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Top 5 Real Estate Blog Posts of 2019 … So Far
Here are our most-viewed real estate blog posts from this year, covering topics from social media to the latest trends in digital marketing.
Throughout the year, we regularly write blog posts to help our readers stay on top of the latest news and happenings in the real estate industry, particularly in regard to digital marketing. We hope these posts provide insight, tips, and insider information on how the consistent publication of quality content can help you edge ahead of the competition.
We’ve covered some great stuff this year, from new trends (like automation) to questions that clients ask year after year (like how real estate brands use social media). Here’s a look at our most popular posts so far this year.
Top real estate blog posts from 2018 (so far)
1. 5 Tips to Step Up Your Real Estate Social Media Marketing
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. Here are five tips to boost your real estate social media marketing efforts. Read more
2. Google Analytics for Real Estate Marketers – 4 Steps to Get Started
When it comes to gaining insights into real estate leads, Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools out there right now. 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. Read more
3. 6 Simple Tools for Creating Animated Real Estate Marketing Videos
Savvy real estate marketers are jumping on the video bandwagon, but the process can still be intimidating. Creating an animated image, GIF, or video can sound impossibly difficult — particularly if you’re over the age of 15! But in reality, there are plenty of tools that make creating these items not only simple but cost–effective as well. Read more
4. The Role of Social Media in Luxury Real Estate Marketing
In the ultra-competitive field of luxury real estate marketing, social media can be your secret weapon. Real estate is inherently personal, even at the corporate and luxury levels, and marketers can effectively use social media to cultivate productive relationships with leads. Here are four ways social media can boost your luxury real estate marketing efforts. Read more
5. Top Real Estate Marketing Trends 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. Read more
For more useful tips, return to this space. We post twice a week, every week of the year.
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Posts Tagged "paid digital advertising"
Infographic: Best Video Distribution Channels for Real Estate Marketing
Knowing the right video distribution channels for your real estate marketing videos can go a long way toward driving traffic and getting your content to your target audience.
Highlights:
- Choose video distribution channels that match your marketing goals.
- Don’t underestimate the power of your own network — use this network as the starting point for distribution.
- Paid ads can give video an extra boost.
You made the leap and embraced video marketing, the latest trend in digital marketing. The videos are informative and show what makes your brand unique, BUT they are not getting the views or shares you were expecting.
After dedicating your time and hard work (not to mention, marketing dollars), you want to make sure your real estate marketing videos are getting in front of your target audience and helping move buyers down the sales funnel. How can you do that? The answer is distribution.
Choosing the right platform (or platforms) to distribute your videos will help boost reach and ROI. But how do you know what platforms are right for you? Platforms and marketing trends are constantly changing; it’s hard to know which distribution channels are best for your target audience. Let us help.
Here are the four best video distribution channels for your real estate marketing videos.
1. Your network
Don’t underestimate the power of your own existing network. Send your videos, via email, to your primary contacts and everyone in your current database. In a recent study, emails with video had a 96% higher click-through rate than emails without video. With such increased engagement numbers, including video in your emails is surely a homerun.
2. Social media
Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and — of course — YouTube are great to reach your target audience. Within the social media category, you want to consider which platforms suit your content best. YouTube is a great place to start, but there are also many real estate specific online forums and social groups that can benefit you as well.
And don’t worry if you have longer videos that won’t work for platforms like Instagram. You can easily create teaser videos for promotion on Instagram that link to your long-form videos embedded on your website or video channel.
3. Blogs
Blogs are one of the easiest ways to drive organic traffic and increase lead generation. Promote your video on your own blog to reach your followers and boost your SEO. Blogs are also a great place to experiment with different types of marketing videos. Whether video tutorials, interviews, or even “Get to Know Us” videos, your blog is great place to capitalize on your videos by integrating them into your existing marketing efforts.
