Common questions
about our services follow. If you have questions that are not addressed,
please call us at 800-536-2657. Thank you for considering Assisted Living
INFO.
How
long has Assisted Living INFO been around?
Assisted
Living INFO was developed in 1997 and first became available to the
public in January 1998.
How
many hits do you get a month?
For
competitive reasons, we consider our specific usage statistics to be
confidential. We can share that approximately 40,000 users perform several
hundred thousand searches on our facility database each month. Since
Assisted Living INFO does not provide information about other types
of care (although moreinformation can be found on our Nursing Home INFO
web site), our numbers reflect users interested in assisted living only
not other senior care options. Based on our analysis of search
patterns and the E-mail we receive, we believe the majority of our users
are seeking assisted living care for a friend or family member. This
makes Assisted Living INFO a great way to reach your target audience.
How
do you get people to visit Assisted Living INFO?
1. Our name tells
exactly what we provide - Assisted Living INFO. This is key for search
engines and links.
2. We work hard
at optimizing our search engine placement.
3. We provide useful
content for families. Our map-based search engine provides a unique
way of accessing our comprehensive facility database.
4. We are linked
to hundreds of senior care, housing and medical sites that direct traffic
to Assisted Living INFO.
5. We promote our
site for use by social workers and discharge planners who are often
involved in selecting a facility.
Why
is your service so inexpensive? Why does your service cost so much?
Our
goal is to provide a service that all facilities can use to help consumers
get the information they need, when they need it. Some facilities may
benefit more than others but we believe most facilities consider
our service a good value.
We
rarely get the question, "Why does your service cost so much?"
How
many leads can I expect?
Internet
technology allows us to gather plenty of statistics, some useful, some
not. The statistics we gather about leads from our system are somewhat
limited and provide little or no predictive value. For instance, we
can track how many times we gave out a facility's telephone number,
but not the number of calls that were placed. We can track the number
of times a web site is clicked on, but we cannot tell whether the family
was interested enough to follow up. Based on our member feedback, we
believe that facilities get more than enough leads to justify the investment.