Comments on: Top 5 Real Estate Social Media Blunders

By: Cathy Perry

Cathy Perry — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:50:16 +0000

I haven’t seen this so much with Realtors, but I have seen other business owners publish the same 6 – 8 posts in a row for days on end. I tend to skip over the whole batch and might miss the one innovative post hidden in the middle.

By: Stacy Stateham

Stacy Stateham — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:36:34 +0000

A big mistake that I see often is people using their personal Facebook accounts to promote their real estate business. Not only is it a tad cheesy, but it’s in violation of Facebook’s terms of service. If you want to use Facebook for business you need to have a business page!

If you group your friends, it makes it really easy to set who can see what, both in your general privacy settings, as well as on status updates. Most of my updates are open to anyone, but there are some that are more for my friends and family – it’s great to have the option to set who can see what!

ps – Amen on the #’s and @’s on Facebook!

By: Jay Palter

Jay Palter — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:25 +0000

Good article and comments…

There are all kids of blunders out there – some the result of good intentions and some bad. The Twitter 90-10 rule is a good guideline in social media settings in general: offer useful information and promote others 90 percent of the time and promote yourself only 10 percent of the time. This will build reputation and trust over time. I’ve posted a real estate social media strategy online that specifically implements this strategy (http://palter.ca/web/2010/08/16/real-estate-social-media-strategies-to-attract-first-home-buyers/).

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:22:00 +0000

I agree with the Facebook vs. Twitter talk. People are starting to put the @ in their Facebook status messages more and more often, and it’s kind of annoying. Another blunder to avoid would be posting too often on either. If I see the same messages from the same people, I tend to stop following them.

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By: tony

tony — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:01:40 +0000

I agree with #5. The solution I use in my personal tweeting/facebooking is using the Selective Twitter Feed app in Facebook.

I had my Twitter acct linked to my Facebook updates initially but soon realized that my tweets made no sense in FB with the @-replies & #hashtags, etc.

So now if I want my tweet to show up in FB, I just add the #fb hastag in my tweet and only those get pushed to FB.

By: RAI

RAI — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:46:45 +0000

They are looking to clean up #5 a little bit with the ability to tag friends in facebook statuses. Time for the API’s and 3rd parties to get with the ‘program’ (ha! sorry pun).

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By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:23:56 +0000

Application updates and requests drive me up the wall.. if you are using your social media network for business it just makes you look like you have nothing to do, and you are annoying everyone else!

By: Paul Tomlinson

Paul Tomlinson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:07:00 +0000

I think if we are talking social media as it relates to real estate, we should listen, use, and take the ideas of others, especially anything to do with marketing. We are long past the times when a property could be posted on MLS and sell in a matter of days.. sometimes with multiple offers. Today, we need to market (social media) ten different ways to sell properties… and I’m a real estate investor.