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Mar 20 2018
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Want more new homebuyer inbound leads? Your Guide to Landing Page Success.

By BP News, Digital Marketing Resources, Rewarding Prospect Engagement, Uncategorized No Comments
How do you know when a young millennial couple is shopping your website and dreaming about their first home? You don't, unless they self-identify. How do you encourage them to reach out so you can support their search? That's the topic of our blog post today. We interviewed HubSpot Gold Partner Spencer Powell, with the Builder Funnel about how to develop an effective promotional landing page. "Effective" for purposes of this this article means that a landing page increases inbound leads for New Home Builder brands. The outcome of our interview is this Guide to Premium Content and Landing Page Success.  If you read nothing else, listen to Spencer's answer to our first question. It's a compelling argument for creating landing pages that trade relevant premium content for a prospective home buyer's contact information, so you can get them into your sales funnel.   Marketing Blueprints: Most of our clients have invested in beautifully designed websites with gorgeous imagery of their homes. Why do you need to use promotional landing pages in addition to a beautiful, well designed website? Spencer Powell: The answer to this question of "why a landing page?" is a good one! We recently looked back at an early client and analyzed data over 3 years that looked at leads coming into their website. The data is compelling in support of landing pages as effective lead generators. Here are the simple data:
  • 5-7% of leads came through a "contact us" form
  • 93-95% of prospects who came into the website downloaded a brochure, eBook, checklist and filled out information on a landing page.
Home shoppers are researching and browsing tons of sites like Zillow, Trulia and Builder listing websites. If you don't capture them when they are on your site, they may never come back. You need to give your prospects a reason to take action to launch themselves into your sales funnel.  Every page on your website is an opportunity to convert a prospect into an engaged home buyer with your brand. Marketing Blueprints: What's the number one goal of building a promotional landing page? Spencer: Get people to fill out the form which shares their contact information. Marketing Blueprints: Including the form, how many conversion opportunities should a landing page offer? Spencer: We like to have 2-3 opportunities to convert.  It's important to remember that we don't know where website visitors are in their buyer's journey, so we like to provide options that are relevant to any stage of their home shopping research. Here are some ideas for conversion tactics that get action:
  • Contact us
  • Schedule a Tour
  • Schedule a private appointment
  • Download a brochure
  • Download our move-in checklist
  • Download (other Premium Content - discussed below)
Marketing Blueprints: Can you give us some examples of premium content that would be relevant to a prospect shopping for a new home? And, can you give our readers your time saving tips for creating that content? Marketers are super busy. Spencer: The easiest and least time consuming way to develop content is to reformat what you already have. Ask someone convert your Community Brochure into a nice looking PDF (which should cost you less than $100). Prospects want a summary of what is already available free on your website in the form of a Community Brochure and they are willing to give you their contact information for that. So, take what you have and repackage it into a PDF. Marketing Blueprints:  If you've already converted your Community Brochure and you want to create some new premium content, what topics are worth developing? Spencer: These are a few titles and formats that we have found to work well for New Home Builder content:
  • Your Process of Building a New Home (repurpose from your own content)
  • Kitchen Design Guide (use your existing images)
  • Beautiful Bathrooms (use your existing images)
  • Model Home Comparison Guide and Checklist
  • Move-in Checklist
  • Home Buying Checklist
  • Home Design Guide - options, selections, layouts, colors
  • Download e-Book for Space Planning
  • Financing Your Dream Home (repurpose your content into a PDF if your brand has Mortgage products)
Marketing Blueprints: Where can Marketers get help to create this content? Many of our clients are strapped for time already. Spencer: There are 4 good options for this which depend on your company size and resources:
  • Existing Digital Agencies likely have your assets and can easily create some PDF's and a landing page.
  • Builder Funnel can create all of this for you.
  • Upwork has excellent freelance writers and artists who are easy to work with.
  • Subscribe to landing page software. Here are a few of our favorites. HubSpot (our preferred choice, but it's more than just landing page software), UnBounce, Lead Pages. They're easy!
