April 21, 2025
In this Senior Living Minute, Michelle Curnow explains how deeper collaboration between sales and marketing has reduced junk leads and increased quality connections. By shifting focus away from paid aggregators and investing in digital marketing, her team is now delivering emotionally and financially qualified leads that are ready for discovery and ready to move.
Learn how sales-marketing alignment leads to fewer leads but better results.
You always hear sales teams say, ‘We need more leads.’
But through collaboration with marketing and branding, we’ve changed where we’re getting our leads from.
We’ve moved away from paid lead aggregators and focused our time and energy on digital marketing. That shift came from better collaboration—really looking at where leads are coming from and what’s working.
Now we have fewer leads, but they’re far more qualified. They’re not just financially ready—they’re emotionally and mentally ready, and they’ve already been sales- or marketing-qualified for follow-up.
This shift is directly tied to deeper collaboration between sales and marketing.