Increasing Real Estate Office Efficiency Through Digital Marketing Automation
TOUCHLINE MARKETING CASE STUDY
Overview
Transition Realty is a Minneapolis-based real estate brokerage that specializes in helping people manage real estate transactions throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. Their experience in the Midwest real estate market spans 20 years. The Transition Realty team of agents work with clients to buy & sell single family homes, townhouses, condos, lake homes, and investment property.
At A Glance
- Company: Transition Realty
Industry: Real Estate, Construction, Home Services
Location: Minnesota & Wisconsin, USA
Employees: 2-10
Challenge
Leadership at Transition Realty desired an increased capability to stay top-of-mind with past clients, nurture new prospects in an efficient manner, and project a professional image throughout the market. The extent of Transition Realty’s digital marketing presence was an antiquated, non-responsive, website that was struggling to convert visitors into leads.
Transition Realty was a small business that didn’t know what to do with digital marketing but knew they needed to do something.
Solution
Transition Realty partnered with Touchline Marketing for services that included a Website Project and a Digital Marketing Starter Program for small and medium-sized businesses.
The “Better Than Nothing” Digital Marketing Starter Program provides Transition Realty with the components every company needs to build a proper foundation for digital marketing for less than the cost of a part-time junior-level marketing resource. The primary components of the program consist of a pre-built digital marketing plan, a lead magnet, a landing page, thought leadership via a monthly blog article, monthly social media postings, search engine index submission, and a quarterly email newsletter.
The Transition Realty website project required a migration from the Real Estate Home Pages platform to a WordPress Content Management System (CMS). The new website was built with a real estate design theme on the WordPress content management platform, included integration with the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for interactive home search, and incorporated a deployment of a real estate customer relationship management (CRM) system. During development, Touchline completed an initial high-level design with a sitemap, detailed wireframe design, functional prototype, and a 65-point launch checklist.
Additional services included website traffic analytics (Google Analytics) setup, logo development, additional landing pages, SEO, retargeting code installation, drip email campaigns (marketing automation), social media setup/refresh, and search engine webmaster tools.
“We let them know what we need and Touchline always WOWs us with their work.”
— Owner, Transition Realty
Results
- Upgraded website presence with support for mobile devices.
- 170% increase in organic search traffic (Google, Bing, Yahoo).
- 350+ lead nurturing emails sent per month via marketing automation.
- 42 leads generated per month with lead magnets/landing pages