Home Care Marketing & Sales Mastery by Approved Senior Network®

Send us Fan Mail You did the assessment. The family liked you. Everyone seemed interested. Then you left without a signed agreement. And now they're “thinking about it.” In the newest episode of Home Care Marketing Unfiltered , Dawn, Annette, and Lisa tackle a big question: Why don't more home care assessments turn into clients? One of the biggest issues they see? The person conducting t...

Send us Fan Mail Some weeks in the field feel brutal. You’re doing all the right things, making your stops, trying to connect with referral sources, and it’s like you’re invisible. That silence can mess with your confidence fast, especially in referral-based sales where it feels personal when nobody calls back. We get honest about what those slumps look like in home care marketing and healthcare s...

Send us Fan Mail “We decided to go with another agency.” That one stings—especially when you thought the assessment went well. But before you decide it was all about price, ask. And before you disappear, ask whether you can check in again. In this episode of Home Care Marketing Unfiltered , Dawn, Lisa, and Annette discuss what to do after a family chooses another provider: get useful feedback, und...

Send us Fan Mail A referral source stops us in the hallway and drops the sentence every home care agency dreads: “We found your overnight caregiver sleeping.” That one moment can cost trust, referrals, and more importantly, put a vulnerable senior at risk. Dawn and Lisa break down what to say on the spot, how to stay calm, and how to lead with integrity when a quality issue hits inside assisted li...

Send us Fan Mail You can feel it when someone has actually built a home care agency the hard way and kept it growing for years. Mark Dermont, a seasoned Touching Hearts franchise owner in New York, joins us for a candid look at what happens behind the scenes: the first-year stress of no paycheck, the “always on” on-call phone, and the unglamorous work of learning elder care and earning trust one r...

Send us Fan Mail The biggest reason families choose a home care agency isn’t your website, your rankings, or your ad budget. It’s whether a real, competent human answers the phone when their world is falling apart. We dig into what it feels like on the other end of that call: an adult child leaving the hospital, being told their parent needs 24-hour care, and dialing down a list of providers until...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to get more home care referrals is often the simplest: make it easy for referral sources to reach you. We talk about what happens when you move from phone tag to a real texting relationship with hospital case managers, social workers, and facility teams and why that tiny shift can put you in the “bestie zone” where you get contacted first when time is tight. We dig...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re doing all the “right” home care marketing moves but the phone is still quiet, there’s a good chance you’re not failing at effort, you’re failing at being memorable. We get real about why referral sources stop responding when all we bring is another brochure, and how to shift from repetitive drop-offs to purposeful visits that actually build trust with discharge planners,...

Send us Fan Mail They tell you the truth in the first five seconds: “We already have a home care agency.” If you’ve ever heard that from a skilled nursing facility, hospital discharge planner, or assisted living community and felt the door slam, we’ve been there. We unpack why that objection happens, why it rarely means “never,” and how we keep showing up without looking desperate or generic. The...

Send us Fan Mail 👀 Does your home care agency suddenly need an “AI website”? Probably not. AI search is changing FAST. But there is also an enormous amount of noise right now. GEO. AEO. AI SEO. LLM.txt. AI-built websites. “Guaranteed” ChatGPT rankings. Home care owners are going to be sold a LOT of things over the next year. So we opened this week's Approved Senior Network Home Care Marketin...

Send us Fan Mail One bad caregiver hire doesn’t just create a scheduling headache, it can break family trust, put a client at risk, and damage your home care agency’s reputation in a single shift. We walk through a practical, field-tested approach to caregiver hiring, selection, and training that aims for something bigger than “coverage”: dependable, compassionate people who make good decisions wh...

Send us Fan Mail Posted at https://homecaremarketingnews.com/handling-family-conflict-how-home-care-agencies-can-help-families-get-to-yes-faster/ Families don’t delay home care because they love waiting. They delay because everyone in the room is protecting something: a parent’s independence, a spouse’s pride, a sibling’s wallet concerns, or their own fear of making the wrong call. We walk through...

