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Reach More Homebuyers with Homes & Land and Twitter

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Reach More Homebuyers with
Homes & Land and Twitter

With the help of Twitter, HomesAndLand.com now enables motivated homebuyers to get complete information about your properties. All the home shopper needs is a smart phone and the property's MLS # or street address.

This means that a buyer looking at Homes & Land magazine or driving a neighborhood can immediately access information about properties they like. The next step is to call you for a showing.

Thanks to Homes & Land, Twitter, and you - the buyer may soon find their next Home Tweet Home. Contact us to find out how Homes & Land and Twitter can connect you to motivated homebuyers. Here's How

 

HOW TO SEARCH BY MLSID
  • Make sure your mobile device is already registered with Twitter (see instructions below).
  • If you are looking at a home in one of our magazines, you may see the MLS Id in the property description. Look for something that looks like "MLSId: 7396326".
  • Text "@homesandland 7396326" to 40404. Remember to replace 7396326 with the MLSId of the property you want to see, and don't include the quotes.
  • Shortly you will receive a text message, describing the price, location, the agent to contact and a URL to more information about that property!


HOW TO SEARCH BY ADDRESS
  • Make sure your mobile device is already registered with Twitter (see instructions below).
  • If you drive by a home for sale, or just happen to know the address, then text the street name and city to @homesandland. The message format would be "@homesandland street, city". You can include the street number if you have it, but if you don't we will send you information about any homes for sale on that street.
  • As an example, text "@homesandland elm st, tallahassee" to 40404. Remember to replace "elm st" with street name, and "tallahassee" with the correct city.
  • Shortly you will receive a text message, describing the price, location, the agent to contact and a URL to more information about that property.
New to Twitter?

Registering with Twitter is quick and easy. Just follow these steps:

  1. From your phone, follow us by texting the following to 40404 (40404 is Twitter's number): "follow homesandland" (without the quotes).
  2. You will receive a message from Twitter asking you to text a new username (of your choosing) back to phone number 40404. For example, sallyjones.
  3. Once you do this, you should receive a welcome message from Twitter.
  4. Then text the MLS Id or address you want to @homesandland (see instructions above).
  5. You should receive details about this property and a URL for more pictures and more information.


Already using Twitter?

Even simpler. Just follow homesandland with these instructions:

  1. Follow us by texting the following (without the quotes) to 40404: "follow homesandland".
  2. Then text the MLS Id or address you want by texting the follow.
  3. You should receive listing details about this property and a URL for more pictures and information.
  4. Note: To use an existing Twitter account from your phone, you must have your mobile device setup to receive updates from Twitter.
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Russell,

Looks like the applications of Twitter, Facebook and many others, which were perceived as toys and not business, when they appeared, is surprisingly encompassing

Jul 29, 2009 01:53 AM
Russell Haskins
Homes & Land - Knoxville, TN
Think Big. Think Homes & Land. Print | Direct Mail | Web

Jon: There's definitely some great applications for social media out there. We believe this is one of the best for agents!

Jul 29, 2009 02:01 AM
Stanton Homes
Stanton Homes - New Home Builder - Raleigh, NC
Design/Build Custom Home Builder in North Carolina

Very cool.  Need to test this one!

 

Jul 29, 2009 02:02 AM
Russell Haskins
Homes & Land - Knoxville, TN
Think Big. Think Homes & Land. Print | Direct Mail | Web

Test away! It's working great. I love this new value added service!

Jul 29, 2009 02:09 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Thanks for the information. It will be interesting to see if Twitter becomes an important marketing tool for real estate professionals.

Jul 29, 2009 02:39 AM
Susan Brown
Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too) - Kingwood, TX

Excellent information!  I am going to get this set up today.

Jul 29, 2009 02:42 AM
Russell Haskins
Homes & Land - Knoxville, TN
Think Big. Think Homes & Land. Print | Direct Mail | Web

Roy: The ability to get instant information to consumers makes Twitter very valuable. This new service does just that!

Susan: Awesome, let me know what you think :)

Jul 29, 2009 02:51 AM