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Social Media: Fans, Tweeps and tinyurl's

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Education & Training with HD Realty BK662006

Social Media: Fans, Tweeps and tinyurl's

I've really become quite fascinated with "Social Networking" and I've been learning everything I possibly can. I think I'm going to schedule a webinar for you to show you some of the great (and free) ways to use these tools to grow your business, but today I just wanted to give you a quick crash-course/to-do list so you're ready before the webinar.

First: Go to twitter.com and register, preferably with your name. That way your link will be www.twitter.com/yourname. Upload your picture, put the link back to your page, write a short 1 sentence bio. that's it. you're done. Now go find some of your friends and colleagues that are already on twitter and start following them. Ok, that's it for twitter right now.

Second: go to facebook.com and register, preferably with your name. Upload your picture and fill out the bio information that you want. Right off the bat, you might want to join some "groups" such as your college alumni association, or your local Realtor association. Search for friends and colleagues that are already on facebook and invite them to be your friend. You can also send a friend invitation to people NOT already on facebook, but be careful, if you invite your whole contacts list and someone replies to facebook that they don't know you, you might be banned or your account restricted (by the way, thanks to whoever said that they didn't know me after I invited them!)

Third: go to YouTube.com and register. You'll see why later. For now, just do it.

More to follow on what to DO with all of these places!

Andy

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Comments (5)

Dan Quinn
The Eric Steart Group of Long & Foster Real Estate - Silver Spring, MD
Dan Quinn

Already done.  I'll look forward to the next steps Andy...

Jul 22, 2009 03:01 AM
Harry F. D'Elia III
WEDO Real Estate and Beyond, LLC - Phoenix, AZ
Investor , Mentor, GRI, Radio, CIPS, REOs, ABR

Thanks for the advice. I am on all three right now. I look forward to more posts. Love social media

Jul 22, 2009 03:02 AM
Vince Rothstein
REO Direct Partners - Chicago, IL

Find and follow a community of people having conversations relevant to your interests; listen to conversations, join in on the conversations and add value to the conversations.

Jul 22, 2009 09:34 AM
Rob Arnold
Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. - Altamonte Springs, FL
Metro Orlando Full Service - Investor Friendly & F

Great info.  Social media is definitely where it is at, right now. One thing I do find amazing is how some business people get on this social media sites and then write about all kinds of personal info that potential customers and colleagues might be better off not knowing.  What they write is actually chasing people away.

Jul 23, 2009 07:37 AM
Carol Pease
JP & Associates Realtors - Bastrop, TX
CRS, Broker-Associate 512-721-6320

I'm following your steps.  Now what?

Jul 29, 2009 10:44 AM