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Using Online Virtual Tours to Sell and Lease Property
These 4 tips will help you create virtual tours that drive prospective buyers and tenants to buy or lease your properties.
As a real estate marketer, one of the most powerful tools at your disposal is the imagination of your potential buyers and renters. You’re most likely to sell them on your property when they can envision themselves in the space.
Today, nearly all prospective buyers and tenants research properties online before visiting them in person. This is great if you have a strong digital presence. It’s unfortunate for the many properties that are underrepresented by dated websites and listings. And, for those with adequate web presences — even if your content is decent, prospects may be crossing your property off their list if they can’t imagine themselves in your space.
Enter the virtual tour.
A virtual tour gives potential buyers and renters the chance to fully immerse and imagine themselves in your property. Virtual tours help prospects fall in love with places before they’ve even visited. They are becoming almost as important as any showing or open house in today’s market.
As more and more real estate marketers hop on the virtual tour bandwagon, it’s important to keep pace, and make sure your offerings are hitting the right marks. The National Association of Realtors published a list of ways to dress up your virtual tours. We’re summarizing the key takeaways below.
4 tips for creating property-moving virtual tours
1. Create an interactive floor plan.
Vendors like TourVista, Flyinside.com, VHT, MapsAlive, and floorplansonline allow you to create interactive floor plans, so your buyers and renters can get a sense of how the space is laid out. You can display an illustrated map, allowing users to click on areas of the floor plan to see an image or, better yet, a video clip from that perspective.
2. Guide them to the improvements.
Rather than relying on your buyers to imagine how new carpets or cabinets would look, show them. Tools like Obeo’s StyleDesigner allow you to virtually decorate your space, send the images to prospects, or allow them to do the decorating themselves.
3. Use plenty of high-quality images.
The more photos you include, the more effective your virtual tour will be. Using high-definition photos allows your clients to experience your property even more realistically. This goes for photos within the property and photos of the neighborhood, views, and surrounding city or town.
4. Use 3-D.
Microsoft rolled out its Photosynth stitching technology several years ago, taking two dimensional images and re-rendering them in a navigable 3-D image. You can create these renderings with pictures from any digital camera or mobile device and free software from Microsoft. Your buyers and renters can navigate through the property from the comfort of their living room sofas.
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4 Ways a Blog Can Help You Sell Real Estate
A blog can help you sell real estate by increasing search engine visibility, building relationships and trust, and nurturing leads.
You might think that it seems silly to keep up a blog for your property or real estate company. Blogging can be a significant time investment, and you may wonder who would even want to read your blog after all. But blogs do so much more for real estate than provide news and updates to a small community of interested parties.
A small investment of time and resources can mean big gains for your business. Every time you publish a blog post, you increase the chances that a user searching the internet for real estate will find your website. Here’s why.
4 ways a blog can help you sell real estate
1) Increasing search engine visibility
Search engine algorithms are getting more and more sophisticated. As they do, your site’s content becomes increasingly important.
Your content helps inform search engines about your site, improving your rank in relevant search queries (people who are searching for properties or companies like yours). As you choose content for your blog posts, be mindful of the search topics for which you want to rank highly. Every time you publish a post, you create a new chance to reach someone looking for a property like yours.
2) Building relationships
As your blog starts to gain visibility, you might find that other bloggers will start interacting with you. This can be an amazing asset.
Real estate is an industry built on collaboration. Cultivating good and lasting relationships with partners and prospects helps you build credibility in the industry.
Take a little time each day to read relevant industry blogs — and if you find them particularly relevant or interesting, share them.
3) Nurturing leads
Blog content is ideal to share (and link to) in email or social media marketing campaigns. It can help undecided leads learn more about your property and sway them in a positive direction.
Create segmented lists of email addresses based on the needs and interests of the different groups you’re trying to reach, and send targeted content from your blog their way. Sharing your blog posts on your social media accounts helps give validity and authority to your company, as you disseminate content you created yourself.
