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Tweet Your Way to the Top. A Beginner’s Workshop on Twitter. A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Communicating with Social Media. By Lindsey Listanski. Statistics. 2/3 of the world’s population visits social media sites. Twitter’s fastest growing age demographic is 55-64 year olds.
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Tweet Your Way to the Top A Beginner’s Workshop on Twitter
A Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Communicating with Social Media By Lindsey Listanski
Statistics • 2/3 of the world’s population visits social media sites. • Twitter’s fastest growing age demographic is 55-64 year olds. • In 2008 only 32% realtors had social media presence, in contrast in 2009, 84% of real estate agents used social media sites to reach out to their target audiences. • 94% home buyers use the internet to identify properties that would interest them. • 32% of homebuyers found the house they bought online. • To gain a competitive edge, realtors need to use social media to broadcast their messages and to interact with their fans. • Traditional buyers take close to two months to find the house that meets their requirements. On the other hand, internet buyers take only about half a month. In other words, the internet, and social media in particular, helps home buyers identify key issues that they need to consider when buying real estate.
Who to Follow • @ashbey, @stringclarke, @coldwellbanker, @CBtweet, @CBGundaker • Family, Friends/Acquaintances, Colleagues • Real Estate Pages • Who to Follow feature
Create Your Brand • Agent Picture
Bio Who are you? What are you passionate about? What do you plan to discuss? St. Louis Your personal CBG URL
Personalize • Background Image • Page Background
Start Tweeting! Remember… Only 140 characters!
What to Share • Photo’s • Personal Milestones • Fun or Engaging Material • Business Related info
How to Share It: Hashtags What is a hashtag? A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the # symbol.Social networks such as Twitter may be tagged by putting "#" before important words. Hashtags provide a means of grouping such messages, since you can search for the hashtag and get a set of messages that contain it. #CBG EMT #CBGundaker #TweetToTheTop
How to Share It: Retweet See a tweet you like? Retweet it!
Measuring Your Efforts Retweets, Mentions, & Replies • A retweet = when someone repeats what you have tweeted on their own feed. • A mention = when someone includes your username preceded by the @ symbol. • A reply is when = someone replies back to a tweet you wrote using your @Handle.
Follow us & your neighbor! @ashbey @stringclarke