What percentage of your preferred agents use Twitter? I guess I'm an old fogie...I've never even been there...and from what I've read here about it, it doesn't seem like a place I'd like to go.

Twitter is full of real estate professionals. Hope on board before it's too late.

start following PMH Financial, and we'll see if it works....

How do you find out if your assignements are getting bounced back by spam filters? OMG...getting put on a "do not use" list because of your computer's spam filter...I have to check...I haven't heard from some companies in a while and they tell me I'm not blacklisted...can someone out there shed some light?

Check your spam box periodically. I missed an assignment just this way once upon a time. Yikes, I just peeked at mine! There are 1,645 items in my spam folder. Doesn't seem like that long since I dumped it out! Realtors sure seem to be an easy tarket for spammers.

I tweet local news and listings every once in a while. Not really into it but trying.

In order for it to really work, you need to find other tweeps and interact with them. Just blasting things, without ever interacting, is like standing in a crowd and calling to the passers by. Some will hear you and stop & listen, but most will just go right on by.

That makes sense. But who do I interact with.?...just whatever interests me and hope it leads to real estate? I am SO clueless....

Makes sense to me but I am not that social, well okay I go on lock-outs, to think there are tweets in my area I would want to chirp at.

We mostly tweet about our new blog posts. We will sometimes tweet interesting facts about market trends that we find while producing our monthly national market analysis.

The biggest challenge facing individuals on twitter is acquiring followers that are actually interested in your particular topic. They are most likely to "retweet" your postings, thus forwarding your content to their followers. This is the big win, since hardcore tweeters can increase your reach exponentially.

Be wary of random followers. Take a moment to look at their tweets and figure out what they are usually talking about before you reciprocate with a follow. Often times, your following list will grow quickly, while your followers remains stagnant due to follow invite smash and grabs.

Also keep in mind that by following someone, you are opening yourself up to private messages from that users, so watch for spammers and don't follow them.

All I use Twitter for is the 'share on twitter' link on my blog. It helps me get a ton more views. I also don't know how the heck I have so many followers, especially since I don't advertise twitter anywhere and I'm not following many people either. Talk about a massive waste of your day. I signed up then forgot about it until recently with the blog thing. I was still getting followers even though I posted VERY rarely. I just cant do the whole 1 sentence thing. I have too much to say. And the whole '@' thing is annoying as hell to me.

Hi Greene, Twitter is only a communication tool. What interests your audience? What kind of things will help them? What do they want to hear? Answer those questions, tweet them out, and you'll have a good interested audience. That's the hardest part. Every audience is different so I can answer your question with a broad stroke.

Dear folks,

I couldn't help notice that some of you are down on "tweeting". It is perfectly understandable. However, if you see and notice big corporations using this type of marketing channel, then there has got to be some merit to it. It is just like real estate investing, if you see McDonalds, Walmart & Home Depot being built in a particular area, it is safe to say the real estate values in that area will probably rise. Corporations have huge teams of people that do tons of data research on this stuff, so they make less mistakes than the rest of us.

When you see, TGIF, NBC News, and Lowes with Twitter and Facebook logos on their advertising, you can be sure that the Twitter marketing channel is worth something.

The setback to social networking sites is the word "WORK". As you already know, in marketing there are learning curves and time that must be put into any channel of marketing, whether it is direct mail, email marketing or just writing a phone book ad.

It takes time and consistency to build a herd on one of these sites. The other thing you have to do as a real estate professional, is that you have to grow the herd in the geographical area that you are in. When you make friends or contacts in your circle of Twitter or Facebook friends, you need to do searches for contacts in your geographical area. Why? Because, if you are having an open house then you could "Tweet" people on your list that are in your area. Or you can daily post listings on those sites and people in your city or town that do "tweet" and "Twitter" will see your messages.

Go to amazon and check out some of the books on marketing in this arena, I'm sure that you will find great ideas and references there on the subject of TWEETING! Ooops! The birdy just belched! :rockon:

Mark Ellis
Real Estate Marketing Consultant
ExpertRealtorWeb

You actually got a client from twitter? That's interesting... what exactly got the client to get in touch with you? Was this a pastclient/COI?

I've gotten a few leads from Twitter....but neither were listings I wanted to take (seller needed way more than they were worth)