Imagine the following statements as a part of any marketing message: Visit our website! Call us on your phone! Come to our store! None of these would be very helpful to me as a consumer unless I knew the web address, the phone number or the physical address of the business. They’re not worth much…
Facebook is on a roll, recently crossing over 400 million users. Marketers want a piece of that action, so it’s no surprise that Facebook Pages for businesses are hot right now, too. It seems like a Facebook Page is a must-have for most marketers. But before you start accumulating hundreds or even thousands of fans,…
Here at 30 Lines, we’re big fans of the multifamily housing industry. Our work involves building online communities that benefit businesses; the apartment industry is in the business of building physical communities that benefit renters and often entire neighborhoods … there are a lot of interesting parallels, and it’s a good fit. We have the privilege of…
Lately I’m starting to see a lot of social buttons, widgets and feeds popping up on websites and blogs of all types. They all say basically the same thing … “Follow Me!” “Be our Fan!” “C’mon, you know you want to!” “Click this glossy icon, then click on more of our junk.” Stop it. Just…
Then take two minutes to read through this presentation by Marta Kagan. Read every slide. If you’ve already seen it, then read it again: I think there’s more to the story for apartment companies (that’s why we’re here!), and I don’t agree with everything she says, but for the most part, I love it. I…