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Does Your Digital Design Scare Customers Away?

For many older adults and their loved ones, the thought of hiring a home care provider is a scary, but necessary, prospect. And with the heavy competition in the marketplace, it’s vital not to do anything that might further spook potential clients. This may sound like a no brainer, but many home care agencies don’t pay enough attention to, or … Read More

Fix It and Flip It: How Home Care Marketing Can Help You Sell Your Agency

Home improvement and house flipping shows like Property Brothers, Flip or Flop, and Fixer Upper are wildly popular as housing markets across the country climb and people dream of selling for a high profit. Just like the housing market, the home care industry is also hot, and many agency owners are hoping to sell their businesses to the highest bidder. … Read More

What the Fab Five Can Teach Us About Marketing Home Care

I’ll admit it; I’m a binge watcher. When I find a show I love on Netflix, I might as well just block out the next few hours of my life. My latest binge watch session, however, provided a good dose of inspiration into how agencies could be marketing home care services better. If you haven’t caught up on the two … Read More

How e-Newsletters Bolster Home Care Referrals

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Word travels fast, and in the current era of email, text, and social media, it travels faster than ever. That’s great news for home care providers, because word of mouth is still one of the best referral sources for agencies. As noted in Home Care Pulse’s 2018 Home Care Benchmarking Study, word-of-mouth referrals from past and current clients and their … Read More

Is Your Blog Attracting Home Care Leads?

Running a successful home care agency takes a lot of things – quality caregivers, a strong marketing and sales strategy, and, most importantly, clients. Getting clients, however, can be a struggle for many agencies, even as the need for care continues to soar. The key is to know how and where potential home care leads are searching for services and … Read More

Huh? How Home Care Industry Lingo Gets in the Way of Connecting with Consumers

Did you ever meet someone from another culture, try to communicate, and end up resorting to simply smiling politely and nodding? Our cultural differences can create insurmountable barriers, either from language and dialect alone, or even from some of the fascinating idioms each culture has accepted as normal, while others find baffling. For example, Russians may proclaim, “I’m not hanging … Read More

Creating a Data-Driven Home Care Marketing Strategy

Today it’s nearly impossible to do anything without first considering the data behind your decision. Take race car drivers, for example. Two big races – the Indy 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix – were held last month, and if you watched, you probably noticed a ton of data, both on your screen and being discussed by commentators. From brake … Read More

Assess the Quality of Your Home Care Marketing Content with This Quick Checklist

Let me ask you something: Are you content with your content? In other words, of the nearly 200,000 words in the English language, how satisfied are you with the ones you’re using to represent your agency – on your website, in your brochure, on the phone with inquirers? Are they crafted together in a compelling way that causes referral sources … Read More

Throw Family Caregivers a Lifeline: Use Life Hacks to Market Home Care

Hacking is a big buzzword today; we hear it everywhere, often in reference to computers. But hacking goes far beyond traditional computer hacking. In fact, it has made its way into our daily, non-digital, lives. As technology has made our lives faster and more efficient, many of us are seeking the same “hacks” or efficiencies in our day-to-day lives. Enter … Read More

Home Care Marketing Pet Peeves We Can’t Stay Quiet About Any Longer

Imagine, for a moment, that you are your business, personified. Now take a look in the mirror. What do you see? More importantly, what does your target audience see? At corecubed, we pride ourselves on helping in-home care agencies define the personality of their businesses through branding, and then project that brand to their intended market, to essentially say, “This is … Read More

Top Home Care Marketing Trends in 2017

Digital marketing isn’t just a trend these days; it’s THE way to get your business out in front of your audience. It’s also the way that people find the goods and services they want or need. But there are plenty of trends within digital marketing that tend to ebb and flow as technology and consumer habits evolve. This year, we … Read More