You’re in real estate and you’re ready to take on the internet, but how does Twitter figure into your marketing plan? Furthermore, should you integrate Twitter with your real estate blog? The good news is this: Your blog and Twitter can work together in a way that provides value to your readers!
Bringing A Smile To Their Faces
With just 140 characters, you might feel like you have to scramble to say something on Twitter that no other real estate agent, or person, has ever said, but that’s just not true. Your Twitter friends understand the limit of the social network. This actually works in your favor. You can back off trying to be the smartest or most original and simply post something whimsical or entertaining, at least some of the time. It takes the pressure off of you, and it may brighten another person’s day. It’s a win, win situation, really.
Beyond the whimsical, you should still post valuable content. Not everyone can make it big by posting LOLcats. Twitter gives you the opportunity to discuss industry news, link your new property listings, and ask buyers and sellers what they need from their real estate professionals. In this way, you provide even more value to consumers.
Twitter Visibility on Your Real Estate Blog
It might not be enough simply to join Twitter and post links to your blog update. You have to make your Twitter presence visible on your blog, too. What do we mean? Simply that you should at least link to your Twitter account on your blog to let your current visitors know you’ve entered the social domain. However, showing your recent tweets, which is possible with several Blogger widgets and WordPress plug-ins, gives you another way to increase visibility. Visitors who see your recent tweets will associate them with the person, or people, behind the blog. Sometimes, dissociation can occur when people see your tweets separately from your other online presences.
Get the Conversation Going
Not only do we recommend playing with a Twitter widget right on the front page of your real estate blog, but we recommend using it to actively engage your visitors. If they can reply to your tweets from the widget itself, they’re more likely to do so than if they have to navigate to Twitter, find the post and then reply. Plus, some widget tools let you display posts from multiple authors, which is handy if your entire real estate team is on Twitter. Finally, consider an option that lets your visitors see the entire conversation, including replies from other people. The back-and-forth might be just what your readers need to jump in on the conversation and let their own voices be heard.
Twitter also provides the opportunity to post links, images and infographics from your own blog, and when your social media friends click those links, they can leave comments on your blog. Twitter doesn’t have to replace your current commenting system, but you can think of it as a way to supplement those comments, especially if you know that particular users are likely to go off on a tangent.
It’s worth noting that you can allow your visitors to reply to comments with their Twitter account, which some social media users might prefer. You’ll have to swap your current commenting system to Disqus or LiveFyre to make the change, but both support signing in from Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID, among other account services.
Do you have any tips for Twitter and blog integration?
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Networking through any social media networks are beneficial and like how you mention getting the conversation started. Building long-terms relationships in socail media in small business and some relationships into business partners.
A lot new people inside of network marketing, seo, real estate or any other industry just don’t know the value of networking and most of them just trying to spam. How many emails, contact page, Facebook inboxes do we get with people trying to sell us something.
Personally I get 40-50 emails a week about their awesome service, product or something they are trying to sell you. Before ever knowing about them as person and not a dollar.
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There are so many great tips in here for a real estate agent like myself! Thank you for this post!
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Great Share!!One can get lot of traffic by sharing their blogs on social media sites.
Twitter is definitely my favorite platform to promote my blog. For some reason people on facebook are too serious and there’s barely anyone using G+ haha
i am really glad to have this post .i have a lot of tweets like this but noe i will take care of them .thmks for sharing your views with us
Nice post and thanks for sharing such great tips.Twitter is really a good tool for attracting people towards your business.
Real estate Brokers and Agents must build their presence on the internet for free advertising of their listings. Facebook nowadays offers BOOST post on fan page to reach target client, but this is a paid service.
Info graphics and eye catching images really are important to stand out on places like twitter and facebook, pinterest etc. These grab peoples attention andcan get you many more clicks and more traffic. 🙂
Twitter doesn’t exactly lend an air of legitimacy. Too many fake accounts with fake subscribers around. It’s all too easy to buy a twitter account online.
This was helpful information. Thank you from the desk of Laura Willis, Realtor
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Thanks a lot for your great twitter real estate blogger tips. this is really too effective online marketer. Thanks for the great posting.
Well twitter is a great option for every business these days because people also follow your business in social media and they want to be active with you through conversations we have many examples about that like “AMAZON” they also provide cc services through twitter and facebook but twitter is good for real estate services because in 140 character limit and with media you can collect many interested buyers.
Great post share Twitter is definitely my favorite platform to promote my blog. For some reason people on facebook are too serious and there’s barely anyone using G+ haha
Nice post and thanks for sharing such great tips.Twitter is really a good tool for attracting people towards your business.
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Twitter is one of the best tools for businesses. A lot of my real estate writing clients were from twitter. Just try to promote your links sparingly and give information people really want to know about.
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As a Maryland REALTOR I love using twitter over facebook. I love the simple design and the fact that my followers will actually see all my post compared to fb which forces you to pay them in order for everyone who has liked your page to actually see your post!
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Twetter is really a good tool for attracting people towards your business.
Great post , as an real estate agent love to read post like this. I often use twitter to share information about my new project , and sometimes ongoing project. It really helps to grow my business.
Thanks, Vinita 🙂 It is always helpful to hear from those for whom we published the article 😉
Awesome Article! Now real estate agent should put social media on their primary promotion tools.
I agree, Iklanrumah. It seems like social media marketing wasn’t necessarily top of the list, back in the day. But, from what we are seeing in the comments, more and more realtors are becoming experts in social media marketing in their own right.
Thanks for sharing these mesmerizing tips. I am a real estate agent/realtor and believe me by following these simple steps above you will be amazed how much you will strengthen your brand online and win new business.
Oh, you are too kind, Pat. Thank you 😉
I have just started using twitter for my property listings I am not getting much followers but I have seen other who put lot of efforts on twitter and now they are generate a lot of leads from twitter it is because they always see your posts and contact you if they are interested.
Thanks, Samuel. I’m glad you found something that works 😉
One of the most important social media is twitter, in this we share all information about our business. Thanks for sharing.
So true. We do appreciate your opinion, so definitely thanks for sharing it 😉
These are the great tips for real estate blogger, Thanks for sharing this great information.
Thank YOU, Glenekohler!
Great Article! Thanks for sharing this! Great help.
Thank you, Freddie!
Good article. I’m huge fan of twitter and real estate blog traffic
Wow! Great to hear 😉 Thank you.
Social Networking medium twitter should be integrated with real estate blog to connect more customers.As twitter is one of the popular social networking site. Nice post.
So true! Thank you.
Great article about twitter and real estate bolgger. Thanks for your article.
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Nice blog, very informative keep sharing such details
Dude! Awesome stuff. Please keep writing more things like this. I really like the fact you went so in depth on this and really explored the topic as much as you did. I read a lot of blogs but usually, it’s pretty shallow content. Thanks for upping the game here!
Interesting! I hadn’t thought of using Twitter in that way. My sister is in real estate and has been trying to figure out the best way to use social media and Twitter and I’ll be sharing this with her.
I loved the suggestion of having your twitter feed on your blog and getting additional engagement from there, definitely something to try out! Thanks
Hi Deborah, thank you for this great post. I like how Facebook commenting system can be adopt to blog posts. It would be great if Twitter has a similar system. I use twitter for more sharing real estate related news in my area. That gives good and current news to people who are considering investing in the area, and increase my liability. Thanks again for this great article. 🙂
You are very welcome, Nuno, and thank you for your feedback. I love Twitter, as well, and actually use Twitter more, as I have used it more over the years :). Shhhh… don’t tell Facebook LOL.
Nice tips
I just reconsider about using twitter for my website