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SHELTER JUNE 2011 EVERYTHING UNDER THE ROOF

Top 10 Home & Garden Websites Shelter Adopts QR Codes Factors Holding Home Buyers Back

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Shelter Marketing, June 2011

“Shelter Marketing 2011” is part of Kleidon Publishing’s Quick Facts Series featuring news, data and research. The collection supplies our clients and friends with a time-saving source of research and facts, in the form of charts and Excel documents, in order to make the knowledge demands of daily marketing an easier task. Our data comes from major research partners and captures essential marketing data over the short term for a fast, easy glance at trends.

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Sources: NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index., U.S. Census Bureau, Experian, Hitwise, MarketingCharts.com

The Internet gives us unprecedented opportunity to see with precision how homebuyers, builders, bankers and others in the shelter market actually behave. We can learn where to connect, and we can track users’ behavior during campaigns.

Top 10 Home & Garden Websites Better Homes & Gardens tops Google search Consumers rely on Angie’s List as well as ServiceMagic for contractor referrals.

They look for design ideas at thisoldhouse.com, Remodelista, The Style Files, Let’sRenovate.com, Kitchens.com and The Kitchen Designer.

This Young House and Hooked on Houses also get high marks from SpotCoolStuff.com, who highly recommends Punch as a design-it-yourself program – for better or worse!

Sources: Experian, Hitwise, MarketingCharts.com

Shelter Adopts QR Codes QR, Microsoft tags in retail use 2011 marked the entry of shelter big boxes using QR codes or competing Microsoft tags in ads and on displays in stores.

Mobile phone users can point and click to get more information from a tag or code that takes them to a website or landing page.

JumpScan says 57% of Facebook and Twitter users used QR Codes (a technology like barcodes) at least once in the past year.

Factors Holding Home Buyers Back 90% : Inability to sell home at a decent price 73% :

Builders hesitate, too

Many cite economic uncertainty

Hard to get home financing

Homebuyers hesitate

Sources: NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index., U.S. Census Bureau.

“Builder confidence has hardly budged over the past six months as persistent concerns regarding competition from distressed property sales, lack of production credit, inaccurate appraisals, and proposals to reduce government support of housing have continued to cloud the outlook.�

NAHB Chairman Bob Nielsen Reno, Nevada

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By 2010’s close, 31% of all mobile consumers owned smart phones.

Besides the obvious, like finding nearby developments, consumers are transferring online activity to their smart phones in dozens of ways.

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