Posts Tagged ‘Student Marketing’
CLASS Reports From the Frontlines. 2013 By-the-Bed Student Property Leasing Trends by Kristi McMillin
CLASS has spent the past month leasing a by-the-bed student property at Texas A&M University. In a saturated market it is extremely important to quickly identify emerging trends in order to capitalize on market share. By gauging these trends and tweaking our sales process, the property is almost ten percent ahead of last year’s pre-leasing…
Read MoreDon’t forget the parents!
With all the talk about marketing and leasing to college students, we often find that a critical decision maker is left out of the sales process. I’m talking about the parents. You know, the folks who are actually writing the rent check. While the property must first appeal to the student in order to have…
Read MoreDisruptive Apartment Marketing: 3 Great Examples
Traditional marketing is dead! Or so claims The Harvard Business Review. But is it really dead, or has it drastically changed along with the rest of the today’s communication landscape. With social media, hundreds of new channels have been opened resulting in a constant bombardment of product messaging. So how does your message stand out…
Read MoreStudent Housing: What Do Students and Parents Want?
At the NAA Student Housing Conference and Expo this year, a game of Family Feud was put together pitting five University of Las Vegas students versus five parents from that school in the ultimate showdown of student housing. The responses to the game were based upon “11,195 college students and 3,605 parents from 159…
Read MoreShowMyProperty.tv
For any apartment community out there, having a video made to show the features and benefits of the property is a must have in the marketing repertoire. A high quality video can definitely be the difference between a potential prospect coming to tour your community and leasing, or just continuing to scroll their mouse right on to…
Read MoreFacebook Page Tips
There are constantly many ideas and articles being tossed around in regards to designing the perfect Facebook Page for an apartment community and what exactly that entails, or if there really is such a thing. Facebook, being a social media website, or I should see “THE” social media website, is only beneficial if it is…
Read MoreUnique Way Of Engaging Your Online Traffic
With a majority of apartment communities claiming their number one traffic source from ILS’s and other property specific websites, it’s very beneficial for communities to do everything possible to capture the highest percentage of these viewers. Often times there is no real way for a property to know if someone is viewing their material online,…
Read MoreMarketing Your Community To Students
It’s that time of the year again. The weather is finally starting to cool down…a little. Soon the leaves on the trees will start to change to the fall colors. College football will once again consume every second of my Saturday afternoons, which also means that college campuses just recently started classes back. If you’re…
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