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What a family reads before touring includes your worst Google review.

Reputation management for senior living and home care is watching what families, relatives and your own aides say in public, alongside the inspection findings anyone can look up. GullySales monitors the mentions, drafts replies that disclose nothing about a resident, and asks for reviews at moments families are willing.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What reputation management means

Reputation management is watching what is said about your business across Google, social media and review sites, and responding to it before it changes a buyer's mind. GullySales monitors mentions, drafts responses to negative reviews and flags recurring complaints back to your team.

Also for senior living and home care agencies

Sales and marketing for senior living and home care agencies, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For senior living and home care agencies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “A reply can breach the privacy it is defending”

    A relative posts about a fall. Confirming that the person lived at your community is itself a disclosure, so the reply says nothing about them at all.

  • “Your caregiver reviews are read by families too”

    A daughter who finds complaints about unpaid mileage and shifts changed at midnight assumes the aide sent to her father will be unhappy as well.

  • “Survey findings are public and nobody prepares for them”

    A complaint left on Google Maps or JustDial stays online and gets repeated by the directories. Families read it with no context at all unless you have answered it.

What we do

What we deliver for senior living and home care agencies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Alerts on the community, the agency and the administrator

    Watches on search, Google Business Profile, JustDial, Practo and the employment review sites, so a post reaches you before it reaches somebody already booked for a tour.

    Result: Nothing is read to you for the first time by a visitor.

  2. Replies written to disclose nothing

    A standard shape for answering a relative's complaint that thanks them, offers a private call, and confirms no detail about anyone's care.

    Result: The reply does not become the second problem.

  3. Your own account of an inspection finding

    A plain page saying what was complained about, what changed and when, ready for the family who searched your name and met the complaint first.

    Result: A citation is read alongside your answer to it.

  4. Review requests timed to moments families feel

    After a respite stay ends well, after a care conference, at a first anniversary, with written permission recorded before any name or photograph is used.

    Result: Recent reviews from real families sit at the top.

  5. Aide reviews answered, and current staff asked

    Responses to former caregivers writing about pay and scheduling, and a routine for asking the aides who stayed to write theirs while they are content.

    Result: One bitter account is no longer the whole page.

  6. What came up this month, and what keeps coming up

    Every mention found, what was replied, and the complaints that repeat, such as call-out cover or a missed visit, set against the baseline recorded when work starts.

    Result: A repeating complaint becomes an operations item.

How the result is measured

  • Average rating
  • Response time to reviews
  • Negative mentions resolved

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What to do with each review

How to answer each kind of review a senior living or home care provider gets.

Praise from a family
Thank the family and the care team in general words. Say nothing about the resident's care or health. Ask in a separate message whether you may quote the review.
Fall or injury complaint
Do not discuss the case in public. Say that safety matters to you and invite the family to speak to the administrator. Follow your own incident report process the same day.
Call bell, staffing or changing aides
Reply in general terms and invite a call. Do not quote staffing numbers. Check shift handover notes, because this review often comes from a family that met a different aide each visit.
Fee increase or fee complaint
Point to the signed agreement and offer a meeting. Check that fees and what is not included were explained at admission, and that families get notice of a change in writing.
Food, activities or cleanliness
Acknowledge it and say what you will ask the residents' group about. Check the menu feedback and the housekeeping sheet before replying, not after.
Review that reveals a resident's health
Do not repeat or confirm anything in your reply. Say you cannot discuss residents in public and invite a call. Report it through the platform if it breaks the platform's rules.

Who it is for

This is written for these senior living and home care agencies.

  • Old age homes and senior citizen homes with residential rooms
  • Dementia and Alzheimer's care homes, and homes with a dedicated memory wing
  • Senior living apartments and retirement communities
  • Home nursing and attendant agencies that send staff to a family's house
  • Home health care services that arrange nurses, physiotherapy and equipment at home
  • Franchise home care branches marketing in their own neighbourhood
  • Small care homes run from a converted house or a floor of a building
  • Day care centres for seniors, and short-stay or respite rooms
  • Providers that run both a residential home and a home care service

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the reputation management work runs

  1. 1

    Understand current perception

    We start by actually searching your business name and reviewing what a stranger would currently see.

  2. 2

    Audit existing mentions

    We catalogue reviews, mentions and search results, flagging anything negative or inaccurate.

  3. 3

    Plan responses

    A calm, factual response is prepared for anything that needs one, agreed with you before posting.

  4. 4

    Implement monitoring

    Ongoing checks are set up so new mentions are caught promptly rather than discovered by accident.

  5. 5

    Measure and report

    Sentiment and response times are reported, with your business name searched again to see what has moved.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • One office, and we say so

    Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.

#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Can we reply to a review that names a resident?
Reply without confirming anything about the person. Even acknowledging in public that somebody received care can breach a family's privacy. We draft a short response offering a private conversation, and you approve it before it goes up.
How do we ask grieving families for a review?
Later, and only some of them. A family that lost a parent last week is the wrong ask. The routine asks at the end of a respite stay, after a care conference, or at the anniversary of a move-in, with permission recorded each time.
A family is complaining in a community Facebook group. Should we reply there?
Join only if the administrator can answer as a named person, kindly and briefly, and without any detail about a resident. Otherwise ask the family for a call and leave the thread. Never argue with the family in front of neighbours.
Should we invite a complaining family to a meeting before we reply publicly?
Yes. Reply on the review with one line saying you have reached out, and then call. A meeting with the administrator and the care lead often shows the real cause. Do not make the meeting a condition for anything.
Would your team be speaking to our families?
Only as far as you want. We can take the first call, record the situation and book the tour, then hand anything clinical or emotional to your own nurse or director. Or you keep every family conversation in-house and use us for the follow-up schedule, the referral records and the reporting. The line is drawn after our first conversation and written down.
How do you handle health details?
Access to any patient or resident detail is agreed in writing before work starts, and for this work we do not need it. Your profile, your pages and your enquiry records run on addresses, services and photographs, not on health records.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.

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