Fall is upon us and we wanted to round up our top leasing slogans for apartment marketing. At Sprout, we are all about simple and cheap marketing ideas with a creative twist, so below you’ll find our favorite fall taglines and outreach marketing pairings that multifamily prospects will remember.

Sunny days are here and we wanted to round up our top leasing slogans for apartment marketing. At Sprout, we are all about simple and cheap marketing ideas with a creative twist, so below you’ll find our favorite summer taglines and outreach marketing pairings that multifamily prospects will remember.

Two major themes emerged in this year's AIM conference: AI and centralization. Listen in for takeaways for onsite teams.

Chris Arnold, Co-Founder of Authentic, and Natalie Linan, Director of Marketing for Black Field Management, join me this week to share apartment marketing trends in 2023 that you need to know. This is part two of our Marketing Masters Series.

Get creative this month with some fresh, unique ideas for your apartment marketing. We have ideas to check all your boxes and meet all your goals - resident events to increase resident retention, resident notices, outreach marketing, resident renewals, and follow up initiatives. The best part? They won’t break the bank or take up all of your time. We don’t believe you have to sacrifice your time or your money to reach your marketing goals.

Need to boost your apartment occupancy? Real mail, not bulk mail, can still get the hearts of our prospective renters pumping! In a world of texting and emailing, it would be easy to forget about direct mail apartment marketing. We’re sharing some creative outreach ideas to stand out out from the competition this summer!

What does it take to be a stellar apartment leasing agent? This week we are talking about 8 steps to become a kick-butt leasing agent THIS WEEK. Working on communication skills, knowing your competitors, and getting to know the ins and outs of your neighborhood will give you the edge you’re looking for in the multifamily industry. Check out all ten suggestions.

Food centered resident events are great for encouraging resident retention and building loyalty for your apartment community. This cooking class resident event is a great way to get your residents mingling with each other and creating relationships, plus it doesn’t have to be overly complicated for you as the property manager or leasing agent. Utilize social media to market your event and encourage your residents to post about it using a hashtag.

Black Friday is right around the corner and who says that stores are the only ones that get to take advantage of this huge marketing monster? We have an entire Black Friday collection that will no doubt be able to catch the attention of all the right people. Why would you want to jump on the Black Friday bandwagon? Well… think about it. When Black Friday rolls around it’s like a switch flips and people are in the mood to spend shop and spend money. Since people are more willing and open to spending money, they are more receptive to marketing for it. They are looking for the sales promotions. Whoa, did you miss that? They are LOOKING for the sales. That means for once your prospects are actively looking for marketing that is letting them know about sales and are more inclined to take action. If that doesn’t make you want to jump up and happy dance, I don’t know what will!!

It’s no surprise that attention spans today aren’t what they used to be. Studies say that in 1920 the average attention span was 20-minutes. Today? Eight seconds...the same as a goldfish. As a property manager trying to market your apartment community, this fact should stop you in your tracks. Breaking through the noise of day to day life is a real challenge. Twenty years ago, we were just trying to stand out from the competition with nice curb appeal and a good photo in our For Rent ad. But today’s online world has created a new set of complicated problems for apartment marketers. Your community is no longer just competing with other communities. You are competing with EVERYTHING for your customer’s attention.

Most managers would agree that a proactive marketing approach is ideal, still the large majority default to a reactive approach. Why? Often, managers start with the best of intentions to have a well-crafted marketing plan but then things happen onsite that take away our focus. Mid-month they can find themselves with dipping occupancy, unaccounted for skips, or a lower renewal rate than anticipated. In the shock and misunderstanding a hail mary is thrown in hopes it will correct all the missed goals. But let’s be honest, does the hail mary ever work?

Being a property manager is a rewarding career, but it can have it's rough days. Especially when that day consists of dealing with resident complaints. How you handle complaints can either build that resident loyalty that you want, or it can break their trust. Read our sneak peak of our webinar with Rommel Anacan where he'll teach you a step-by-step method for positively dealing with complaints.

Truth time: A lot of on-site apartment marketing is done for the sake of doing something (anything) or to simply appease a corporate requirement. When we approach marketing like this, it tends to lack clarity when it comes to defining the marketing objectives. The result? A big belly flop. 👎

A lot of time, energy and money are spent on apartment marketing. Most of it (sigh) doesn’t work. 

After working with thousands of multifamily professionals, we’ve seen some patterns emerge. So today we are breaking it down and identifying the top FOUR flaws in apartment marketing…and the way to fix them.

We always get so excited when a new month rolls around (even if they seem to be rolling around faster and faster). A new month means a new Sprout Marketing Calendar full of brand new ideas for you to get new residents and keep those awesome ones you already have! The October calendar and the Daily Dose ideas for this month have allllll the Fall vibes and we are loving it because, let’s be honest, we’re melting here in Texas and we can’t wait for cooler weather.

When resident events are a hit, boy they are a HIT and it makes your property manager heart beam with pride, right? It’s when resident events are…less than stellar, that we get discouraged and start to wonder what we can do differently to ramp up the attendance. We’re here to tell you some tips on how to do just that!

If you haven’t heard already, this month is better breakfast month! This is a fun monthly theme that you can use to create unique resident events and outreach initiatives, but it’s also the perfect month to push your community’s health and wellness facilities. If you’re a community that is in an area of town where fitness is the new fad, or if you have an on-site workout space that would make Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson drool, now is the perfect time to show it off! 

We’ll be real honest, selling smaller floor plans can be tricky. No one loves to hear a prospect say, “Oh wow, this apartment is so small.” But, when you hear that, that’s when it’s your chance to sell the lifestyle that comes with living in a smaller space. 

Fair Housing laws can be an intimidating mountain to face, and the anxiety that comes with it is understandable. There have been some real nightmare stories of violations ending careers and costing an enormous amount of money. That’s why we think this month’s webinar is such an important message that you need to hear from the one and only Anne Sadovsky, who’s kind of a legend in our industry.