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What Is Your Website Experience Like?

Experience refers to the degree a website entices visitors to interact online. Providing a great experience doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune on design bells and whistles for the sake of being cool. Whatever bells and whistles you...

Toolbox Tuesdays

Ryan Dicharry Construction Launches New Website

With 20 years of experience in custom home construction, Ryan Dicharry Construction is taking home designs in a new direction. Although home buyers may start with a premade home plan, Ryan Dicharry Construction can change any of them upon request,...

Marketing Mondays

How Functional Is Your Website?

Functionality refers to the technical performance of the website. Visitors have little patience for slow downloads, broken links, and error messages. At least once a month, complete a functionality review of your website. Click on every button, link, and multimedia took...

FANtastic Marketing Tips

Website Design Checklist – How Does Yours Rank?

Last week we talked about the Builder Website Scorecard™ which I discussed in The Click Power System. The first criteria on the scorecard is your content. The second criteria is your design. Design refers to your website’s overall look. Design is the trickiest area...

Technology

Toolbox Tuesday | What are the benefits of HTTPS over HTTP

The S in HTTPS stands for secure. Basically, HTTPS is a more secure way of transferring information over the web. While the implications for e-commerce are readily apparent, there are many other benefits. At Meredith Communications, we recommend HTTPS to...

FANtastic Marketing Tips

Content Checklist – Make Your Website Wow

As we talked about in Building Block #1 in The Click Power System, your website is the foundation and most important element of your web marketing strategy. After reviewing hundreds of analytic reports for various-sized builders across the country, I noticed...

Apps

Website Wednesdays | Hero Images

Happy Wednesday – it’s time for another Website Wednesday! Meredith hosts a Facebook Live most Wednesdays at 1pm Eastern here. This week she’s talking all about hero images on your website homepage – what they are, their importance, and how...

Apps

Website Wednesdays | Calls to Action

It’s time for Website Wednesdays! If you’ve been following along, you probably know that previously Meredith was doing What’s ‘Appening Wednesdays. But starting today, we’ve switched gears to Website Wednesdays. Learn all the tips and tricks for what your website...

Home Builder Marketing & Sales

Click Power: Building Block #1 – Your Website

I previously discussed The Click Power System™. It’s a roadmap to a successful sales and marketing strategy that highlights five building blocks for success. The first – your website – is the foundation and most important element of your web marketing strategy....

Toolbox Tuesdays

Toolbox Tuesday | What is Event Tracking in Google Analytics?

Having an engaging website with interactive floor plans and great videos that show off your homes is only one part of selling homes. Another aspect is understanding where your website views are coming from and how prospective buyers are engaging...

Just Ask Meredith Blog

Sales and marketing advice, tips, and strategies for home builders.

August Marketing Pro of the Month Pat Sommer

How are we already in August? I’m actually thrilled because it means that I get to introduce you to an all-new Marketing Pro of the Month! Her candor in this interview, especially as it relayed to her successes and mistakes...

FANtastic Marketing Example—GoDaddy

You probably remember the GoDaddy marketing campaign of years’ past. You know the ones: They featured attractive women including Natalia Velez, Rachelle Wood, and Michelle Hayden in skimpy outfits parading around the GoDaddy logo. It doesn’t take a marketing genius...

Housing Upgrades Millennials Don’t Care For

Millennials are a big part of the current housing market. But as a digital, pet-loving, less formal generation, millennials have different requirements for their homes than other generations. And as a homebuilder, it’s essential you understand what this demographic is...

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