What Social Tool Is Right for You?

Social Media Management is a beast and can become overwhelming, quickly. From keeping up with content each week, to responding and interacting with your online communities, to tracking post performance – how do you stay on top of all of it? Lucky for you, there are plenty of tools to help streamline and speed up some of the monthly social duties.

Apartment Marketing: 3 Data Points For Budgeting

Renter demand, occupancy, and market conditions are not flat month over month, so why should your budget be? We offer insights on 3 extremely important data points to consider for a smarter approach to your apartment marketing budget.

The New Google Ads Suite: Explained

Just a few months ago, Google began the process of streamlining their advertising products in a rebranding overhaul. In short, Google is retiring Adwords and DoubleClick, while introducing a few new names and products to their lineup. Google Adwords is now Google Ads, DoubleClick and Google Analytics are now joined as the Google Marketing Platform, and DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange are joined as Google Ad Manager.

Google Updates: September 2018

Welcome to our second edition of Google Updates – your one stop shop for all Google news from the past month. This update is going to focus on local and organic with updates ranging from the addition of future opening dates in Google My Business, new Related Activity Cards, and your EAT: explained. All of these are Google’s way of continuing to give users the best possible experience online.

What to Keep in Mind When Budgeting for Your Apartment Marketing

Hearing the term “budgeting” may make many property management pros run for the nearest exit. Well stop right there. A smart marketing budget is an integral part of a property’s success in the coming year and creating one doesn’t need to be a stressful task. We’re here to help with these few tips to conquer your next budget like a champ.

Social Posting Schedule Tips for Apartments

From Instagram to Facebook to Snapchat and beyond, we know social media is an excellent component to a successful marketing campaign, allowing you to amplify awareness of your property’s brand on a channel where prospects are actively consuming content on a daily basis. Did we say daily? Yep. In fact, 74% of Facebook’s 2 billion users say they check the platform multiple times a day. With the chance to have millions of people see and interact with your content daily, finding the right time and place to schedule your social media posts can seem daunting. Where do you start?

Tips for Display Ads in Multifamily

We’re not going to lie, we rarely used to recommend Display Advertising (or programmatic) for marketing your multifamily apartment communities. Typically the digital marketing budgets within the industry don’t leave a lot of room to play around with platforms that cast a wider net and are not seen as direct response. However, with digital budgets within the industry increasing and the technology on display attribution evolving, we have seen some recent success with generating high quality leads using programmatic advertising.

Google Updates: August 2018

Google is constantly updating their offerings, capabilities, and tool sets, and we are here to help you keep up! This update is going to focus on organic with updates ranging from the Speed Update, a new feature addition for 1-click to call in Google Posts, and the addition of search queries in your Google My Business Insights reports. All of these are working in tandem to provide the best user experience possible for users on Google and give them what they want more quickly and easily.

5 Fall Activities to Promote on Social in Proximity to Your Property

Believe it or not, summer has come and (nearly) gone and fall is right around the corner. Queue the changing of the leaves, bundling up a bit more and a slew of new autumnal activities. With a new season approaching, now is a great time to freshen up your social content. Stuck on where to start? Grab your favorite fall-themed drink of choice and cozy up for a few tips on what to promote on your social media channels this season.

3 Things to Look Out for on Your New Website Template

So you’ve tediously planned and perfected a new website and finally the day has come to go live. You selected a snazzy new template, populated content and images and it looks awesome. What’s next? While the look of your site is important, so is the overall experience you’ve created when a prospect lands on your site. Don’t forget to check these few simple things to ensure a good user experience and a website that is set up for success.

Marketing Tips to Freshen Up a Stable Property

We get it – new, fun, shiny things excite people – but there is nothing that beats comfort and charm when moving into a new apartment. Stable properties (compared to lease-ups, which we explored in a blog recently) are great because of their stories and the people that already call it their home. Reviews exist, there is a community built up, and you know your market.

What to Look for As Google Expands Store Visitation Reporting to SMB’s

AdWords (soon to be Google Ads) is expanding its Store Visitation reporting, formerly only available to large enterprise accounts, to SMB’s by the end of July. To enable this new reporting data will need to have a Google My Business account linked to their AdWords account and have active location extensions running. As this new reporting becomes available there are a few things you can do to prepare and be on the lookout for.