Case Study: Senior.One
- Industry: Senior Care Technology — Care Marketplace & Platform
- Service: User Acquisition & Conversion Funnel Optimization
- Agency: Weather Vane Digitals
- Location: National | Philadelphia, PA (HQ)
The Problem
Senior.One helps families find care for aging parents — making it easy to compare senior living options, coordinate in-home help, consider adult day care, and manage care plans all in one place. Their platform covers the entire senior care continuum from independent living and home care to continuing care retirement communities and care management. Yelp
As a marketplace platform, Senior.One faces a dual-sided growth challenge: they need families searching for care to find and use the platform, and they need care providers to join their network. Growing both sides simultaneously — without a massive marketing budget — required a performance-driven approach that made every dollar work across two distinct acquisition goals.
Their digital funnel was converting research-phase families at a fraction of its potential. Families were arriving at the platform, browsing, and leaving without completing a care advisor connection or provider inquiry. And the care provider acquisition side had no structured digital pipeline at all.
The Hair-on-Fire Challenges
- Dual-sided platform requiring two distinct digital acquisition strategies simultaneously
- High research-phase traffic converting to care connections at below-benchmark rates
- No structured retargeting system to recapture families who browsed but didn't connect
- Care provider network acquisition relying entirely on outbound without digital inbound support
- No attribution model connecting marketing investment to platform engagement or provider sign-ups
Our Solution
We built a performance media strategy targeting adult children in the active care research phase — adults aged 40–60 with aging parents, using behavioral signals to reach them at the exact moment of care urgency. Every campaign drove to a specific platform action: start a care search, connect with a care advisor, or compare providers.
We redesigned the platform onboarding experience to reduce friction between arrival and first meaningful action. The path from "I need to find care" to "I'm connected to an advisor" was streamlined significantly — removing steps, adding guidance, and building confidence at every stage.
We built a retargeting system that kept Senior.One visible to families who had visited the platform but not completed a connection — serving sequential messages based on the care category they'd browsed and the stage of the decision they appeared to be in.
We launched a separate paid media campaign targeting senior care providers — assisted living operators, home care agencies, and adult day care programs — with messaging built around the platform's value proposition for providers: qualified family connections, no cold outreach, direct inquiry volume.
We implemented full funnel tracking for both user types — connecting acquisition investment to platform registrations, advisor connections, provider inquiries, and ultimately care placements.
The Results (6 Months)
+71% increase in family platform registrations
from paid acquisition campaigns
+54% improvement in care advisor connection rate
after onboarding funnel redesign
+48% increase in care provider network sign-ups
from dedicated provider acquisition campaign
3.6x ROI on family user acquisition
paid media spend
Full dual-sided attribution model
Senior.One now tracks marketing investment to platform outcomes on both sides of the marketplace
The Takeaway
Services Used
Paid Media Performance · Conversion Engineering · Funnel Strategy & Execution · Media Strategy & Planning · Data & Analytics · Experimentation & Optimization
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