Technology Strategies for Real Estate

Your family, friends, and business connections are using lots of different sites to find a share content. Some are writing blogs. Others write restaurant and product reviews. And many are uploading photos and videos. Social Networks have become very common and many of your clients business connections have accounts on one or more of them.

Some of the more effective for real estate are:

Linkedin  Is one of the more professional networks. Build a network of past colleagues, friends, and industry experts. The Answer section helps you build a reputation of an industry expert. Get people to write recommendations of your work.

RealTown is the oldest and most respected real estate network featuring a variety of online communities as well as a wealth of community created content. Great place to be found.

ActiveRain Is a social network for real estate professionals. Great networking and referral building happens here. This blogging platform has all the right tools to let the newest of Real Estate Professionals to be found on the internet.

Plaxo Pulse  is a public profile that is not static; it’s constantly enriched by the aggregated stream of the content you are creating all over the web. You’ve got fine-grained control of what content and information you include. The result is that you have control and portability of your public identity.

Yelp  Use Yelp.com to find good restaurants, to get insider info, to get good tips and tricks for wherever you may be traveling to. Contribute to the community with your own reviews. Consumers are reviewing real estate professionals here.

Facebook  Try not to get caught up with the extraneous applications like poking, and throwing sheep. Post what you have to offer as a professional and let consumers read your blog post. This site is where people want to get to know you, but keep it professional until they feel comfortable to reach out.

Myspace  Another social network for the Generation X and Y Generation. If you client base is here you need a profile page on this site.

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