Facebook Fridays - Taking a Social Media Leap of Faith!

Good morning Anita.  I need to do some spring cleaning on my page.  Thanks for the reminder.

Good morning,  Anita.   Once again your helpful hints combine with the AR community spirit. 

Anita, mixing things up to provide variety is a great idea. Keeps things fresh and the audience engaged. Thank you for your advice!

If it becomes mechanical, then the creative helpful spirit suffers. Make it fun, helpful but also think if you were receiving all this asteroid field of stuff, what makes what you send stand out and helpful. Frequency of your message is just as important as the marketing reach. But... go overboard and it would  have been better doing nothing than making someone irritated. Respect their space and social conversations without upstaging Anita Clark !

Congratulations on the Feature.  And Thank you for sharing this week's Facebook tip Anita Clark  

Since my brokerage posts and tags all agents for open houses and shout outs, I try to control what goes onto my profile or business page by setting it to "Review" before posting.  I certainly appreciate the work that goes into the posts, but I do not want that to be all my friends and family see from me.

Anita, I know one of my REALTOR friends puts up MANY posts every day, and feels like spam, so I "unfollowed".  Just too much.

       I know Realtors who use auto-post to put something on Facebook (and Twitter and elsewhere) literally every 15 minutes.  It's like a conveyor belt of spam!

Hi Anita

I have been derelict in my Facebook reading, and in some of the actions I had said I would do. Time to get back on track.

Have an awesome weekend!

Jeff

I wish I could say I enjoy all forms of social media but the problem is there is too many social sites and all require work and attention. In the same way buyers and sellers pick and choose which sites they follow and hope that they find you.

Anita I have never been a big fan of the FB and need to reevaluate it... for some reason I do not like the platform part of it is the nasty and vicious comments pushing their far right and far left politics... so I stay away from it, Endre

Thanks for sharing!!!

Did You Know...according to eMarketing, 71% of U.S. Internet users access a social media network at least every month. 60.6% of those users utilize Facebook. Prospecting where we are sure potential real estate consumers are at has never been easier.

Anita Clark  With the new FB changes, those who post multiple times a day with no engagement, no purpose,  will get into less newsfeeds. They can post to their heart's content, but it will be for naught. You are correct, we need to be mindful of what we are posting. 

There are some topics that people love to have every day and on a set schedule. Most of those will not be open houses or listings. 

One of our clients is a retailer and they post a "this or that" post every Thursday and their fans look forward to it, expect it, engage with it, etc. 

Realtors could do a "this or that" about the home of their dreams... something fun or off the cuff would also work... this way their audience would expect and want to know each Thursday what the new "this or that" is going to be. 

In those kinds of posts, it is good to post at a specific time on a specific day each week. 

Contests are also fun, "Photo Fridays" work really well for a Self Tanning company we worked with- Realtors could spin it for their niches, have the participants release the copyright and license, the agents could then also use those photos on their websites and blogging. Dinner gift cards are good prizes.

The only limit is our own imaginations.  

I'm paying attention to your facebook articles, Anita.  100% of our business comes from our website, using google paid-per-click, and we do well.  But I've heard I can do the same thing, or at least similar, with reduced costs, using facebook.

Good Tuesday evening, Anita. It is snowing in Maryland.

Have an outstanding week.