Archives – December, 2011
As more people come to the “party”, more and more of them will stay because of the great everything. Your party will quickly get momentum. Some of your guests may be having such a good time that they’ll ask you if it’s ok they invite a couple more people they’d like you to meet. Pretty soon, your party will be in full swing with most everyone having a great time and most people not wanting to leave until they absolutely have to (or you kick them out).
When you send follow requests to other Twitter users, or when people find your profile through their own searching, many of them will look at your tweet history and only take into account that and your profile’s bio for deciding whether they want to follow you or not. If your profile has no tweets and no bio then the only people who will want to follow you are spammers because you fit a spammer’s profile exactly: that profile is anyone, anywhere. (more…)
December 30, 2011
You should also cultivate relationships with any other types of real estate related professionals working with the types of clients you work with such as mortgage brokers, real estate lawyers, home inspectors, home appraisers, contractors, property managers, junk removers, cleanup & maintenance companies, and so forth.
In these articles I’ll soon discuss at length on where to look on Twitter for all the different types of target followers you should be seeking. But before I get into that, it’s time for you to start micro-blogging on Twitter!
Time To Start Tweeting!
Before you start following anyone in Twitter, you should (more…)
December 28, 2011
Just to emphasize again the importance of the Bio section of your Twitter profile, it’s been estimated having a strong bio can get you 8 times as many Twitter followers than people who have a poor bio or no bio at all.
Determine Your Target Followers
After you complete your Twitter profile, the first thing you should do before tweeting or sending out “follow me” requests to anyone is figuring out who you want your followers to be. Real estate professionals should be looking for three types of followers:
- Property Buyers
- Property Sellers
- Referral Sources
With property buyers and sellers, by far the most prominent of these people on Twitter are (more…)
December 26, 2011
Location
Since you’re not restricted length-wise with this areas you can put in pretty much anything you want. In this area it’s wise to list all the neighborhoods you consider part of your farm area along with the name of the city and state/province and country name as well.
Web
This is the URL to your website or your blog. It might be wise to make this URL go to your blog if you have many articles written since people are coming to Twitter looking for honest, unbiased information.
Bio
This area is the most critically important part of your profile as it’s (more…)
December 23, 2011
So your goal with Twitter is steadily building up your list of new Followers while developing relationships with your existing followers. The quality and quantity of your Twitter follower list should both always be growing. If you neglect the quantity of your list your overall relationship quality will suffer, and vice versa. As they say, your “network” is directly proportional to your “net worth”.
Your Twitter Profile
After registering your Twitter account, the first thing you should is take some time in crafting your Twitter user profile. This will be the information other Twitter users will see when they’re looking at lists of people they can follow. So having a very sharp profile is of the utmost importance in (more…)
December 21, 2011
How Twitter Works
Twitter has rightly been called the “SMS of the internet” since the way messages are sent is similar to cell phone text messaging. People who register an account on Twitter are readily able to network with any of the 300 million other Twitter users worldwide. The way this networking is primarily done is by users ‘Following” other Twitter users. Following another Twitter user is like walking up to a person at a business networking event, introducing yourself, and stating “I would like to have a business relationship with you. Are you interested?”. Following someone is the equivalent of (more…)
December 19, 2011
But Twitter is not an online classifieds site in the same way as Kijiji or Craig’s List is. Sure, you can advertise any listing you want on Twitter (a program called Tweet Lister helps with this), and advertising listings can be effective at times. But the bottom line is people are on Twitter searching for the sort of honest, unbiased information they have traditionally gotten from people they know and trust such as friends and family. People are not on Twitter to be sold to. If they wanted to be sold to they’d be visiting sites with real estate listings on them. When people have made up their mind about what they’re looking by using sites like Twitter they then will focus on sites with listings. While they’re still making up their minds they stay and search on sites like Twitter.
Why Twitter Is More Suitable Than Facebook For Business Networking
Twitter is by design a more suitable climate for building business relationships than Facebook. The reason is (more…)
December 16, 2011
Again, the secret behind the immense power of Social Networking sites like Twitter is your ability to readily get honest, unbiased information from lots of different people on virtually any topic.
This advantage isn’t exclusive to Social Networking sites. In fact, this advantage was available on the internet on certain sites long before the most popular Social Networking sites of today were even thought of. The secret behind the success of (more…)
December 14, 2011
Every real estate professional is at least aware of a breed of internet sites arriving on the scene in recent years called Social Networking sites. Facebook is by far the most recognizable name in the bunch and it has by far the most users. However, another social networking site almost as well known as Facebook also has a colossal number of users yet is much less recognized by real estate professionals, let alone well utilized. That site is Twitter. In fact, I believe Twitter can be much more useful for your real estate business than Facebook.
Twitter is the #2 most popular social network in the world behind Facebook. Twitter currently has over 300 million registered users who send 300 million messages or ‘tweets’ on the Twitter system per day. Perhaps even more significant is Twitter handles over 1.6 billion search queries per day for people searching for tweets made by Twitter users. Though Google is the #1 most visited site in the world, it only gets about 2/3 as many searches per day as Twitter, even though Twitter is only the 10th most visited site in the world.
There’s a simple reason that Twitter’s daily search volume is greater than even Google’s: (more…)
December 12, 2011
LinkedIn also has discussion groups on a wide variety of topics. These groups are moderated by someone expert in the group’s subject matter. Currently there are nearly 900,000 of these groups on LinkedIn, some with as many as 300,000 members. The majority of the largest groups are employment related, although a very wide range of topics are covered mainly around professional and career issues, and there are currently 128,000 groups for both academic and corporate alumni.
The employment groups can be fertile grounds for real estate broker/owners looking for some fresh talent. (more…)
December 9, 2011
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