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Using Social Media to Market Apartments

I was recently given the privelege to co-moderate a brainstorming session on the topic of marketing. The session was held for members of the apartment management industry at various stages in their careers, from leasing agents who have been in the industry for 2 months to  property managers with 10 years of experience. My topic was old school marketing. Old [...]

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No matter what, the very first piece of social media real estate I’d start with is a blog. – Chris Brogan Blog About Everything Unrelated United Blogs of Benetton is one of my very favorite blogs. It was one of my early inspirations when I started writing a multifamily industry related one back in 2005. [...]

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Today’s call to action – wait.

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Could a platform like friendlist make For Rent’s likely crazy expensive quasi-distribution point irrelevant? Likely not but I secretly hope so…

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The jury is still out in my mind as it relates to the use of QR codes. I wrote about them three or four years ago and at the time I thought they were cool but today I have a very different opinion. Back then there was no real mass use commercial or otherwise and [...]

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We are always looking for new and creative ways to start conversation at Mills and we think our latest adventure is sure to be a hit. While we understand this will not resonate with everyone; we are certain there is a niche that will appreciate it and be moved by it. Some people just love [...]

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A ton has been written on the topic of Facebook as it relates to renting apartments and I don’t intend to belabor the point. Rather, I am curious to hear from our readers; What is/are your biggest struggle with it? What are your biggest successes? What would you tell someone who is thinking about starting [...]

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Mills Properties is making a thoughtful integration of social media principles into their Get Social with Mills Initiative. And, in doing so we decided to craft a document of social media principles for our apartment management company as a whole using thoughts, ideas and original works from in and outside of the industry. Social Media [...]

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Rule number one: People. Spread. Emotion. Rule number two: If there is no spread, see rule number one!

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