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Google Analytics for Real Estate Marketers – 4 Steps to Get Started
Google Analytics is an extremely effective tool for real estate marketers to gain insights and shape strategy. These four tips will help get you started.
Highlights:
- Start by choosing what metrics to track.
- Figure out what works and what doesn’t.
- Paint a picture of your audience using hard data.
When it comes to gaining insights into real estate leads, Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools out there right now. This robust, comprehensive, analytical tool determines how web users are interacting with your digital assets, including social media. The data that Google Analytics for real estate provides gives you invaluable insights into how your audience is interacting with your content, as well as how your content is performing over time.
Because this tool is extremely comprehensive, the options can be overwhelming at first glance. Understanding how to properly deploy this resource, and the metrics it provides, is your best bet for delivering value to your target audience, and effectively nurturing leads.
Here are four steps to get your marketing efforts started using Google Analytics for real estate.
1. Decide which metrics to track and identify key metrics
When you first start using Google Analytics, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices available to you for analyzing your real estate website visitors’ activity. It can seem tempting to track every available metric, gaining huge amounts of data. But your time and resources are much better spent if you take a step back and identify the right marketing reports for your real estate business.
As a benchmark, Phase 3 Enterprises suggests that real estate marketers track these six reports:
- Channel Report
- Source and Medium Reports
- Users Flow Report
- Frequency and Regency Reports
- Location Report
- Age and Gender Reports
Once you’ve chosen which metrics your real estate business should be tracking, it’s time to identify two or three metrics that will be your touchstones. These are the metrics that are critically important to the performance of your website and should monitored and analyzed regularly.
2. Start with the big things
Is there a page on your website that gets a large amount of traffic? That’s where you should be concentrating. Use key metrics to determine why that content is specifically intriguing to your users, and what led visitors to click and spend time there. For example, if one piece of content on your site outperforms another, ask yourself questions like:
- Does a higher click-through rate correlate with timing of emails sharing the content, social media posts, etc.?
- What are the top traffic sources for high performing content?
- How long are users spending on your content?
You get the picture. In short, if you identify the right questions to ask, Google Analytics for real estate will offer you the data to answer them—in turn giving you the tools to optimize your digital assets.
3. Find out where your website traffic is coming from
In a perfect world, users are visiting your site from multiple sources, instead of a single or just a few traffic streams. Gaining an understanding of where your traffic is coming from lets you devote resources to top-performing sources and adjust your efforts where they aren’t gaining optimal results.
Select “Overview” under the “Acquisition” menu to determine how much of your traffic is organic, social, from referrals, etc. The Channel Report will give you further details on where your visitors are coming from, as well as information about how traffic from various sources engages with your site.
4. Build an audience profile
Ultimately, one of the most important things Google Analytics can capture for you is a picture of your audience. This includes where they’re located, how they engage with your website, demographic data like age, and other buyer preferences. Some key audience characteristics to be on the lookout for:
- How much of your audience is new visitors vs. returning visitors?
- What devices is your audience using to access your digital assets?
- Where are your visitors geographically located?
The more you use the data to understand your audience, the more you’ll be able to optimize your digital assets to meet their needs and build and expand your audience base.
The bottom line
Google Analytics is your superpower when it comes to real estate marketing. No other tool gives you more comprehensive insights into your audience behavior, content performance, overall site performance, and more. Start using this tool today, and let data drive your real estate marketing efforts.
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5 Tips to Step Up Your Real Estate Social Media Marketing
Real estate marketers are increasingly turning to social media as a strategic tool to grow brand awareness, gain market intelligence, and generate organic traffic. Here are five tips to boost your real estate social media marketing efforts.
If you’re a real estate marketer, it’s probably old news that the vast majority of the real estate market has moved online. Increasingly, traditional marketing tactics are giving way to newer methods, and inbound marketing is taking the place of outbound. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: real estate and social media are a match made in heaven.
You should be making the most of this incredible tool for marketing luxury and commercial real estate. Here are our top 5 tips to grow your real estate social media marketing in 2019.
1. Be authentic
Social media for real estate marketing is all about the personal. Users on these platforms are looking to connect with the real people behind the brands they follow. Increasingly, social media users are craving authenticity. Part of building your brand is about discovering and cultivating your “corporate personality,” particularly when it comes to social media. Find your brand’s voice, and let it shine through.
2. Use hashtags strategically
Using hashtags well can help increase your properties’ visibility, as well as growing organic reach on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Using hashtags in your social media content lets you categorize your content, draw attention quickly and easily, drive conversations, increase visibility, and harness the power of topics on social media. Check out our guide for using hashtags in real estate marketing here.
3. Make use of the right tools
With demand comes supply, and as social media marketing has become more and more important, developers have created some extremely helpful tools to help you streamline your efforts. Whether it’s free stock photos, tools that help you create infographics, or automating your social media posts, there’s likely a tool that will help you get the job done more quickly and easily.
