Apartment Hunting: “The Social Experience”:
The Social Web is playing an increasingly large role in the multi-family experience. First-time apartment hunters now take to the Web to learn and ask questions about one of life’s most important decisions: choosing where to live. Before thinking about lead generation or ROI, Chris and his team are focused on the ‘experience’ of looking for apartments online. Join Chris Vaughn as he demystifies the process for what it means to create educational content, generate leads, and provide a one of a kind apartment hunting experience for consumers on the Social Web.
19. Stacks Case Study
Annual Loft + Artist tour open to public
Cabbage Town Atlanta
Connects with community psychographics
Historic building/historic part of town
Art show/artist & creative Atlanta colony
$5 entry
Engages residents and local community
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22. Content puts Stacks
at center of community
Atlanta
Artists
Residents
Surrounding community
markets Stacks
Design/Art
Bloggers
Stacks
Local
Restaurant
Local
Retailers
RE
Agents
Stacks leverages community
social graph
Stacks benefits in
Google search
23. USING WEB CONTENT
Consumers want to be _____
before making buying decisions:
Interrupted?
Solicited?
Assisted and Educated!
24. HOW DOES WEB CONTENT
FACTOR IN FOR THE SOCIAL
MEDIA CUSTOMER?
25. #1- Create Meaningful Content
Create educational content for your target
audience and buyer profiles on your
company website or blog
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27. #2: Using CTA’s
Share that meaningful content on
your social networks with engaging
calls-to-action
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29. #3- Conversion
Lead your website or blog visitors to
your “bottom of the funnel” conversion
events (where they become business
leads. That’s still the end goal, right?)
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31. SHARE CONTENT OF
OTHERS
Think “customer first”. If you come across
content on the Web that you think benefits
your consumer base, share away!
Added benefits of sharing the content of others
include:
Relationships
with other businesses and brand
ambassadors whose content you share
Other businesses will be more likely to follow your
account and share your content
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34. GEO-TARGETED CONTENT
Create content geotargeted to your key
markets that will help apartment hunters in
that market
Find apartment hunters in markets asking
questions or seeking help in the markets
you’ve targeted
Create conversion opportunities by send
blog or website readers to that market’s
listing page from within your geo-targeted
content
38. OPPORTUNITY
Over 100,000 people seek help or express
frustration with apartment hunting on social
media networks a month
4 of 5 consumer inquiries on social networks
go unanswered (As of October 2013)
This is more pronounced in Real Estate,
where only 15% of consumer inquiries are
answered, with an average response time of
13 hours*
*Statistics courtesy of Sprout
Social
43. ENGAGEMENT TIPS
DO ask leading and help-oriented questions
like “How can we help” or “What city are you
looking for an apartment in?”
DON’T spam with a link immediately. Social
consumers are SMART and will tune you out
DO show personality and have fun. Social
consumers like to know they are dealing with
real people
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45. ENGAGEMENT TIPS
DO have resources for the consumer ready
quickly when they engage. Social users have
short attention spans
DON’T reply without a link to content or a
listing. This conversation is now in a selling
stage
DO ask a follow-up question with the link you
provide such as “What are your requirements
for the perfect apartment?”
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48. ENGAGEMENT TIPS
DO follow up with the consumer after an
appropriate amount of time to close the service
loop
DON’T keep sending them messages until
they reply.
DO use success stories like this as case
studies to show consumers how much easier
your brand can make the process of apartment
hunting
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50. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
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How to feel good about all this work?
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What Can Be Immediately
Measured?
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What Can’t Be?
Notas do Editor
Wallpaper slide
Self introduction. Why I’m excited to be here and what I’ve learned so far.
Explain history of traditional apartment hunting then the shift to website apartment hunting. Talk about paradigm shift to using social networks to search for apartments
How has reach played in to the history of marketing? How has it been realized in the multi-family space?
Reach as it was known pre-internet
Client has a good experience with a brand and becomes a customer
They pick up the phone, or a couple of tin cans, to express their satisfaction with the brand.
When the friend or contact has need for the product, they remember the referral and do business with that brand.
The exponential growth of the traditional customer referral
Reach as it’s known to companies who list apartment communities for consumers and rely on listings and reviews/ratings
ILS pages are seen through paid traffic acquisition or organic search
User generated content – reviews and ratings
What comes next naturally?
Prospect becomes customer after satisfying experience with brand online
They go online to share their positive customer experience
Going beyond the review or the rating. Creating a social reach through the building of relationships on social
How do social customers search for apartments online?
Talk about the factor content and how to make any experience “customer first”, the brand had to support with great content
A traditional twist on content marketing
The role of Web content for the social customer. DO’s and DON’Ts
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Use Your Own Web Content To Provide Assistance and Build Authority
Link clicked through
Share on social example
To really educate and assist consumers, don’t be self-serving. Share great content of others
Re-tweest examples
Re-tweest examples
Geospecific content is the most important type of content in our space. Get to know your consumers and your markets
Example
Example
What is the opportunity for finding new business on the social Web? How do you connect with social customers?
There’s a huge opportunity margin
All sorts of tools help you listen and monitor the social Web
All sorts of tools help you listen and monitor the social Web
You’ve recognized reach and opportunity factors and you have great content to support your activity. What now?
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DO’s and DON’Ts of engaging with social customers
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DO’s and DON’Ts of engaging with social customers
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DO’s and DON’Ts of engaging with social customers
Focus on the ease and quickness of how great social media engagement can close business. Empathize with the collective struggle the room has been through or the hours put in to conversations just to have results like that which happened in a matter of minutes.
How to feel good about all this work?What Can Be Immediately Measured?What Can’t Be?