Marketing Blueprints: Would you agree that the key feature of this landing page is Premium Content? Spencer: Yes! The page is all about telling your prospective home buyer, "Here's what you are going to get if you fill out this form." Without the premium content, you cannot necessarily convert these types of inbound leads. They are looking for information they can use to support their home research and ultimately their decision to purchase in your Community. Marketing Blueprints: How do you organize and build the actual landing page? Spencer: It depends on the size of your Builder entity and the kind of internal support you have. So first let's talk about what goes into this kind of landing page. General best practices say that your landing page header banner matches your website banner. There should be no navigation because you want to keep prospects focused on your Call to Action (CTA). Your landing page should use just a "little bit" of copy (paragraph total). People need to see a good graphic visual of what they are getting in exchange for sharing their information with you. Here's a simple way to think about the content, once you've applied your web look n' feel to the banner: 1.) The Pitch - Here's what you get when you fill out this form. Here's what's inside (describe what's of value in the content they can download). See the example below:   2.) Set up the form you are asking your prospective home buyer to complete: Enable prospects to fill out their information to receive the premium content. Once they fill it out, your landing page should initiate two other actions. A typical form asks for a first/last name, email contact and phone number at the absolute least. This way you are able to contact the person who filled out the form. At that point, we know they are interested in what you have to offer, so it's important to contact them.
  • A second landing page says thank you to the prospect for engaging. This second landing page can then be used for another Call to Action. Offer your prospect the opportunity to schedule an appointment at your Sales Center. Some of them will be ready to take that next step. You won't know if you don't ask them!
  • The form they fill out should also initiate an email that thanks them for engaging and reinforces the benefits of the Community you are marketing.
Marketing Blueprints: That's pretty simple. Thank you! Now...How do you get prospects to visit your landing page? Spencer: This is a simple and important last step that many people forget to implement. You need to create a "Call to Action Button". The button needs to be designed and you can use the same options as we described above for the landing page and content design. Also, Canva.com is a great graphic support site that lets non-artists create simple graphics like a CTA button.  Then you need to place your newly designed CTA button on every page of your Community Brochure on either side or bottom navigation. Here's an example: Marketing Blueprints: Now that you have a landing page on your site and CTA buttons in your Community content, how should Builder Marketers get prepared to take action on prospect lead forms? Spencer: Your form needs to feed into an email or CRM that is monitored by staff who can take action and respond to prospective home buyers. This is critical. Please don't spend money investing in a landing page unless you have this part of the process in place. The communication outreach is a simple email that might say, "Hi! Thanks for downloading our Community Brochure. Can I help answer any questions?" Be sure to put the new prospect on your email list and your newsletter list. You will want them to automatically get updates and to be invited to Community Events, etc. Marketing Blueprints: Do you have any bonus tips for readers who are advanced landing page users? Spencer: Yes! There is so much more than can be done to engage and talk to people digitally. Here are a few more ideas if Marketers have the time and capabilities.
  • When a home shopper fills out the form, redirect them to a thank you page and the thank you page is a landing page with the download on it.
  • You can then add a "step two" on the Thank You page that invites them to take further action and come visit the Community, schedule a private tour, join an upcoming event, attend a financing workshop, etc.
  • If they fill out the form, you automatically have a sales-ready lead!
  • Once they've filled out the form, they get specific nurturing campaigns tied into the Community. Nurturing Campaigns leverage your efforts to acquire a lead for your home buyer sales funnel.
Marketing Blueprints: How do we leverage the time and money we've spent launching our landing page? Time is money and our readers are incredibly busy. Spencer: You've gone to the effort of creating content, a landing page and a system for following up on the leads, so you want to use it! Here are some ways to leverage your investment in new premium content across other marketing channels:
  • Re-engage your data base with a promotional email letting them know you have a new piece of premium content.
  • Immediately present the content to prospects that are already part of your nurturing campaigns.
  • Post information about your new premium content on your Social Media Pages.
  • Write an article about your new content in your Newsletter before you send your next update.
  • Write an article about your new content in your company blog.
  • If you use a branded USB drive to deliver Community content, add the new premium content as a bonus.