4) Becoming a trusted resource
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Content marketing is all about being a resource for your audience. At the end of the day, your expertise and ideas are at least as valuable as your properties. People want to hire trustworthy and knowledgeable real estate experts. If you can answer the needs and questions of your potential buyers and renters, you cultivate lasting and fruitful relationships with them.
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Developers Can Be Good Neighbors, Too!
In the mind of every developer, time, ROI, and money are always on the forefront. But to really build trust, developers need to be good neighbors. Here’s how.
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- Developers need to to connect with the community, including locals, businesses, and other entities.
- Ensure your crew adheres to all local construction time restrictions, avoids obstructing walkways, and leaves the site clean at the end of the day.
- Do you use environmentally friendly building materials? Don’t be shy about it – make it part of a promotional push.
From building regulations and material selections to space planning and customization, every developer knows that designing a multifamily project can be demanding. In almost every metro area in the United States, developers scramble to keep pace with the rising demand for multifamily housing.
However, one aspect is often overlooked: how developers can be good neighbors. The development of luxury properties goes beyond the search for rich returns on investment and careful execution of processes. It is just as important to connect with the community, including locals, businesses, and other entities.
Here’s a breakdown of our top 3 strategies on how developers can be good neighbors.
Reduce Disturbances
Construction projects have a significant impact on communities. Every aspect of it has some measurable effect, from waste disposal to excavation processes.
So, how do you stay in the good graces of the neighborhood? Simple gestures count.
- Prepare the neighbors by sending a note alerting them of an upcoming project, how long it will take and what to expect.
- Provide construction updates on the company website and social media channels.
- If you’re using green technology, promote it.
- Ensure your crew adheres to all local construction time restrictions, avoids obstructing walkways, and leaves the site clean at the end of the day. And, most importantly, share your excellence on social media.
Be Approachable
The surest way to build relationships and trust with the surrounding community is by being open and quick to respond. Again, leverage social media to generate support for your project and to strengthen relationships by seeking input from local government officials, religious groups, and other members of the community. Show the community you’re open to feedback. Let your social media team post pictures and updates online.
Employ Appreciated Design Elements
What are that would get the community excited? Do you use environmentally friendly building materials? Do you plan to install a new system for waste diversion or water collection? Are you matching the design with characteristics of the neighborhood? Are you pursuing a LEED certification? Whatever it may be, don’t be shy — make it part of a promotional push. If the interactions with the community result in design changes, let everyone know you’ve taken the feedback into account. Post renderings of what the finished luxury development will look like and spell out how it will increase the value of the space and community at-large.
Successful developers build relationships to foster trust and work closely with the community by launching projects that are in line with the interests of the locals. When designing a project, keep the community in mind.
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4 SEO Tips to Improve Your Real Estate Website Ranking
Search engines are constantly changing, but these 4 SEO tips will ensure marketers can improve their real estate website ranking.
Highlights:
- Google’s primary focus is delivering the most accurate information to meet user’s searches.
- You should start thinking about the major themes of your content (your property!) and then build posts and website pages to support them.
- Reviews are an easy (and free!) way to help boost your real estate website ranking.
More and more marketers believe that SEO is dead. So much so that 210 people search “is SEO dead” every day. But we do not subscribe to this mentality.
93% of all online experiences begin with a search. And why shouldn’t they? The internet is full of useful information. So there’s no reason that your website shouldn’t be at the top of the search results. But as the enormous amount of content being published daily continues to grow, it has become harder and harder to rank on search engines.
Google’s algorithm to rank websites is constantly changing. And for good reason — people are changing, too. As the needs of users evolve, so does Google’s need to stay ahead of the curve. As the leading search engine in the world, Google’s primary focus is delivering the most accurate information to meet user’s searches.
So how do you improve real estate website ranking? In other words, how do you get your real estate website, and more importantly, your properties, to the top of the search results page? How do you deliver accurate, informative content that Google deems worthy? Here are four tips to help boost your SEO ranking.
4 SEO tips to improve your real estate website ranking
1. Keyword research
People are now searching with a phrase or question rather than a single term. In response, search engine development has focused on natural language processing — meaning search engines now analyze phrases as a whole rather than a single keyword. That essentially means they evaluate a site’s content regarding an entire topic rather than its use of a particular word in order to deliver the best answers to users’ queries.
