Web has evolved and homebuyers have become more tech-savvy, builders have done their best to keep pace. With homebuyers using the Web more and more in their home search and selection, builders have recognized that the Web can play a major role in the company’s success. By tying marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM) systems to your website, you can use the site as a systematic intelligence gatherer and relationship-builder. Rather than generating a one-time lead, you can create a prospect profile that can be built out over time.
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Pivotal CRM - Workhorse Website
1. The Workhorse Website:
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Making the Web Your “Killer App”
the first iterations of most home builders’ websites were slim
creations: at most, online transpositions of their corporate brochures.
As the Web has evolved and homebuyers have become more
tech-savvy, builders have done their best to keep pace. Many builders’
sites are now in their second, third, or fourth generations and are now
much more elaborate information- and media-rich destinations. With
homebuyers using the Web more and more in their home search and
selection, builders have recognized that the Web can play a major role
in the company’s success.
While now more expansive, flashy, and appealing, however, many builders’ websites are still in essence
just ornate brochures. While they look great and help sell homes, they are missing out on the full potential
of the Web. Used strategically, your website can become a workhorse, accelerating sales, saving labor,
gathering intelligence, and creating loyal, happy customers. This article explores some of the ways you can
take your website to the next level.
Use Your Website as a Hub
The first step to leveraging your website more effectively is to stop seeing it as a standalone tool and to
start understanding it as a unifying hub. Your website should be the front door to your organization: all
paths should lead to it, and it should be the main entry point to access everything your firm has to offer.
Most builders see their website as part of their marketing toolkit, but it can be much more than that. Your
website can act as center point for all of your marketing activity, tying together online and offline channels.
Most builders’ online marketing is not limited to their own website. Many promote their homes on third-party
websites and online listings services, and they may also use banner ads or pay-per-click advertising.
These online programs can be excellent lead generators, but builders need to make sure that leads from
disparate online channels don’t fall through the cracks and receive equally rapid follow-up as direct leads.
By funneling leads brought in by other online lead-generating sources through the builder’s website and
using simple tracking mechanisms, builders can ensure all leads enter the same pipeline and are followed
up upon promptly and consistently, while still gathering source data.
Although many builders are investing more and more of their efforts in online marketing, most continue to
use traditional marketing channels such as direct mail, print advertising, and billboards to some extent.
Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these offline channels can be hard to measure. But by directing interest
generated by these media to specialized web pages that capture leads and record the source, builders
can track the returns on these marketing efforts as effectively as they can their online activities.
Using your website as a hub goes beyond channeling visitors from different sources to a single location;
it’s also about what links into your website from the back end. Many builders have invested in their IT
infrastructure, implementing applications and systems that help streamline their processes and organize
their data. By tying some of these systems into their websites, builders can extend the value of these
IT investments and make their website a critical front end for their marketing, sales, and customer
care processes.
Use Your Website to Build relationships
The Web can’t compete with face-to-face interactions for relationship-building … or can it? While online tools
may never replace the human touch altogether, properly applied they can go a long way toward building
customer relationships, and in many cases they can be more effective and methodical in gathering and
applying customer and prospect data, at least up to the appropriate point for handoff to a live sales agent.
This article was previously published by the National Association of Home Builders as a business management resource.
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