Easy grab and go gift ideas for apartment marketing and resident retention! We’ve got 12 ways to show your residents you care and 5 easy marketing tactics you can put to work today.
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As a former property manager, I know the increasing demands placed on onsite teams to operate an apartment community. When you are responsible for a multimillion-dollar multifamily asset, you have to focus on leasing apartments, retaining residents, maintenance requests, owner reporting, dealing with staff turnover and so much more. It’s no wonder, property managers often feel overwhelmed in their role. That’s why when we set out to create The Sprout Marketing Membership we focused on how to make marketing and retention simple and actionable for time-starved managers, leasing agents, assistant managers, regional supervisors, and marketing directors. Our program is budget-friendly and focuses on increasing apartment occupancy and retention rates through consistent outreach, follow up, referrals, renewals, resident engagement, social media campaigns, and more.
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Property managers and leasing agents are embracing self-guided tours at their apartment communities in 2020. It’s no wonder since prospective residents are loving it and it works with social distancing guidelines. But not all self-guided tours are created equally. To convert more leases, you have to map out the customer experience and provide cues every step of the way. Follow our step-by-step guide to make sure your self-guided tours turn into more leases this summer.
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The business card. It’s been around forever. It’s small, but packs a powerful punch when it comes to your apartment marketing and retention. Today we are sharing with property managers, leasing agents, and maintenance teams seven different types of business cards that you need in your apartment marketing toolbox. These are essential for welcoming new residents, building resident appreciation and loyalty, increasing resident renewal rates, driving traffic and increases your occupancy with new leases, building a referral program and driving engagement to your social media.
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Outreach marketing for apartment communities is looking a little different since leasing offices are closed and many leasing teams are working separately or at home. Let your prospects know how to reach you and tour your community and lease an apartment online with your community. Using digital and social media marketing during this time is essential in keeping communication open with prospects.
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COVID-19 is here and VIRTUAL Tours are essential now. Become the new expert at Apartment and Real Estate Virtual Tours with these tools. No in-person tours are allowed, but that doesn't mean that we can't still do amazing tours that will lease that apartment and sell that home quick! Get educated with this free desktop and mobile app, Loom. Email or text your virtual tours to prospects instantly.
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There are few things that people love more than their pets, except maybe your own children. Sometimes if you ask parents on the right day, even that might not be true. When your prospects are looking for a new home, they aren’t just looking for themselves, they’re looking for their furry friend too. The connection that people have to their pets is the same connection that can get you that new lease because the prospect can see that you genuinely care about what it is that’s valuable to them. We’re giving you some ideas on how to harness the power of pet-friendly marketing tactics to show your prospects and residents that you care just as much for your four-legged residents as you do your two-legged.
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Follow up is so important for your apartment community or real estate property, especially since only 50% of people ever receive a follow up. This statistic means that the moment you put forth the effort to implement and follow a follow-up plan, you have a leg up on your competition. We’re giving you some ideas on how to plan your follow up and start see results from your outreach marketing. Tune in to Marketing Home, Marketing You on iTunes or Spotify.
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There are a lot of reasons that Outreach Marketing can be scary and one of the biggest reasons is figuring out what to say at the businesses you visit. You’ve worked up the courage to go, now what? In this episode of Marketing Home, Marketing You we talk about what to say when you reach your outreach marketing location. It can be difficult to get your point across without feeling like too much of a salesperson. We’re giving you scripts that you can tweak to make your own so that you can start seeing results from all your hard work that you put into your outreach marketing.
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Outreach marketing can be an overwhelming beast to conquer but here’s the thing… it doesn’t have to be complicated. Sprout Marketing has done-for-you bundles that are the easiest way to accomplish your outreach marketing goals and are sure to resonate with your prospects. We’re giving you unique and easy ways to hand out these bundles so that you can standout from the crowd and get ahead of your competitors, as well as some social media marketing tips.
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Outreach marketing is alive and well and working wonders for apartment communities and real estate professionals everywhere. It might take a little more work and effort than you want to put in initially, but it will pay off. Outreach marketing is important just in this digital age, if not more so to help you break through the marketing noise your prospects have all around you. Listen to learn the best tips on when, where, and how to go about outreach marketing.
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While outreach marketing can be intimidating, the easiest way to get started is to focus on your home turf…with current residents. They have already bought into your community. So the easiest way to turn one resident into three is with a kick butt referral program. The trick is to make sure referring is on our residents’ brain often by reminding them often. As property manager, leasing agent, leasing professionals, and realtors, a referral is as good as it gets.
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Marketing your apartment community or your real estate business can be a real challenge. In today’s Marketing Home, Marketing You episode we uncover the top four marketing mistakes made in 2019 and we show simple ways to fix them in 2020. Fixing these four mistakes will lead to huge gains in time, energy and return on your investments. Tune in.
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There’s something so exciting about January. Everyone seems a little extra inspired this time of year and encouraged to make steps towards their goals. There’s an optimism in the air that you just don’t get any other time of year. People setting New Year’s resolutions should inspire your team to see how you can meaningfully contribute to helping your residents and prospects achieve their goals. Seth Godin, Master Marketer and Author, speaks about how important it is for companies and brands to have a meaningful impact on people's transformation. That’s where real connections happen.
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We’re winding down 2019 (like, what?? How did this happen so quickly?) and as we always say at Sprout, this is not the time of year to take your foot off the gas, but rather keep going and finish the year strong.
We know that the end of the year can feel even more busy than usual but we don’t want you to neglect planning for this last month of the year. In fact, this is a great time to celebrate creative holidays with your residents while they’re already in the mood to celebrate. This season is also a great time to get out there and do some outreach marketing around your community.
If you want to make your marketing efforts as easy as possible, while still being effective, then these done-for-you bundles in our Sprout Shop is the way to go. Couple those bundles with a FREE download of our Creative Holiday Calendar and you’re GOLDEN for the rest of the year.
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It’s no surprise that attention spans today aren’t what they used to be. Studies say that in 1920 the average attention span was 20-minutes. Today? Eight seconds...the same as a goldfish. As a property manager trying to market your apartment community, this fact should stop you in your tracks. Breaking through the noise of day to day life is a real challenge. Twenty years ago, we were just trying to stand out from the competition with nice curb appeal and a good photo in our For Rent ad. But today’s online world has created a new set of complicated problems for apartment marketers. Your community is no longer just competing with other communities. You are competing with EVERYTHING for your customer’s attention.
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