facebook: Don't be surprised if you see your listings on Facebook and Instagram
- 08/14/20 08:30 AM
Not that I have your attention, I am excited to announce that as of today we are syndicating all residential listings published through RealBird (for sale and also rentals) to Facebook and Instagram, automatically, updated every hour, for free :)
Yes, heard that right, it's a free add-on for the RealBird PRO real estate marketing platform.
So how does it work?
Every hour we export all listings on RealBird and upload them to a so-called Facebook home listings catalog. This catalog of listings is boosted on Facebook using the Facebook Dynamic Ads advertising option. This ongoing campaign is paid by us, so it is a free add-on … (1 comments)
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facebook: Local Real Estate Advertising With Facebook's New Zip Code Targeting
- 08/15/11 03:36 AM
The targeting options of Facebook Advertising were always a powerful feature, but the new zip code level targeting now allows you to target at an even smaller geographic level, which can create some great, low cost opportunity to reach local neighborhoods. I'll share some screenshots below of an actual test ad that we set up for a listing on RealBird, but first here is why I think it is powerful:
As I was told, one of the classic, offline real estate marketing techniques is to target neighbors and the neighborhood of a particular listing for sale with the objective of capturing more listings. … (8 comments)
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facebook: Social SEO - Whitepaper by Facebook and BrightEdge
- 06/08/11 05:49 AM
We ran into this short whitepaper this morning on AllFacebook.com by no other than Facebook and BrightEdge.
The whitepaper is titled "Facebook For Social SEO: Best Practices To Drive Organic Search Performance With Facebook." It's a quick and easy read and embedded below.
One of the tips is linking to your Facebook Business Page from your website and blog by carefully selecting your link's anchor test.
Here is an example: rather than linking "RealBird Facebook Page" on this post, I will select RealBird Real Estate Technology on Facebook for the anchor text in order to place some relevant keywords in the link's … (22 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Real Estate Application Updated to Support New Layout
- 08/16/10 05:20 AM
We released a quick patch for the RealBird Facebook Page Real Estate application to support the new Facebook Page layout that will be rolled out on August 23. Facebook announced that "Boxes" will be eliminated and the custom tabs content area will be reduced to 520 pixels. In fact, we already saw these changes on our own RealBird Facebook Page so we decided to not wait until the last minute: you can get the new FBML code in the RealBird member area now.
Below is an example on our own Facebook Page. Of course, your version will show your own listings on your own Facebook … (14 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Listing Page update and other productivity features
- 07/21/10 11:19 AM
Our recently launched Facebook Listing Page integration with RealBird has gained popularity pretty fast: Over 500 agents and brokers are already using it. With this new RealBird software update it is now even more convenient to manage your Facebook Listing Pages, directly from the RealBird listing management interface.
For our new readers, here is a quick recap of what the Facebook Listing Pages are all about:
With the new Facebook Open Graph API integration, you can now set up an individual Facebook Pages for your of your single property websites on RealBird and it only takes one click per listing. You can then use … (17 comments)
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facebook: Facebook Workshop: RealBird webinars tomorrow at 9 AM and 2PM (Pacific time)
- 07/12/10 11:08 AM
You are cordially invited to attend one of our free Facebook Workshop webinars tomorrow (July 13).
Agenda: The Many Ways to Use Facebook for Marketing Your Listings
Read our intro on our previous post and then pick the time slot that fits your schedule. We'll walk you through the steps it takes to utilize RealBird for Facebook marketing:
Tuesday, July 13, 9 AM (Pacific): https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/767910697
Tuesday, July 13, 2 PM (Pacific): https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/633017641
We hope to see many of you tomorrow.
Thanks,
-- Zoltan RealBird.com
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facebook: The Many Ways to Use Facebook to Market Your Properties
- 07/08/10 10:59 AM
Those of you who are long time members of RealBird know that RealBird provides many different ways to market your listings on Facebook. However, we received some requests from new members to clarify the differences between all the options, so here is a post that summarizes the powerful ways of Facebook real estate marketing with RealBird.
There are two main categories:
Marketing individual listings Marketing your inventory Marketing individual listings on Facebook
1) Create a Facebook Listing Page with the Facebook Like button
This is a brand new and very powerful option. With only a few clicks, you can setup a … (19 comments)
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facebook: See what your Facebook friends "like" and "share" on real estate websites and blogs
- 05/22/10 01:33 PM
Here is a widget that shows which content your Facebook friends "Like" and "Share" on different real estate websites and blogs. (We selected a few ones with no particular preference other than including the "Likes" and "Shares" on our own RealBird property websites). The page is inspired by LikeButton.me but with the focus on real estate.
You can grab the widget if you want to share it at the bottom of the post, bookmark the page hereand of course you can create your Facebook Listing Page for your properties on RealBird
Just another cool way to see what your real estate friends … (16 comments)
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facebook: Top 5 Tips for Growing Your Facebook Page
- 03/29/10 06:14 AM
By now, most of you have heard about Facebook Pages and many of you have set up one or more for your real estate business or local communities.
I noticed that most real estate Facebook Pages however have very little content and low number of Fans. Our RealBird Facebook Page has been growing nicely and I thought I share some of the things that we learned. You may be able to apply these techniques to your own Facebook Pages.
