Before writing to a property manager, an owner has three worries, and conversion work answers them on the page: where the rent goes, who holds the keys and how to leave.
Owners often compare a few managers in one evening, and the first message goes to the one whose page answers without a phone call.
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Before signing with a manager, owners want to know the fee, what they will receive each month and how to leave if it does not work.
A page that hides those answers behind a general form loses careful owners.
Each group judges value, speed and risk in its own way.
On most managers' sites tenants far outnumber owners, and an owner has to scroll past repair and payment forms to find a way in.
For property management companies, we test one clear idea at a time on the pages where people are closest to getting in touch, state your limits more clearly and shorten the path for visitors who are ready to act.
Before writing to a manager an owner wants to know what happens to the rent, to the keys and to the contract if things go badly.
Contact us is a large step for someone who only wants to know whether management would pay.
On a manager's website tenants usually outnumber owners, and the button meant for owners sits somewhere below their forms.
We look at where visitors leave and read the questions people ask by phone and email before they decide.
We answer the main doubt next to the button and shorten the form or the booking path. For managers, we ask which question owners raise on the first call, such as whether a fee is charged while the flat stands empty, and answer it beside the form.
We change one thing at a time, because a small site has too few visits for quick tests.
We judge a change by the enquiries that follow, and undo it if it brings more enquiries of the wrong kind.
We count rental estimate requests from owner pages, with tenant visits removed first, so the figures describe owners only.
Plain answers about Conversion Optimisation, written for property management companies.
With telling owners and tenants apart in the figures, because until then every number describes tenants.
A visible fee, the notice period in plain words and a first step smaller than a contract, such as a rental estimate.
Not if those owners are sorted early.
A choice of times for a video call shown in their own time zone, a message through the app they already use, and a form that accepts a foreign phone number.
General questions about Conversion Optimisation, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.
FAQ: Conversion OptimisationKeep every channel working to one plan.
A page for each kind of owner
Explore serviceThe office that tenants and owners actually visit
Explore serviceThe owner who is leaving another manager
Explore serviceTwo doors on the first screen of a phone
Explore serviceWhere the rent goes, stated for owners far away
Explore serviceBodies and schemes that list their members
Explore serviceOne phone line, two queues
Explore serviceWhere landlords read and where tenants complain
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