real estate crm: Have You Seen Our 5 Latest Real Estate Websites?
- 11/11/16 02:44 AM
We’ve brought five new beautifully designed and interactive websites to the real estate industry for five of our distinguished clients! These five SmartTouch clients all had different needs based on their product and target markets. Nevertheless, each website was aligned with SmartTouch best practices with the end goal to develop a website that converts leads to buyers and drives users to model homes and on-site tours. Take five and see what each of these uniquely designed real estate websites has to offer.
Gardens at Verde Vista Featuring new homes for sale in Georgetown, TX, the Gardens at Verde Vista’s new website showcases a 149 garden home (1 comments)
real estate crm: STI Nominated for Eight 2016 Star Awards in Real Estate Marketing
- 06/07/16 04:41 AM
SmartTouch Interactive to Attend Annual 2016 Star Awards Presentation Winners to be revealed on Thursday, August 4 at 6:15 p.m. in conjunction with the annual Sunbelt Builders Show™ at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. This year’s awards features more than 75 categories to choose from and had over 500 entries judged by a distinguished panel of industry experts from across the nation during an intense, two-day judging period. SmartTouch Interactive’s Star Award Nominations include: Developer - Best Print Ad for Bentsen Palm
This was one of the first communication pieces launched under a rebranding that took place for the Bentsen Palm community in the Fall (0 comments)
real estate crm: STI Launches Websites for Two Master-Planned Communities
- 05/31/16 01:43 AM
SmartTouch Interactive Launches High-Impact Websites for Rhodes Enterprises Newest Rio Grande Valley Master-Planned Communities, Bentsen Palm and Tres Lagos Rhodes Enterprises Selects SmartTouch Interactive’s Award-Winning Team for Integrated Website Design Solutions and Marketing Services Austin, TX – May 12, 2016 – SmartTouch® Interactive, an interactive real estate marketing agency and real estate marketing automation and the lead nurturing CRM solution company, today announced that Rhodes Enterprises, a visionary and largest mixed-use developer of land in the Rio Grande Valley, chose SmartTouch Interactive to help it market the two most important new developments in the Rio Grande Valley, Bentsen Palm and Tres Lagos. As part of the market launch SmartTouch Interactive was commissioned to design (0 comments)
SmartTouch Interactive to Host Encore IBS Presentation Webinar on How to Get Personal with Technology to Close More New Home Sales Austin, TX – January 26, 2016 – SmartTouch® Interactive, an interactive real estate marketing agency and real estate marketing automation and the lead nurturing CRM solution company, today announced that it will host a complimentary, interactive webinar, “Leads are People Too: Track & Respond to Digital Leads Without Losing the Human Touch,” on Thursday, February 4th at 1:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will be an encore presentation of the session presented at the NAHB International Builder’s Show 2016 by Alan Daniel, SmartTouch Interactive CEO and Co-founder, and Melissa Morman, Senior VP (0 comments)
real estate crm: How PrivateCommunities.com’s Lead Feed System works w/ Real Estate CRM
- 11/04/15 01:45 AM
PrivateCommunities.com is a lead source used by a number of SmartTouch Interactive clients. Each month, we received a Community Activity Report with a nugget of helpful information. This month, PrivateCommunities.com wrote a piece about feeding your PrivateCommunities.com sales leads into real estate CRM software. (The full article is below the video). Automating feeds from third party sources like PrivateCommunities.com saves your team a LOT of time. Even more importantly, if you automate the input of your lead sources into a CRM that lets you automate a follow-up email, then you increase your chance of connecting with a lead and your (0 comments)
Click here to register for the Meredith Oliver webinar. Austin, TX – October 20, 2015 – SmartTouch® Interactive, an interactive real estate marketing agency and real estate marketing automation and the lead nurturing CRM solution company, today announced that the company will showcase an interactive complimentary webinar, “The Anatomy of Wicked Good Web Design,” with home builder digital marketing expert and author, Meredith Oliver, on October 28, 1:00PM ET. Register today to attend the webinar. With over 90% of home buyers visiting a home builder website before engaging in a (0 comments)
real estate crm: How Lead Nurturing Doubles Lead-to-Tour Conversion for New Home Sales
- 10/06/15 12:36 AM
