If you’re already using PPC ads as part of your marketing strategy, then you understand their benefits. PPC ads help to drive traffic to your website by popping up only when potential renters search for a specific term—and since you only pay when someone clicks, this type of advertising is cost-effective. But if the page renters land on isn’t compelling, they’ll navigate away in a split second and forgetRead more
On any given day, a typical consumer will spend nearly five hours on his smartphone researching, purchasing, browsing. You might think, “Great, five hours to capture their attention with engaging content.” Not so fast. According to the internet gurus at Google, those hours are punctuated with pivotal micro-moments (about 150 of them daily) that determine if and how a renter interacts with your content. Google defines micro-moments as “intent-richRead more
You likely already know that marketing your apartment community’s amenities is a great way to get new renters. Some people are looking for pet-friendly facilities and won’t settle for anything else, while others count self-storage facilities as a must-have in their apartment search. But your marketing efforts shouldn’t stop there. You should also be remarketing these unique amenities — especially to those interested parties. Here’s a bit of importantRead more
Early last week, we officially announced our new Respage Chatbot offering. Fans of our products and services met this announcement with loads of excitement, but they also had loads of questions. This post aims to clear the whats, whys, and whens: What is Chatbot? The Respage Chatbot is an artificially intelligent leasing agent. We’ve programmed it to answer all of the most common questions leasing agents receive fromRead more
Apartment marketers who work with 55+ communities don’t have too many options when it comes to social advertising. After all, it’s quite uncommon for a Baby Boomer to have an Instagram account. And you can completely forget about Snapchat. But there is one social network that has captured the attention of Boomers: Facebook. As of 2016, roughly 30 percent of Boomers had active Facebook accounts, and that number isRead more
Starting in April, Respage will extend its line of multifamily marketing products and services to the senior living sector. Property management companies that cater to senior living communities will have access to all the products and services current Respage clients love, including: Reputation management tools that alert property management companies and/or on-site staff to newly published reviews and other reputation threats, as well as a review response service thatRead more
Comment marketing is nothing new. The process of recommending your brand in a forum comment was quite popular a few years back, when the comment sections of some websites passed link-juice and provided an easy way for marketers to build their link profiles, giving a big SEO boost to their website as a result. While the days of Page-Rank-passing links in comment sections and forums are long gone,Read more
The New Year has arrived. And with it, a new set of apartment marketing challenges to face and overcome. For regional managers and people on the front lines of apartment marketing, these challenges mostly revolve around advertising costs and their respective ROIs. But with so many different apartment marketing strategies available, the first challenge is determining which ideas are worth the time. So with that in mind, we putRead more
Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm. Not even two days after its release, the augmented reality game was installed on more than 5 percent of all Android devices in the US. And if that doesn’t sound like much, consider the fact that Tinder – the wildly popular dating app – is installed on a little over 2 percent of US-based Android devices. The impressive stats don’tRead more