Marketing New Homes Online for Home Builder Sales
A few years ago, I was driving to a friend’s new home for the first time. Jamane Williams and his wife Alecia, were first time home buyers in a freshly built new home community not far from where I grew up in Houston, Texas. He called me with great excitement and enthusiasm for the new home that they [...]
As new home sales agents, we often find ourselves looking back on the “game-tape” of the events that were played out on life’s field that day. At times we may be searching for answers, meaning, direction, and are left wondering, “Where did the day go? What did I forget to do? Could I have done more?” [...]
For complete information about the MIRM designation, please visit www.nahb.org/mirminfo. The National Association of Home Builders’ National Sales and Marketing Council (NSMC) and the Institute of Residential Marketing (IRM) have officially changed the name of their MIRM designation to “Master in Residential Marketing” after the NAHB Executive Board passed the motion at the 2010 Spring Board of [...]
Let go of information… holding onto it can destroy the new home sales process. In the best selling book “Idea Virus,” Seth Godin likens the spread of information online, to the particles of an infectious virus. Note this is not just theory, but an observation of how effective messages move through the lines of digital communication. Information technology has broaden the [...]
New home prospects can now tell Google which sites to show them search results from. According to Google, “The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your search results match your unique tastes and needs. Fill in the sites you rely on the most, and results from your preferred [...]
According to a recent study conducted by the National Home Builders Association, more than 80% of new home buyers start the home buying process on the Internet. It seems that those statistics have yet to reach the advertising and marketing departments for a majority of the home building industry. See also, Home Builders Are You Blogging? One Texas home builder [...]
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