4. Paid ads
While the first three video distribution channels that we discussed are organic, sometimes it is well worth it to use paid ads to give your videos a significant boost, such as Google Ads. Paid ads help get your videos in front of prospective buyers and renters faster than would happen organically. Pair quality video with a comprehensive digital advertising strategy, and you will be in a position to drive more traffic, create more brand visibility, and sell or lease more properties.
Bottom line
We live in a highly visual world. Real estate marketing with video is an immediate and effective way to reach your audience and show them what makes your brand and properties special. Using the right video distribution channels helps you get the most out of your video marketing efforts.
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- 6 Simple Tools for Creating Animated Real Estate Marketing Videos
- 4 Real Estate Blogging Tools You Should be Using
- 3 Ways to Boost Your Real Estate Marketing with Video
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Paid Social Advertising: Why Your Property Should Invest in Lead Ads
Paid social advertising can help accelerate your digital marketing efforts so your content gets in front of prospective buyers faster — they don’t even have to leave the app to sign up.
Highlights:
- 86% of marketers are using paid social advertising and organic tactics to boost leads through social media.
- Lead ads include a contact form that prospects can submit without ever leaving the app.
- Use paid social advertising to boost the reach of your posts, display ads, and videos.
There are 3.2 billion active daily users on social media platforms today. Clearly social media has some reach. In fact, 93% of B2B marketers report using social media as part of their strategy.
But as social media platforms continue to grow, it has become harder for marketers to stand out among the influx of content. So how do real estate marketers make sure audiences are seeing their properties? The answer: Paid advertising.
With 86% of marketers now combining paid and organic tactics as part of their social media strategies, you can hardly afford to be an observer.
How paid social advertising works
Paid ads on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and now LinkedIn, allow you to run lead-generation campaigns. Potential buyers and renters then come across your ad when they scroll through their newsfeeds. Just set the parameters (e.g. demographics, location, etc.) for your target audience, and the network’s algorithm will identify who sees the ad based on information they’ve provided in their profiles.
But here’s the real kicker: Unlike other ad types, lead ads include a contact form that prospects can fill out without ever leaving the app.
Need more convincing? Here at Fronetics Real Estate, we find Facebook Lead Ads one of the most effective for lead generation. The streamlined process and ease of signing up make it more likely prospects will convert to leads. Besides, you save time and money because you don’t have to create extra landing pages to capture their contact information.
Lead generation made easy
These days, people expect that everything from shopping to job searching can be done on their handheld devices. Paid social ads make that true for people wanting to learn more about potential properties.
Here’s how it works: When prospects click on a lead ad their contact information automatically populates the form based on information from their profile. They don’t have to leave Facebook (or other apps) to visit the property’s website or take time to fill out their contact information. Lead ads make submitting information as easy as two taps on a phone: one to open the ad and one to submit the information.
“Companies that invest in social media ads are more than twice as likely to say social media marketing is ‘very effective’ for their business.” 2019 State of Social Report
Creating and modifying your ads
As buyers continue to turn to their handheld devices for quick, easy information, paid social ads will give your property the opportunity to capture new leads with the click of a button. But just like any form of lead generation, you need to monitor and tweak your paid ads for optimal results.
Using tools like Facebook’s Ads Manager reporting interface, you can obtain reports about cost, impressions, and clicks. As with all marketing tools, consistent refinement is the key to success, particularly in real estate marketing. Lead ads can easily be fine-tuned to cultivate a larger target audience.
By investing in paid social advertising, you can boost the reach of your posts, display ads, and videos. Pair quality content with a comprehensive digital advertising strategy, and you will be positioned to drive more traffic, create more brand visibility, and sell or lease more properties.
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- Paid Digital Advertising: A Beginner’s Guide for Real Estate Marketers
- How Pay-Per-Click Helped This Property Get 54 Leads
- The Role of Social Media in Luxury Real Estate Marketing
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Top 10 Real Estate Marketing Posts 2017
Here are Fronetics Real Estate’s most-viewed real estate marketing posts from the last year.