Thanks Spencer! We appreciate your tips for creating landing pages that build lead volume for New Home Communities. I know our readers will enjoy immediate access to this simple Landing Page Checklist so they can begin to use premium landing pages to encourage qualified home shoppers to share their information.

Landing Page Checklist - Premium Content Success

Home shoppers are online researching and getting educated so that they feel comfortable with their choice of new home builder. Giving them content they can use in this process engenders trust and prospects are willing to share their contact information in return. We hope this blog post adds value to your Marketing and that you test some of these tactics to enjoy a higher volume of leads. Thank for stopping by! See you soon. Cheers! Leslie Bridges, Chief Blogger Marketing Blueprints is sponsored by Builder Promotions. Builder Promotions is a complete solution of branded products and print collateral that support the entire new home buyer journey.
Dec 12 2017
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Filling Your New Home Events with Plenty of Prospects – Phase Two Execution

By BP News, Community Events - Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Resources No Comments
We know that our Builder Marketer clients use our platform to consolidate purchases of branded marketing supplies to save time, because they must attend to a long list of digital marketing tasks that are necessary to launching their Communities. This is the second in our blog series about how to use digital marketing tactics to fill your new home community events with lots of prospects. In our first blog post on this topic, we covered the important asset and content building involved in getting ready for your new home marketing event. Spencer Powell, with the Builder Funnel, outlined a simple step by step process that provides a virtual map of the tactical work that needs to get done in order to have a successful Community Marketing event that brings in enough of the right prospects.  We're going to jump right in here and move to the Phase Two Execution. This assumes you've created content and built your assets for your Event. Here's the second part of our interview with Spencer. Marketing Blueprints:  So much to do, so little time.  Planning really helps. Now that you've set up your schedule and all your assets are in place, how do you get people to your event? Spencer Powell, Builder Funnel: Now that you've developed your assets and content, you'll see why it pays to get all that lined up early.  At this point, about 3 weeks out, it's all about inviting your list, amplifying to the surrounding community via Social Media and consistent reminders to get them there. Here's our checklist for Phase Two Execution, Filling Your Events: 1. 3 emails to leads in your system database for that specific community to invite them to your Event.  Link to the landing page and RSVP form you have developed (see our first post for this if you haven't read it yet).
  •        Email #1 goes to everyone on your list
  •      Email #2 goes to the non-reads from email #1
  •        Email #3 goes to everyone who opened emails #1 & 2, but did not click
2. Reminder emails to RSVP List:
  •      One week before your Event
  •      One day before your event
  •      The morning of your Event            
3. Publish Post on Social Media - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
  • Promote the event on Facebook once a week, 3 weeks out, twice a week 2 weeks out and several times per week in the week leading up to the event.
  • You can follow the same guidelines for Instagram.
  • I would sprinkle in 4-5 tweets per week on Titter starting 3 weeks out. You can be a bit more liberal with Twitter since it's a constant stream and you'll be mixing in other posts as well.
4. Run Social Advertising - One of the best proven methods for boosting a post for brand awareness is called the Mari Method, names after Mari Smith.  Essentially, you leave the post "as is" first. The best posts to boost are the ones that are already organically performing well.  Post that are outperforming others do even better when a little budget is added under them. So, let your post sit for a day and if it's doing well, add $15-$50 to that post to really pour the gasoline on! Marketing Blueprints:  This sounds so organized!  What a relief for Builder Marketers who are pulled in every direction with tons of competing priorities.  In the interest of keeping it real, what would you say are the top three challenges Builder Marketers face in organizing for their events? Spencer Powell, Builder Funnel: I notice three areas where our clients run into challenges:   
  • Timing - Ideally it's 4-6 weeks out but a lot of Builder Marketers don't get the information they need to plan ahead with that cushion of time.
  • Assets can be a challenge to secure for some Marketers because they are held by outsourced providers or corporate graphics departments who are over-burdened with requests.
  • Weather - Out of your control and influences attendance up and down.