Send us Fan Mail Google is starting to answer home care questions for families before they ever click a website, and that shift changes everything about how we market, write, and respond. We walk through what “practical AI” really looks like for a home care agency that still wants to lead with empathy, trust, and real human guidance, not a cold automated experience. We share how we’re using AI for...

Send us Fan Mail Your phone is your front door, and families decide whether to trust you fast. We talk about the moment a stressed adult child calls looking for help for mom or dad and how a rushed “hello” can quietly kill a referral that could have turned into months of care. When most home care leads come in by phone, phone answering is not reception work. It’s home care marketing, intake, and t...

Send us Fan Mail The first day of service is where home care agencies either earn trust or create doubt, and it happens faster than most teams expect. We break down what a great start of care actually looks like, using real field lessons from years in home care sales, operations, and private pay growth. If you’ve ever had a brand-new caregiver paired with a brand-new client and held your breath, t...

Send us Fan Mail Medicare is quietly rolling out something dementia families have begged for: ongoing support that doesn’t end when the appointment does. We sit down with Nancy Gillette, Chief Growth Officer at PocketRN, to explain the CMS GUIDE Model (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) in plain English, including what it pays for, how it’s delivered virtually by experienced RNs, and why it’...

Send us Fan Mail Families hear the word “hospice” and often assume it means 24/7 care. Then they call and cancel home care, only to realize too late that hospice visits are scheduled, not constant. We walk through the real hospice care model and the exact gaps that home care agencies are built to fill, especially overnight, on weekends, and during the long quiet hours when families are afraid to l...

Send us Fan Mail One uncovered shift can undo months of relationship-building with a client, their adult children, and your referral sources. We’ve seen it happen: a single call-off turns into lost billable hours, a stressed scheduling team, and a family that starts Googling other home care agencies. So we get specific about the fix, not the frustration, and we map out a staffing backup system des...

Send us Fan Mail Revenue down while your rates go up should make your stomach drop, because it almost never “fixes itself.” We walk through a real home care agency scenario where the owner assumed the website or Google Ads were the problem, but the data told a more uncomfortable truth: client census was shrinking, client hours were slipping, and the business was losing clients faster than it could...

Send us Fan Mail Families don’t always start with Google. A huge number start with a post to friends and neighbors: “Does anyone know a good home care agency for my mom?” That’s why we’re getting tactical about Facebook marketing for home care agencies and why a neglected business page can quietly cost you trust before you ever get a chance to earn the referral.  We walk through how Facebook actua...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most overlooked referral partners in home care marketing might surprise you. Elder law attorneys. These professionals talk to families when they are dealing with some of the hardest decisions: Mom fell.  Dad can’t live alone anymore.  The hospital is talking about discharge.  The family is worried about Medicaid or losing the house. And often the adult children have no...

Send us Fan Mail Want to be the agency a SNF social worker calls first? Start by seeing the world through their eyes. We unpack the real pressures behind every discharge—insurance clocks, readmission metrics, complex families—and lay out a playbook that turns home care from a sales pitch into a safety net. Our focus: reduce risk, protect reputations, and make hard days lighter. We break down the n...

Send us Fan Mail Growth stalls when great clients arrive and caregiver applications vanish. We tackle that crunch head-on with a practical, fast-moving playbook to recruit exceptional caregivers in a competitive market—and to keep them after day one. We start by naming the seasonal dip few talk about: tax refunds and school breaks reduce both applications and availability every spring. The fix is...

Send us Fan Mail Your LinkedIn profile is not social media.  It is your digital business card . In our January 28, 2026 GoCarePro™ Mastermind , we broke down why LinkedIn quietly influences home care referrals long before a phone call ever happens  GCP Mastermind January 28, 2026 Here’s the reality for home care sales and marketing professionals: Referral partners look you up  Discharge planners,...

Send us Fan Mail Most home care agencies are not underperforming because they lack effort.  They are underperforming because they lack benchmarks . In our January 14, 2026 GoCarePro™ Mastermind , we walked through what actually separates average agencies from exceptional ones and it is not hustle or luck  _GCP Mastermind January 14, 2026 It is measurement, systems, and consistency. This session fo...