Median click-through rate in the US care-services category.
Assisted Living, Elder & Home Care Services. Clicks divided by ad impressions.
LocaliQ 2026 benchmarks ↗Paid advertising & lead generation
Help local families discover your care home, understand what you offer and take the next step. Thoughtful campaigns. Clear landing pages. Enquiries your team can follow up.
Over 10 years of demand generation experience, applied to the needs of care providers.
Illustrative care-sector photographyIllustrative campaign journey
Local campaigns shaped around your home
Advertising spend agreed separately
Your accounts. Your access.
Care-services search advertising / the data
Relevant advertising is measurable. These independent US care-services benchmarks offer context for the questions we ask about your campaigns.
Assisted Living, Elder & Home Care Services. Clicks divided by ad impressions.
LocaliQ 2026 benchmarks ↗A tracked conversion is not a verified admission. Conversion definitions vary by campaign.
See the source and methodology ↗Measure relevant visits, enquiries and cost per qualified enquiry. Add booked visits and admissions only when your team verifies them.
LocaliQ, updated January 2026: 3,542 US search campaigns, October 2024–September 2025; each reported subcategory had at least 43 campaigns. The report defines its averages as medians. These are US benchmarks, not UK targets, WaveBNB client results or guaranteed outcomes.
The right audience. The right approach.
A family searching for care needs a different message from a potential colleague. We choose channels around your goals, service area and budget, then give every campaign a clear job to do.
High-intent local search
Be visible when people search for relevant care services nearby. Carefully chosen keywords, locations and negative keywords help focus the campaign on useful intent.
Best suited to: reaching families already looking for information.
Awareness & discovery
Bring your home to life through approved photography, useful information and considered creative. Build local familiarity with a message that feels respectful and relevant.
Best suited to: introducing your home and sharing what makes it distinctive.
Professional audiences
Reach potential colleagues, professional contacts or partners where there is a clear commercial reason. Recruitment campaigns have their own audience, pages and measures.
Best suited to: a focused professional or recruitment objective.
A focused campaign can be the right starting point. We recommend the mix your budget can support, with a clear reason for each channel.
The whole enquiry journey
A relevant message reaches someone exploring care in your area.
Relevant audience & clear intentUseful information explains your services, setting and ways to get in touch.
An informed next stepA call or form starts a conversation. Your team reviews the request and follows up.
Enquiry quality & responseWhere appropriate, the family meets your team and explores the home.
Requested, booked & attendedYour team assesses suitability, needs and availability before confirming a place.
Staff-confirmed outcomeCampaigns support this journey. Care suitability, available places, staffing and timely follow-up also shape what happens. Visits and admissions are reported when your team supplies verified outcomes.
Map our enquiry journeyA message with a clear purpose
A focused search advert, a welcoming social creative or a helpful guide: the format follows the audience and the job the campaign needs to do.
Introduce your services and location. Give families a useful destination and a straightforward way to speak to your team.

Let approved photographs and a thoughtful message introduce the spaces, personality and welcome of your care home.

Offer useful information for families researching care, with clear next steps and any follow-up permissions handled appropriately.
Illustrative creative concepts and care-sector imagery, not live adverts or client results. Channels, creative quantities, landing pages and production costs are agreed in your quote.

Built around the people looking for care
Choosing care is personal. The experience after the advert should help people understand your home and feel comfortable starting a conversation.
Explain relevant care services, location and the next step with approved, accurate information.
Use appropriate photographs and clear copy that respect the people at the heart of care.
Give mobile visitors clear telephone and enquiry routes, connected to your agreed follow-up process.
Strategy. Delivery. Improvement.
We agree what needs to happen before launch and what continuing management will include. You can see the work, responsibilities and next steps from the start.
A focused campaign plan built around your home, audience and enquiry journey.
Practical management and measured improvements within your agreed programme.
New landing pages, photography, specialist creative and third-party software are scoped separately where needed.
Reporting you can use
Start with the advertising, then follow the enquiries and the outcomes your team can confirm. Each stage tells a different part of the story.
We agree what makes an enquiry qualified, review where follow-up is working and identify what deserves more attention. Attributable revenue and return measures are included when reliable financial and outcome data support them.
Explore website cost & valueDrawn from advertising accounts and agreed website tracking.
Reviewed using your agreed qualification criteria and team feedback.
Included where your team records and supplies reliable information.
A proposal shaped around your home
Your proposal sets out the channels, campaign count, setup work, ongoing management, reporting and any minimum term.
Advertising budget is separate from agency fees. Any additional production, tools or subscriptions are agreed before costs are incurred.
Your care organisation retains ownership and access to its advertising accounts, with appropriate permissions for our work.
Family-facing campaigns use suitable creative and privacy-conscious targeting. Resident records and diagnoses are not advertising audiences.
A straightforward start
A useful brief comes first. We review your current position, agree the work and check the complete enquiry route before a campaign goes live.
Discuss your care services, location, available capacity, goals and budget. Review your website and recommend a focused starting point.
Agree the proposal, prepare the campaigns and approved creative, and test landing pages, enquiry routes and appropriate tracking.
Monitor the agreed campaigns, gather feedback on enquiry quality and use regular reviews to guide practical improvements.
Before you invest
The right scope starts with understanding your home and what you want the advertising to achieve.
We recommend a starting budget after reviewing your service area, goals, competition and existing demand. A smaller budget may be best concentrated on one carefully selected channel. Your media budget and management costs are set out separately in the proposal.
Your written scope specifies setup, channels, campaign count, creative work, ongoing optimisation, reporting and any minimum term. Media spend is separate. New landing pages, specialist creative, tracking tools and software are agreed separately where needed.
We can review your existing website. A clear, useful landing page and a reliable enquiry route give campaigns a stronger destination. Where improvements would help, we explain them before launch. Website Express and Website Pro are separate, optional purchases.
We can include requested, booked and attended visits, staff-verified admissions and attributable revenue when your team supplies reliable records. We distinguish these from tracked enquiries and explain the attribution method and any missing data.
Results depend on local demand, competition, care suitability, available places, staffing and follow-up. We agree the work, monitor the evidence and make informed improvements. Enquiry volumes, admissions and occupancy are not guaranteed.
Yes, where it fits the agreed programme. Recruitment has its own audiences, messages, landing pages and measures. We keep it separate from family care enquiries and recommend appropriate channels, which may include LinkedIn or specialist platforms.
Your website first. Your growth next.
Tell us about your home, the enquiries you want to reach and your starting budget. We’ll help you define a sensible campaign scope.
A conversation first. Scope and costs agreed before launch.
Illustrative image credits: Age Cymru · Annie Spratt · CDC · Lucy Oryetso, via Unsplash. Images are examples, not a client portfolio.