Building a luxury real-estate brand [Case-Study]

What we didwe did

• Break away from the pack

  The digital space in real estate is inundated with formulaic content. Building 3Ds complemented with a plethora of superlative adjectives and a never ending list of amenities. The competitive landscape was crowded – and the pilots of the brand – Saket Agrawal & Ankit Kothari – were clear in their brief: we had to break away.

  The way to do this was introduce story telling to the content drip. To invoke feelings about what Swati and it’s projects stood for, instead of plainly spelling them out. Yes – it was a risky approach – but it was necessary to establish Swati’s spot in the digital sunlight.

  Good design as a language of luxury

  Visual experiments with layouts, fonts, typography were par for the course and extensive. Establishing a visual vocabulary that could be extended in everyday content was important. Further – it had to meet to criteria: it needed to reflect the values of the projects that Swati is building and secondly, it had to resonate with the audience. Anything that would alienate the client base was a no-go. To make aspirational but not alienate became a true north for the team.

  

  

• Build IPs (Swati Studio, Real Estate, Real Insights)

  Now that the foundational content was in place – we worked on co-building IPs with the excellent brand team Swati has honed.

Swati Studio – inspired in part by Coke Studio – is an IP that celebrate art and talent from the local fraternity. Curating beautiful music and building a community of creators who are masters at their skills. By associating with excellence, Swati looks to be an ally to the arts and all those in the pursuit of excellence and perfection in their sphere.

Real Estate, Real Insights – for many the world of real estate is an enigma. With an informative and engaging format, this IP was conceived and built to bring people in on the inside and hear from the experts. Demystifying real estate for the larger audience while strengthening ties with Swati’s stakeholders.

Events – build relationships and collaborations with authentic creators in the city that resonate with values that Swati stands for and reinforces their motto to ‘celebrate life’. For 2 years in a row, we collaborated with Anokhi Shah or better known as chefinthemaking on Instagram.

• High cadence  

One often overlooked aspect in social media marketing is execution and cadence. To establish top of mind awareness of digital takes relentless execution at high frequency and for sustained period of time. Along with the support of the Swati brand team, we were able to complement their content and build a narrative

• Experimentation and scaling  

Once we had the foundation in place – the visual grammar to create consistent content, IPs and content that created recall and a high cadence to the Instagram account it was time to push it out and scale the community.

With a meticulous mechanism to experiment with different content and it’s response with the community, we were able to grow the community from 1.5k followers to over 17k followers in a rapid, yet judicious manner.