Educate your consumer and they will come back over and over – We see examples of this all over the place. My favorite however is Wine Library TV – dial into the 3:50 min section of this video – it is the point. You get people to this and you are on your way to what I will end this series with.
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…you are not ready to be a marketer. You see, the essence of social media is conversation and that conversation is you being a marketer. So in order to use to social media to market you must be willing to be a marketer, you must be willing to engage.
When you use social media to market [...]
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Arlington, VA–April 9, 2009–Several of social media’s greatest minds will discuss how this popular marketing approach applies to customer service and retention during a session at the National Apartment Association’s 2009 Education Conference & Exposition on June 27 in Las Vegas.
Tony Hsieh, the CEO of online shoes retailer Zappos, is one of the featured panelists. [...]
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Don’t be Boring
First off – I despise the word rule. In the same respect I think it is appropriate to suggest that we can not be boring when using social media to market apartments. And, know that boring includes the use of social media to push goods and services.
Social media is not push marketing [...]
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I ran across this Ning Page night before last – it’s a closed network but I have to wonder what EQR is up to. On the surface, it appears to be a place for employees to share experiences and or best practices. If it truely is open to employees to share I applaud the efforts [...]
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Apartment residents move for a variety of reasons and many times we have no idea why. It’s kind of a shame, really. Social media/networking can help change that and by default drive down our cost of turnover. Think about it, if you couple the advent of the internet with the understanding that people are innately [...]
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Consumer Online Reviews Strongly Influence Purchase Decisions
According to a recent survey by Deloitte’s Consumer Products group, consumers are
turning to online reviews in large numbers, and those reviews are
having a considerable impact on purchase decisions. 62 percent of
consumers read consumer-written product reviews on the Internet, says
the report, and of these, more than eight in 10 say [...]
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