Flintlock Marketing, a leading brand marketing team, has shared details of its collaborative work with an established home care provider, having embarked on an ambitious strategic project to identify the right ways to extend the thriving business without exceeding capacity or risking standards of care.
Flintlock Marketing, with one of its UK bases in Chichester, was a clear choice for the nationwide at-home care team, which has a local head office in the city. The respective teams of specialists worked together to create a unique action plan that has already proven to be remarkably successful.
Using Brand Strategy to Expedite Growth in the Private Home Care Space
Home care has been in strong demand for some time. It is part of a top five industry within the UK that is increasingly relied on to provide care, support, nursing assistance, and companionship for individuals, couples, and families who need help to remain safe, well, and comfortable at home.
The home care team, launched by a former Olympian in 2012, had already seen enormous success and rapid growth. However, it had reached a point at which the level of need was outstripping capacity without a clear, tactical way to catalyse faster growth in line with demand.
Looking for insights and input to evaluate the best opportunities to grow the business in a sustainable, responsible and future-focused way, the brand turned to Flintlock Marketing to see how the branding and marketing experts would tackle the scenario—equal parts opportunity and challenge.
Flintlock began with an in-depth research and discovery exercise, looking at varied aspects such as:
The competitive landscape
The broader industry and at-home care sector
The financials and budgets in play
This was followed by a leadership strategic discussion to interrogate potential pathways to growth, landing on two possible options, including an innovative and largely overlooked franchise network model.
Pinpointing this as a brand direction enabled Flintlock to begin work collaborating with the broader team to develop a solid strategy and marketing plan to get the ball rolling.
The Vital Importance of Branding in Home Care Franchising
The owners of the home care business recognised the franchise opportunity but previously had not had a structured marketing plan. A series of workshops and discussions provided sharp focus and clarity, highlighting how the company needed to package itself and its branding to showcase what it could offer to like-minded prospective franchisees.
Flintlock used its dynamic Spark workshops, liaising with owners, stakeholders, and a pilot franchisee, to discover valuable insights that informed the branding process and vocalised the core values and missions that underpin the company's approach to at-home care.
These included the need to concentrate on processes, care capabilities, culture, and purpose-driven ethics, ensuring franchises were structured to uphold the levels of compassion, respect, and dignity embedded in the original brand.
Flintlock Marketing’s Strategic Pillars at Work in the Home Care Sector
As a final puzzle piece, the Flintlock team developed a brand identity and communication tone, collating points of evidence to encapsulate the supportive and partnership franchising approach the business wanted to offer. They distilled data and research into an articulate, repeatable proposition.
After the client’s business formed a dedicated franchise team, Flintlock assisted the strategy into the action phase, developing relationships within the franchise space, establishing connections and building channels and content calendars to pave the way.
One of Flintlock’s co-founders, Tasha Gladman, says, ‘This project was incredibly rewarding, consulting with a client with a keen focus and understanding of the value, position and strength of their brand and looking for new input to grasp the right ways to inject fresh growth potential into the company—while keeping values and respectful, quality care at the heart of the business.
Following completion and acting as an outsourced marketing team, we've seen the team achieve fantastic accolades, with consistently high regulatory outcomes, an MBE awarded to the founder for services to care, and one branch now having extended to no less than 15 territories.’
Flintlock's brand strategists continue to support the company, progressing towards new targets for 2025 and partnering with other specialist agencies to ensure that ongoing marketing efforts are strategy-led and cohesive.
Further information about Flintlock Marketing’s work is available through the company’s website and case studies, including results, outcomes and successes achieved through brand formation, strategy and development projects.
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About Flintlock Marketing:
Flintlock is an expert UK brand marketing and branding specialist agency. We blend pure creativity, professionalism, expertise and skill, extracting the knowledge and value our incredible team provides to create brand strategies that feel like home, and encapsulate what makes you you and how you communicate those intangibles to your target customer to make your business a brand they would choose over anybody else.
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