We are at it again over at the Urbane Lab, and are adding UrbaneTV.com to our growing blog, UrbaneBlog.com We are launching a twice a month series Adventures in Royal Oak, featuring two Urbane Residents travels about town.
We launched the first video Friday, SIX MINUTES and had our highest traffic day to date. You can check it out below, it is pretty cool. It created quite a stir with the locals, including a couple of City Commissioners! We like making a bang!
SIX MINUTES
Six Minutes from Six Minute Men on Vimeo.
The Adventure Series will run twice a month. We are also adding a Weekly News series, which will feature a very comical pair that report on and dork on the local news, events, happenings and goings on in and around Royal Oak,MI It will be in a skit format, similar to a Saturday Night Live event. We hope to become the Go To place for local news and events and a little entertainment along the way. And if you need an apartment, we have some of those available too, but they are going fast!
We expect the additional WEB traffic to further boost our Google Rankings and increase Brand Awareness These are pretty exciting times. We see s shift in how folks get their news and we want to help fill that void.
Eric’s background is rooted in the rental and real estate industries. He founded metro Detroit’s Urbane Apartments in 2003, after serving as senior vice president for a major Midwest apartment developer. He established a proven track record of effectively repositioning existing rental properties in a way that added value for investors while enhancing the resident experience.
He also established The Urbane Way, a social media marketing and PR laboratory, where innovative marketing ideas are tested. Eric has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and Business Week Magazine.
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