Freebies!

Make touring future residents a fun experience by getting in the spirit of giving. Make it festive with ribbons and tissue paper so that the gifts are colorful and decorative. I like to have many free gifts available to hand out when touring. Future residents love to leave with a little gift to remember where they were since they visit a large amount of communities in one day. Touring is a hard job. It can take many hours of driving around to find the perfect place to live. Why not give out fun stuff to make the tour memorable. First I make sure that I have plenty of water bottles with our community sticker on them. Keep them cold and tie your business cards to them. Anything that I purchase to use as a free gift will always have our community name, logo, website, phone number etc. as a tool for the visitor to refer back to. Some items that I have given out are sports water bottles (great in the summer!) Lanyards and whistles (great for senior communities) and magnets are a really great tool to use also. Put the office hours of operation and emergency numbers on it. They will be sure to keep this on their refrigerator for reference. Buy coffee cups with your logo on them, put tissue paper inside with some candy! Have several made up and have them sitting on your desk. Let the visitor know that they will get one free once they have toured your community. You can put your brochures, cards and even referral cards inside gift bags with a surprise free gift inside. Make up a survival kit for their apartment hunting day with cookies, water and a laminated map of the town with your logo and information at the top. Purchase a large basket and let them pick from an assortment of gifts. Anything to make the experience fun and most of all memorable! Give out T-shirts to the kids or to the ten tour of the day. Make a game of it to get the office staff excited!