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Care home leads for equipment suppliers

Build your own list of care homes, fill in missing emails and offer your tools, machines and professional equipment to them in small, personal batches.

  • Public sources for care homes
  • Fields that fit the industry
  • No credits, no rented data
Audience overview in Riftjaw with daily audience, new contacts and most engaged people

Selling tools, machines and professional equipment to care homes

Care homes provide residential and nursing care, run by independent owners, charities or larger groups. The registered manager handles daily operations and many suppliers, while bigger purchases in groups may go through head office.

Equipment suppliers find buyers through dealers, trade shows and field sales visits. A lead database of the businesses that use your kind of equipment gives you a structured way to reach them between visits and events.

The care homes that need tools, machines and professional equipment are listed publicly. What most equipment suppliers lack is a list they own, with the right fields, that shows who was already contacted.

What equipment suppliers run into with care homes

Trade show contacts end up in a pile of cards and separate files.

Import every list into one lead file with a key field that flags duplicates.

Different product lines suit different types of business.

Record business type and equipment interest as fields and save a filter for each product line.

Care home lists from registers and directories are large and overlap.

Import them into one lead file with a key field such as website, and Riftjaw flags duplicates before you publish.

The registered manager is the right person but changes often.

Keep the manager in a field with the source and date, and update it when you learn of a change.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of care homes from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

Import in Riftjaw: every column matched to a profile field, with all rows previewed
Columns from a maps export matched to profile fields such as company, phone, website and city.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, manager@, admin@ and enquiries@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Database in Riftjaw with active contacts, segment, lead file and source
The database in Riftjaw: concept, active and archived contacts, each with its lead file and source.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your tools, machines and professional equipment to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments such as property managers in London or roofers in the North, each ready to use in a campaign.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Campaign results in Riftjaw with sent, opened and clicked per contact
After a campaign, every contact shows whether the mail was delivered, opened and clicked.

What to say to care homes

Pick one angle per campaign and write it once, with placeholders like {company|your team} for the details.

  • Lead with more time for residents, for example through simpler care records and less paperwork.
  • Talk about staffing, because recruiting and keeping carers is a constant challenge.
  • Mention inspections and how your offer helps them show good practice with clear records.
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

Fields worth recording for care homes

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for care homes.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
Type of careResidential, nursing and dementia care have different needs.
Number of bedsA clear indicator of size and supply volume, when it is published.
Independent or groupGroup homes may buy through head office.
Registered managerThe person who runs the home day to day.
Inspection ratingPublic ratings show where a home may need help.

Questions people ask

Where a register is public, you can collect it yourself and import it into Riftjaw. The product does not sell or crawl data, it organises the list you bring.

Record the Type of care in a field during import and save filters on it.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, manager@, admin@ and enquiries@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

Build a database you own

Create your account, import your first list and see it turn into records you can work.

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