Case Study: Spring Hills Senior Living
- Industry: Senior Living — Assisted Living, Memory Care, Enhanced Care
- Service: Multi-Community Lead Generation & Occupancy Marketing
- Agency: Weather Vane Digitals
- Location: New Jersey | Florida | Ohio | Virginia
The Problem
Spring Hills offers compassionate care and vibrant living across communities in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia — providing Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Enhanced Care including their premium Opulence Collection. Ethosource
Operating across four states and eight distinct communities — from Livingston and Morristown in New Jersey to Hunter’s Creek and Lake Mary in Florida — Spring Hills faced the challenge every multi-community senior living operator faces: how do you generate consistent move-in leads at the community level while building the brand at the portfolio level?
Each community had its own occupancy pressures, its own local competitive landscape, and its own ideal resident profile. A single national marketing strategy couldn’t address the specific needs of Middletown NJ and Mount Vernon OH at the same time. But eight separate marketing strategies were unsustainable.
Spring Hills needed a scalable system — one that drove community-level results without losing the portfolio brand.
The Hair-on-Fire Challenges
- Multi-community, multi-state presence with inconsistent local search visibility
- Families searching for assisted living in Livingston NJ or Lake Mary FL finding competitors first
- No unified digital lead generation system connecting brand awareness to community-level tour bookings
- Occupancy pressure varying significantly by community with no targeted response capability
- Move-in lead attribution unclear — no visibility into which marketing activities were filling rooms
Our Solution
Weather Vane built a scalable multi-community lead generation system — designed to drive community-specific occupancy results while reinforcing the Spring Hills brand across every market.
We built dedicated local SEO strategies for each Spring Hills community — optimizing Google Business Profiles, building location-specific landing pages, and targeting the exact search terms families use when searching for senior living in each community's market. "Assisted living Livingston NJ," "memory care Morristown," "senior living Lake Mary FL" — each community owned its local search territory.
We launched community-specific paid campaigns — targeting adult children within a defined geographic radius of each community with messaging built around that community's specific care offerings and lifestyle positioning. Budget was allocated dynamically based on each community's occupancy target and competitive pressure.
We built a complete digital pipeline from first search through community tour booking — including a lead nurture sequence that kept Spring Hills top of mind during the 60-to-90-day family decision cycle that senior living placement typically requires.
We developed creative assets that balanced portfolio brand consistency with community-specific lifestyle storytelling — giving each location its own voice while maintaining Spring Hills' premium positioning across all markets.
We implemented community-level conversion tracking — giving Spring Hills leadership a clear picture of lead volume, cost per tour, cost per move-in, and occupancy impact by community for the first time.
The Results (6 Months)
+58% increase in community tour bookings
across all locations from paid and organic channels
+63% increase in local organic search visibility
for community-specific search terms
3.4x ROI on paid media
across the full community portfolio
41% reduction in cost per qualified lead
after audience and creative optimization
Full community-level attribution model
Spring Hills leadership now tracks occupancy impact by marketing channel and by community
The Takeaway
Services Used
Paid Media Performance · Funnel Strategy & Execution · Performance Creative · Conversion Engineering· Data & Analytics · Website Performance & Optimization
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