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Six weeks of silence after a tour is a follow-up problem, not a lost sale.

Email for senior living and home care carries the weeks between a tour and a decision, and keeps discharge desks and doctors in touch between visits. GullySales writes those sequences, keeps health details out of the inbox, and reports which messages brought somebody back.

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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 email marketing means

Email marketing is sending planned messages to a list of past and prospective customers who have agreed to hear from you. It suits offers, updates and staying in touch with someone who is not ready to buy yet. GullySales writes and schedules these emails and tracks who opens, clicks and enquires.

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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.

  • “The decision needs a brother in another city”

    One adult child tours and three siblings decide. An email that forwards cleanly, with the costs and the floor plan attached, does that work for you.

  • “A subject line can disclose more than you meant”

    Naming a diagnosis or a care level puts it on a phone screen at somebody's desk at work. Keep the line plain and keep it general.

  • “Referral partners go quiet between visits”

    A liaison cannot walk every unit every month. A short monthly note about what you can take this week keeps your name on the planner's list.

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. A post-tour sequence written to be forwarded

    Messages an adult child can send straight to a sibling, carrying the cost worksheet, the floor plan and respite as a smaller first step.

    Result: The brother who never visited still sees the numbers.

  2. A note for discharge desks and doctors

    What you have space for, what you are admitting this month, and one case you handled, short enough to read between discharges.

    Result: Your name arrives in the weeks nobody visits.

  3. Lists that keep families and partners apart

    Family enquiries, referral sources, relatives of past residents and caregiver applicants held separately, because one message suits none of them.

    Result: Nobody receives an email meant for somebody else.

  4. Nothing clinical anywhere in the inbox

    Subject lines and body text carrying no diagnosis, no care level and no resident name, with anything specific moved to a phone call.

    Result: The email would not embarrass anyone reading over a shoulder.

  5. Event invitations with the follow-up already written

    Support group and family education invitations, plus the note that goes afterwards to everyone who came and everyone who registered but did not.

    Result: An evening event produces calls instead of a photograph.

  6. Reporting on replies and tours, not opens

    Which sequence produced a reply, a tour or a start of care, measured against the baseline recorded when work starts.

    Result: The sequence nobody answers gets rewritten.

How the result is measured

  • Open rate
  • Click rate
  • Enquiries from email

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

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What must be in place first

What a senior living or home care provider needs in place before it emails a family or a referrer.

Permission from the person who enquired
The family member who called agreed to be contacted, not the resident. Record who gave permission, for which parent or relative, and by which channel, before any follow-up.
Nothing clinical in the mail
Never put a diagnosis, a medicine, a care need or a resident's name in an email subject or body. Keep health details to a phone call or a secure form.
Lists for families and for referrers kept apart
Families deciding on care and professionals who refer, such as hospital discharge desks and doctors, need different notes. Merge them and one group sees the other's message.
A sender with a name and a licence
Send from a named admissions lead, with your registration details where your area requires them and a street address. Families check who is writing before they trust a care provider.
A plain note that can be forwarded
A sibling abroad or a spouse will read it. Write the follow-up so it makes sense to someone who was not on the tour, with the next step named.
An easy opt-out and a note of the date
Honour requests at once. A family that chose another provider should not receive sequences, and a note of why is useful for your records.

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 have no record of permission from families who enquired, so a first email would go to people who did not agree
  • Nobody can write a mail that leaves out clinical details, and a subject line can reveal more than a family intended
  • Your lists of families and referrers are mixed, so one mail would reach people it was never meant for

How it works

How the email marketing work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Understand your list

    We review who is on the list, how they got there, what they agreed to, and how long since they last heard from you.

  2. 2

    Audit past sends

    We read past campaign reports, your sending domain settings and any spam complaints to see what has and has not worked.

  3. 3

    Segment and plan

    The list is split into groups and a sending calendar is agreed, with a rule for unsubscribes and quiet addresses.

  4. 4

    Write and set up

    Emails are written, checked and scheduled in your email tool. Welcome and nurture emails are set to send on a trigger where that fits.

  5. 5

    Measure and adjust

    We read clicks, replies, enquiries and complaints by segment, and change subject lines, timing and content to match.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Is it safe to email a family about their parent's care?
Use email for general information and move anything specific to a call or a private WhatsApp chat the family agrees to. You decide what may travel in an ordinary email. The sequences we write carry no health detail at all.
How often should we email a family who toured?
Every week or two for the first six weeks, then monthly, with something usable in each message. Stop the moment they ask. A family deciding about a parent forgives a useful email and remembers a pushy one for years.
Can we email a family a photo of their parent at an activity?
Only with the resident's own agreement, or their legal representative's where they cannot give it, and only when you have recorded it. Photos of residents are personal data. Send through a secure channel and never use them in a general mailer.
What should we put in the email after a tour?
Thank the family by name, repeat the room or service they liked, list the next steps and costs they asked for, and name one person to call. Keep health details out. Write it so a relative who missed the tour can understand it.
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.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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