At one point or another you’ve heard the term Search Engine Optimization, but do you understand what this phrase really means? Generally speaking, SEO is a complicated, detailed, ever-changing process designed to assure your website appears higher in search results for specifically selected keyword terms.
Can I let you in on a little secret? Continue Reading →
We’ve made it to the final entry in the series, and, if you incorporate our first strategy through what I’m about to present below, you’ll be on your way to getting the most from your homebuilding website. Let’s get right down to the last, but certainly not least, point of how to improve your website. Continue Reading →
Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking your homebuilding website is intended as simply a cool online destination to promote your business. If your CEO or the intern from Accounting thinks the template you’ve selected looks great, that doesn’t necessarily mean your website will be a success. Continue Reading →
#10. Proper Marketing Leads To Your Business’ Credibility
Promotion is imperative to the validity and trustworthiness of your product or service.
#9. Strategic Marketing Allows You To Target Your Ideal Audience
Marketing enables you to strategically focus on the exact demographic most likely to require your goods.
#8. Marketing Keeps Your Audience Aware Of Your Goods & Services
Keeping your business front and center in the mind of the public increases customer recall. Continue Reading →
Welcome back to the last in our ten part series. This week we’re going to discuss marketing automation and how, as a homebuilder, if you’re utilizing this service you’re making a costly mistake. Continue Reading →
Marketing—nobody’s favorite topic. Okay, it’s my favorite topic, but that’s because I live and breathe it – specifically homebuilder marketing— and, because I love to sell, and marketing is what creates sales! So, really, if you want to sell more homes, you really can. Don’t, however, think all you need is a new home builder website, more marketing, or even better marketing—what you need is different marketing. Continue Reading →
That title isn’t meant to frighten homebuilders, but, unfortunately it is true. Please let me explain.
How many of you can recall the thrill of something so simple as buying candy as a child? I vividly remember anticipating the visit to the corner store, eager to hand over my hard-earned money—all 20 cents of it—to purchase penny candy. All the varieties of sweets, vying for the attention of a little boy like myself, calling out from their flashy wrappers held in check within glass containers colorfully presented on the counter. Continue Reading →
We all have responsibilities, whether it is to our family, financial institutions, the community in which we live or even to ourselves, living life according to the personal ethics we have chosen. Your website also must live up to the obligations you deemed necessary from its initial launch. As time marches on, many businesses lose sight as to the importance of their online presence. I’m not talking about how active your company is on social media or how frequently you blog, rather, I’m referring to the duty your website has to lead your audience to actually choose, and then purchase your product. Continue Reading →
The Internet has certainly changed nearly everything we ever knew about marketing … but not everything. Today I want to talk about something that many of you already know, but few actually practice: The art of carving out a market niche. In today’s information-overloaded world, if you say three things you’ve said nothing. The ability to focus your message has always been a marketing recipe for success. The sharper your marketing arrow is the deeper it will pierce. Continue Reading →
There is an increasing overlap between what we call marketing and traditional sales. The change in how buyers shop – online searches, browsing your website, talking to one another (i.e. with your current residents and other prospects) on social channels – requires that you begin ‘selling’ before you ever have the chance to speak in person to a prospect.
True, marketing has always been (or at least should be) sales in print, but it is in that area between marketing and sales where you have the highest potential to capture the attention and hearts of your buyers. The trouble is that most builders, retailers or communities are often unaware of these online prospects, and so believe that we can’t sell to those we can’t see. Well, just because you can’t see them does not mean that they can’t see you, or that they aren’t paying keen attention to what you have to show and say.
They are there. They are watching, avidly consuming what information you give them. Give them the right message and content, delivered in the way they want to consume it, and you’ll eventually see them pull into your parking lot or picking up their phone to you to engage with you in person. Continue Reading →
