Portfolio:StuartCo

Campaign Goals:

  • Redesign website to reflect the company's dynamic brand
  • Provide a more user-friendly apartment search experience
  • Increase leads and employment applications
StuartCo, a respected Twin Cities property management and development company, approached us about designing a website and user interface that better reflected its brand. It was important that the new site design convey StuartCo’s superior employee and resident satisfaction.

Custom API Integration

We wanted to give StuartCo’s potential residents a personalized, easy and fun apartment search tool. As technology experts, we were energized by this challenge, which involved API (Application Programming Interface) integration with its current Contact Management System, Yardi. We created a search function that checked for availability within Yardi, and pulled those results into StuartCo’s WordPress site. We added even more versatility by programming in the ability to create search functions that were unavailable in Yardi. Potential tenants can now designate whether they want Luxury Living or Urban Walkability, in addition to many other personalized search variables.

Here's how we helped them out

WordPress Development

We built StuartCo’s entire site experience within WordPress with the goal of affecting SEO and crafting an easy-to-use tool for their team to work in.

Graphics and Visual Identity

We helped StuartCo create a stunning website that was more in line with their visual identity, only kicked up a notch.

Email Marketing

We improved lead generation by integrating email marketing with the site’s enhanced search functionality. People searching for apartments enter an email address to save their results on the website. StuartCo can now email potential tenants to follow up on their specific searches.

User Experience Design

It was important to StuartCo to have the best user experience possible. This is certainly inherent in the search tool and the ‘save your search’ functionality.

Responsive Web Design

It was extremely important to create a site that worked well on mobile devices, as most renters today use phones and tablets for apartment searches.

The Results

The newly launched StuartCo site is strikingly beautiful, with an versatile user experience that will keep residents coming back. Our work with StuartCo continues as we dive into a new project: developing a complex email marketing series connected to the Contact Management System. This project will involve additional API and design work, and conditional automation within MailChimp. Stay tuned for more results!

“Checkerboard’s team was a delight to work with. They were thorough in the bidding process, asked intuitive questions to build out the scope, and detailed their recommendations so it was easy for us to define the best fit for our budget and strategy. Our website required complicated programming. The Checkerboard team was incredibly patient, and we learned a ton through this process! From design to functionality and management of the project, Checkerboard’s team was open-minded and enjoyable to work with!”

Janet RossethDirector of Marketing at StuartCo

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