About Us

MISSION STATEMENT OF SSGC

The SSGC is a group of professional dedicated to serving the needs of seniors and their families in order:

To provide competent services to our clients.

To respect the privacy of our clients.
To serve our clients with the highest degree of professionalism, integrity, impartiality, objectivity and ethical behavior.

To perform professional services in a fair and reasonable manner.

To provide services with honesty and trust.

To act with timeliness and consistency.

VISION:

To become the respected resource for senior solutions in the Chicagoland area.  Professionals and consumers will think of The Senior Solutions Group of Chicagoland first when addressing the needs of older adults.

 
MEMBERSHIP COVENANT OF SSGC

To accept and support the SSGC Mission Statement and Goals.

To maintain an ethical and competent personal and business practice consistent with the SSGC mission and goals.

To commit to attending meetings, since this is critical to the success of the group and demonstrates a commitment to the concept and the group. Missed meetings interfere with mutual trust building and the process of developing ongoing credibility to each other.

To abide by the decisions reached at the meetings of the SSGC.

To work together to solve problems for seniors by actively involving SSGC members with expertise in the client’s problem area.

To participate in promoting the SSGC to the senior community at large and each member’s referral sources by sharing the cost of SSGC promotions.

To contribute regularly and often to the referral source database by adding those people who are your best business referral sources to the SSGC mailing list.

To participate in the recruitment of new members to the SSGC. As the number of members grows, the number of referral sources grows exponentially to the benefit of each member.

To share experiences and professional information at meetings to help members understand your business and to build mutual trust. Each experience or informational piece acts as a learning opportunity for members to learn more about seniors and create stronger relationships among SSGC members.

GOALS OF SSGC

To be an ethical, competent source of solutions for senior needs.
To develop a reputation in the senior community and among a large group of referral sources as being known for our capabilities.
To develop trust within the group so that each member will provide ethical and competent services.

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Referral Source. The group provides a primary source for referrals to one another’s services.

Marketing Events. It is less expensive for each member to mount marketing events/campaigns when the cost is shared by a group, for example, at senior shows sponsored by various senior oriented marketing groups.

Marketing Presentations. Sharing marketing ideas with a group of people seeking to penetrate our market as a group, that is, our efforts jointly benefit all or most of our members, for example, presentations to seniors sponsored by libraries, senior centers, area agencies on aging, etc. These presentations by the group to many people at one time are a major reason for being part of the group. Each member of the group is responsible for obtaining events for the group.

Education. These allow members to share information about each one’s businesses and other senior related activities that we may or may not be aware of. Information sharing is important for our professional growth and possibly expanding our individual marketing efforts. For example, at each meeting time is scheduled for a featured member to provide an extended presentation whereby we discuss the best ways that all members can provide referrals to that person’s business. This helps us understand the approach and value of each one’s business as well as serving the needs of seniors.

Energizing Support. The monthly meeting can put a little more pep into each member’s marketing efforts. Marketing is a challenging and draining effort of our personal resources. Having a support group helps propel each one of us forward.

Face Time. While the purpose of the group is not just to generate leads for each member’s business, attendance and hearing about each other’s businesses at the monthly meetings helps each member keep other members’ businesses in mind for referrals. Face-to-face meetings can do this better than just a phone call, e-mail, advertising, or other of our marketing efforts. This is not to discount those efforts, but to say that the monthly meeting is an additional way, in a multi-pronged marketing effort, that all of the members pursue with our limited resources of time, money, marketing activities, etc.

Joint Responsibility. The monthly meeting becomes a means to hold each member accountable for the success of the group. There is strength and power in numbers whereby synergy enables members to go beyond their individual efforts that each continues to engage in for marketing our individual businesses.

Diversity Contributions. Each member has an opportunity to contribute the gift that each member is in ways similar and different from one another. This diversity of people, businesses, and member marketing suggestions is also a benefit of membership.

2010 Officers:

Anne Marie Davidson - President

Michael Doepke - Vice President/Membership Chair

Susan Kuczera - Immediate Past President

Jack Bartz - Treasurer

Elise Dixon - Secretary

The Senior Solutions Group of Chicagoland

info@seniorsolutionschicago.com