Marketing Blueprints: Often people perceive that landing pages are time-consuming or expensive. How would you engage a Web or IT contact to get your landing page done? Spencer Powell, Builder Funnel: Sometimes getting IT, Digital Marketing or an Agency to create a landing page can be a pain, but here's a simple piece of communication text you can use to request it from your Web/IT team: "Hi there! I'm working to get more people into an event in a month, and I need your help building an RSVP page. It can be really simple.  I've attached the image I'd like to use on the page, and I've included the content below. Please use a 2 column, skinny right format.  Use the left side for the content and the right side for the RSVP form.  Please request First Name, Last Name and Email on the form, and require all the fields. The follow up email should come from me, and I've also included those details below.  Please have any form notifications directed to my email @ ________________." (Insert the landing page content you developed for the event here) (Insert your email follow up content you developed for the event here) Marketing Blueprints: Thanks Spencer! We're excited about this awesome bonus content, too. We asked Spencer to develop a simple checklist that we could share in a PDF document so that our readers can save it to a desktop as a resource, deploy new team members to get ready for events or use it as a map for an upcoming event. Click the button below to get your copy. Home Builder Event Marketing Checklist   Thanks for stopping by. Head over to our Facebook page and let us know if you have any other tips you'd add to this checklist!  Cheers! Leslie Bridges, Chief Blogger Marketing Blueprints is sponsored by Builder Promotions. Builder Promotions is the leading builder-centric e-Commerce and creative services platform helping new home builders centralize purchases of branded marketing supplies used to support the entire new home buyer journey. BP Custom Shopper(tm), a Builder Promotions signature service, brings creative sourcing support to Division Marketers nationwide.  
Dec 05 2017
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Filling an Event at Your New Home Community – First in a Series

By BP News, Digital Marketing Resources, Uncategorized No Comments
When our clients host an event at their new home community, we create a memorable branded gift that deepens a prospect's connection to the brand, after the event has passed. So that's one task our busy Division Marketer clients can check off their long list of Event "to dos". But we know that's not even a fraction of the work to be done to launch an event. We know that the important work of making any event a success is drawing a crowd! Our readers will be excited to learn that in this blog post, we're interviewing Builder Funnel marketing expert Spencer Powell, about building traffic for your events. We know that economy of time is important to Builder Marketers, and we love Spencer's efficient step by step approach to planning and executing an event filled with interested prospects. And, to make life easy for our readers, we asked Spencer to create bonus content so you can download the checklist and keep it as digital resource. We'll share it later in the post. Here's the interview: Marketing Blueprints: Can you tell us how you approach the planning and execution for new home community events? Spencer Powell,  Builder Funnel: We help our new home builder clients approach this in two phases. The first phase is building out your digital assets. The second phase is implementing your outreach campaign leading up to the event. Marketing Blueprints: Can you start by giving us your check list for building assets? Spencer Powell, Builder Funnel: Yes, it's a simple list. Ideally the process begins 4-6 weeks out before an event is actually going to take place. The timing plays an important role in growing your RSVP list. If you are tight on time, feel free to download the checklist and read it when it's most convenient for you.                                                                

Turnkey Digital Marketing Event Checklist

Here’s our Phase One checklist:
  1. Make a Schedule so that tasks on this checklist are placed within the time frame leading up to your event. Even if you have less time than is ideal, a schedule helps you keep track of anyone on your team who is helping you get this done. 
  1. Access or request existing community content you will need to share in emails, on your landing page and in social posts. Having this ready will keep you on schedule.
  • Video Tour
  • Community Brochure
  • Floorplans
  • Lifestyle & Home Imagery content
  1. Prepare your email content for the invite to your Database and calendar reminders to everyone who sends an RSVP.
  2. Develop an Event landing Page. This is where people will RSVP on your website. The landing page should include information about the event, enticing community imagery and all the event details communicated with a sense of excitement.
Example:
  1. Create a “Thank You Page” that is automated from the Landing page to express your appreciation for the RSVP. Tell people how excited you are that they are attending. This is where you share exciting information about the Community you are promoting. It’s a perfect place to deliver “bonus content” like floor plans, a video tour, and your community brochure to everyone who RSVP’s. Ultimately the thank you page shows your appreciation and reinforces the prospects attraction to the community.