2017 was an exciting year for Fronetics Real Estate. We officially launched our brand, and website, in September. But despite our relatively recent kickoff, FRE is an entity born out of a longstanding expertise in real estate marketing. We have been working with residential and commercial real estate clients for many years under our parent brand, Fronetics.
It is that expertise that we aim to provide for the readers of the Fronetics Real Estate blog. This year, the following have been our most-viewed posts.
Top 10 real estate marketing posts
1) Using Content Marketing to Market and Sell Luxury Real Estate
In real estate sales, you want people to find your properties, like what they see, and ultimately be moved to purchase. In other words, you want to attract visitors, convert visitors to leads, and convert leads to deals. Innovative luxury real estate firms are finding ways to leverage digital tools to guide more buyers down that path to purchase. Read more
2) This Is How Often Real Estate Companies Should Post on Social Media
With social media networks changing daily, it’s hard to keep up with where to distribute content, much less how often. Countless studies have attempted to solve the social-media-frequency equation. And while audiences vary across price points and regions, best practices give us some general guidelines. Here’s our assessment of social media posting frequency. Read more
3) The Metrics You Should Be Measuring in Real Estate Marketing (Hint: Not Vanity Metrics)
Whether renting a new property or launching a social media campaign, we look for instantaneous numbers that will affirm we made the right choices. But here’s the problem: not all metrics are created equal. So-called vanity metrics are measurements that have no bearing on your bottom line but can give you an inflated sense of success. Read more
4) Learn How Content Marketing Increased Real Estate Sales by 37% in 90 Days
Consider this case study of a leading real estate marketing firm who chose to use digital and content marketing to shake up their traditional marketing approach. After just three months of beginning a digital and content marketing program, the firm recognized significant gains in web traffic, social media engagement, and brand exposure. Read more
5) This Is the First Thing You Should Do in Real Estate Marketing
Content marketing is one of the most effective ways to elevate your property’s reputation in the market, reach prospective buyers or tenants, and increase occupancy. Yet while many real estate marketers are using content marketing, not all feel their efforts are successful. Why do so many organizations feel they are failing? Simply put, they do not have a documented strategy in place. Read more
6) Real Estate Firm Grows Sales by 300% through Content Marketing
this case study about a prominent real estate marketing firm in one of the most competitive markets in the U.S. When traditional tactics weren’t bringing in the kind of business needed to sell 1,500 new-construction homes in a new planned community, the firm turned to a new content marketing program to increase web traffic and build brand awareness. Read more
7) Social Media Can Be a Strategic Weapon in Real Estate Marketing
The real estate industry is built on relationships, partnerships, cooperation, networks, and communication. Being social is a key part of forging a successful real estate marketing strategy. It’s time for the industry to embrace the tools that social media platforms offer. Read more
8) Paid Digital Advertising: A Beginner’s Guide for Real Estate Marketers
By investing in paid digital advertising, you can boost the reach of your posts, display ads, and videos. Pair quality content with a comprehensive digital advertising strategy, and you will be in a position to drive more traffic, create more brand visibility, and sell or lease more properties. Read more
9) 6 Signs It’s Time to Consider Outsourcing Your Real Estate Marketing
Real estate companies are increasingly open to outsourcing real estate management because it allows them to focus on their core competencies while improving effectiveness. So why not apply the same rationale to bolster your marketing efforts? Don’t be afraid to look outside the box for the marketing tools you need to succeed. Read more
10) 5 Tips for Building a Successful Real Estate Social Media Marketing Program
Social media is an excellent tool for real estate marketers to communicate with residents/tenants, build brand awareness, gain market intelligence, and even identify prospective tenants or buyers. Particularly if the latter is your focus, it’s easy to celebrate every follower you earn as a marketing success. But it’s important to remember that a social media follower doesn’t necessarily equal a buyer/tenant. After all, participating in social media is not only about earning a large following; it’s about building relationships with those people. Read more
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- 4 Tools for Determining the Best Time to Post on Social Media for Your Property
- Start Your Property’s Social Media Program in Six Steps
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