To improve your SEO ranking, stop trying to rank for a small set of keywords. What’s important is broad visibility across a topic. You should start thinking about the major themes of your content (your property!) and then build posts and website pages to support them.
2. Optimize for mobile
In 2019, mobile traffic accounted for more than half of internet traffic, and that percentage is growing. Google reported that more searches take place on mobile devices than on desktops. In response to this trend, Google’s algorithms rank mobile-friendly web pages higher in search results than desktop pages.
93% of home buyers start their search online. And since we know mobile traffic is growing at a rapid pace, it’s imperative your website be optimized for mobile use. Some easy ways to optimize for mobile include:
- Utilize website design specific to mobile
- Make sure pages are high speed
- Minimize pop ups
- Don’t block CSS, JavaScript, or images
3. Review management
90% of consumers read reviews before contacting a business and 72% of consumers will take action only after reading a positive review. If you’re trying to gain exposure for your property, start by using the positive reviews of other residents and clients.
Late last year, Darren Shaw of Whitespark released the findings from his annual Google Local Rankings Survey. The survey found that reviews accounted for 15.44% of how Google ranks a local business.
Missing an abundance of reviews? Just ask! If clients have expressed their appreciation for your services, don’t be afraid to ask them for a positive review on Google. These reviews are an easy (and free!) way to help boost your real estate website ranking.
4. Video
We’ve been talking about the benefits of video for a while now. Having video on your landing page will robustly improve your SEO. Video increases conversion rates, improves bounce rates, and boosts overall time on sites.
Search engines use bounce rates to rank pages — a low bounce rate and high user retention rate are indicators of strong content and high relevance to your perspective buyers. Consequently, Google is strongly emphasizing these metrics in its ranking algorithm. Video keeps users on your site better than just about anything else and is therefore one of the most effective ways to boost SEO.
Need more tips to boost your real estate website ranking. We can help! In fact, we’d be happy to do it all for you.
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How to Measure Brand Awareness: A Guide for Real Estate Marketers
If you want to measure brand awareness for your property, use these 4 metrics, which indicate if prospective buyers or renters know about it.
When it comes to selling property — particularly luxury properties — growing brand awareness is an important goal. Prospective buyers need to know that your property exists and that it can provide the kind of lifestyle they’re looking for.
Measuring how well you’re doing at getting the word out about your brand and property/properties is critical to optimizing your marketing strategy. But measuring brand awareness can be tricky.
To help you quantify the results of your efforts, here are 4 metrics that indicate that you’re building brand awareness.
4 metrics to measure brand awareness
1) Social media reach
The reach of your social content has a direct impact on your brand awareness. As your social media reach grows, so does your potential brand audience.
SharedCount is a free online tool that allows you to track the number of times a piece of content has been shared on social media, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. It’s an easy way to get basic information about your social reach, so you can spend less time tracking tweets and more time producing your content.
2) Brand mentions
There’s a great deal of value to be gained from monitoring discussions about your brand and properties online. Tracking brand mentions can lead to honest feedback and objective insight from potential buyers.
There are several options you can use to track brand mentions. We prefer the convenience of Google Alerts, which allows you to easily set up a custom alert.
Or Hootsuite can track brand mentions, as well as specific keywords and phrases, (like individual properties or neighborhoods) across all of your social media feeds.
3) Blog shares
By adding a share bar to your blog posts, you make it easy for readers to share your blog content on social networks, spreading awareness about your content and your properties through the amplifying effect of social media.
These share bars are easy to set up and even easier to monitor. By measuring your average number of shares per blog, you can track what content your users are drawn to and what pieces fall flat.
4) Search volume
One of the main sources of traffic for most websites is through simple searches. If people are searching for your company or properties, that’s a pretty solid indication that they are aware of your brand.
Using online tools, such as Google AdWords or Moz, you can track the searches for your listings, blogs, social media platforms, and any other variation that you find useful. These tools are free, easy to use, and perfect for determining if your brand is popping up when potential buyers are searching.
How do you measure brand awareness?
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