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Apartment Community Communication Dashboard - tracking an email marketing campaign

Enterprise Dashboard for Real Estate Communications is the topic of this post on dashboards.

This is a management dashboard used to optimize communications in the real estate industry. Specifically, this application allows an apartment community manager to track what is sent via email to a group of sales prospects. The first screenshot shows the dashboard. As you see, it is entirely text-based, yet still very helpful to the apartment manager. It’s a reminder to us that clear layout and simplicity is often all it takes to bring value to the user.

Don’t be put off by the simple graphic style used in the enterprise dashboard UI. It’s actually quite effective. Sometimes a straight-forward simple graphic style is the best way to go. Concentrate on the functionalilty of the enterprise dashboard first.

Email champaign dashboard

This is a view of the prospects list:

Sales Prospects Listing 

Here is a screenshot of the page where you can actually preview the email:

Email Campaign Preview

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