{"id":5393,"date":"2008-11-01T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2008-11-01T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T02:46:43","slug":"social-media-and-what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5393\/social-media-and-what-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media And What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we are again. There’s a few Social Media (SM) venues that have real estate folks all agog. Between Facebook (FB), Linkedin (LI), and Twitter (T), you’d think agents all over the country have had their careers rescued by the magical powers of SM. Let’s find out, OK?<\/p>\n

I preface the following by ensuring you I have no dog in this fight. I’d truly like to find a plausible answer. It’s my guess I’m not rowin’ that boat alone, either. <\/p>\n

Yesterday on T I posed the question: Who out there has done at least one closed transaction as a direct result of FB, LI, and\/or T? At first all I heard were crickets. Then the conversation began in earnest. Everyone talked about referrals, and leads. Oh my, there were lots of leads. Turns out, much like SEO, bankers don’t accept leads as deposits. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There was a small handful here who said they’d closed A<\/em> deal, and were pretty sure<\/em> of its source being one of the three SM sites. <\/p>\n

Then somebody said, “Seems the big hitters out there are being kinda quiet.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

My response to that was that most folks thought of as so called ‘big hitters’ aren’t nearly what they’re perceived to be. Though I’d like to find out there’re agents out there makin’ a consistently impressive killing on these SM sites, I’m skeptical. <\/p>\n

To that end, I said I’d pose the question here. What better place? <\/p>\n

So, all you agents out there depositing all those commission checks every month because of your skillful use of FB, LI, and T? Make yourself known, OK?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Here’s my experience, though you should know, it’s not much. <\/p>\n

I’m not, nor have I ever been on FB. I’m on LI only because a consultant put me their themselves. The damn site irritates me no end. I get invites via email, mostly from folks I already know. That’s cool, right? However, as happened today, (and about 20% of the time) the invite link sends me to a LI page bereft of the ‘Accept’ button. And no, I don’t know, nor do I care why that happens. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we are again. There’s a few Social Media (SM) venues that have real estate folks all agog. Between Facebook (FB), Linkedin (LI), and Twitter (T), you’d think agents all over the country have had their careers rescued by the magical powers of SM. Let’s find out, OK? I preface the following by ensuring you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[2,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15726,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15726\/online-success-for-real-estate-brokersagents-still-more-myth-than-reality\/","url_meta":{"origin":5393,"position":0},"title":"Online Success For Real Estate Brokers\/Agents – Still More Myth Than Reality?","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"March 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Count this post as the first in this year's semi-annual observations of social media\/online marketing for real estate agents. 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