How To Use Social Networking For Your Real Estate Business Part 4

February 17, 2010

A Plaxo plug-in supports major address books including Outlook/Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mac OS X’s Address Book, though other ones can be supported through an application programming interface. Additionally, Plaxo can also be maintained through an online version.

Facebook – the average Facebook user is 37.1 years old and makes $68,523 per year.  Having a Facebook account is a must these days as it’s currently the #2 visited site in the world.  It’s a social networking website where users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college.  A great way of meeting qualified prospects on Facebook is by starting a group on your farm neighborhood.  Members will be able to post comments.  You can even have in-person events for your members.

Twitter – the average age of Twitter users is 35.5 and average income is $68,740.  Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service.  It allows users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authorsAll users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) on their cell phone or via external applications.

If you use Twitter, you should definitely uses TweetLister.  It’s a Twitter related service for broadcasting your listings via Twitter.  It automatically interfaces with MLS and converts your listings into a Tweet you can blast out to all your followers on Twitter.

MySpace: the average MySpace user is 33 years old and makes $51,489 per year.  MySpace is a social networking website with a heavy slant towards music.  MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006.

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