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The era of buying print advertising space with the hope of creating brand awareness and generating leads has passed. Now days the majority of buyers, tenants, landlords and sellers are starting their search for a local estate agent or property, online. Therefore, as a tech savvy real estate brand, your marketing objectives should be to create a dominant online presence wherever your prospective clients are starting their search online – whether it is on Google, YouTube, property portals, or via email and social media channels.
Whether your goal on Facebook is to generate leads, connect with prospective home-buyers, foster business relationships or simply build your brand's image - having a strategy will enable you to effectively make the most of your business page. However, there are several factors that assist in contributing to a successful Facebook content plan.
To gain a competitive edge in the real estate market, or to simply keep up with the rest of the pack, real estate agents should utilise social media. The use of social media provides an effective way to further connect with clients and boost real estate marketing efforts. For real estate agencies, Facebook is arguably the best social media platform used and with over 1.3 billion members worldwide, it remains the largest social networking site.
We’ve recently covered the how and why of a Google My Business listing, however not all listings are equal. What makes one listing more valuable or more effective than another?
We have recently covered the importance of localised search and simply being found with more and more online transactions taking place on mobile devices.
We covered the importance of localised search as far back as 2013, fast forward to 2015 and it is quite clear that local search is a leading source of business to most companies. The drastic rise in mobile use has also helped promote localised search with the major search engines tailoring search results directly based on your location.
You’ve created a Facebook Page for your business, it’s slowing gaining more likes as more people are starting to like and more importantly comment on your posts. But, this isn’t happening quite a quickly as you would like it to. Once you’ve started connecting with your potential clients on Facebook, you’ll want to find other people who are likely to be interested in your product or service.
There are numerous social media networks and while we've covered to extensively, Facebook and Twitter, there are others which are quickly gaining in popularity. To complete the list of the top five social media networks we'll include LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+.
Twitter is an online social networking service that allows users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called tweets. Registered users and read and post tweets but unregistered users are only able to read publicly available posts. Tweets are publically visible by default, but users can restrict message delivery to just authorised followers.
Facebook is the world's most popular social networking website. Founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg Facebook was originally called thefacebook.
