Apartment Marketing

User Experience (UX) for Real Estate Websites

A good user experience makes all the difference when browsing any website, especially regarding real estate website design.  When you visit any website, there is likely something you wish to accomplish — finding product pricing, locating business hours, or booking a service. Sometimes it’s quick and easy to find what you’re looking for, and you leave happy and ready to…

Optimizing Your Google My Business Profile To Boost Business.

WHAT IS GOOGLE MY BUSINESS? First, what is it? Well, Google My Business is a free tool for businesses to manage their online presence across Google, including Search and Maps.  News flash: Google has decided to change the name to Google Business Profile.  Whatever the name, the platform helps customers find businesses and allows business owners to verify their business…

Integrating Video Into Your Digital Marketing Plan

In the ever-changing world of digital marketing, how are you ever supposed to know which trends (like TikTok) to jump on and which will be out the door before you can throw a concept together? GTMA is here to fill you in on the science of video marketing, why it’s so important to our client’s campaigns, and how it can…

What You Need To Know About Yelp’s Optimized Campaign Goals.

Call us marketing nerds if you must, but if you are anything like us, you know how much work (FUN) it can be to create new search ad campaigns using Yelp Ads. There are so many options to choose from in the setup process, all of which have the potential to boost your ad performance. Whether it’s a choice in…

The Impact of Cookie Removal on Ad Targeting.

IT’S THE END OF THE WEB AS WE KNOW IT. The day digital advertisers knew would come is finally here, and the cookies are starting to crumble. Google recently announced that it would be fully doing away with third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by 2022. No, this is not the beginning of the apocalypse, but it does have significant…

The Conversion Cherry On Top.

The Return of the Great Display. Wait, what!? You’re writing about Display Ads? That’s so 2005...or is it? Display ads are like the billboards of the internet. They tell your audience what’s going on in as few words as possible, only holding their attention for a split second. On the other hand, search ads use a more targeted approach, delivering…

Waze Features GTMA Case Study

At GTMA, we believe that Waze is a powerful platform for brand awareness, enabling our clients (including apartment communities and local businesses) to stand out in heavily saturated markets using hyperlocal targeting at an extremely cost-effective price. Since we've utilized their platform so successfully, Waze decided to feature us in a case study. The Waze case study covers some of our work…

Managing Your Apartment Community’s Online Reputation During COVID-19

Considering the curveballs that COVID-19 is throwing us, it may seem inevitable that your property’s star rating will drop on review platforms. After all, 95% of the country is currently under stay-at-home orders. For multifamily communities, more people at home means that minor issues such as noise, closed amenities and changes in staff availability have a greater potential to develop…

COVID-19 Curveballs Keep Digital Marketing & Communications a Priority for Apartment Owners

Given the constant technological advances in online marketing, renting apartments is an ever-evolving craft. Now, with Coronavirus and social distancing our new reality for the foreseeable future, marketing apartments must evolve once more, but this time it must evolve quickly and pivot to a focus on consistent communication and virtual everything. COVID-19 will accelerate the trend we already see toward…

5 Tips To Creating The Best DIY Apartment Video Tours

At the moment one of the biggest challenges to giving apartment tours is that people aren’t coming to your physical property. It might be the social distancing to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus right now, but sometimes it can be a scheduling conflict or an out-of-state potential resident that will require the need to do an impromptu home…