Example:      6. Write an automated follow up email for people who close out before they get the thank you message. It should be a             duplicate of the Thank you page. Example:     7. Leverage the Division Website using a Call to Action Graphic that links to the Event Landing page. Example:
  1. Prepare your Social Posts with links back to the landing page to create excitement leading up to your Event. Use event announcement, video tours of your community and home lifestyle imagery content to entice prospective home buyers.
  • Facebook – Create an event page and post an album for the Community
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Houzz – Post a project around your Models
  • YouTube – Video Tour
In our second post we'll discuss the execution of the Event campaign. Here's a sneak peek. Marketing Blueprints: So much to do, so little time. Planning really helps. Now that you’ve set up your schedule and you've built all your digital assets, how do you get people to your Event? Spencer Powell, Builder Funnel:  Now that you’ve developed your assets and content, you’ll see why it pays to get all that lined up early. At this point, about 3 weeks out, it’s all about inviting your list, amplifying to the surrounding community via Social Media and consistent reminders to get them there. If you can't wait for our second post, feel free to download the checklist and save it as a resource to plan your upcoming events.              Home Builder Event Marketing Checklist Thanks for sharing your turnkey checklist with us Spencer! We look forward to sharing Event Marketing Phase Two in our next post.  To our readers and clients -- we hope this content adds value to your Community Marketing and makes your work just a little bit easier, too. Cheers! Leslie Bridges, Chief Blogger Marketing Blueprints is sponsored by Builder Promotions. Builder Promotions is the leading builder-centric e-Commerce and creative services platform helping new home builders centralize purchases of branded marketing supplies used to support the entire new home buyer journey. BP Custom Shopper(tm), a Builder Promotions signature service, brings creative sourcing support to Division Marketers nationwide.
Feb 11 2016
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Who are the Influencers in a New Home Sale?

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bluebonnets-STOCK-1200x540 Who wouldn't want to share this beautiful photo? That's probably what Lennar Homes thought when they posted this lifestyle image for one of their new home communities in Texas. For a lot of us, it's not about the house. It's about what we see through our windows and the spaces outside  where we explore with a small child on a Saturday morning or get out for a run after work. These kinds of images cut through the burden of home buying details and give buyers a sense of how it would feel to live in that home. If you are an Influencer, you want to share this image with people you know. You can't help yourself! It's a gorgeous piece of shareable content. Builders want to be thinking about how to get relevant content to their Influencer audience. I received this infographic about Influence Marketing today. It got me thinking about who the Influencers are for a new home sale. Here are three influencer categories from my perspective. What do you think? Realtors - They can influence their clients to consider the benefits of a new home while they are also looking at resale homes. We recently wrote a post about what Realtors want from Builders. Connectors/Brand Advocates - Connectors are people who love to share content with their networks. They are easy to find if you can send a short NPS survey. You can use a question like, "How likely would you be to refer people in your network to our new home communities?" Nothing better than a one question survey - fast, easy and takes no time away from your customers. When you have this data, take the responders with the highest score and do a quick search to see who is most active digitally. Even if it's a handful, you have the seeds of an Influence Marketing effort. Sales team members may intuitively know who some of these Connectors are, and they may be ready to broadcast for you. All you have to do is ask and share content. The Social Media Examiner has written a good article with 9 reasons you want to engage with these Influencers. Lifestyle Bloggers - If you can connect with a Blogger in your markets, you have a way to leverage your content across a much larger group of home buying consumers. GroupHigh helps companies build profitable relationships with Bloggers. They offer a good database of Blog titles, subject matter, audience demographic, audience reach and tools to easily cultivate relationships on behalf of your builder brand. I love this quote because it reminds us to aspire to give our brands greater meaning. And I think it also makes it easier to connect with Influencers. new-brand-rules-3-728Builder brands are thoughtfully designing living environments that inspire a sense of community, provide an environment for families to connect and offer spaces for renewal and creativity. Influencers will tell people about the important work you are doing, if you can find and engage them!   Have you identified your influencers?  Do you have a Social Influencer Campaign in place? We'd love to hear from you, and we are actively seeking guest bloggers on this topic. Please connect with us if you are a Home Builder Marketer and would like to cultivate this conversation further through a guest blog post or series. Thanks for stopping by and engaging with us. Cheers! Leslie Bridges, Chief Blogger Marketing Blueprints is sponsored by Builder Promotions, an e-commerce, and mobile procurement platform delivering branded products used throughout the new home selling cycle. Builder Promotions proprietary GroupBuy service enables Divisions to benefit from collaborative purchasing.
