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Our Story
StartupHomeCare was founded by a husband and wife team (Mark & Kristy Dunning) with background's in sales, marketing, operations, and IT with Fortune 1000 healthcare and finance corporations such as Pfizer and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Kristy is a certified Medical Assistant (MA) and has a Bachelors of Science Degree from Brigham Young University in Public Health. Kristy worked her way through university as a Medical Assistant in an orthopedics office. Mark has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Public Health and a Masters Degree of Public Administration from Brigham Young University. In addition, both Mark and Kristy are Certified Senior Care Managers and are members of the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America. After working in the corporate world as a healthcare sales executive for a number of years, Kristy decided she would like to own her own business. Kristy began putting the building blocks together to start her own non medical home care agency. With much effort and 1.5 yrs of time invested, Kristy and Mark built and launched their own home care agency in the highly competitive healthcare market of Orange County, Southern California.
Two weeks after launching their new home care business, Mark & Kristy contracted with their first client to provide non-medical in home care services. With much hard work Mark & Kristy were able to grow their business to gross over $1 million in annual revenue by their second year.
Getting Into Homecare
The founders have often been approached by individuals who want to know their secrets to success in the competitive Southern California homecare industry. The founders decided to create a company that specializes in giving people the knowledge, tools, materials, and skill set needed to start and sucessfully operate and grow their own quality homecare agency - instead of purchasing a franchise.
Success In Home Care
The founders made many wise decisions during their first two years of business – but due to their inexperience in actually owning a home care agency they also made some poor decisions that amounted to thousands of dollars in lost revenue and wasted operational/marketing efforts.
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Had the founders received the training and support StartupHomeCare provides they could have avoided much stress and lost revenue – leaving more time and money to spend on marketing and operational procedures that would have benefited their business. The founders are still invested in their homecare agency today and enjoy the financial freedom it provides their lives.
Our Customers
Here's what our customers are saying about our service:
"We have been so busy this past month! The three month market strategy working very well - we just started our 6th client this week and have 11 employees now. Talk soon. Rena."
"Enjoyed very much the 5 day training. It was intense but we learned so much and enjoyed meeting everyone else in our same boat. We now feel ready to go out an take on the home care industry in our area! :-) Ken, Mary, & Andrea."
"JoAnn and I can't thank you enough for all your help and support this past year. Its been a challenging year for us, as you know, but we have successfully beaten out our local competition time and time again and have been recently chosen as the exclusive home care provider by two very large skilled nursing facilities in our area. Between those referals and the ones we get with our other efforts our business has literally sky rocketed this past 4 months. We now have 21 clients and 42 employees. Our gross revenue for 2012 will be over one million at our current pace of growth. Not bad for only being in business 11 months - at this point! We couldn't have done this without your training and ongoing support. Thanks so much! Alan."
"Want to give you the good news that we just started our 30th client this week! It's a mile stone for us. Can't believe its been over a year since we launched - time has surely flown by. We're really seeing the fruits of our hard work now and can't thank you enough for all the great training and support over the past 12 months. We now the exclusive provider for two facilities in our area and one of them has a sister company we will prob get under our belt too. Talk to you on next month's call. Regards, Nancy & Amy."
"Per your request - heres our latest caregiver orienation pic. This month has been a busy one for us. Totals are 47 clients and 64 employees. Revenue is on track to hit our 18 month goal next week! Paul."
"Here's our update this month. 15 clients and 18 employees. Monthly gross revenue at $58K. Profit at $9, 200/month.....on track to hit our 9 month target. Ron & Mary."
"We are doing absolutely great with our agency. We are six months into this and are up to 23 clients. David does an excellent job marketing. We are most fortunate in that one large chain of nursing facilities has selected us as their preferred provider for sitting services in our area. We are so glad we decided to do home care. We start another 24/7 in about 2 wks. We already have several along with 16 hrs./day, 12 hrs./day, 8 hrs/day, 4 hrs./day. We are actually having a lot of fun too.....meeting people, visiting our clients and their families along with our caregivers at least once weekly. We also have a wheelchair van service with ours and it is very popular (see attached picture). Wish we had done this a long time ago."
