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Lake Homes Realty Growth: New Manager of Digital Marketing

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Linda Thach, Lake Homes Realty growth continues with new manager of digital marketing

Lake Homes Realty’s growth continues as the brokerage welcomes Linda Thach as their home office Manager of Digital Marketing. 

This announcement comes just three months after the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company welcomed new Director of Marketing, Mark Griggs. 

Prior to joining the Lake Homes Realty team, Thach excelled in digital marketing roles at MarkeTrue, Strong Automotive Merchandising, Oakstone Publishing and Summer Classics where she advanced social media by 200% in her first year. 

“With the addition of both Linda and Mark to our team, we now have in place a solid infrastructure for taking our marketing efforts to the next level,” said Lake Homes Realty CEO Glenn S. Phillips. “Linda’s expertise is going to be paramount to growing our market share and continuing our corporate growth as we approach the second half of 2019.”

A graduate of the University of Alabama Birmingham, she brings with her more than a decade of experience as a digital marketing professional. 

“There’s so much potential in this company,” Thach said. “We’re doing things other real estate companies just aren’t doing. It’s one thing to join a company that you know is going to do well, but it’s also very reassuring to know that this company is focused on helping me grow professionally.”

Her immediate goal for Lake Homes Realty’s marketing department is to enhance the efforts and initiatives that are already in place and build a digital structure that will help everything run smoothly. 

“We are approaching things, especially social media, with a different tack than many other companies in this space.”, she explained. “We aren’t selling listings, we are selling a lifestyle.” 

Thach is an avid fan of Disney’s Finding Nemo and uses one of the movie’s most notable quotes to guide her life and career: “Dory always says ‘just keep swimming.’ Regardless of what happens, you just have to keep going. Change can be tough, but I embrace it because I know how important it is to just keep on going, keep on swimming, keep on pushing the envelope.”

About Lake Homes Realty

Lake Homes Realty (www.LakeHomes.com) is a full-service, multi-state real estate company focused on lake homes and land. The Alabama-based brokerage has been twice named as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine.

Lake Homes Realty is a licensed real estate brokerage in 26 states and is growing rapidly into additional states. For more information, visit www.LakeHomes.com. 

Expansion Continues: Lake Homes Realty Adds New Director of Marketing, Additional Office Space

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The growing keeps going at Lake Homes Realty’s corporate offices as the company welcomes Mark Griggs its new Director of Marketing.

To meet the demands of their continued rapid growth, Lake Homes Realty has hired a new Director of Marketing and leased additional office space.

This announcement comes just four months after the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company announced its expansion into western states.

“We are serious about our growth every year, but are even more focused on accelerating growth this year,” said CEO Glenn S. Phillips. “Hiring Mark was a big step toward achieving that and a testament to our focus on taking our marketing efforts to the next level.”

Prior to joining Lake Homes Realty, Griggs held leadership positions in marketing at Mspark, Summer Classics, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama and Just for Feet.

He is also a former Associate Publisher of the Birmingham Business Journal and has experience in multiple other publishing companies.

Griggs is an Auburn University graduate with a BA in mass communications, concentrated in public relations.

“I am very excited to join this dynamic national organization! My role here will bring to bear everything I have learned in a 33-year career in omni-channel marketing environments.”

Griggs states his immediate goal is to, “Create an integrated marketing plan to effectively tell our story. This is such a unique company, operating as a hybrid web entity and traditional real estate broker in 26 states on over 2,000 lakes and counting.”

To help achieve these goals, Lake Homes Realty has also leased an additional office space at the corporate headquarters in Hoover’s Southlake Plaza, managed by Barber Companies. Weyman Prater represented Barber Companies in the negotiations.

The brokerage moved its corporate operations to the Southlake location in January 2018. With the addition of even more office space, Lake Homes Realty now occupies 40% of the building.

“Our challenge will be to grow the needed corporate presence quickly enough to support the industry leading growth of our sales operation,” Griggs added.

With additional office space and increasing business demands, the company is also hiring additional staff in brokerage operations, marketing and corporate support.

“Our marketing team has a solid foundation,” Phillips said, “and the time has come to build on that foundation so we can move faster and uphold our position as the nation’s authority on all things lake real estate.”

About Lake Homes Realty/LakeHomes.com

Lake Homes Realty (www.LakeHomes.com) is a full-service, multi-state real estate company focused on lake homes and land.

The Alabama-based brokerage has been twice named as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine.

Lake Homes Realty is a licensed real estate brokerage in 26 states and is growing rapidly into additional states.

Lake Homes Realty CEO Honored by Auburn University

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Lake Homes Realty CEO Glenn S. Phillips has received an Auburn University “Top Tiger” award for the second year in a row.

Auburn University Image with text overlay "2019 Auburn University Top Tiger"

Top Tiger designations are presented by the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business to Auburn alumni who own, lead or have founded successful companies and entrepreneurial ventures.

“Not only do I live by the Auburn creed, but also the members of our team do, too,” said Phillips who graduated with a computer engineering degree from Auburn. “We all believe in work, hard work, and it’s rewarding to have our success recognized by the University.”

To be eligible to receive a Top Tiger honor, alumni-led companies are evaluated on revenue growth over a minimum of four years.

Last year was the first year Lake Homes Realty was eligible for consideration. Both years the brokerage has been named to the list of award-winners in the medium-sized company class, those honorees whose revenue is between $5 million and $35 million.

Lake Homes Realty is one of three real estate brokerages in the Birmingham area named to the list. Fifty Top Tigers were named nationwide.

Other industries represented include landscaping, architecture, dermatology, digital marketing services, insurance and veterinary medicine.

Honorees were recognized at the 2019 Auburn University Entrepreneurship Summit, held March 28-29.

About Lake Homes Realty/LakeHomes.com

Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Lake Homes Realty is a full-service, multi-state real estate brokerage, and the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company.

Leveraging the power of technology with the power of people, Lake Homes Realty uses data from nearly 100 MLSs to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date database of lake-access, lakeview and lakefront properties available today through its website LakeHomes.com.

The website also connects home buyer and sellers with lake expert real estate agents who live, and play, in their local markets.

Lake Homes Realty is currently a licensed brokerage in 24 states and is rapidly expanding its market footprint. Most recently, the brokerage opened its first western U.S. operation in Idaho.