Aug 28 2015
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Can an effective CRM tool help you predict your next home buyer? Marketing Blueprints interviews Lars Helgeson, CEO GreenRope.com

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I recently did some marketing consulting for a start-up firm who had purchased Salesforce.com. I loved having one central tool for capturing prospect brand touches and engagement, but I was stunned at the cost per subscriber, and unhappy with the price to "customize" for our business. That set me on a search for a CRM partner that would be nimble and easy on the budget. CRM is a business "must-have" when you are managing lots of prospects, and there are many options out there. When, I heard Lars Helgeson, CEO of GreenRope, speak at a Digital Marketers conference, I  knew I had found the CRM expertise I'd been seeking. I asked to interview him for Marketing Blueprints because our clients are managing a large segment of the nation's home buying prospects. Great CRM is paramount to the new home sales process. Here's our interview: Leslie:  CRM “Customer Relationship Management” has different operational meaning to different people. How do you define it? Lars: Salesforce dominates the CRM conversation, and that creates perceived barriers for mid-market and smaller companies who benefit from the efficiencies and expanded marketing capability of an effective CRM tool. Some people think CRM is the same as their contact database. Others think it’s synonymous with their email program. Within the framework of the Homebuilder industry, CRM is an eco-system that works to generate new homeowners. Leslie:  What specific features should a CRM tool encompass? Lars: It’s important to say that features are only as powerful as their ability to integrate and provide a 360-degree view of your prospect’s journey to purchase a new home. That said, an effective CRM tool needs to deliver:
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Social Network Marketing
  • Opt-in SMS Text Marketing
  • Real-time Tracking and Stats
  • Automated Sales Tools
  • Survey tools
  • Event Management and Calendars
  • Project/Task Management
  • Predictive Analytics
Leslie:  70% of leads generated by marketing efforts are not ready to make a purchase, and that makes a compelling case for the importance of Customer Relationship Management in any industry. Builder Promotions’ clients know that they have to educate and engage prospects to move them closer to purchasing a new home. Why do people stall their decisions to adopt a holistic CRM tool? Lars:  Our customers have told us that it feels like a big change, and that equates to time, which is scarce for Marketers everywhere. People don’t realize that it’s relatively simple to get started. Most marketers have a list of contacts or leads.  A smart CRM partner will get that data input for you during the onboarding process. You can start using the CRM eco-system immediately to segment and target your list. That drives conversion because you are relating to prospects more specifically and demonstrating that you understand what they desire from their new home community. Leslie:  GreenRope has built-in predictive analytics. It's an exciting area of CRM that has immediate application to the homebuilder sales cycle. Can you tell us about how that works?images (2)
Lars: Let's talk briefly about Analytics and its value to Marketers. Analytics is defined as the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data.  You look at any website analytics, and you can see how many people visited your website, who is referring to you and how people are searching. Ideally, analytics delivers actionable insights in service of your business goals.  That's what Google and other analytics services offer.  With the right CRM tool, you should get proprietary tracking that looks for specific contacts in your CRM to see how they are engaging with you.  Analytics offerings like Google and others cannot do this because they don't track individuals.  Only a good CRM can do this for you. Now, the next step is to understand Predictive Analytics.  Your CRM will capture data about your prospects and every engagement they've had with your brand. Predictive analytics looks at this historical data (tracking of homebuyers throughout the sales cycle) and builds a model around what causes conversions, or actions that lead to the purchase of a new home. We've made it simple to correlate conversions during the sales cycle, to home purchase behavior. Once you apply that model to people who have not yet purchased a home, you know exactly where to spend your Marketing and Sales energy.  