Forum: Social Networking

I've been trying to locate 'standout' facebook business pages for real estate brokerages but candidly keep coming up empty. I'd be grateful if folks here could share a few links of facebook pages they think have been done well for real estate BROKERAGES. Thanks!

As we are all venturing into social media, there are so many new doors and opporunities to gain internet exposure.. has anyone set up Pinterest and geared it all toward real estate, home trends, architecture, designs, etc..? How is it going? or what are your thoughts on this?

I've been experiementing with facebook and adding apps to help with the overall appearance and experience on how to grow our fans and bring in new. here are some apps that show well and are working out zillow's local info & listings app youtube for pages slideshare non-free IDXpro

Just wanted to share a few topics that are drawing some interactions and comments and 'new' likes/fans to facebook - instead of constant real estate updates Im bringing attention to the home owner and home interests! Here are some to share: Sherwin Williams coupons and discount links from their...

Hi everyone, I am new here. I just wondering does anyone out there got any success selling homes using social media such as FB, Twitter, Linkedin, etc? Thanks, Tom

Just curious what your best practices are to engage your followers/fans on both facebook and twitter. Like how often are you talking about business/real estate? or do you make fun contests to engage and get communication going with your fans/followers?

Has anyone taken out the daily 'click' ads on facebook and targeted their zipcode for new 'likes' and fans/clients?

If you got about 15 minutes or so, check out this talk by Gary Chambers regarding social networking in 2011. It seems like he believes we need to be more personal and intentional about conveying more than just real estate; it needs to be more about your life (read: lifestyle branding). On...

I have been reading that sending your best blog entries to these social networking sites is real beneficial to SEO. Is this true and what are the 5 best ones to submit these articles to?

What are you doing to get more activity to your FB fan pages? Currently, I am adding my new listings, price reductions, and recently solds. I also add my blogs I do, but I am not having much luck with activity or comments on my page. I have about 194 fans, depending on the day. you can check...

Is anyone on it yet, and what do you think? From what I've heard, people are thinking this could overtake Facebook.

Does anyone know how to create a link onto your homepage to Facebook, Youtube and Twitter?

I saw something pop up on my blackberry about this check in tool to promote your business on FB. Had to ignore it because BB su*&s for browsing the internet. Now I can't find it. Did anyone else see this today?

You may have noticed but I'm big on studies and graphs and according to a recent study conducted, the only social networking platforms that you should be concerned about are Facebook, LinkedIn, and maybe Twitter. Maybe also YouTube if you consider that a social network, I consider it more like a...

One for personal and one for business?

We all here use REW obviously, I guess many of use use also Active Rain. What about other networks? Brokeragentsocial (http://brokeragentsocial.com/)for example? Does it make any sense to be active on several networks?