Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Written on January 6th, 2010 by adminno shouts
Recently while attending an all day webinar I learned even more ways to utilize Twitter for lead generation in real estate. One recommendation was to find tweeples (or people that use twitter) who are searching for homes in your area. There are endless possibilities for what groups of people you may want to follow, but chances are you want to stay in your geographic area. Now there is a simple way to find those twitter users.
A new Twitter application called GeoChirp uses Google maps to pinpoint the most recent tweets from a zipcode. You can set it to search within a 1 to 50 mile radius.
The example given on GeoChirp’s website states:
if you want to search for people Tweeting about ‘Golf’ in Richmond, Virginia, you can just select the area in the map, set the radius within 1-50 miles of that area, enter the keyword “Golf” or any other related keyword and BOOM you have all the people Twittering about ‘Golf’ in Richmond, Virginia.
So you just set the location, set the filter and see the results. This is a powerful tool and can connect you to hundreds, even thousands, of potential home buyers in your area.
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Written on September 21st, 2009 by adminno shouts
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Today I was doing some maintenance on our REVATS Twitter account and stumbled upon a site called Twibes.
I joined several groups on there and, of course, haven’t seen the value of any of them yet, but I wanted to share the info with everyone!
There are no less than 195 Real Estate groups, although most of them have only a few members and are location-specific. Joining these groups provides yet another opportunity to network via Twitter.
You can create your own group too. So you could potentially create a group for people searching for real estate in your town! Many of the real estate groups are just that.
In addition to the real estate groups, there are many groups for marketing, sales, etc, as well as just about any group your personal interests would fit in.
You join a Twibe by clicking on the group and then clicking the “Tweet to Join” button. Make sure you are already signed in to Twitter itself when you do this. Your Twitter page will open and a tweet will be right there waiting for you to click “update”. The tweet will say something like: “Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/RealEstate to join.“
Its kind of annoying if you join several twibes, you will have a long list of tweets like the one above, but they will soon be drowned in your twitter feed.
Simply typing a key word into your tweets will cause them to appear on the twibes page that you joined. So, for example, if I type a tweet that says “We love Real Estate agents!” it would appear on the Real Estate twibe page!
Have you signed up for Twibe already? What do you think about it? Have you gotten any results?
–Kim, virtual assistant with REVATS
Written on September 19th, 2009 by adminone shout
I will shamefully admit that I only recently started using Twitter. Of course I recommended it to clients, attended different webinars on using social media for marketing yourself and your business, but I personally never used Twitter. I did sign up for an account, tweeted once, then thought it was pretty weird. Why would anyone want to follow me anywhere? I imagined my tweets being something like this:
‘I am heading to the kitchen to cook some mac n cheese because I forgot to grocery shop yet again’ or
‘Getting ready to call the doc because I still am not convinced dog food is harmless to an 18 month old’ or
‘Sitting here trying to think of something entertaining, important and informational to blog about’
However twitter is more than just announcing the mundane aspects of your day. I just learned this and am quite possibly addicted. I decided to log in after being told numerous times that I could get late breaking news from other Tweeps before it is ever on the TV news or internet news sites. I read up on how to use twitter (more info to come), and logged in. I started searching for hashtags related to my interests. All of a sudden these tweets start popping up with vast amounts of information, including links to the articles. I was in information overload!
So I started reading, re-tweeting some, posting articles of my own. Then in the blink of an eye (well, one week to be more accurate), I had 100 followers! I did not solicit people, or try to obtain followers, but evidently things I tweeted about were interesting to some people, so they followed me. It was then I realized the power of twitter!
Now I log in a couple times per day to read late breaking news that I mainly get from people I follow. In just a month I’ve built up a huge network of people with related interests as mine. Yet every day, I still get at least five more followers. Who would have thought a 10 second blurb and a link to an article or blog I just read would generate the amount of traffic and new contacts that I now have?
How does this relate to your real estate business? I will answer that tomorrow. Right now, I’m going to go tweet.
–Stephanie, virtual assistant with REVATS
