop-offs make it feel as if her mom is "dumping her house into my house." The most recent offload attempt was a collection of silver platters, which Sperling declined.
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Watch here on CBS Mornings Plus!

Add 'I'm Getting a Little Older' to the Challenges of Apartment Hunting
Older adults are less likely to move than younger ones, a 2022 Census Bureau report showed. About 6 percent of those over age 65 moved each year from 2015 to 2019, compared with about 15 percent of the younger population. Still, senior migration topped three million people a year.
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Are You Ready for 'The Next Big Thing in Aging?'
Senior living providers preparing for a "silver wave" of potential residents have had their sights set on the Baby Boom generation for quite some time. At 78 years old, the oldest boomers have moved into the age range during which adults typically make the move to senior living, if they move — 75 to 84, with the average age of senior living residents being about 84, according to the American Seniors Housing Association's consumer site, Where You Live Matters.
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Dropping the 'Senior' in Senior Center: Beyond Bingo, There's Speed Dating and Travel
Ask many of today's 60-, 70-, or even 80-somethings if they go to a senior center and they'll probably grimace at the staid reputation of that institution of American old age — people silently watching TV, shuffling cards, picking up a mushy-looking meal, or minding their bingo chips.
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In Retirement, There's Finally Time to Cherish the Past
A trip to a childhood home. Boxes of old letters. A storage room filled with artifacts from long ago. The memories they evoke have never felt so dear.
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NASMM 2024 Conference: State of the Association Address — September 29, 2024
Watch here!

The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) is the leading membership organization for Senior Move
Managers in the United States, Canada and abroad. NASMM is recognized for its innovative programs and expertise
related to Senior Move Management, transition and relocation issues affecting older adults.

NASMM
PO Box 209, Hinsdale, IL 60522
Phone: 877.606.2766
www.nasmm.org