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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:

From your phone, follow us by texting the following to 40404 (40404 is Twitter's number): "follow homesandland" (without the quotes).
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.
Once you do this, you should receive a welcome message from Twitter.
Then text the MLS Id or address you want to @homesandland (see instructions above).
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:

Follow us by texting the following (without the quotes) to 40404: "follow homesandland".
Then text the MLS Id or address you want by texting the follow.
You should receive listing details about this property and a URL for more pictures and information.
Note: To use an existing Twitter account from your phone, you must have your mobile device setup to receive updates from Twitter.

Posted by Russell Haskins | Think Big. Think Homes & Land. Print | Direct Mail | Web on 07/29/2009 08:41 AM

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7 Comments on Reach More Homebuyers with Homes & Land and Twitter

JUL

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