4. Diversify across platforms
While Facebook still reigns supreme in the social media universe, if you aren’t connecting with users on other platforms, you’re missing out on huge opportunities. While each platform requires its own content and posting strategy, you’re essentially presenting your brand identity from the various angles allowed by different platforms. Not only that, using multiple social media platforms helps improve your search engine rankings.
5. Engage with your followers
It may seem painfully obvious, but too many real estate marketers forget that social media is just that: social. When followers engage with your posts, always reply! Encourage comments and shares—and join the conversation. Not only is it a great way to cultivate a loyal following, but you can also gain valuable insights into your audience’s preferences.
As with any marketing endeavor, a crucial first step for social media marketing is strategy. We’ll leave you with this idea—your real estate social media marketing will benefit immeasurably from a clear, documented strategy, with measurable goals and a mechanism for collecting and analyzing data. Used wisely, social media can help build your brand, engage your potential buyers and renters, generate leads, and establish your reputation as a trusted resource.
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Top Real Estate Marketing Trends 2019
It’s the start of a new year, and that means savvy marketers are looking to stay ahead of the curve. These top real estate marketing trends are what we see coming for 2019.
Real estate is a competitive and ever-changing industry. Just when your business settles into a successful routine, new marketing tactics and trends can throw you a curve ball. But being aware of the forces shaping the industry is the best way to hit your marketing efforts out of the park this new year. Here are the four top real estate marketing trends that we see coming in 2019.
1) It’s all about the video
If you’re a frequent reader of our blog, you’ll know that we’ve been writing about the astronomical rise of video in real estate marketing for a while now. We can’t stress it enough: video is here to stay, and it’s time your business starts embracing it as a highly effective content marketing tool.
Part of what makes video such an appealing form of content is its inherent shareability, which drives organic traffic. Getting your content and properties out to your base audience is one thing but empowering that audience to be your ambassadors is a huge next step. Creating appealing, engaging video is an ideal way to give your target audience material to share with their networks—with the potential to expand your reach exponentially.
2) People are craving authenticity
One of the dangers of a strong marketing presence is that it can almost become too smart and slick for its own good. It’s no surprise that, as Instagram edges us all towards posting only carefully curated, perfectly doctored reality, companies are likewise looking to share nothing but perfection.
But increasingly, social media users are craving authenticity. Of course, this doesn’t mean creating and sharing sloppy content, but it does mean allowing your followers to get a real, honest sense of your company and properties through the content you post on social media. Let your social media platforms be places where you engage your followers through compelling content that says something about the culture of your business and your passion for real estate.
3) Keep it personal
In a world of bots, robocalls, and AI, don’t underestimate the power of the personal. Much as users are seeking authenticity from marketers on social media, your potential buyers and renters will respond all the better to personalized content and relationship-building.
Whenever you can, add a personal touch to your communication with your audience. This doesn’t just mean adding their names to emails—in fact, marketing automation can (perhaps paradoxically) be your secret weapon when it comes to developing personal communication with potential buyers and renters. (Check our guide to marketing automation tools for real estate marketers here.)
4) Get creative
Writing and talking about creativity is a bit of a paradox. As soon as trends start to catch on and become, well—trends, they’re no longer shiny new innovations. One thing we can say for certain about the new year, and the future of real estate marketing going forward, is that creativity is going to be key.
While we can’t tell you exactly how to be creative, we can give you tips for developing an environment in which creativity can thrive. Being aware of trends, benchmarking your marketing efforts against those of your competitors, reading industry blogs, and listening to your client-base are just a few key ways to foster a culture of marketing creativity.
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Measuring Content Marketing Success? Check Out Our Top 3 Posts for Analytics and ROI
Measuring content marketing success for real estate can seem like a daunting task. Our top 3 blog posts on analytics and ROI will keep you on track.
We talk a lot here at Fronetics Real Estate about the importance of a data-driven approach when it comes to measuring content marketing success for real estate. Without a documented strategy, your efforts are likely to be scattershot and aimless. To grow your business strategically, you need to track your efforts, analyze successes and failures, and determine ROI.
This year, we’ve focused on analytics and ROI several times on our blog. Measuring content marketing success can often seem daunting, so we’ve aimed to share some tools that work for us. We’ve discussed why it’s important to benchmark your content marketing efforts against competitive properties, published a guide for real estate marketers to measure that ever-elusive brand awareness, and offered up a monthly marketing reporting template to help you track the right metrics.
Here are our top three most read analytics and ROI posts for 2018.
1. What Metrics Should You Track in Real Estate Marketing? (It’s key to measuring content marketing success)
Traditional real estate marketing involved a lot of “post and pray.” That is, marketers would place ads in local publications, on billboards, and with other traditional media outlets and hope that buyers and tenants would read them and take interest.
