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Stay up-to-date on the latest in marketing news and GTMA's strategy as it relates to the ever-evolving nature of digital communications.

The Ultimate Guide to Running Social Media Contests for Your Community

Running a contest on social media might seem a bit daunting, but there is an enormous benefit to doing so. Social media contests give your apartment community the chance to increase engagement, promote a leasing special, generate resident content or gain recognition on your property’s social media. You can have fun while achieving your goal and increase engagement on your property’s…

What the New Google Maps Results Mean for Apartment SEO

Yup, Google’s changed their local map results again. Surprise, surprise. But this latest change might be their most drastic. For years we’ve been accustomed to what marketers affectionately refer to as the “7-Pack”, which listed 7 businesses ordered A through G next to a map on Google’s main search results page. Well, let me introduce you to the brand new…

Building the Perfect Landing Page to Convert Your Community’s PPC Traffic

Whether you're building a website for your apartment community or setting up an advertising campaign, you've likely encountered the question of where to send your traffic to. The main website sounds like the most logical choice, but is your website enough to generate viable leads? If not, building a conversion-optimized landing page is your best bet to generate the best possible leads that will…

Ways to Get Your Residents Involved with Your Community on Social Media

It can be a frustrating battle trying to get your residents involved with your community on social media, and it all starts with getting them to care. You can sit and stare at the number of followers, and some weeks it just won’t go up no matter what you seem to try. The good news is that where there’s a will there’s…

How To Humanize Your Apartment Community on Social Media

We all know that maintaining an active, engaging social media presence for your multifamily apartment community is a must. But something that so many communities get wrong is forgetting to use these tools to humanize their brand. These are perfect platforms to showcase personal content that produces more engagement, and it will go the extra mile in strengthening the relationship you have with your current…

Developing a Killer Google Plus Strategy

Oh, Google Plus… the network that many people forget about, probably unfairly so. Maybe you’ve never even used Google Plus (or, as it’s often known, Google+), and you’ve only heard the name. But what you may not realize is that having a strategy for Google Plus can actually be very beneficial to your business overall. You’ve built your brand across…

Reputation Management for Multifamily: Flagging Negative Yelp Reviews and Winning

It's no secret that people can be ruthless on internet review sites as they hide behind their keyboards while mercilessly tearing businesses to shreds. These days, everyone and their mom feels obliged to write an online review of each place they’ve ever lived, eaten, shopped, watched a movie, grabbed a cup of coffee, gotten a haircut or received any type of customer service…

GTMA Does: Amazing Kitchen Photography for Multifamily

I’ll be honest; I never gave kitchens much thought- that is until we started filming and photographing a TON of kitchen photography for GTMA. And suddenly, my eyes were open. Kitchens, as it turns out, are more than just where you find the stove, refrigerator, and microwave. Good kitchen photography is made up of little elements that can define your…

GTMA Does Apartment Pool Photography the Right Way

Here at GTMA, we're storytellers - plain and simple. But you already knew that. But did you also know that our media team is made up of filmmakers? That's right, we don't just do the pointing and shooting. Shots are planned out, carefully constructed, and flawlessly executed (pat on the back). That's not to say we don't run into obstacles along…

UPDATE: Dean’s Earth Day Endeavors

Every year, Earth Day comes along and serves as a reminder that we need to take care of this beautiful planet we live on. Then Earth Day passes, and most of us continue to drive the gas-guzzling cars or forget to recycle without really giving it another thought (myself included). Last year, one of our Digital Media Associates caught my eye…