{"id":13519,"date":"2010-11-05T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13519"},"modified":"2010-11-05T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T00:29:43","slug":"i-dont-play-farmville-and-i-dont-disagree-with-brian-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13519\/i-dont-play-farmville-and-i-dont-disagree-with-brian-brady\/","title":{"rendered":"I don’t play Farmville and I don’t disagree with Brian Brady!"},"content":{"rendered":"

But I do question whether prospecting using facebook is the most efficient<\/em> way to prospect.\u00a0 I’m sure everything Brian Brady said is correct<\/a>, he’s just that kind of a guy!\u00a0 I’m also a one person office and time spent trolling facebook for leads isn’t as quick as calling up expired listings in my area, or working the internet where buyers are looking for homes!<\/p>\n

For me, there are just quicker ways of getting calls from interested buyers than slogging through my facebook friends’ friends, tracking down phone numbers and calling them.\u00a0 If there was some clever tool to just get those folks names and numbers (Greg has probably written one), with some sort of a relationship graphic so I have something to chat with them about, count me in on the calling.\u00a0 I don’t mind cold calling.\u00a0 Expired listings are quick to get and easy for me to call.\u00a0 They can be pretty productive too.<\/p>\n

I spent some time playing on Ebay’s classifieds today.\u00a0 I’ll tell you how that works out when I know, but being where buyers are looking usually works pretty well for me.<\/p>\n

So, I’m not disagreeing with Brian, I’m just wondering, like apparently the Zillow CEO is, if facebook is worth the time.\u00a0 I haven’t found it to be the most productive way to do business prospecting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve taken a number of swings at social (networking) that have not paid off. We might have invested less,\u201d said Spencer Rascoff, chief executive of Zillow.com.<\/p>\n

His site has some social networking features and some integration with Facebook and Twitter \u2013 mostly as a result of following the conventional wisdom that any vertical could benefit from a social emphasis.<\/p>\n

What Rascoff discovered, however, was that real estate is one area that truly doesn\u2019t lend itself to social.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our category, we have not found it to be a social experience,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re looking to buy a home, your network is small \u2013 it\u2019s you, your spouse, and your real estate agent. You don\u2019t tell your 300 friends, \u2018I\u2019m looking at this house.\u2019 And especially in this market, Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I do question whether prospecting using facebook is the most efficient way to prospect.\u00a0 I’m sure everything Brian Brady said is correct, he’s just that kind of a guy!\u00a0 I’m also a one person office and time spent trolling facebook for leads isn’t as quick as calling up expired listings in my area, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[533,532,82,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-13519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"tag-marketing","9":"tag-real-estate","10":"tag-real-estate-web-20","11":"tag-social-media","13":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8202,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8202\/facebook-quizzes-for-real-estate-marketers\/","url_meta":{"origin":13519,"position":0},"title":"Facebook Quizzes For Real Estate Marketers","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Facebook quizzes might be a darned good tool for real estate agents.\u00a0 You know what I'm talking about, right?\u00a0 Facebook quizzes are those independent applications that ask you 5-10 questions and tell you who you were in a past life, what your inner animal is, and what sort of American\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1985,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1985\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-the-long-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":13519,"position":1},"title":"The Odysseus Medal competition — The long list","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a lot of news this week, some tragic, some comical. 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