Digital, for Australian retirement villages that take the long view.

The marketing leadership your village has been missing.

A senior, sector-fluent CMO embedded in your business one to two days a week — owning strategy, leading execution, and held to one promise: no family forgotten, no enquiry lost.

10+ years

inside retirement living & aged care

$100M+

in client sales supported

10x* ROAS

delivered on *many paid campaigns

AU-wide

remote-first, on-site when it matters

The practice

Three ways to work together.

The practice meets operators where they are. Some need leadership. Some need a specific capability built. Some want clarity before committing further. Three doors, not three rungs.

Fixed price · 4 weeks

The Digital Diagnostic

$1,995 ex. GST

A structured audit of your tools, marketing and lead flow, with a prioritised plan you can act on. Independent of anything that follows. Best when you want clarity before committing further.

See what's included →

Project · Scoped upfront

The Modules

Seven defined engagements

Seven defined-scope project engagements — CRM builds, websites, campaigns, onboarding redesign, customer experience programs, team training. Best for operators with internal marketing ownership who need expert capability layered in.

Explore the seven modules →

Flagship

The Village CMO

Retainer · 1–2 days/week · Month-to-month

A fractional Chief Marketing Officer embedded in your village, with the seniority and accountability of a full-time CMO. Built for operators without senior marketing leadership in-house.

"No family forgotten. No enquiry lost."

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Good operators lose residents they should have kept.

Most retirement village operators are running on good intentions and disconnected tools. Enquiries arrive through the website, the phone and social media — and end up tracked in three different places, or not at all.

Enquiries fall through the cracks

Leads arrive through multiple channels and get lost between forms, inboxes and spreadsheets before anyone follows up.

The 48-hour follow-up gap

Families navigating the ILU or villa decision expect a fast, warm response. A 48–72 hour delay is usually enough to lose them to the village down the road.

Disconnected tools, no clear picture

Marketing, CRM and the village manager aren't sharing information — so nobody can see what's working or where the pipeline breaks down.

Seven modules. Start where the pain is greatest.

Each service is standalone — no package deal, no paying for what you don't need.

Digital diagnostic

A structured audit of your tools, marketing and lead flow.

Marketing strategy & campaigns

Campaigns that attract families actively considering village living.

CRM & lead flow

Every enquiry captured and followed up within hours, not days.

Websites & landing pages

Built for how retirement living decisions are actually made.

Onboarding process design

Smoothing the journey from signed contract to settled-in resident.

Customer experience & retention

Touchpoints that protect your DMF income and turn residents into referrers.

Training & capability building

Upskilling your team to own and maintain the systems we build together.

Not sure where to start? Start with the Diagnostic.

A structured audit of your current tools, marketing and lead flow — informed by a decade of knowing how these systems fail in practice. We map what's working, where enquiries are falling through, and give you a prioritised list of what to fix first.

  • Tech stack & integration review
  • Marketing channel & asset audit
  • Lead flow mapping — enquiry to move-in
  • Gap analysis & prioritised recommendations
  • Competitor digital presence review
  • Written report & findings presentation

Fixed price

$1,995

ex. GST · no scope variation

Trusted in the sector for the long haul.

Their knowledge and expertise in all things digital is outstanding. Josh's commitment to learning and understanding our business has resulted in some very successful strategies and campaigns. We have worked together for over four years and continue to see improvements and growth.

Ursula
Marketing & Comms Manager, RSL Care SA

Built from the inside out.

Led by Joshua Hanchett, who spent over a decade working across retirement living and aged care. No briefing needed on what an ILU is, how residence contracts work, or what the family decision cycle looks like — we already know, and that changes the speed and quality of everything we do.

Ready to connect the dots?

Book a free 20-minute discovery call. We ask the right questions — and if there's a fit, we'll tell you honestly what we'd recommend and why.