I recently received a catalog in the mail advertising postcards, new home journals, business cards and other items designed for real estate agents.
I skimmed through it and noticed a new program that provides social media services.
Yes! For $199 a month (plus a one time set up fee of $299), they will set up a Facebook Fan Page and put up 10 Facebook posts per month PLUS set up a Twitter account and put out 25 tweets per month.
Hmmmmm....
Or, if you prefer, they'll set up LinkedIn for $119 and for $99 per month, provide 4 status updates per month.
And, finally, with a one time set up fee for $119 and a $99 per month charge, they will set up a blog account for you and put up two blog posts per month.
Let's see, at approximately $50 per blog post, that means the 31 Days of May Challenge would run you $1,550 (not including the set up fee, of course).
So, if you are struggling to make the May Challenge, just think how much your posts are worth - and that is not even counting the business that it may possibly generate. What a bargain we are!
I don't know about you, but I kinda, sorta thought the purpose of social media was to attract people through our words, our thoughts, our ideas, our approach to business. Demonstrating our work ethic, our knowledge, our experience. Putting ourselves out there for people to see and hear so they get to know us a little bit and think, "Now that is the kind of agent I would like to hire!"
Besides, do you think a company providing blog posts is going to write a different post for every client? Nope, me neither.
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