Leveraging Social Media Marketing Trends in the Apartment Industry

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• #2: Building and maintaining an on-going positive relationship with consumers and customers through advanced social media tactics and technology is critical to your company’s success! The use of social media and new technology holds tremendous opportunities for companies looking to drive new business, retain customers, create engagement and increase revenue. Whether you are completely clueless, somewhat familiar, or advanced, Erica Campbell, Director of Social Media for Dominion Homes Media, the umbrella division for Homes.com and ForRent.com will discuss how to leverage social media and become part of the consumer dialogue. This session will provide attendees with strategic insight into creating a center of excellence, how and why social media works for businesses across all touch points, improving consumer engagement and other emerging opportunities.
• #22: Before you engage in social media, it’s important to decide what your social media identity will be and how you want to represent your brand.
• #31: Paid Media: Involves purchasing media which is important and needed in key periods to drive more engagement. Owned media: Is where a brand controls the media channel like a website or social media channel. This makes you more portable. Earned Media:  "Earned media" is an old PR term that essentially meant getting your brand into free media rather than having to pay for it through advertising. However, this has really evolved to more of permanent word- of –mouth that is being created through social media. There is no money being exchanged but it isn't free. You are paying in time.
• #32: Social media signals show extremely high correlation and associate with good rankings in Google. The correlation coefficient is displayed on the x-axis. Greater values along the x-axis (e.g. Facebook Shares) have a positive correlation (the more, the better) while lower values (Title Character Length) have a negative correlation. Therefore, we can say that the largest correlation occurs between Facebook Shares and the lowest between the Position of Title Keywords.
• #33: A study found that Google + 1’s had a significant result of 0.41 which allows us to assume that the quantity of +1s has the strongest correlation of any of the metrics analyzed
• #34: Increase sharing and site trafficBoost visitor engagementGive users a personal experience
• #35: You have to start paying for content and find a way to make yourself an authority, to make a rockstar out of one of your writers, or suck it up and hire someone who already is a rockstar and get them to write for your site. In today’s Web economy, the actual writer matters for ranking and it matters for links. It comes down to great content and relationships. Just like in the offline world. With a verified email: If you have an email address on the same domain as your content, you can go to plus.google.com/authorship to verify it. Using the form on that page will add your email address to the Work section of your profile, which by default is viewable only by your circles. You can keep your email private if you wish. It will also add a public link to the domain of the email address to the Contributor to section of your profile.Without a verified email: If can’t verify an email address on the same domain (say if you’re a contributor to the Huffington Post but don’t have a Huffington Post email address) you can still link your content to your Google+. In these circumstances, you’ll want to do it from your Author page on that site. Just link to your Google+ page in the bio area and Google will be able to pick that up. You can do it directly from the content, itself, but you don’t have to. You’ll also want to add the rel=me tag.
• #59: People make decisions based on the trust of their friends. Facebook has created a social layer that exposes those relationships that have always been there, between people's real friends. Because those relationships are visible, think of all these dots with lines connecting them. This created an advertising system that sits on top of that and allows you to inject your content. Now let's say your content is testimonials, specials, videos, whatever kinds of content might be interesting. Identify who your best customers are; not people who could be customers, but people who already love you. Amplify what you already have that's great. That's what Facebook is; it's a word of mouth amplifier.
• #60: Amplify your organic content and positive fan behavior via Sponsored Stories. Beating Google 3:1, highly relevant content and you enlists friend’s recommendations.
• #71: Create a pinboard that features the bestphotos and video footage of the annualevent you host to help you generate buzzand promote the next one. You can create a “Behind TheScenes” board that features a lot of picturesfrom events that we have hosted.
• #116: For its 2013 catalog teaser, IKEA has unveiled that they will be adopting augmented reality in their future catalogs to add a layer of information and interactivity through mobile. When the page is scanned, it will bring up extra content, like customization options or pictures of the furniture in use.
• #117: The Starbucksaugmented reality campaign “Cup Magic app” allowed you to send and receive virtual Valentine messages.
• #118: Released Valentine’s Day-themed cups that contain virtual experiences that can be unlocked through the use of a smart phone.