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Senior living and home care agencies · Lead generation

Answer the Friday discharge call before the family rings the next number.

Lead generation for senior living and home care means catching the enquiry in the week a family stops coping, from a search, a directory or a discharge planner. GullySales makes sure somebody picks up, records the situation once, and tags where every enquiry came from.

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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 lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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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.

  • “Discharges cluster at the end of the week”

    Hospitals send people home on Thursday and Friday. The call lands as your office is closing, and by Monday the mother has gone somewhere else.

  • “A directory lead is already shared”

    Two competitors have the same family before you finish reading the email. Tag it the moment it arrives, or you will never know what the fee bought.

  • “The first call has to reach the payer question”

    The monthly budget and who in the family is paying decide what you can offer. Ask early and gently, or you tour a family you cannot serve.

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. An intake sheet for the first ninety seconds

    How much help is needed, who is deciding, how it is being paid for, which hospital or rehab unit is involved, and the date the family has to move.

    Result: Nobody has to ring back to ask what was already said.

  2. Friday afternoon given a written rota

    A named person on late calls at the end of the week, able to book a tour or an assessment without waiting for a manager to return.

    Result: The hardest enquiry of the week reaches a person.

  3. Every enquiry tagged at the door

    Directory, search, paid advertisement, walk-in, hospital referral or a family who toured two years ago, recorded before anything else happens.

    Result: Last month's enquiries stop being a matter of opinion.

  4. Referral sources logged by name and unit

    The discharge desk, the physiotherapist or the geriatrician behind each family, written against the enquiry rather than remembered.

    Result: You know whose relationship produced the move-in.

  5. A call plan for the weeks after a tour

    Who rings, in which week, and what they have to offer that the family did not already leave with, set down instead of left to memory.

    Result: Silence after a tour stops being the end of it.

  6. A count of enquiries and what became of them

    Enquiries by source, time to the first human conversation, tours and assessments held, and starts of care, all against the baseline recorded when work starts.

    Result: Occupancy is discussed with a number in front of you.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

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

Read the full demand and lead generation page

Where enquiries come from

Where a senior care enquiry comes from, and what to record the first time a family calls.

A hospital discharge planner or case manager
Record the planner's name, the unit, the discharge date and the level of care needed. Their calls come against a deadline, so note who on your side picked up and how long the reply took.
A directory or placement service
These enquiries are already shared with other providers. Tag the service on the first line, and ask the family on the call what they have seen and what they are comparing.
An adult child calling from another city
Write down who is calling, who the person needing care is, and who makes the decision and pays. Offer a video tour or a call when the family cannot visit.
Your website form or a Google search call
Log the page or listing it came from and the date. Ask only what you need to start, and keep health details out of open notes. Follow your own privacy rules.
A physician, geriatrician or hospital discharge desk
Note the professional, the practice and what was asked of you. A person who refers once and hears back with courtesy refers again, so record that you thanked them.
A past resident's family
A family you treated well is often asked by friends. Record the old resident's name and the new enquiry beside it, and keep the contact warm with a personal call, not a form letter.

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.

  • Nobody is named to take a discharge planner's call on a Friday, so more enquiries would only be answered on Monday
  • Your enquiries are not written down in one place, so a family who rang twice would be counted as two
  • You have not settled what the first caller is told about fees, so more callers would only meet the same refusal

How it works

How the lead generation 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 capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. 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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Should we keep buying leads from the big directories?
Keep buying until you can see what they return. Tag every one from the first month and follow it through to a move-in or a start of care. Then put the referral fee beside what your own site and your discharge planners produced.
Who should take the first call?
Whoever answers fastest, with the clinical part handed straight on. Many providers have the situation recorded and the tour booked by one person, then their nurse rings about care needs. Where that line sits is agreed after our first conversation and written down.
The same family arrived through two directories and our own site. How do we count it?
Count it once, with the first source as the origin and the others noted beside it. Tag the family when the first call is logged so the second call is matched, and then you can see which source had the family before anyone else.
A daughter is asking for a mother who has not agreed to move. Is that a lead?
It is an enquiry, not yet a prospect. Record both people, the reason for the call and who will decide. Offer a conversation with the parent present, and do not push a tour date until the person moving has been part of 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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