Our monthly marketing reporting template for real estate will help you measure success, drive strategy, and demonstrate ROI. Read more.
2. Why You Should Benchmark Real Estate Marketing Against Competitive Properties
When people are searching the internet for apartments or condos, what are they seeing? Part of an effective, data-driven marketing strategy is regularly taking the time to benchmark real estate marketing against competitive properties.
We all know that competition drives results. Take Elaine Thompson and Michael Phelps. In August 2016, Thompson claimed the title of the world’s fastest woman, and Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time. They achieved these incredible feats by continuously pushing themselves to do better — and they weren’t just tracking and measuring their personal performance. Read more.
3. How to Measure Brand Awareness: A Guide for Real Estate Marketers
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 that 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. Read more.
A final word
Thank you for making us your go-to source for real estate content marketing insights. Please join us in 2019 to learn the latest on measuring content marketing success and everything else you need to grow your real estate business.
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Top 10 Social Media Posts 2018
Here are Fronetics Real Estate’s most viewed social media marketing posts from the past 12 months.
We all know real estate marketing is increasingly intertwined with social media. These platforms are extremely powerful ways to engage with potential buyers and renters, and to reach new audiences. At Fronetics Real Estate, we write a lot about how to use social media for real estate marketing.
These are our top 10 social media posts from 2018.
1. 10 Social Media Statistics for Real Estate Marketers 2018
No matter what happens, we can always count on one thing to stay the same: Social media will always be changing. 2018 has been a remarkable example of that thus far, particularly in regard to platforms like Facebook. Every so often, we like to take a step back and look at what the data is telling us about where social media is heading and what that might mean for real estate marketers. Read more.
2. How Will Facebook Marketplace Housing Affect Real Estate Marketers?
If you’re a real estate marketer, Facebook’s newest foray into the social marketplace is likely to impact your strategy. In November, the ‘Book announced it would begin allowing users to search for housing rentals and sales on its Marketplace platform. For those who are unfamiliar, Marketplace is Facebook’s answer to Craigslist — a platform that lets users buy and sell items near them. Read more.
3. Social Media Trends for 2018 Real Estate Marketers Need to Know
If there’s one thing real estate marketers can be sure of in the coming year, it’s that social media will continue to dominate the marketing landscape. Social media presents tremendous opportunity, particularly if you’re aware of upcoming trends. Read more.
4. How to Use Social Media Hashtags in Real Estate Marketing
You’re likely to be vaguely aware of hashtags, at least in your personal social media life. But perhaps you’re not intimately familiar with how they can play into your real estate marketing strategy. Whether you #lol at it or not, using social media hashtags wisely can actually be a major boon to your social media marketing efforts. Read more.
5. A Visual Guide to Social Media Posting Frequency for Real Estate
“Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the pants.” These are wise words from BuzzFeed’s Jonathan Perelman, indicating that creating interesting and pertinent content is just half the battle. To reach your target buyer or tenant, raise brand awareness for your property, and drive sales, your content needs to be delivered consistently over time, at the right time, and on the right platform. Read more.
6. 4 Things to Do in Light of Facebook News Feed Changes
Mark Zuckerberg once again rocked the world on Jan. 11 — at least for businesses — when he announced that the Facebook News Feed was evolving to include less public content, meaning content from Pages of businesses, brands, and media. The algorithm will now prioritize posts from friends and family (over public posts) and those that “spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people.” Read more.
7. Should I Be Using Facebook Carousel Ads?
Facebook carousel ads offer a highly visual and engaging way to promote your properties. Not only that, Kinetic Social recently found that carousel ads are up to 10 times more effective than static sponsored Facebook posts at driving traffic to advertisers’ websites. And if that’s not enough, they boast a 72% higher click-through rate than single-image mobile app ads. Read more.
8. 5 Real Estate Instagram Accounts You Should be Following
Instagram remains an emerging platform for real estate professionals, and, given its overall popularity, it’s puzzling that it hasn’t taken over the real estate marketing world. With the majority of real estate searches beginning online, social media is an ideal way to showcase listings. Read more.
9. Must-Know Social Media Strategies for Real Estate
Real estate is a people business. That’s why you should leverage a marketing tool that is also all about people: social media. If you have not begun developing social media strategies for your real estate business, now is the time to get started. Consider for a minute that in 2017, 81% of Americans had at least one social media profile. And the numbers are projected to continue skyrocketing: by 2020, 200 million people just in the U.S. are estimated to be on social media. Read more.
10. Measure Social Media Success in Terms of Potential, not Dollar Amount
One of the trickiest things about implementing a social media strategy is that social media success can be difficult to measure. While most real estate professionals acknowledge that a social media marketing presence is important, it’s hard to make a case for resources when you can’t precisely quantify the value in terms of dollar amount. Read more.
Stay with us in 2019 for the latest on social media real estate marketing. Which posts will you find the most useful and interesting?
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