It's a well known fact that in most markets, Realtors can multiply sales efforts for new home builders. So, how do you engage Realtors and influence them to bring prospects to your new home communities? Builders use every kind of event marketing concept to bring Realtors to their new home communities. As everyone knows, the goal of these events is to help Realtors see why a new home may be the best solution for their buyers and to experience, first-hand, the benefits of a beautifully designed new home community in their marketing area. Now that we're into the new…
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Pacific Highlands Ranch, San Diego, CA Flags serve several important purposes for New Home Communities: Attract Identify Direct When new home buying prospects shift from digital shopping to an in-person visit at your beautifully designed new home communities, they are usually met with inviting, eye-catching and enticing Community branding, architecturally interesting entrances and billowing flags. Flags are a cost-effective way to signal that there is a new home community waiting to be explored, discovered and enjoyed by prospective home buyers. In the context of new home marketing, a flag's main purpose is to create movement that attracts prospects. Secondarily, they identify…
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You are sitting at your desk with a cup of your favorite, thinking about what you will add to your upcoming Community Marketing event to make it memorable for prospective home owners. You think you'd like to use a branded gift to keep them connected to your community after they've toured your Models and met Sales Consultants. What to do? You have a million other details to handle to be ready for your event. If this is you, read on! Here are Five of our Favorites for New Home Community Event Marketing:
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Welcome to Marketing Blueprints, a blog of Builder Promotions. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a quick read about the marketing value of "refreshment". Refreshment is such an easy way to create delight. It's a gracious way to say "welcome please stay awhile". And it can be an effective marketing tool too. Builders are using refreshment in many creative ways to compliment their events. One quick scan of my Builder Instagram account tells me that Builder Marketing teams are using everything from the Summer BBQ to Food Truck Festivals to draw crowds to their community events. They offer bottles…
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With the spring selling season well under way, Builder Marketers are thinking about how to keep the crowds coming to visit new home communities during summer months.
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This week I was a participant in one of the best webinars I've seen, bar none. BDX (The Builders Experience) spent 30 minutes showing Builders how to help Realtors bring their clients to see new home communities. I've included a live link to the Slideshare here for anyone who wants to get this information in a quick and concise format. There are some great "aha" moments in 9 information-rich slides.
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We've launched our own Corporate Mobile App to help our clients Search, Shop and Purchase their community marketing supplies from their mobile device. BP clients engage with us in a lot of different ways. Some people LOVE to shop products in our enormous search engine while others delight in the efficiency of our e-commerce platform to make fast purchases for their regular marketing supplies. And we've found that a lot of our clients use gifts as a way to express their creativity and differentiate their communities. I love BP's Mobile App because it lets everyone do what they like and makes…
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A Home Builder brand wants to inspire future homeowners to live their best life in a new home and to enjoy the total lifestyle that a planned community offers. Builders want to fit into the ideal of what a new home will offer for home buying prospects. #YourBrandinTheirLife refers to branded products that support consumers in their daily lives. I got to thinking about how our e-Store products integrate into "life" for home buying consumers so that we could give builder marketers one more way to nurture prospects during the home selling process. Branded products tend to be low cost and…
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If you are a home builder, a successful marketing event means you are introducing a prospective buyer or a realtor to your homes (in real time!). You have a chance, in-person, to showcase all the custom options that make buying new such a delight, and people get to experience what it feels like to be in a beautifully designed home. Anyone visiting a new home community also sees how the outdoor environment interplays with your models, and they begin to imagine their life in those spaces and environments. But that's just one day. It's been a successful event, and then everyone…
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