For many older adults and their loved ones, the idea of engaging the services of an in-home care provider is intimidating, if not overwhelming. With the fierce competition in the industry, it’s crucial to ensure your care agency’s website is as user-friendly, assuring, clear, and concise as possible. Often, home care agency owners settle on the fastest and least expensive … Read More
Can AI Be Used to Create Care Marketing Content?
AI has arrived, unpacked its bags, and moved right in. With programs like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Copy.AI, this new technology is swiftly on its way to becoming a regular part of our daily lives, impacting everything from high school students’ essays to the care industry. However, it’s been somewhat of a rocky start for AI in content marketing. As with … Read More
How Keyword Mapping Helps Attract Qualified Home Care Leads
In the care industry, getting your company’s name in front of the people who need your services has always been the main marketing goal and challenge. The best way to reach qualified leads online is through a robust SEO plan that includes keyword mapping. Keyword mapping helps agencies better position their care websites to rank well in searches. But what … Read More
8 Tax Deductions Home Care Agency Owners Often Miss
You know all too well that it takes money to make money. Running a home care agency is no exception. Fortunately, there are several tax deductions that can help you save money on your tax bill. Unfortunately, many home care agency owners miss out on some of these deductions simply because they aren’t aware of them. Let’s talk about eight … Read More
Visiting Home Care Referral Partners in Person: Top Tools for Sales Success
It seems like just yesterday that we were all shuttered away by the COVID pandemic. Virtual meetings and phone calls were the only way to maintain referral partner relationships. Home care companies were too busy fighting fires to nurture new referral sources. Fast forward to 2024, and the pandemic is, for the most part, behind us. In-person networking should once … Read More
The Best Social Channels for Home Care Marketing
Social media is a powerful marketing tool. Whether you’re recruiting caregivers or attracting new customers, there are multiple social media platforms that can help you reach the right audiences. The ways that companies market on social media vary depending on the audiences they’re trying to reach. Many mainstream brands have such a wide audience that the marketing possibilities are endless … Read More
Why Warm Messaging Matters in Home Care Marketing
In the heart of winter, most of us long for warmth. We cozy up with blankets, don fuzzy sweaters, or snuggle by a fire. These things make us feel comfortable during what can be a harsh time of year. Those seeking care for a senior loved one are going through a similarly tough period. Most have struggled to provide care … Read More
How Can You Overcome Objections to the Price of Home Care?
When potential clients call looking for home care services, cost is often a key factor in their decision-making process. Consumers want to know that they’re getting the best value for their purchases, and a quality service or product can help them overlook a higher price. How do we overcome the price objection? It’s crucial for your home care agency to … Read More
How to Tell if Your Agency Truly Values Caregivers
Guest blog by Connor Kunz of Careswitch Who’s the best leader you’ve worked for? One of the best CEOs I’ve ever worked for was Erik Madsen, CEO of Home Care Pulse from 2018-2021. We’ve both since moved on to other endeavors (me to Careswitch and him to local church service and entrepreneurship), but I learned a lot from him. He … Read More
Set the Table for Improved Caregiver Recruitment and Retention
Much of home care marketing involves using content to showcase how your agency helps seniors and family caregivers in need of support at home. After all, targeting clients is essential for a growing business. Agencies should nurture and give thanks throughout the year for new leads and existing clients alike. However, as we think about being thankful this time of … Read More
Care Companies: If Asking for Online Reviews Frightens You, Read This!
Does asking for online reviews of your care company strike fear in your heart? Are you afraid you’ll be shocked by a negative review and not know how to respond? Online reviews don’t have to cause a fright. At corecubed, we’ve seen it all—the good, bad, and ugly of reviews—from consumers and caregivers alike. We’ve also helped hundreds of care … Read More
Want to Bring in Additional Private Duty Business? Do This!
