During this roundtable, we shared ideas and discussed ways to use your website and Novi admin as a marketing tool. Customers shared examples of their marketing strategies and processes, and how Frontend Content, Events, and Novi Groups can combine to amp up your marketing efforts.

A written recap follows the recorded video.

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A big thank you to Michelle Blakley with AAGD and Russ Webb with BAAA for sharing!

The Apartment Association of Greater Dallas uses Google Analytics to help drive the content they place on their home page. They identify what pages their members are visiting most, and what information are they trying to find. Then they used the analytics to determine what content to place on the homepage of their website.

"Whenever you're thinking about your website, it really needs to meet your company's strategies. So for us, it's getting individual people to sign up and categorize themselves into their companies."

They set internal goals to define these questions: "What do we want to accomplish on our homepage?" and "How do we communicate that to streamline people down in the marketing funnel?"

AAGD uses its homepage to answer three main questions from their members:

Things to look for in Analytics - what pages are getting the most visits/activity?

Are members looking for how to create their account? What about searching for how to join, member benefits, or how to get involved?

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Make sure it feels consistent, if you have brand colors, utilize them! Find stock images that are color-based to your brand/logo colors.

With the new directories, the Bay Area Apartment Association has created additional advertising opportunities for its members. They wanted to make sure to create something that would catch their eye, "What can we do to make it stand out?"

The result? BAAA created animated GIFs on their Supplier Directory in the advertisement sizes available. Check it out:

How are Novi customers marketing events?

AAMD recently held a weeklong virtual event, Lease-a-Rama, that had motivational speakers, everyone dressed up in costumes, and gave away prizes. The event was held at the same time each day, for 1 hour, for a week. It's always been a team-building event, but they marketed it to their Management Company members as an all-access pass. So their members weren't limited to just sending people who are in AAMD's membership but from all over the country. This resulted in over 1000 people registering!

BAAA mentioned they'll have a virtual ticket option for their events indefinitely for the future. Previously with in-person events, since their territory is spread out, members would have to drive hours to attend an in-person event. They've found the virtual component allows them to provide benefits to their broader membership base.

Since the new directory functionality is built of Novi Groups, we shared how Novi customers are using Groups and Directories to promote member benefits.

Showcase New Members in their own separate Directory by using the Member Since date in the Group condition. This has two benefits: It says "we're happy to have you as a new member" by providing free advertising in the directory. The second benefit is that it incentivizes the member to go and update their profile! If they see they are the only member without a logo, for example, they'll be more inclined to go add it or ask how they can get featured on your website.

See also: Creating Online Directories in Novi

SEO:

Canva - For anyone with a small staff or no budget for a designer, Canva is a great free or low-cost tool for static or animated graphics!

Linktree - Use Linktree to connect audiences to all of your content with just one link. (Thanks for the tip, Kendall at AAA!)