{"id":3163,"date":"2008-05-22T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2009-05-28T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T21:00:53","slug":"profiling-our-zillowcom-profile-using-landing-pages-and-photos-to-try-to-create-a-compelling-long-copy-ad-for-our-brokerage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3163\/profiling-our-zillowcom-profile-using-landing-pages-and-photos-to-try-to-create-a-compelling-long-copy-ad-for-our-brokerage\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiling our Zillow.com profile: Using landing pages and photos to try to create a compelling long-copy ad for our brokerage"},"content":{"rendered":"

We talked quite a bit at Unchained about profiles on Social Media Marketing sites. Once you’ve made a commitment to a site, you’ll be adding a significant amount of content to that platform. When someone comes across something you’ve done, their natural impulse is to click through to your profile. If they do, what will they see?<\/p>\n

Chances are, when you first signed up for that site, you blew right past the profile page, plugging in the minimum necessary information to get your registration done. You wanted to get to the content, after all, to find out if that site even met your needs. You discovered over time that it did, but you probably never thought to go back and complete your profile.<\/p>\n

This is a mistake. Your profile is the space that web site provides for you to sell yourself. At a minimum, you can direct interested people back to your own weblog or web site. Some sites will provide multiple links. Some will let you flesh out a free-form “about me” section, so that you can say exactly what you want in your own words. Some will permit fairly elaborate HTML coding, with links back to specific landing pages on your web site: You can sell relocation to relos, rentals to investors, re-fi’s to the equity-enriched.<\/p>\n

A couple of different times, I mentioned my Zillow.com profile<\/a>. Zillow is pretty liberal in the kind of coding you can do — allowing links and photos in the “about me” section, for example.<\/p>\n

Vance Shutes asked me to share my Zillow profile with him. I thought it might be better to take up the issue in the blog. I can talk about what I’m doing, you can talk about what you’re doing, and we all can learn better ways of building Social Media Marketing profiles.<\/p>\n

So: Between the horizontal rules is the code we use on our Zillow.com profile, as well as on other sites:<\/p>\n

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Why do we deliver so much more value for our clients? For one thing, it’s a great strategy for marketing our real estate brokerage. But even before that, we love selling real estate, Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We talked quite a bit at Unchained about profiles on Social Media Marketing sites. Once you’ve made a commitment to a site, you’ll be adding a significant amount of content to that platform. When someone comes across something you’ve done, their natural impulse is to click through to your profile. 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