Reviews play one of the largest roles in consumer behavior. Buyers value experience when making a purchasing decision, and now those buyers can voice their experience publicly about your product or business. On average, 77% of shoppers have bought because of their trust in reviews. Reviews...
At Idea Associates, we understand the importance of offering comprehensive creative and digital solutions for the modern real estate brand. That’s why we pride ourselves on being a full-service marketing agency. But what does that mean exactly and why is it important in the information...
What word or phrase do consumers need to type into a search engine to find your business online? If you don’t know the answer to that question, chances are your consumers don’t know either. In order to take advantage of the vast opportunities the digital...
At Idea Associates, we hereby decree that content is still king. And we’re not the only marketing professionals who think this way. Ever since Bill Gates crowned content as the king of online success in his infamous 1996 essay “Content is King”, the internet has...
There’s no beating the newest, shiniest apartment project, right? Wrong. Though the appeal of cutting-edge finishes and technologies can’t be denied for certain demographics, with the right branding and positioning, older multifamily communities are seeing occupancy rates increase and even rival their newer competition. Can...
Technology. For a long time, it seemed like integrating high tech features into the daily functions of a home was light years away, something more akin to the Jetsons than reality. But, in just the past few years, smart home technology has entered the public...
When you hear the term ‘Smart City’ you may be inclined to envision the streets of the world’s educational meccas. However, in the world of Real Estate, Urban Planning, and Development, that term is taking on a completely different meaning. Today, ‘Smart City’ refers not...
This March, Twitter turned 10 years old. That means for the past decade people have been churning out 148 character messages to the world expressing everything from their personal opinions to advertising messages. On average 6,000 of those tweets are sent per second and all...
What is SEO? Search engines are the biggest source of traffic for most websites. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a ranking process by which a website is found through search engines like, Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. The higher a site is ranked on a search engine’s results...
Keywords have come a long way. Way back in the beginning of SEO, developers would try to increase a website’sranking by using colored text to blend their keywords into the background of a page, or even positioning keywords behind images. Then search crawlers got smart. Today,...