Beginning Social Media for Real Estate Agents
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…… are these foreign words to you? If so, here is a great post on getting started with Social Media.
New to Social Media? – Challenges
By Ines Hegedus-Garcia on October 26, 2009
This past week, Gia Freer and I were invited to speak at a panel for the Master Brokers Forum in Boca Raton, FL. The panel’s subject was “Navigating the Social Media Ocean: Facebook, Blogging and Beyond”. Questions were prepared before the panel, answers rehearsed……but things changed a bit when we arrived at the venue.
The average age of attendees was late 50’s – everyone there was a top producing agent with years in the business and successful businesses at that. So why were these people interested in Social Media for their business? Some were just curious and had no intention to even venture into trying something new, but a lot of them, to my surprise, recognized that it was important to at least get their feet wet and see what all the commotion was about.
The first question – and one I will share because we need to ponder and then ponder some more, was:
If I’m new to social media, what are the three most important things I should do RIGHT NOW?
Some of us have been at this for a while and going back to basics may seem a bit trivial and useless….but guess what?? If you really think about this question, it may simplify your social media marketing strategy today.
Gia answered the following:
- Put up profiles NOW (in Twitter, Facebook and Linked In)
- Start at Blog
- Change your business cards (include your social media stuff)
