{"id":17994,"date":"2014-05-04T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/?p=17994"},"modified":"2015-01-15T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:58:08","slug":"marketing-vs-advertising-what-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/2014\/05\/04\/marketing-vs-advertising-what-is-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing vs Advertising <br> What&#8217;s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Confusing? &#8211; It&#8217;s No Wonder<\/h2>\n<p>Simply reading Webster&#8217;s definition of the two terns, any individual will come away with some level of confusion. However it&#8217;s just not that difficult to comprehend if you keep in mind the following:<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advertising<\/strong> &#8211; one component of marketing, to promote a particular product or service subset of your companies offerings, usually associated with a hard dollar budget and cost.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing<\/strong> &#8211; the broad category of branding, public relations, promotion, and all interactions with your customers, of which, paid advertising is simply one of the tools used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Real Estate Advertising<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><div class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span3 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img width=\"259\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Advertising.jpg\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Advertising.jpg 259w, https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Advertising-150x61.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div class=\"vc_span9 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Real Estate advertising is one of our strong suites here at @ Homes Realty. We have spent years of work and a great amount of dollars developing our advertising technology and expertise.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><div class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>The Internet has forever changed the real estate business, perhaps more so than any other industry. The 2013 joint <a href=\"\/\/www.realtor.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Study-Digital-House-Hunt-2013-01_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">marketing report<\/a> from the National Assoc of Realtors\u00ae and Google Inc. is certainly an eye-opener. Here are a few of the big-bullet items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Real estate related searches on Google.com have grown 253% over the past 4 years<\/li>\n<li>90% of home buyers searched online during their\u00a0home buying process<\/li>\n<li>TV, billboards, and print channels play minimal role in decision-making of home buyers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Advertising Technology<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><div class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span3 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img width=\"246\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AdvertisingIcons.jpg\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AdvertisingIcons.jpg 246w, https:\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AdvertisingIcons-150x65.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div class=\"vc_span9 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Our website technology is unique among our local competitors. \u00a0It is built on top of Google&#8217;s advertising technology and this brings us capabilities that our competitors simply do not have.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><div class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_span12 wpb_column column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Throughout our website you will find private-label advertisements of our agent&#8217;s clients, their listings, targeted neighborhoods, and also any special events that they may be hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Our competitors will say this doesn&#8217;t work or make a difference in an agent&#8217;s ability to sell real estate, but this is simply spewing nonsense. We have hard evidence in the fact that we have tripled the views of our agent&#8217;s listings and hard closing dollars that directly map to leads generated from the private-label advertising we do for our agents.<\/p>\n<p>For example, over the last 2 weekends our agents have been active in two neighborhoods featured in the Spring Tour of Homes. We put together a <strong><a href=\"\/\/athomeshuntsville.com\/realestate\/stoneridge-homes\/parade-of-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\">special landing page<\/a><\/strong> for them and then used our private-label advertising to drive over 1,000 visitors to this page, where these visitors then viewed 5,803 \u00a0additional pages related to the listings, floor plans, and details of these 2 neighborhoods. Nonsense? Not in your life, simply cold hard evidence that advertising works.<\/p>\n<h2>A Few Good Agents<\/h2>\n<p>Our private-label advertising in behalf of our agents is only the tip of the iceberg, of all the value-added services we offer our agents.<\/p>\n<p>You will have your own dedicated in-house marketing team to assist you all along the way with professional photography, videography, and specialty sites for single properties \u00a0and single neighborhoods like these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/\/theridge.athomesmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neighborhood Site Example<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"\/\/127chelseaparkrow.athomesmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Single Property Site Example<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are an agent and would like to learn more about @Homes Realty and all of the wide variety of services we provide for our agents, we have a site just for you: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/\/athomesmedia.com\/\">@HomesMedia.com\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tim<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confusing? - It's No Wonder Simply reading Webster's definition of the two terns, any individual will come away with some level of confusion. 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