I just finished reading Cat Zwicker-Grant post where she asks I have Facebook and so what? Did she sign up for this just to have imaginary pillow fights and find out what type of instrument she is? While unfortunately you do have many people who send those crazy things daily, against popular demand, facebook can actually be useful.
I joined facebook a few months ago and really did't understand how it can help my business until just a few weeks ago. Here is how you use facebook to make business for you.
The people who request to be your friend are those that either know you or want to get to know you. It may be someone you went to school with, or worked with. Possibly someone who works in real estate at well, or mayve just lives in the same area as you. Once you become friends with somone,they become part of your sphere of influence on the facebook network. In fact, they will even bring more people to your facebook site by suggesting others to add you as a friend.
I moved from PA back 10 years ago and since then have had extremely limited conversations with my friends from PA. Since joining facebook I have since been able to find many friends that have no clue I was involved with real estate now. Because we have known each other in the past, they have a level of trust with me already and contact me for assistance with real estate.
The current addition by Activerain of the twitter application for our posts & adding the twitter feed application for facebook has made it effortless for communicating my knowledge with my facebook SOI. I simply write my post on Activerain, it is automatically sent to twitter which sends to facebook, I don't have to do anything else.
When discussing effective ways to market yourself, SOI is always one of the first things that comes up. We know how important it is to let our sphere know we are now selling real estate and allow them to send you leads. This idea of using facebook to feed your SIO is kind of like sending out your newsletters but without the postage.
So while you may get Obama thrown at you 4 times a day, be in 32 pillow fights a week, you are also sharing your blog with a portion of your SOI on a regular basis. Since you are always looking for ways to get more subscribers to you blog...this is just another simple way increase your readership through your friends on facebook.
Myrtle Beach Real Estate Expert- Jeremy Blanton
Jeremy Blanton Myrtle Beach Real Estate
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Well Jeremy it looks like I'm just going to have to take a look at Twitter and Facebook, now that its thats easy to do. Thanks for sharing the info. ~ Newbie