New home builders, developers and brokers spend a lot of money on marketing to generate leads for their homes and communities. But eight out of ten leads aren’t sales ready when they first make contact. And sales people tend to focus on the two out of ten people who are sales ready, because sales people make their money on sales commissions. But what about those other eight leads? They’ve taken the time to provide their contact information. And they are aware of a builder or developer’s brand. These people are worth a lot of money!This is why follow-up and lead nurturing are essential for new (0 comments)
real estate crm: Webinar: Lead Follow-Up for Builders with Alpana Arora of BDX
- 09/28/15 03:08 AM
SmartTouch Interactive’s latest entry in our complimentary webinar series featured Alpana Arora of BDX, who presented Lead Follow-Up For Builders: Pitfalls and Best Practices. Alpana has been with BDX since its inception 15 years ago, and had helped thousands of builders improve online performance, learn digital marketing best practices and implement new technologies. She talked about the importance of lead follow-up, explaining how builders can lose tens of thousands of dollars in sales if they’re not following the best industry practices. Her presentation was filled with eye-opening research and statistics, valuable resources and tips that builders can start using today. She also answered several questions from a very engaged audience. Key learnings (0 comments)
real estate crm: SmartTouch Interactive Named Agency of Record
- 09/15/15 03:28 AM
Austin, TX – September 15, 2015 – SmartTouch® Interactive, an interactive real estate marketing agency and real estate marketing automation and the lead nurturing CRM solution company, today announced that it has been named agency of record for Bentsen Palm and The Gardens at Verde Vista to provide strategic sales and marketing plans that deliver highly predictable results. Both companies will leverage SmartTouch Interactive’s deep digital marketing expertise to execute new websites, lead generation email campaigns, SEO, SEM and manage social media as well as collateral, content marketing and offline advertising. Bentsen Palm will employ the agency’s team to provide bilingual executions (0 comments)
real estate crm: Webinar: "Give Leads a Chance" Lead Nurturing for New Home Sales
- 09/04/15 01:14 AM
SmartTouch Interactive’s co-founder and president Robert Cowes presented a webinar where he revealed how new home builders and developers can get an incremental 20% increase in lead-to-tour conversion for new home sales. He shared easy strategies and the ‘secret sauce’ that is driving new home sales, and detailed proven and refined strategies for capturing and engaging the so-called “dead” leads – those 8/10 leads who have visited your website, but aren’t yet ready to buy. The focus of the webinar was lead nurturing – 8/10 buyers aren’t ready to purchase when they first come to your website and traditionally, sales teams focus on the (0 comments)
real estate crm: Jane Meagher’s Sneak Peek Interview on Design Studio Sales Webinar
- 08/11/15 02:16 AM
On Wednesday, August 19th at 1:00 p.m. EST, 12:00 noon, CST, Jane Meagher will be presenting a complimentary webinar examining global retail trends and consumer purchase behavior. In the complimentary webinar, she will reveal 6 Vital Trends that new home builders need to understand in order to run a world class design studio and maximize option sales. Jane wants her presentation to cause “a paradigm shift,” helping new home builders go from seeing themselves as construction companies that sells homes, to seeing themselves as retailers who happen to sell well-constructed and designed homes that appeal to buyers’ desires. In this interview, Jane Meagher gives us a sneak peek (0 comments)
real estate crm: Myers Barnes Says “Speed Matters” to Today’s New Home Buyers
- 07/14/15 03:50 AM
Did you know that the average new home buyer spends a year doing research before stepping into a model home? According to New Home Sales Strategist, Myers Barnes, this amount of research means that new home buyers are capable of making an instantaneous decision, even if it’s their first visit to a model home. In his upcoming webinar, “New Rules for New Home Sales,” Barnes will be sharing how critical it is for new home sales people to understand this new mindset – that people can make decisions quickly. Not only can they move fast, they also expect follow-up fast from the home builders they contact. (0 comments)
real estate crm: How Savvy Homes Nurture Leads for More New Home Sales
- 06/30/15 03:56 AM
When it comes to new home sales and marketing, relationships matter. The challenge that most new home builders and developers have is how to build a relationship with a lead and nurture leads in a way that is relevant and timely. 80% of leads aren't ready to buy when they first make contact so, what happens if you collect the lead and don't do anything with it? 81% of sales happen after the 5th contact. But how often do you make contact and what do you say? When you consider how long the sales cycle is for buying a new home, it (3 comments)