Social Media Should be the Glue that Holds Your Day Together...and Unifies it into a Success!

I attended a free seminar today, for members (there is a basic free membership), over at the International Social Media Association (Mari Smith is the President of this Association).  As good as this content was that was given away for free, I can't wait to look into some of their other memberships!

This call that I attended today was given by Lisa Larter with Mari Smith called: "Social Media is NOT the Silver Bullet You Think it is" and several of the worthwhile things that I came away with from this call were:

1. Keep a focused profile on all your social media sites...do not mix multiple interests and just confuse your visitors into being unsure of what they should actually pay you to do for them ;-)
   
   
2. The search bar on Facebook allows you to search for a lot more than just people, the advanced feature allows you to search by city, interests, etc... it's still in beta, but check it out:  http://apps.facebook.com/advancedsearch/
   
   
3. Standard info that we already know...we should all be active on at least Facebook, Twitter and Linked In...and I am adding Active Rain to that list, because for our industry it is a given!!!
   
   
4. They tell us that setting aside an hour a day for Twitter or FB, whatever, isn't as effective as "checking in" throughout the day, like you would check your voice mail and email messages...timeliness of response counts and carries weight!
   
   
5. They mentioned that a common problem that may people make is to only network "up" - basically only responding to people who they think could do something for them, etc...  you never know who "the little guy" could be related to or associated with or how his life situation might change at some point in time.  Treat everyone how you want to be treated and it will come back to you ten-fold over the years.

And the quote of the day on this call was:  "Grout your day with Twitter!" (credit was given to @MariSmith who bounced the credit off to @nerdist) - basically this just means what I was talking about in #4 - social media should be the glue that holds your day together...and unifies it into a success!

 

 

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BIO:  I have successfully owned and operated a Real Estate Virtual Assistant business, specializing in Real Estate Support Services, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many client testimonials over the years.  I have over 20 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I am a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking here.  I am also a fairly active participant / contributor over on Active Rain...you can visit my profile page here.

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I want to tell you about a strategy I am developing that will enhance my Twitter stature while at the same time giving exposure to my fellow ActiveRainers.

How many bookmarks from ActiveRain do you have? I think I have around 75. I bookmarked these posts because I think they taught me something valuable, and so I could refer back to them when needed. 

Here is what I am doing with those bookmarked articles: I am Tweeting them out on an hourly basis. These Tweets of valuable content will result in more followers for me on Twitter. It also gives you, my fellow ActiveRainers, more exposure of your great content. It's a win-win situation!

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I have been sending Tweets of my own blog posts, but now I have more content to Tweet by using these bookmarked posts. In one day, one of the Tweets I sent resulted in 86 click-throughs for one of the bookmarked posts of a fellow ActiveRainer!

Is this hard to set up, you may ask? It's really simple. All you need are your bookmarks and a link shortener. If you want to schedule the Tweets on an ongoing basis, you will need a program like AutomaticallyYou.

Here is a link to my Twitter account so you can see what I have been Tweeting. As you can see, I am Tweeting my own blog posts, funny quotes, and the blog posts of fellow ActiveRainers. Now that I have set this up, it's set it and forget it, for the most part! As I write new blog posts, and bookmark others, they are very easy to add.

Here is my thought process with this strategy - Tweeting quality content results in more followers - more followers means more exposure - more exposure means more business. And the icing on the cake is I am giving you, my ActiveRain friends, more exposure to your quality content, which I hope will mean more business for you.

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