Many companies use social media marketing to create and distribute messages through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others and also use social media optimization to boost the rank of a Web site in search engines like Google and Bing.
Most agents, brokers and Realtors have found successes in lead generation, sales and brand awareness through use of mass audience social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Meetup, and LinkedIn. In addition to real estate specific platforms, like Trulia, Zillow, WellcomeMat and Architizer.
In accordance with the latest research, more than 90 % of all buyers start the search for a home online. Also the same percentage for homeowners looking to refinance their mortgages.
Internet has proven itself to be an apt repository for the enormous and detailed information that build the real estate industry.
We can find listings, home estimations, rates of mortgage interest, glossary to explain terms, house videos and information videos that explain everything started from buying a foreclosure to improving the credit history and credit score.
Like Facebook and Twitter have become an integral part of our cultural landscape. And in the same time, consumers have grown more suspicion of advertising and marketing claims which always high-promise and low-deliver. On the other hand consumers trust each other to purchase decisions, and there is no larger buying decision than owning a home for any person.
It is a good suggestion that every social media toolbox of the home builder contain a company website, blog, online public relations, social networking web sites and other websites.
The problem most companies have with social media is just putting a lot of search engine optimized content up on the web only. Growth of this phenomenon has coincided with the steepest drop in U.S. housing values in history. So many industry players are just trying to survive.
Some of the basic terms used in social media marketing are:
- Newsfeeder or Aggregator.
- Blogs.
- Blog Marketing.
- Blogosphere.
- Content.
- Crowdsourcing.
- Feeds or RSS Feeds.
- Forums.
- Groups.
- Lurkers.
- Microblogging.
- Podcast.
- Profiles.
- Sharing.
- Social networks.
- Subscribing.
- Threads.
- Trackback.
- Viral Marketing.
- Widgets.
- Wiki.
By knowing the basic of social media terms, Realtors will be able to benefit from marketing techniques in this area.
In conclusion, social media marketing is considered as a powerful tools to generate leads and build credibility for real estate investors. It is a tool like anything else i.e. you get out of it what you put into it.
Ahmad Mohee, Web developer & SEO Expert. Founder & CTO of www.egyptinternetmarketing.com is one of the leading internet, and social media marketing experts in Egypt.
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