Twitter and Real Estate

I think Twitter could have some usefulness…It seems like an interesting concept I’m just not 100% sold on the marketing aspect. I did however sign up recently so we’ll see what happens from here.

I have gotten business as a result of it and have given it out as well. Stick with it. Think of it as a communication tool, not just a report on your status. Drop links in, build a reputation. I am sure you’ll get hooked.

I love Twitter, I use it daily if not hourly and its one of those things that I was just fine without but now I wonder how I lived without it.

I think the agent you mentioned in Palmyra has the right idea. Find people who are talking about where you live and make connections. Posting status without the feedback gets lonely. Use it to connect with people (it is a social networking site) and it will start making more sense. I signed up well over a year ago but am now just figuring it out.

Yeah Carolyn, that is the purpose of this post. My goal was to get people to give it that second chance. Most people will give it that initial try then quit without ever seeing the true power of it.

I am sure there are more success stories out there.

Hi Lou, I joined Twitter a couple of month ago and that’s all I have done. I did not realize that I can use twitter as a business tool. I will go and have a look again with new eyes. Thank you for the post and heads up on twitter.

I joined twitter recently… feels like a lot of noise, but I like your tips for doing searches for specific things. I’m following you now… :) This is me: http://twitter.com/RevNYou

Thanks for the post. I found it on MIXX.

I joined twitter during the greatest agent contest and noticed the links were worth the time it took to create them… About 2 seconds!

I watch Matt Cutts and a handful of other highly regarded seo guys on twitter but only every couple weeks. It has not become a day to day thing for me yet.

I’m sure I can do a search but where can I find all of you on twitter? I should start up a legit account, all of mine now are rather spammy.

I am really just starting on twitter, but I use it to let people know what I am up to, and more importantly, what I am writing about…it does get me some attention when I want to draw eyeballs to a cause.

Good points, Lou.

Greed Lou! Funny, I basically met ya on twitter, and am now reading something you wrote on Erics blog, the world becomes smaller with these tools.

In this new light, what a sweet tool indeed. I hadn’t realized Twitter’s greater value until now. Thanks for bringing it up. :)

I am new to twitter but I think its like anything else. You cant just run around handing out your business card. I think you just participate in the conversation.

It’s fun to know in a few seconds what someone else of interest is up to.

I love following all the people I met at the conference.

OK, I have managed to add Julie and Lou. They have a lot so say at Twitter. As I added them my screen filled up! :)

Still learning the ropes here.

I am really enjoying all the positive response to this blog. If you do wind up using twitter, make sure to add/follow everyone on this post as a way to get you started.

Just got in with twitter, don’t know exactly how it works to my advantage just yet. Let’s see where twitter will bring me.

Very cool Lou – I will find and follow you:)

I am very new to twitter as I just started tweeting in the last two weeks. I can see how it can get adicting and could possible be of benefit to business.

As of yet I have not become an everyday user.

I use twitter off and on but find little benefits to the service from a marketing standpoint. The links you place in tweets are all no-follow, deeming it worthless as an SEO tool, at least where Google is concerned.

It is true that you can meet potential clients and so on with twitter, but the time spent doing that could easily be spent building do-follow links elsewhere while still engaging yourself in a social community or atmosphere at the same time, in essence killing two birds with one stone.

I never shoot down any potential marketing tool to quickly, so I hate to say its no good just yet, but from what I have experienced thus far, you can gain ten times the benefit in other online venues.

I have also just started using Twitter and love it. It gives me a good way to let people know what I am up to and a great way for me to network. Since most of my business comes from the internet, it is a great way for me to network and gain some great business contacts.

I found twitter almost a year ago after reading about it on a blog somewhere. I signed up, followed the directions and added my phone number. What a mistake that was! After a dozen random text messages I logged in and deleted my account. Then I read about it again during the greatest agent competition and stuck it on my blog. Overnight I saw it generate some nice backlinks. I was hooked. Now I use it to spy on Matt Cutts, Rand, Lou, Bramlett and Knox ;-)

My biggest complaint is having to sort through a ton of pages to find older tweets. sometimes old tweets = just a few hours.

Im pretty new to twitter and never even thought about using it for that kind of stuff. I figured it was only good for friends and family stuff. You just gave me an idea, thanks!

Be careful not to have your entire day consumed chatting at the Twitter Coffee Pot. A really great tool and networking application for building relationships. It is truly addictive when you make friends with common interests and goals.

Hey Paul,

Tweetdeck. Download it. Makes following conversations much easier.

