How Real Estate Agents Can Use Twitter

Mar 15
09:47

2010

Jeffrey Henry

Jeffrey Henry

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As a real estate agent one must advertise him or herself everywhere. A great place to promote yourself as a real estate agent is to use Twitter. There are many tools available online some which are free and others which you must pay for. In order to maximize your online exposure here are a few which I would recommend to promote your real estate business, advertise your homes for sale and connect with potential home buyers.

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Now let's get something straight become we begin the internet is on 24 hours a day and 7 days a week therefore we all know how important it is to be online for home buyers to find us as agents. The truth is that time is limited to market ourselves and our homes for sale. This is why you should use Twuffer.com. It allows anyone to schedule tweets for future postings and schedule their release at a later date. This can be useful to post your latest listings,How Real Estate Agents Can Use Twitter Articles post contests and promotions available to home buyers. TwitterBeep.com allows anybody to track conversations that mention you as a real estate agent, your real estate services, your homes for sale, or your real estate company you are working for. You can set those alerts hourly and have them sent straight to your email. Twitpic.com allows you to share pictures of events which are going on in your city. You can also use this tool to showcase pictures of your latest home listings. MrTweet.com is another great tool use this little fox to find relevant people to follow online. These could be people who are interested in real estate, people interested in buying or selling homes, residents of your city. You can pick and choose which user to follow and if you are lucky you might have them follow you back. Now this next one is big as you can track the views your online real estate advertisements are getting on Twitter. With Twittertise you can track the success of your communications with potential home buyers and sellers. Want to start following the top Twitter people in your city or a competing city? Twitterholic.com can allow you just that. Want to follow a Ottawa real estate agent? A mortgage agent in Orleans? Now you can! TweetStats.com is a powerful stats tool allowing you to keep track of your tweets. It can graph your tweets and show you when you tweet the most and the less. This can help you better understand your schedule and create a marketing plan that will allow you to find time to use Twitter and other social media platforms.Finally, Tweetlister.com can help you tweet your latest listings although this is a paid service there are many Twitter services like these ones online. Best of luck to you all and remember that no matter how much time you spend on marketing yourself as a real estate agent online you must always focus on the client that you meet.