... per Ben Kinney ...
"Traditional farming is like putting a billboard in the middle of a field, and asking people to come visit. Once in a while a person will stop by and read your billboard.
With Social Media it's more like putting that billboard in an auditorium where the consumer is already looking for that billboard information !!"
Top Social Media Sites you should be on: (because the public is on them too !)
Facebook - 350,000,000 members
LinkedIn - 40,000,000 members
Twitter - 18,000,000 estimated members
Farming traditionally costs more with postcards, postage and considerable time, or a higher cost if an outside entity handles the farming for you.
With the SM Sites above, it's virtually free , and INSTANT every time you post to your facebook wall, or your twitter update.
As we talk about regularly on ActiveRain, Facebook should have varied content. Personal, business, and fun stuff, as the people following your updates dont want to see the same bland old things every post on your wall, and you want to keep them coming back and interested.
Twitter Farming - Check out TweetBeep.com and DemandSpot.com and GeoChirp.com!! You can put in specific words to monitor (buying a home, buy, sell, real estate agent, foreclosure, bank owned, home value) and set up your geographic area, and they WILL NOTIFY YOU WHEN SOMEONE TWEETS USING THOSE WORDS !!!
example: A guy in Seattle tweeted "Getting ready for work. Thinking I should buy a house soon"
If you were monitoring "Buy" or "Buy a House" in that geographic area, YOU WOULD GET THAT ALERT !!!!
... FREE LEAD !!!!
... too much cool stuff ....I'm thru an entire notebook already !
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