(Side effect of spending too much on twitter, everything I write now sounds like a twitter post).

WOW!!! So many comments about this topic! I am so glad that I received the Active Rain email this morning (or was it yesterday) about twittering because I was beginning to wonder if I was living under a rock not knowing what tweets and all meant. Now I think I get it and will go create an account even though I always said I wouldn’t but I must keep up with all this seeing as how I am young and everyone expects me to know all about these kinds of things. Thanks for this blog post. I will follow it as I do love blogs!

I was being a little spammy on Twitter last night and thought I had been banned. Could not connect for a few hours. Did anyone else experience Twitter being down Nov18th extremely early in the morning? 3:00am If so what were you doing up at that time? Nothing good goes on at that time of the day. I am going to make an honest effort to be less spammy in the future. A mention on Twitter seems to get new sites indexed in less than a few hours.

Yes, I don’t think it was you Mike, I think its been down recently for some updates.

Hmmm, going to have to check out the mention feature on a couple of my sites.

I haven’t been on this blog for a few days and just got caught up. Still loving the response from everyone and enjoying the the conversation over at twitter.

Remember, you can use search.twitter.com to find and follow anyone on this thread that has an account.

Happy tweetin!

I have gotten business as a result of it and have given it out as well. Stick with it. Think of it as a communication tool, not just a report on your status. Drop links in, build a reputation. I am sure you’ll get hooked.

You know as hard as I try I just can’t get on the twitter bandwagon. I have a facebook account, a linkedin account and I do a ton of stuff on social bookmarking but for some crazy reason I just haven’t “Got” the twitter thing.

I didn’t like it at first, and actually abandoned it after giving it a couple of weeks. Then, I realized that (for me) it’s more about reading what other people have to say, and occasionally tweeting when I have something really interesting. It’s fun to collect followers, and to see how many people pay attention to what you have to say.

Eric,

That is the best description of twitter usage for real estate that I have seen yet.

As always, my question comes down to ROI, and with SocNet stuff, it is always TIME that is invested.

What is the future of real estate marketing, with so many diverse places to play?

i do not personally like twitter. but i read your post and agree that twitter best goes with real state. there is no doubt.i think this post will help twitter to promote.

I’ve had a few drinks and am subscribed to this post so I had an auto e-mail as to Curt’s comment and I have to say he is lost. Twitter is cool for so many reasons other than real estate.

For just about any company that wants to stay in touch with its clients or employees Twitter is cool as hell. Think of it as text messaging to the world. “Hey world, this is what we are up to right now” No matter if you are in Real Estate, selling sand in the desert or just trying to stay in touch with friends Twitter is an incredibly cool web application. If you think it’s only good for Real Estate there is almost no hope for you, go back to typing spreadsheets on your commodore 64.

Mike, spend more time on twitter – we miss you.

Curt there are SO many uses for twitter besides real estate – Whether you end up creating a close knit community of friends or cast a wide net and communicate to as large an audience as you want – you can make the choice as to get out of twitter. You have to try it to understand it, but also realize that if you just pump out listings, blog posts and other “marketing” stuff without engaging others you will likely find it a wasted effort.

LOL hey mike!!!! I agree, and then some:)

Twitter is amazing for creating a brand name for yourself in your local area. You have to be constant about make post and updates on local news and events.

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Twitter is awesome. I have no doubt that it will grow as big as facebook because it is so easy to use and the effect of getting news out to the mass is very appealing.

I read and enjoy your blog. I wanted to suggest a site to check out, which might be good for a post on online tools for real estate agents and sellers. It’s called TweetLister (http://www.tweetlister.com) and it just launched last week. TweetLister allows you to post, schedule and manage real estate listings on Twitter, and collect and download contacts you get through those listings. It’s a free service. We’ve already gotten a good amount of buzz, and I would love to read your take on it.

I use twitter to help keep up with potential clients and also to help spread the word to people who can “forget” that I am a realtor. It’s also a great way to stay connected, you never know when it will lead to a new client.

Twitter gave me a HUGE boost in the Google rankings

A big “HELLO” to all my home selling friends!

This was originally post on Oct 2008 and still getting new replies – wow, a very long lived article! The funny thing is that just now as I noticed the follow up comment in my e-mail to the last post I was working on a twitter install for a new client – My sister. Shameless Promotion….
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Since Oct 08 I’ve gone through periods of using and not using Twitter but we’ve added twitter widgets to almost every website we’ve built in the last year. Those who tweet seem to have more traffic than those who don’t.