theRockStarAgent.com

The Trouble with Twitter

It may sound odd, but this little social media site, twitter, is kicking up some huge discussion.  And the real estate industry is leading the discussion.  As an industry, real estate agents have instinctively known the usefulness of networking.  After all, it’s a great job, well done when an agent is able to go through their network to bring a buyer to their client’s home for sale.  Your solving two problems simply because you “know people.”

Twitter is networking on a much larger, faster level.  My best description about all social networks (SocNet), not just twitter, is that they are like Chamber of Commerce networking meetings, without geographic boundaries.

There are some other benefits to being apart of any SocNet, including twitter:

• the ability to connect with other professionals in different markets and learn from their practices
• the ability to connect with clients coming to or moving from your market place
• the almighty Google indexes all public “tweets” on twitter and other SocNet updates
  • huge if you want to capture eyeballs for a specific search term, like “[community name] real estate” [nudge, nudge, wink, wink]

The Trouble with Twitter

Of course, any SocNet you may become a part of, also has the ability to sap up a bunch of your time!  Here’s an entertaining and witty, yet poignant video on the “Trouble with Twitter.”

So, if you aren’t already a part of the online SocNet community, choose one and dive in.  You can follow me on twitter by creating your own account, and clicking follow on my twitter profile.