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Upgrade Virtual Selling Screen-time to Facetime

April 16, 2020 | Dennis O'Neil

One-click video meetings and model home tours. We’re excited to share the details of a new Homefiniti feature designed to provide immediate support to the new normal of virtual and video selling. Available today, Homefiniti hosted builder websites can easily add and quickly manage virtual calling buttons for their online and onsite sales teams. We’ve […]

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First Quarter 2020 Digital Marketing Trends for Builders

April 14, 2020 | Molly White

DIGITAL MARKETING TRENDS FOR HOMEBUILDERS The first quarter of 2020 was a doozy but we made it through! January and February were very strong months for builder digital marketing. And honestly, they stayed strong through March. As we look at the data and the trends that emerge from our new normal, the story that is […]

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State of Builder Web Traffic at Onset of Covid-19 and Social Distancing

April 8, 2020 | Molly White

Last week Megan and I hosted the first edition of our new series of Facebook Live’s discussing the state of builder web traffic during Covid-19. Thankfully, most of our clients are located in states in which building is considered an essential business, as it should be. On March 12, most of the country began efforts […]

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Uncertainty Demands Uniquely Human Leadership

March 31, 2020 | Dennis O'Neil

It is the role of every person within an organization to contribute something uniquely human and leadership is the most uniquely human of all contributions. It is my belief that every uniquely human contribution is, at least in part, leadership – empathy, compassion, foresight, assessment, and organization of the abstract are among just a few. […]

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Introducing Homefiniti Analytics

March 23, 2020 | Dennis O'Neil

Accurate business metrics have never been more important. In the last couple weeks there have been many conversations and opinions about what is actually happening in the housing market. Is traffic up or down? Are leads up or down? Are form completions of the generic variety, or are prospects actually inquiring about your communities and […]

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Update Your Website for More Online Shopping

March 19, 2020 | Molly White

While we are all doing our best to practice social distancing, a lot of people are staying home. They are cooped up with their families and taking an extra close look at their surroundings. Anyone who was contemplating a move in the near future will definitely want to move after being at home for so […]

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Fourth Quarter 2019 Digital Marketing Benchmarks for Home Builders

February 28, 2020 | Molly White

The strategies behind Home builder marketing efforts on Facebook and Google continue to shift as both companies continue to increase the power of their AI. In January, Facebook released a way for users to see what information it tracks and gathers from people when they’re not on Facebook. You can check out your own data […]

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Why Your Brand Term Shouldn’t Be Your Paid Search Strategy

February 20, 2020 | Stacey Titemore

We like to consider paid search efforts to be the “sprint” of marketing efforts in comparison with other digital marketing avenues (SEO would be considered a “marathon”). A paid search account and campaigns can be set up for most businesses fairly quickly and basically guarantees that the business website can appear in the search results […]

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Google Includes Photos in Search Results for New Homes

February 13, 2020 | Stacey Titemore

It’s no secret that Google is constantly making changes to the search algorithm and the way they display search results. We noticed this past week a new “Search by Photos” option appeared for certain queries. This is a game changer for new home builders who want a chance to be able to visually showcase their […]

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How We Improved Homefiniti in 2019

January 10, 2020 | Jenna Schwartz

We love making Homefiniti better and it shows. We made hundreds of Homefiniti improvements and optimizations last year, but instead sharing every nerdy detail, we’ve collected just a few of our favorites. January Custom Page Templates New ability to specify a custom layout when adding Pages. This feature allows for better functionality of specially designed […]

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Third Quarter 2019 Digital Marketing Trends for Homebuilders

November 4, 2019 | Molly White

Overall the third quarter of 2019 looked good on both Facebook and Google. Megan and Dennis recently had the opportunity to travel to Facebook to continue to build ONeil Interactive’s relationship as an official Facebook Marketing Partner. While our Search Conversion manager has been hard at work optimizing campaigns to be in accordance with the […]

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Video is Simply not Easy : How a Home Builder Designs the Best Website

October 30, 2019 | Dennis O'Neil

I ended the previous chapter in this series with some thoughts about the difficulties builders experience when it comes to video. Builders experience progress paralysis with video, not due to a lack of tools and know-how, but because they lack a clarity of purpose. The purpose of your quest for video is what drives every […]

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Market Leaders vs. Market Followers

October 28, 2019 | Dennis O'Neil

Responding to market trends is a necessity for most businesses. Consumers are the market and therefore are the ones generally viewed as responsible for creating it. Unless profit, or staying in business at all, is not a requirement, companies pay attention to the needs and wants of their customers. Consider then, what limited control that […]

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