Home Care Marketing Blog

A “perfect” email that’s sure to flop
When I was in journalism school, the students used to joke about the phrase our teacher used to criticize our poor writing. He would quip in a gravelly voice, “This story needs major surgery.” Well, I came across an example of just such an article. While looking on a...

How an email can trash your emotions
In a previous article, "A perfect email that's sure to flop," we talked about an email that appears at first glance to be well written but will fail as a sales tool. Here the explanation continues. In his 530-word email, an executive in the trucking industry has...
What is and isn’t copywriting
To many people the term copywriting has a very broad meaning: any kind of marketing writing. However, to those in the marketing professional, copywriting is content written for the purpose of selling an idea, product or service.Thus, copywriting clearly offers a call...

Dad’s Korean War “near miss” story
The earliest memory I have of typing is being perched on a fluffy pillow in front of a 24-lb Royal manual typewriter. The keys are hard to hit, and the pillow was to boost my ten-year-old frame up to the keyboard. It was my dad who insisted that all of us kids to...

People never read emails? – Baloney!
My numbers prove it You’ve heard it many times – no one reads emails any more. That’s a bold-faced lie. Or at least it’s misinformation. I’ll explain why. You hear about low open rates all the time. Mailchimp says that the open rate for emails across all industries is...

How we found 15 home care candidates in 13 days
We were asked by two home care agencies to find caregivers. We researched the agencies, their unique selling propositions, and began pulling together images. Below are two of the ads we ran on social media.Ad results: 15 candidates in 13 days Choosing Facebook as our...

Get the local news to spotlight your business
Wouldn't you like to get free local news coverage? Imagine prospects, clients and friends seeing your business highlighted in their area newspaper - whether online or in print. Your image in their eyes would be given quite a boost, I'm sure you agree. The way to do it...