What is 'contextual marketing,' and how can it help you convert more leads as part of your property management marketing plan?
When content is tailored to the user, engagement and satisfaction increase—and so do your conversions. Marketing automation is all about nurturing a contact through the buyer's journey.
Content that is relevant and specific helps you nurture your property management leads more effectively. However, without contextual marketing, it makes it harder for you to be sure you're serving the right content at the right time—or that the right content is even found by your user.
If you use any form of CRM, you've probably engaged in a version of contextual marketing already without knowing it. When you use a different drip for different customer categories in your CRM, that is contextual marketing. For example:
All of these are examples of using targeted content that we almost do intuitively. By using marketing automation, you can take contextual marketing to the next level.
Contextual marketing is the use of property management marketing automation to serve targeted content to a user based on known characteristics such as age, location, gender, lifecycle stage, and more.
Contextual marketing can be applied to SO much more than just the inbox. When you use marketing automation tools that work as an ecosystem with your website hosting like HubSpot, you unlock even more benefits. HubSpot has a ton of smart content tools, so you can make the most of your contextual marketing campaigns.
The purpose of 'gating' content on your website is to gather information from your prospects so you can sell to them better—so why would you ask for their name and email after you already have it?
If a user has already downloaded a few content offers and is now a marketing or sales qualified lead, you should probably show them a different call to action so you make the most of important web real estate.
For example, users who are in the awareness stage should see informational content offers, while users who have already downloaded a number of content offers are probably ready to talk to sales and should see a book now call to action.
Tenants are always filling out forms meant for property owners. What if, after identifying themselves as a renter, you stopped showing them content meant for property owners?
You'll cut down on false-positive leads while directing your renters to content that is meant for them, such as your renter qualification terms, their rental application—or if they are a current client, the link to their portal to submit work orders (so you stop getting them via the contact form).
'Retargeting' is one form of contextual property management marketing.
Think about it: When you show a user ads for a company they've been considering, you're providing content based on their actions and information—which is what contextual marketing is all about! Using this information in the right way brings you well-qualified leads that are more likely to convert.
We help new clients access the advantages of contextual marketing by building a library of proven content offers, calls to action, blogs, and more. Once you have the content to nurture a lead, we can help you build a contextual marketing campaign so your users always see the most relevant content—wherever they are in the buyer's journey.
From smart forms to targeted emails that serve up the right content at the right time, we can help you use marketing automation in ways you didn't even know were possible! Book a quick, 15-minute discovery call with our team to see if our marketing and process automation solutions can help your business.