1) Your Facebook Page should be a community, so allow your Fans' posts to show up on your Page Wall
Pretty much … (171 comments)
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facebook: Facebook your Listings (the right way) - via Mike Mueller
- 11/17/09 05:53 PM
Mike Mueller is doing some advanced customization with the RealBird Facebook application for his clients. Beautiful !
You can connect with Mike at www.AreWeConnected.com
One of the first questions I get asked by an Agent who wants a Custom Facebook Business Page created is “Can you pull in my listings – here’s my IDX Feed” The answer is No! "Pretty Please?" Still No. Not because I don't want to. You see... Facebook does not like dynamic content in custom tabs and guess what your IDX feed is? Yup! “Dynamic”. But wait there’s a workaround and a very pretty one at that. … (16 comments)
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facebook: Using A Dynamic Photo Wall To Highlight Your Listings and Get Google Juice!
- 10/11/09 09:56 AM
We just love it when Katerina Gasset (@CoachKaterina) writes a great tutorial with live examples about one of the RealBird features. See below her post and make sure you check out one of her upcoming SEO seminars too.
Thank you Katerina !
-- Zoltan
Using a dynamic photo wall to highlight your listings and get google juice- doesn't get much better than that!
Realbird just came out with this feature of the photo wall for your Realbird account and that you post on your blogs, websites and even add to your Realbird single property sites for each … (5 comments)
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facebook: iPod contest rules changed - better for you, "worse" for us. But we like it anyways
- 09/05/09 08:17 AM
As many of our regular readers know, we started another iPod Touch sweepstakes on Aug 14. The original rule was that we draw an iPod Touch among our RealBird Facebook Page fans, once the number of fans reach 1,000. Ambitious it was, slow it became. While we have more and more fans every day, based on the current trend it would take a long time before a lucky winner can walk away with the iPod. So we decided to change the rules.
We are going to select the winner, as soon as we reach 500 fans. Currently, we are at 232, … (6 comments)
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facebook: Win an iPod Touch - again. Social media experiment with Facebook
- 08/13/09 06:28 PM
We are at it again. We are giving away another iPod Touch as part of our ongoing social media experiments. We ran our previous campaign in April, at that time using Twitter as the delivery media. This time, we are experimenting with our RealBird Facebook Page.
The rules are simple:
Fan our RealBird Facebook Page to enter the sweepstakes Once we reach 1,000 fans we will randomly select one of you as the winner ( currently at 149 at the time of writing this post) Those of you who became our fan on Facebook prior to this sweepstakes will also participate … (15 comments)
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facebook: Add your listings as a "Homes for Sale" tab on your Facebook Page
- 08/06/09 08:44 AM
Facebook Pages are publicly accessible minisites on Facebook that you can update - just like your personal Facebook profile - with status updates, news, links, photos, discussions and now: with your RealBird listings and home search services. If you don't have one, you can create it here in less than a minute
As opposed to your personal profile, people can fan your business page on Facebook and you can have a two-way communication with them without actually adding them as a friend (your inner circle).
For RealBird Pro customers we offer a service to embed your own featured listings posted through RealBird and … (25 comments)
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facebook: Turn your single property websites into banner ads on Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, AOL
- 07/29/09 11:11 AM
This post is reblogged from our RealBird corporate blog
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We are pleased to announce our partnership with iPromote - an innovative, one-click display advertising solution provider that lets you convert your RealBird property websites into standard-size banner ads and distribute them on major networks like MSN, AOL, Yahoo and Facebook.
How does it work? With the current feature release, an iPromote icon is provided on the listing management page for each of your listings in the RealBird member area (see image below) Clicking the icon pops up a preview panel, then clicking the "Next" button redirects to the iPromote … (6 comments)
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facebook: How to add your Facebook Page widget to ActiveRain
- 07/25/09 07:56 AM
More and more real estate agents and brokers are setting up their Facebook Business Pages every day. The Facebook Page is a publicly accessibly presence for your business and group, where you can manage communication with clients, visitors, business partners and your company's or group's fans in general. As opposed to your regular Facebook Profile, Facebook Pages can be viewed and interacted with by any user without actually becoming part of your inner circle of friends. A few days ago, we wrote about how to add the Facebook Page widget to your RealBird single property websites in order to connect with … (13 comments)
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facebook: Add your Facebook Page to your RealBird single property websites and get connected with your visitors
- 07/20/09 03:31 AM
We can't cease to be amazed of the creativity of our RealBird members.
Mike Conner of City Realty, Inc. just created something very unique with his listing on RealBird. His beautiful Olympia, WA waterfront property website is customized with many of the advanced RealBird options, including very nice background theme, printable flyer, neighborhood slideshow and more. But the feature which is truly unique and powerful is the inclusion of his Facebook Business Page under the Get Connected tab.
We though it is worth to share his creative idea as a tutorial.
First, click the image below to see Mike's listing website for … (11 comments)
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facebook: Have a real estate related Facebook Page?
- 06/12/09 04:59 AM
We started to collect links to real estate related Facebook Pages (on Twitter)
If you have a real estate related Facebook Page please tweet the link and also add the tag #refacebook for tracking.
You can click here to post your link on Twitter. This link places the tag in your status update automatically.
And you can see all the tweets tagged with #refacebook here
Update: I found a way to embed the Twitter tracker for this hashtag. See below
Thanks
-- ZoltanRealBird.com
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