Let's share inexpensive marketing ideas. I will go first.

Send flowers or an edible arrangement with a personalized card delivered to their place of work. It creates a pleasant memory for the tenant and is indeed an attention grabber. The people around them will be drawn to them and inquire about the gift. It makes the tenant feel even more special, and once everyone around them finds out that it was delivered from your property, they will long to live in your community too…….word of mouth will spread! This can also be used as an apology gift that will also serve as an awesome inexpensive form of advertisement for your property :woohoo:

Chiccorra Connor
www.occupancyheroes.com

1. We use a bouquet of balloons to take to their workplace for our renewals with an invitation to renew.
2. Give away water bottles with your logo printed on them at big events.
3. Print "post it notes" with your advertisement on it and put them everywhere and anywhere.
4. Make bookmarks and put them in books at book stores or give them to school libraries.
5. "Hug a building"..treat a building for the week special..something new everyday. Put balloons and a bandit sign in front of their building to let everyone know. At the end of the week, put chocolate "hugs" in a bag with ribbon and a note reading "You have been hugged by ________'s staff!"
6. Breakfast on the run for your resident's...coffee, orange juice and a muffin at your front entrance.
7. Make a coloring page to drop off at the local daycares and have the parents drop it off on your property for a coloring contest. $50.00 prize to toy r us. It gets alot of parents through your door that might be looking for a new home.
8. Send a flyer with a bag of peanuts attached to each resident's door of your neighboring apartment community...flyer says,"We are nuts about having neighbors like you! THANKS, _______________ Apartment Community"
If someone is not happy there they will call you!

I have lots more but will stop for now...
Tina Fields
Property Manager

Thanks Tina……please don’t stop :silly:

I have to say that I have never personally performed a coloring contest at a daycare to promote a property. However, I will now. I absolutely love that idea! I can indeed see how that strategy would work. Thank you so much for sharing. Feel free to keep the ideas flowing :laugh:

Chiccorra Connor
www.occupancyheroes.com

Order pens with your property's information on them and leave bunches of them with the clerks at grocery stores, banks, credit unions, doctor's offices, hospitals, and other places nearby. That way when their customers "accidentally" take their pens you will constantly receive free advertisement.

Bringing attention to your property is job one for all of your marketing efforts. Sometimes the least expensive ways are the best. Putting some colorful helium-filled balloons on an A-frame on the front of your property near a well-traveled street may be the best way of getting noticed. The cost is minimal and many people who aren't looking will notice you and remember you when it is time for them or their friends to move. Most cities allow A-frame temporary signs if you take them in daily, just like the real estate people do on the corners every weekend for an open house.

Also, check with your local municipality about the regulations for a banner on your property or teardrop flags near the street for more visibility. Letting people know you are there will get them to your website when they are ready.

I've heard of writing on the sidewalk with chalk.