Creative, easy, and budget-friendly grab-and-go gift ideas for apartment outreach marketing and resident retention! These ideas will help you get ahead of competitors in the new season. These initiatives help you increase occupancy for your community.

Easy grab and go gift ideas for apartment marketing and resident retention! We’ve got 12 ways to show your residents you care and 5 easy marketing tactics you can put to work today.

There are few things that people love more than their pets, except maybe your own children. Sometimes if you ask parents on the right day, even that might not be true. When your prospects are looking for a new home, they aren’t just looking for themselves, they’re looking for their furry friend too. The connection that people have to their pets is the same connection that can get you that new lease because the prospect can see that you genuinely care about what it is that’s valuable to them. We’re giving you some ideas on how to harness the power of pet-friendly marketing tactics to show your prospects and residents that you care just as much for your four-legged residents as you do your two-legged.

Moving is stressful so it’s important as leasing agents, real estate professionals, and property managers that we are empathetic to our new residents and take the time to understand their circumstances when they move in. Taking the time to help make sure their move in process goes smoothly and showing them some gratitude for picking your community will go a long way in gaining their loyalty. Making sure to take the move in process as an opportunity to ‘wow’ your new resident will help in your resident retention as well.

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.

Resident appreciation is so important in creating loyalty from your residents. There’s no better time to show your residents some love than February. We want you to think outside the box when it comes to resident appreciation and we’re giving you some ideas of some quick, easy, and affordable ways to show your residents some love.

Outreach marketing can be an overwhelming beast to conquer but here’s the thing… it doesn’t have to be complicated. Sprout Marketing has done-for-you bundles that are the easiest way to accomplish your outreach marketing goals and are sure to resonate with your prospects. We’re giving you unique and easy ways to hand out these bundles so that you can standout from the crowd and get ahead of your competitors, as well as some social media marketing tips.

Resident Events for your apartment community residents are important in creating resident retention and resident loyalty. As property managers, leasing professionals, and real estate professionals we often need quick, easy, and simple resident events to throw that are also effective and generate high resident participation. It’s important to be have creative ideas for resident events so you can keep each event fresh and exciting.

Renewals start on day one of a new resident moving into your apartment community and continues throughout their resident journey. As property managers and leasing professionals, it’s important to continually create loyalty through creative ideas for resident retention. Train your teams to get comfortable with renewal conversations to increase overall retention rates.

While outreach marketing can be intimidating, the easiest way to get started is to focus on your home turf…with current residents. They have already bought into your community. So the easiest way to turn one resident into three is with a kick butt referral program. The trick is to make sure referring is on our residents’ brain often by reminding them often. As property manager, leasing agent, leasing professionals, and realtors, a referral is as good as it gets.

Moving is one of the most stressful things your residents will deal with, so it’s important as property managers, leasing agents, realtors, and leasing professionals that we take the time to make sure we’re doing everything we can help make it a little easier. We need to be empathetic and look for ways that we can delight our residents in unexpected ways when they move into our apartment community.

Resident notices are a place we can really step it up and wow our residents with our message. Sometimes our residents need a gentle reminder about our community policies, but we can still keep it fun. As a property manager, leasing agent, or realtor, notices are important in keeping your community looking good so don’t skimp on making sure they’re a show stopper.

The average shopper begins looking for a new home six weeks in advance and is going to look at four to six communities before they narrow down their search. If you're going to stand out, you must follow up. But here is the sad reality: More than 50 percent of prospects never received one form of follow-up. So just by following up, you increase the odds of getting that new lease. This is why it’s so important for property managers, leasing agents, and realtors to reach out and follow up with their prospects in a timely and personable way.