In today’s highly competitive home care market, running a profitable home care agency requires multiple lines of business and revenue streams. Many successful home care company owners have found that they can achieve this by accepting long term care insurance (LTCI) and VA benefits. These two revenue streams come with more cost flexibility than other contractual streams of revenue. With … Read More
The #1 Overlooked Strategy to Drive a Steady Stream of Care Business
When hours are trending up, referrals are coming in at a higher rate than customer attrition, and revenue is steadily increasing, it’s tempting to coast on referral partner relationships. But is that sustainable long-term? Or is it possible that you could be just one review away from losing a stable referral source? One surefire way to mitigate risk and avoid … Read More
Three Big Mistakes Home Care Owners Make and How to Avoid Them
A while ago, I was browsing a home care Facebook group. Somebody asked the pros and cons of starting a home care agency. Everybody mentioned challenges like recruitment as cons, but one comment was particularly on the nose. “You will work all the time. Nonstop. 24/7/365,” one commenter responded. They’re only right in some cases, but they hit on a … Read More
Homecare Marketing Tips: Don’t Overlook These New Hire Retention Tools
Guest blog post by Sterling Miles of Caregiver Jobs San Diego You have put out a great job posting. Now the applications are rolling in. It appears as though your work is completed. But is it? Receiving a large number of applications from a job posting is excellent. There is an exciting possibility in knowing that there are many qualified … Read More
Listen and Learn: Benefits of Recording Your Inquiry Calls
“This call may be recorded for quality and training purposes.” It’s a line we’ve all heard when on hold with customer service. In fact, we’ve heard it so much that we may never have thought twice about what it actually means for a company. But recording inquiry calls can reveal a wealth of valuable information. Is your company listening in … Read More
How to Communicate Your Agency’s Brand Message
Your brand messaging defines your home care company. It gives consumers a gut feeling about what your company believes in and stands for. It is the specific values and benefits that your company promises that causes consumers and job seekers align with your company instead of the competition. It’s critical to do the hard work of developing your brand messaging, … Read More
corecubed Wins 9 Aster Awards for Excellence in Healthcare Advertising
For the past 20 years, the Aster Awards have been recognizing the country’s leading marketing professionals for outstanding excellence in healthcare advertising. We are delighted to announce our achievement of earning nine of these coveted awards in 2022 for our clients: Abrio Home Care’s Website: Gold Award Abrio Home Care’s Logo: Gold Award At Home Independent Living’s Brochure: Bronze Award … Read More
Create a Home Care Website that Generates More Calls
Whether you’re in need of your first-ever home care website or your existing one needs to be retired, these strategies will help you achieve your ultimate goal: attract new clients and caregivers and encourage them to start a conversation with your home care company. Visually Appeal to Your Ideal Customers Visual appeal is crucial. Research shows that you have just … Read More
Grow Your Senior Care Agency With Facebook
The quantity of social media platforms today can feel overwhelming, particularly to small businesses. There is a seemingly constant guessing game of which platforms your business should be on and how to best use them to grow your senior care agency. To be successful in social media marketing, however, you don’t need to be doing everything everywhere all at once. … Read More
3 Competitive Home Health Care Sales and Marketing Trends You Can’t Afford to Miss
Home care agencies all around North America have revamped their sales and marketing strategies to fit the post-pandemic home care landscape—are you behind? Be the first to know about the latest 2022 trends. Home care agencies are doing better than they have been for the last 4 years. Agencies experienced a 7.3% client increase on average last year, surpassing the … Read More
Translating SEO Terminology for Home Care Digital Marketing
According to industry data source Home Care Pulse, if your home care company has experienced growth, you are already using a combination of strong search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) tactics as part of your overall home care digital marketing strategy. Your digital marketing provider shares detailed reports with you monthly. The metrics seem meaningful. But can you easily … Read More
Weed Out Inquiry Management Problems and Watch Your Home Care Sales Grow
With spring just around the bend, our thoughts are turning to growth. Flower beds bursting with color. Gardens filled with sprouts. All things that seem so natural, but require time and effort on the part of the gardener. Much like gardeners, home care agency owners and operators sow a lot of time and effort into marketing and home care sales … Read More
How to Get Consumers and Caregivers to Choose YOUR Home Care Company
Do you remember the first time you fell in love – how your heart fluttered at the realization that you had perhaps found THE one? Wouldn’t it be great if you could emulate that level of response from your website visitors? As corny as it may sound, capturing the attention of your target audiences and maintaining their interest in what … Read More
How to Write Caregiver Job Ads That Bring in More Applicants
There is not a home care agency in the country that isn’t feeling the current employment crisis. The hyper competitive caregiver job market means agencies are spending more time and resources to recruit and hire caregivers to meet client demand. So, how do you make sure that the time, effort and money you spend, in particular on caregiver job ads, … Read More