It's empowering for Sales and incredibly cost effective for Marketing. Leslie:  Can you share some of the benefits of a good CRM system? Lars:  I always use GreenRope as an example. We are a company of 20 people supporting 1700 clients in 20 countries because of automation and the portability of information. CRM gives people a user-friendly way to view prospect demographics and behavior. The CRM eco-system tracks anonymous data until a prospect self-identifies through a conversion (registering, filling out a survey, taking a tour, etc.). When prospects do self-identify, the CRM tool back-fills all the data and Sales gets a map of the buyer’s journey.  It’s very simple and powerful. A sales person cannot find all the new homebuyers in a market. You need inbound marketing to fill the sales funnel and educate prospects.After a year on average, GreenRope’s clients are up 75% in revenues.  A good CRM tool makes it simple to centralize, organize and relate to your prospects. It then enables you to take historical information and apply it to future prospects in with predictive analytics. House-Sold-for-Happy-FamilyThe outcome should be more home sales, and referrals from long-term happy customers.
Thanks, Lars!  If you want to learn more, feel free to connect with the GreenRope team at GreenRope.com.   We know that builders are investing in quality content that invites prospects to tour their beautifully designed homes.  The right CRM tool won't break the bank, and it will expand your capacity to produce sales-ready prospects. Thanks for listening in. How are you supporting your prospects' home buying journey? Do you have a favorite CRM tool?  We'd love to hear from you! Cheers, Leslie Bridges, Chief Blogger
Marketing Blueprints is sponsored by Builder Promotions, a centralized procurement solution that delivers brand consistency throughout the new home sales cycle.
Aug 03 2015
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Where Do You Find the Time To Stay Current on Digital Marketing Best Practices?

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timetitle Time is a rare commodity when you are competing for the attention of new homebuyers, showcasing new communities, and building market share for your new home brand. It's no secret that in 2008, Marketing teams shrunk as the industry contracted during the financial crisis.  Today's Marketers have reason to be hopeful (and busy) as homebuying trends upward again.  What hasn't changed is that Marketing teams are still operating with historically low staffing levels.  And, the role of a homebuilder Marketer has evolved to include an ever-expanding ecosystem of digital marketing functions.  Digital Marketing holds the key to capturing home buyers early in their search for the ideal home, and has become a mission-critical priority for Homebuilder Marketers. This busy infographic (it's so detailed I cannot even insert it here) illustrates the challenge to digital marketers everywhere.  There are an exponential number of platforms to help you capture, engage and convert digital house hunters.  Builder Marketers need to spend more time on digital, without compromising other important Marketing channels. To stay current, I make a habit of studying trends in digital marketing for a few minutes every day. I love Hubspot for their action-oriented blogging content. This recent Hubspot post is a great example of a simple best practice that illustrates the power of digital tools to drive the human interaction which is so fundamental to selling a home.  Realistically,  the best marketing ideas are often relegated to our wish list because we need time to think through their application in our business environment. Where to find extra snippets of time to pursue "the list"? Builder Promotions likes to think of ourselves as "gifting" you back your time with a centralized e-commerce service. E-storesolutionimageWe manage the procurement and timely delivery of branded products you use throughout the home selling cycle so that you can focus on your mission-critical Marketing priorities. Our e-Store Solution delivers Control, Convenience and Peace of Mind. It's a complimentary service, too (what's not to love!).
  • Order when and where it's convenient for you
  • Preferred Pricing that helps everyone's budget
  • Control marketing spend with Corporate/Division reports
  • Peace of Mind that your Brand is being protected
  • Click to Quote access for Custom Products
By centralizing with Builder Promotions for offline products, we hope to give you more time to execute your digital strategy and perhaps a few extra minutes to consider your marketing wish list! Marketing Blueprints Content, August 2015
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