Reading Time: 3minutes Start Your PPC Today When you Google your property, is your website the first entry? how about if you google “apartments in [your city],” or “best apartments in [your neighborhood]”? If you’re not ranking where you’d like to be, there are several strategies you can use to increase your Google ranking. The one we’ll be focusing on in this article is PPC for apartment marketing. PPC or “Pay Per Click” advertising is very different from organic posts, but both have a place and strengths in your apartment marketing strategy. What is PPC? Have you ever noticed that when you google... View Article
Reading Time: 3minutes Virtually tour the outside and inside of your apartment at the same time! When your next renters are looking for apartments, chances are they’re using a search engine. As they search, up pops Google Street View, an extremely helpful tool in understanding the neighborhood and surrounding areas, but of no help showing what the inside of the apartment looks like. In comes Matterport virtual tours, which show you the inside of the apartment, giving you a complete and immersive tour of the apartment, straight from your computer. Until now, there has been no way to have your cake and eat it too,... View Article
Reading Time: 8minutes Starting a blog for your apartment website is a smart move, as recent research shows that businesses with blogs receive 67% more leads. This can boost your visibility and attract potential renters. The truth is, that creating quality blog content can be challenging. Writing a post that is informative, engaging, and relevant takes a lot of effort and time. However, there are many benefits to an apartment blog and they’re worth the investment. The tips in this article will not only help you create blog content but also connect with your audience. By understanding what your potential renters are interested... View Article
Reading Time: 4minutes As a property manager you’ve got to wear a lot of hats: leasing office, groundskeeper, bookkeeper, handyman, security guard, and more! The idea of adding another one (that of marketer) on can be very intimidating! To make your life easier, Market Apartments has come up with a simple, beginner’s guide to multifamily apartment marketing. What is apartment marketing?? Likely, your biggest goal as a property manager is to increase occupancy. Because of this, you’ll need to do two things: retain your good residents, and increase leases for empty units. How do you keep the good ones and entice the new... View Article
Reading Time: 2minutes You’re probably looking to boost your marketing game for your apartment community! One of the easiest ways you can do accomplish this is by utilizing a virtual tour of your apartment! So what are virtual tours? What are Virtual Tours for Apartments? A Virtual tour is a convenient, and innovative way for potential residents to “tour” your property through their computer, tablet, or phone! Just like Google Street View allows someone to view the outside of a building to better understand the surrounding area, a virtual tour allows prospects to experience the interior of the property without ever leaving the comfort... View Article
Reading Time: 4minutes For apartment managers and properties, digital marketing is integral to finding renters. Just to see how important digital marketing is to properties, simply ask your residents how many of them found you through either a website or a digital ad. Probably most of them! To help your digital marketing strategy, Market Apartments has compiled our cheat sheet of 5 Easy Digital Marketing Tips for Apartments: 1. First Impressions Matter! When meeting someone for the first time, you want to look nice, be articulate, have a firm handshake, the works. In a world where Americans spend more time on the internet... View Article
Reading Time: 6minutes Perhaps you’re a resident hoping to get your full security deposit, or an apartment manager wanting to know whether or not you should charge a tenant for damage. Either way, you’re probably currently asking yourself, what is normal “wear and tear” and what’s coming out of the security deposit? As an apartment manager, sometimes you have to ask yourself tough questions. For instance, when there’s something wrong, in your neighborhood apartment community, who are you gonna call?? Perhaps your plumber or electrician or handy brother-in-law. That’s an easy question. Maybe the better question is, who’s going to pay for it? ... View Article
Reading Time: 3minutes It should come as no surprise that the millennial generation is the largest growing renter population. For you as a property manager, what does this mean? It means Millennial residents should be a target group for your marketing. Here you’ll learn the best strategies to attract and retain Millennials in your apartment: Who are Millennials and what do they want? Although Millennials represent one of the biggest demographics for apartment renters (a number that will only grow as they get older), they also are one of the most finicky groups. A new study found that over 60% of millennial residents... View Article
Reading Time: 4minutes Welcome to today’s marketing guide, on the ins and outs of Pinterest marketing! What is Pinterest? In the “Facebook age,” it’s difficult to be unfamiliar with the Zuckerberg monolith, or its sister site Instagram, but you might be not as familiar with Pinterest, a social media site devoted to “pinning” ideas, articles , and images. Users can share a pin, which consists of an image, and that image can be either clicked on (opening up the larger article or website), or it can be “re-pinned” and shared to the larger Pinterest community. Because of its emphasis on visuals and images, Pinterest... View Article
Reading Time: 4minutes What do all of the following have in common: poking, tagging, and sharing? Things young children do to the annoyance (or elation, for the last one) of their parents? Close! They’re also Facebook actions. Now, as one of the first social media sites, Facebook is the most popular virtual network and should be your first site to consider with your apartment marketing. But even though we’re probably all familiar with Facebook, how might we use the site to generate lead interests? Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is to take out a Facebook ad. Paid advertising goes a... View Article
