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Tweet Your Way To Success

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Real Estate Agent with Karen Parsons-Fiddler, Broker 949-510-2395 BRE# 01494165

Tweet Your Way To Success

 

There are many ways to interact with people online these days. Frankly, we can reach more prospects in 1 hour wisely spent on the Internet than we ever could walking down the street or stalking people in Starbucks.

But....here is another idea!

Twitter is great...or horrible. I don't really get it. I miss the chat rooms, frankly...easier for me to follow. But, then this week, I became a convert.

I was playing around on the Web reading technology, apps and ideas. Many times I'll see a paragraph or two about engaging people on Twitter who are talking about buying a house...catch them at that moment. 

Didn't interest me, frankly. I found that I spent a lot of time trying to track down the keywords, only to find they weren't really talking about that at all. But...I had another idea. 

I manage a few pages on Facebook: Lake Arrowhead 365, Laguna Beach 365, Orange County Lifestyle. I do not post real estate things to these pages very often, but I do interact with people there and have seen a growth in my real estate page views. 

What makes a Facebook page relevant is activity. I think it's important to not only grow members but contributing members. The more people who post their links the better (that I do approve). It makes it less of an advertising site for me and more of a community.

Where does Twitter come in? 

Glad you asked. This week, I did some searching for people doing things in Lake Arrowhead. I found quite a few Tweets about locals going to places, holding plays, meeting in clubs, singing at taverns. These are the very things I want on my Facebook pages. And even if they don't have an activity to advertise or talk about...they should be checking my page for things to do. It's a local page.

So I started Tweeting these people. I've added about 30 members in just a few days just in Lake Arrowhead 365. It's a start! Now I have an audience that hopefully will continue to come back and occasionally...check out my real estate page. 

Comments (4)

Ellen Caruso
Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty - Glen Head, NY

Karen, thats a sweet Tweet plug! I haven't done Twitter yet... Social network is good for the business's but hard on an active family life. I hope you have some success from it and if so you'll tell us about it.

Jan 31, 2016 01:59 AM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Karen- I have the same thought about Twitter as you do. I joined when it first came out but never could figure out how to make it work for me.  However, I do know that many rely on it for news and other current events.  Hope this works out for you. 

Jan 31, 2016 10:47 AM
Lisa Von Domek
Lisa Von Domek Team - Dallas, TX
....Experience Isn't Expensive.... It's Priceless!

Great to hear that you have found how to make tweeting work for you!

Oct 03, 2016 12:52 PM