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Handcrafted Sites

A public site for your portfolio that looks designed, not templated — published in an afternoon.

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Leads
3,020
Customers
187
Owner
Aisha Rahman
Handcrafted Sites campaign artwork

Positioning

Occupello's site builder gives property managers and small agencies a public, branded website — colors, fonts, logo, sections, and live listings — generated from the portfolio they already manage, with AI-drafted copy and imagery they can rewrite in place.

Who this is for

Boutique property management agencies and multi-owner managers, 3–25 staff, whose website is either a decade-old template or a Facebook page, and who re-post the same vacancy on four portals every turn.

The offer

Build and publish your site free on your Occupello subdomain. Connect a custom domain on any paid plan. No design fee, no developer, no template marketplace.

Primary: Build your site freeSecondary: See a published example

Pain → gain

What agencies live with, and what changes

The pain today

What changes

  • The agency website was built in 2016 and nobody remembers the CMS password.

    Pick a palette and fonts, write three sections, publish. Changes go live immediately, from the same app you manage doors in.

  • Vacancies get posted to portals and forgotten on your own site.

    Publish a unit once; it appears on your branded site and the Occupello marketplace, and disappears from both when it's leased.

  • Writing listing copy for the fortieth one-bedroom is soul-destroying.

    AI drafts the listing narrative and section copy from the unit's real attributes. You edit tone, not blank pages.

  • Inquiries arrive in three inboxes and two DMs.

    Every inquiry lands against the listing in the app, with the source, so you can answer and track without switching tools.

Funnel

Awareness to advocate

  1. 1

    Awareness

    Rank for property-management-website intent and seed the manager communities.

    500,000 impressions

  2. 2

    Interest

    Drive to the live example gallery.

    45,000 visits

  3. 3

    Consideration

    Free account created and builder opened.

    4,000 leads

  4. 4

    Trial

    Site published with at least one live listing.

    1,300 sites published

  5. 5

    Customer

    Upgrade for a custom domain or the rent ledger.

    220 customers

  6. 6

    Advocate

    'Built with Occupello' click-throughs from published sites.

    3,000 loop visits

KPI dashboard

Where the campaign stands

Impressions

486K

Paid and owned

Visits

44,100

9.07% click rate

Leads

3,020

Target 4,000

Revenue

$164,300

Attributed, closed

Visit → lead

6.8%

Lead → MQL

43.4%

MQL → SQL

33.7%

SQL → customer

42.3%

Proof

What we can actually claim

1 afternoon

median time from first login to published site

Onboarding telemetry

2.7x

more inquiries per vacancy versus portal-only posting

Listing analytics, 190 agencies

Server-rendered

listing pages with structured data on every publish

Product

Asset library

Everything published for this campaign

blog
2026-05-18

What a property management website is actually for

Not a brochure. A vacancy funnel with your name on it.

Views
34,800
Engaged
8,120
Conv.
1,440
landing page
2026-05-11

The example gallery

Nine real agency sites, built in Occupello, none of them alike.

Views
26,300
Engaged
12,400
Conv.
1,180
guide
2026-06-01

Publish-day checklist for a portfolio site

Fourteen checks between 'it looks fine' and 'it's ready to rank'.

Views
11,200
Engaged
4,060
Conv.
618

Five-touch drip

The emails, in full

  1. Day 0

    Your site is one afternoon away

    Palette, logo, three sections. Publish.

    Start with the parts that make it yours: upload your logo, pick a palette, and choose your heading and body fonts. The preview updates as you go. Then write three sections — who you are, the neighbourhoods you serve, and how to reach you. If you'd rather not start from blank, let the assistant draft them from your portfolio and rewrite what doesn't sound like you. Publishing is one button. Nothing goes live before you press it.

    Open the site builder

  2. Day 2

    Put your vacancies where they belong

    One publish, two places, zero re-typing.

    Turn on the Homes for Rent section and every published unit appears on your site automatically, with photos, rent, availability, and an inquiry form. The same publish puts it on the Occupello marketplace, where renters browse by city and bedroom count. Lease it, and it comes down from both. One thing to do today: publish one unit and see how the page reads.

    Publish a unit

  3. Day 5

    Listing copy that isn't forty words of amenities

    Draft from real attributes, edit in place.

    Good listing copy leads with what it's like to live there — the light in the afternoon, the walk to the bus, the pantry that fits a real grocery run. The assistant drafts from the unit's actual attributes and your chosen tone, and you edit inline. Agencies typically keep the structure and rewrite two sentences. The alt text for your photos gets drafted too, which matters for both accessibility and search.

    Draft a listing

  4. Day 10

    Where your inquiries are actually coming from

    Source-tagged, in the app, against the listing.

    Every inquiry from your site or the marketplace lands against the listing with its source, so you can see which channel produces renters who actually apply. That's the number worth watching. Portal traffic is easy to buy and hard to convert; your own site tends to be the opposite.

    See your inquiries

  5. Day 16

    Point your own domain at it

    Two DNS records and a certificate we handle.

    Sites start on an Occupello subdomain, which is fine for a vacancies page and wrong for a brand. On any paid plan you can connect your own domain: add two DNS records, and we issue and renew the certificate. Old URLs keep working, and your listing pages keep their canonical tags so nothing you've published loses its search position.

    Connect a domain

Objection handling

What they push back on

Experiments

What we're testing

  • won · Visit → account created

    A gallery of real published sites converts better than a feature-led landing page.

    A — Feature-led landing page

    3.6%

    B — Example gallery

    6.2%

    Significance: 99% (placeholder)

  • running · Builder open → published

    Pre-drafting section copy with AI on first builder load raises publish rate.

    A — Empty sections

    29.0%

    B — Pre-drafted sections

    44.0%

    Significance: Not yet reached

Stay in the loop

Get the Handcrafted Sites brief

The positioning, the drip, and the assets, sent once. No sequence, no sales call unless you ask.

Build your site free

Build and publish your site free on your Occupello subdomain. Connect a custom domain on any paid plan. No design fee, no developer, no template marketplace.

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