Draft Marketing – Picking Up Followers From Other Brands
You should be looking at how your brand shows up online. It is not super hard to put enough effort into winning on social media
The Threads App
In seven hours of release, Threads hit the million-user mark. Is it a Twitter killer or an Instagram killer?
Meta’s Threads: A New Social Media Launching Tomorrow
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has once again made waves in the tech industry with the launch of their innovative social media app called Threads.
A podcast classic: Joe Rand rants and raves about relevant content and digital marketing
Podcasts have been popular during the last decade and have flourished during the pandemic. Over 55% of the US population have listened to podcasts, and over 155 million people listen to at least one podcast every week. With over 700,000 active podcasts and 29 million episodes, choices are abundant. In real estate, here's one every agent should enjoy: Snapshot. The Snapshot podcast, featuring Homesnap’s Gayle Weiswasser, delivers solid takeaways from every episode. Gayle is easy to listen to, is a skilled interviewer, and also is a top industry expert. With over 150 podcasts to date, Gayle talks to real estate [...]
Facebook Still Rules Real Estate
Like Mark Twain, the early reports on the death of Facebook clearly have been an exaggeration especially when it comes to real estate. It remains the social media channel that is still the best place to stay top of mind among the greatest number of home buyers and sellers. And it's still the best media channel for real estate agents to keep in front of their peers.
The Convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media
One of the most profound changes in the media we consume in recent years is going largely unnoticed. The convergence of public relations, traditional media and social media is causing lines to be crossed – or at least blurred – and that’s making it nearly impossible to distinguish PR, from traditional media or social media. It appears that this convergence is accelerating and what that means is content today is often a bit of everything mixed together. Let me explain. Traditional media – newspapers, radio and television – once ran news only created by their own reporters or from wire [...]
Protect Your Content Now
My 13-year-old daughter provided me with a raw lesson in digital rights management yesterday. It is a pretty simple lesson really – do not let others build their business using your content, at your expense. Background Like every 13 year old, Social Media is a thing. 13 is the minimum age to open an account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Kik, and SnapChat. You need to be 18 for YouTube, but a 13-year-old can sign up with a parent’s permission. For those of you who know me well, you know that my daughter already has a social media following [...]
How to Market Yourself on Facebook WITHOUT Annoying Your Friends and Family
AGENTS! Join Marilyn Wilson for this exciting RETechinar™ where we will learn from special guest Realtor® Shaun Nilsson, the social media wizard behind CityBlast.com, as he diagrams his time-saving formula for attracting tons of new clients through social media while completely avoiding annoying your friends and contacts. In this 100% FREE online workshop, we'll show you exactly how to close more real estate commissions right now - using only your Facebook - while effortlessly projecting the confident business savvy of a seasoned professional. PLUS you'll learn how to outsource your online marketing to others and avoid wasting even one more [...]
Top 5 Articles of the Week
5 Facebook Tips and 51 Status Updates for Real Estate Professionals It's easier to hate Facebook than admit we don't understand how to make it work for our business. The reality is when used effectively, Facebook can put you in front of hundreds or even thousands of people for little or not cost. Three Simple Steps to Boost Your SEO Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an easy (and free!) way to make sure your website appears at the top of a Google search. Improving your SEO means that you are taking specific steps to help get your website and listings [...]
Listen When Smart People Speak
We all have our opinions about things like productivity and social media. Our own experiences with it along with what we hear and see around us make even the casual observer an expert. But there are actually people who study this stuff, and when they talk about their research, it is worth listening to. Heidi Ambles is the Director of Product Management and Social Software at IBM. She thinks highly of social media and is bullish on the benefits of social collaboration in the workplace. Here are a few statistics that Heidi recently shared during a talk that she gave. [...]
WAV Group Releases 2013 Broker Website Effectiveness Study
Contact: Victor Lund, Author for: WAV Group 2013 Broker Website Effectiveness Study Phone & Fax. 805.709.6696 Email: victor@wavgroup.com Arroyo Grande, CA July 25th, 2013 – WAV Group (www.WAVGROUP.com), industry leaders of technology, strategic planning, research, business and product development, sales and marketing in the real estate industry, today released a whitepaper entitled “2013 Broker Website Effectiveness Study.” The whitepaper, written by WAV Group, surveyed the Google Analytics accounts of broker websites representing 7,500,000 monthly visitors as the subject for insight on consumers accessing broker websites, and also garnered insights on the impact of social media, mobile, listing syndication and search [...]
Instagram Quickly Becoming a Value Brand-building Video Tool
Anybody who has children has probably known about Instagram for a while now as a photo sharing social media site. It is by far my 10-year-old daughter’s favorite method for sharing her life with her friends. Two weeks ago, Instagram began offering the ability to share short videos on their site and it has exploded. In just two weeks there have been amazing brand video ads for corporations placed on the site. You can check them out here. From what I could see with the videos I reviewed so far, there are a few ways that real estate companies and [...]