• Spotlight on Property Websites: Building a Foundation with Jon Simpson
    Nov 5 2024

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    How are prospects interacting with our property websites and how can we, as marketers, ensure we are maximizing our number one asset? Jon Simpson, founder of Swifty and Criterion.B, takes us through the data on how renters are interacting with our websites including most used features and most visiting pages. He also dives into the future of apartment websites which is next level. Hint: The future includes dynamic content.

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    48 mins
  • Speed to Lease: Using AI and Tech for Lease Acceleration with Paul Yount
    Oct 22 2024

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    What happens when AI and technology team up with humans to create the ultimate tech stack? Leads convert to leases faster, ramping up revenue and cutting down on friction in the leasing process. In this episode, Paul Yount, Industry Principal at Yardi, dives into the power of speed to lease with co-hosts Anne Baum and Chris Johnson. They discuss how AI and tech solutions are enhancing the capabilities of marketing and leasing teams, shaving days off the lead-to-lease timeline.

    Bonus: Paul reveals a new KPI that marketing and operations should keep an eye on to demonstrate leasing efficiency.

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    49 mins
  • The Blueprint Edition: AI, The Property Brothers, Data, Role Specialization, & Everything In-Between
    Oct 8 2024

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    Shelly Steitz, fractional multifamily CMO and marketing consultant, and Justin Jones, AI Evangelist, join co-host Anne Baum to recap one of the most epic real estate conferences of the year, Blueprint. In this jam-packed episode you will hear their greatest takeaways from the conference including the rise of role specialization, how the Property Brothers use the power of their brand, the ever-evolving role of AI, the many structures of centralization, how big data can be attained by multifamily, and how the power of collaboration is alive and well.

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    51 mins
  • Networking Makes Multifamily Marketers Go Round: Words of Wisdom with Janet Rosseth
    Sep 24 2024

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    Multifamily marketing legend, Janet Rosseth, founder of Cadence Marketing Solutions and Cadence Run Club, talks with co-host Anne Baum about her start in multifamily marketing, why she's driven to connect marketers together, and what she views as the next big things in multifamily marketing. You'll want to run, not walk, to hear this episode.

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    40 mins
  • Staying Ahead of the Curve: Pushing Multifamily Marketing Forward with Debbie Balaker
    Aug 27 2024

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    In this episode, Chris and Anne sit down with Debbie Balaker, Director of Marketing and Training at M. Shapiro Real Estate Group to talk all things marketing and how she's staying ahead of the curve by constantly testing and mastering new tactics and technologies for marketing multifamily communities including lease-ups and manufactured home communities. We cover geofencing, TikTok, brand development, interactive site maps, and everything in-between.

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    38 mins
  • Reimagining Apartment Websites: Do Our Prospects Want More?
    Aug 13 2024

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    In this episode, Chris and Anne discuss one of our most important assets - the property website. As prospect behavior evolves, we question if the tried and true format of websites is still relevant, what are must-have features, and how much should our vendor partners assist in the evolution. Bonus: Is it time for us to start approaching leasing an apartment as e-commerce?

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    33 mins
  • Changing the Apartment Marketing Game: The Shift in Search Behavior with Eden Chai
    Aug 2 2024

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    Eden Chai, co-founder of Flair, takes The Apartment Department co-hosts Chris and Anne through a fascinating journey of how searcher behavior, the introduction of new search experiences like TikTok and SGE (Search Generative Experience) in Google is rapidly changing how renters expect to discover information. We also talk about how influencers drive demand for products and finding a balance between driving demand for a brand and reacting to discovery searches. With surprises around every corner you will walk away from this episode with the confidence and curiosity to rethink your apartment search marketing game.

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    41 mins
  • Branding & Resident Retention: Resetting Our Standards with Jude Chiy
    Jul 23 2024

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    Jude Chiy, founder of Flamingo, an all-in-one resident retention platform and a proponent of challenging the norms, joins Chris and Anne to discuss his views on the power of branding for property management companies and how to conquer resident retention. Jude shares real-life data from Flamingo studies while highlighting the opportunity for multi-family to look to other industries, like software, to challenge our benchmarking norms. We guarantee you will walk away from this episode ready to tackle brand and retention opportunities within your organization.

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    46 mins