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Social Network Referral System

We took advice from you and will demonstrate how we combine our Social Media Marketing System with the development of your Referral Network. We're offering a free three week webinar session to get you and your inner circle onto what we're calling the Social Network Referral System. We're particularly interested in working with brokerages to get your agents on board with the social media in a cost efficient (free) way. Please check the slideshow and comment. Thanks!

The Social Network Referral System

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Registration: http://domusconsultinggroup.com/register

Posted by Patrick Kitano on 03/02/2009 12:02 PM

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34 Comments on Social Network Referral System

MAR

Hello Pat ~ Could not get your video to play! Luckily I will be in your webinar class today!

Thanks Terrie, it's a slideshow, so you can go through it by clicking on the forward button instead of the center video play button.

Hi Pat - Checked out the slideshow and just wanted to stop by to say hi before the webinar today. For anyone on the fence about taking the time to work with Domus...two words of advice...DO IT. I can't believe how much I've learned so far and will be forever grateful to Pat & Kevin for teaching me not only how to jump into social networking, but also teaching us the esoteric etiquette.

Trying to get my head around all this social media stuff. I will check back on a day I can attend.

Great opportunity, Pat. Thanks to you and Domus.

Knowing what to do is one thing - acrually doing it is another.

Exactly what I'm looking for Pat, a way to tie everything together. Up until now I've been operating mostly on the concept of 'build your social network before you need it'. Now I'm at a point of asking 'how can all of these contacts add value to my business?'

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Pat - I am getting into Social Networking and this is very useful information.

Pat... is this a sales pitch? I signed up for the webinar... looking forward to it!

Hopefully there will be good things coming from this I will have to take a look and see.

Wish you had the notes under the slides - I guess that's what the webinar is for eh? Aloha from Kauai

My reply is a REPOST reply from: http://activerain.com/blogsview/959513/Are-You-ailing-The-ocial-Network-Wave

I'm getting drowned by the wave! Everywhere I turn it's another website someone wants me to check out, or social networking, or webblog . . . now I can get TV on my computer, radio . . . it can get overwhelming, and there is no one person -- not even LENN, ;-) -- who can keep up with it all. I'm Twittered out, Zillowed to the max, HULUed, Truilla, Notepadded, Keypad, Launch Padded, YouTubed, Facebook, My . . . Space(d) OUT!

I like Active Rain, my two radio stations (one FM, one AM), my TV shows (thanks to TIVO, I can watch at my own schedule), I can NETFLIX my movies, look up what I need to for clients on the RMLS (my local MLS service), etc.

Everyone and their brother knows a real estate agent. And now, everyone and their brother has a blog . . . a social network . . . OMIGOSH!

There IS such a thing as TOO MUCH INFORMATION -- GULP, GULP!

@Carla Our point exactly. Real estate agents don't know what they are doing on Facebook and Twitter, and aren't efficiently leveraging them as referral systems. Example, with over 11,700 followers on Twitter, I spend no more than 20 minutes per day on it, and yet I receive most of my business generating requests in that 20 minutes per day over any other application. Just use the social networks in coordination with your referral network - that's the system we teach you.

@John we always like working together with you... now we advise you supplement your contacts in the real estate blogosphere with those in your local community who can recommend you to their friends/network... simple as that.

Thank you @Marlene @Sharon and @Terrie

Very nice!... and you're spot on.

Rene'

Thanks Pat - I signed up'd and forward slide show to a friend. Looks like it will be a great webinar.

Pat, I have watched all your slide shows on the site. Good stuff.

If I am on all the social networks known to man, LOL will it benefit me?

Hellp Pat - seems like you have a handle on the interconnectedness of this all LOL

we've noticed an increase on our linked-in and facebook & twitter contacts verses blogging in the last few weeks - so I will register to see if you can improve our results as we are self taught in these social networks ( Jeff just figured out you can text a facebook friend who is simultaneously online without it appearing all over the wall which is great to answer questions about a listing without going public!).

Sincerely,

Grace

p.s. I saw the ghostbuster sign in your post.....please don't be like others & tell us not to twit or post listings - we've gotten way too many consumer phone calls to show property or list property from promoting existing property :)

we are in sales 1st remember LOL

there is no need for referrals or sales without PROPERTY :)

@Jeff & Grace - everybody is self taught on the social media. Our business and experience is based on social media and real estate, so we developed the online Referral System simply by guiding you through the maze of what you need to do and how you broadcast it correctly and efficiently. And what is a ghost buster? (pardons, new to me!)

@Missy - thank you Missy, we advocate "set and forget" in social networking so you can really join as many as you want. The key idea behind the "system" is all the benefits of referrals come to you naturally once you've set up the system; you don't need to do very much (thanks to Marlene Bridges for explaining the concept more eloquently! ;-). We teach your inner circle of referral sources to build their networks on the social media like Facebook and Twitter, and refer them to you!

@Sue - thanks, we hope you and your inner circle will learn a lot...

Pat, as always, I keep sending your information to my friends. Most of them don't see the need.

Pat- I hope many will see the possibilities. The people I have invited so far ,appreciated the session.

Offering the free webinar is a great way to engage people and to get them thinking.

Thanks for putting this together.

Patrick - Now that is a powerful slide show ! I totally agree with the principles behind this and am interested in learning more ! Awesome !! Referral based system is extremely powerful.

It looks like a pretty good idea and definitily worth checking into.

Patrick: One thing for sure.. the price is hard to beat.

MAR

Patrick-

I signed up for the seminar and am excited to experience what you have to teach us.

I'll be signing up for the seminar as you're providing great value.

@pkitano - We really enjoyed the webinars on Social Media, Pat. They were very informative. I guess I still don't understand how you can only spend 20 minutes a day and yet get so much value. Don't your tweets get lost in a sea of the other people who are on there all day - people like @guykawasaki who post every few minutes? Just askin...

@Sharon thx Sharon... I have an explanation on how I spend 20 minutes per day on Twitter that will come out shortly... the main idea is to ignore the timeline of tweets, and be reticent. It's natural for me not to chat too much, unlike @guykawasaki, so I don't spend much time on Twitter.

@Jennifer as always, you get the big picture on how to develop a successful online profile. @Christopher & Stephanie - you get it too!

Thanks for signing up all, we look forward to meeting you next week online...

Referrals are an extremely important part of business. I would never give/send a referral lightly and I don't believe there is ever one agent that fits all customers needs. I give referrals left and right once I have been able to assess the match is well made.

There's nothing automatic about that.

I shoudl mention that 95% of my business opps. and clients come from my presence on the social nets and my blogging. Especially my blogging.

MAR

The Domusconsultinggroup is by far the leader on the cutting edge- because it's actually the inventor of so many things from the merge of the web for Realtors to include training, linking large active groups into blogging together and working together.

What a team..

get on board.....the learning jet is taking off!!!

MAR

Can't wait to see you at RETech South. I want to sit in on today's call; however, our office Team Meeting is at noon EST so I will link up if at all possible. Hate missing out on the great Domus training webinars.

MAR

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MAR

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