Objective

To maximise Porthaven’s online investment thereby increasing occupancy and improving online customer experience.

Background

Porthaven is a well-established and growing provider with 17 care homes located throughout England, providing residential, nursing and dementia care. Porthaven homes provide support for wide-ranging needs on a long or short-term basis. Their website plays an important part in providing information for prospective residents and their families looking for care.

As one of the top providers for care in the UK, Porthaven is always looking to adopt innovative solutions to improve their business.

Challenge

The company wanted to enhance the way they communicate with prospective residents and their families. They wanted to find a way to be more accessible to their prospects and at the same time provide outstanding, high quality, personalised support on their website in real-time.

Implementation

Chat 4 Business worked with Porthaven to understand their requirements and develop a solution customised to those requirements.

The solution included a tailored qualification process; customised paging to the Porthaven care team; and a follow up email sent at the close of every qualified sales lead.

The team at Chat 4 Business designed a chat widget, chat transcripts and follow up emails that are branded for each Porthaven care home, incorporating their logos and corporate colour scheme.

Results

Chat 4 Business’s fully managed sales chat provided a great solution for Porthaven. The chat offered the care homes a lead generation solution with an important empathetic, compassionate, and human touch. The follow up email ensures that every admission enquiry is immediately progressed.

Porthaven began using Chat 4 Business Connect back in April 2020 and in the first few hours received an enquiry that converted to an admission. Since then, the homes have received both resident and recruitment enquiries for all 17 of their care homes.

Chat 4 Business Connect is now an integral tool on the Porthaven website and adds another means of contact for prospective residents and their families who have need of immediate advice or assistance.