{"id":7818,"date":"2009-04-13T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2009-04-14T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T18:40:17","slug":"facebook-advice-straight-from-the-bucks-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7818\/facebook-advice-straight-from-the-bucks-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Advice… Straight From the Buck’s Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the interesting things about reading cutting edge, real estate thinkers here and elsewhere is how, every now and then, we miss the forest for all the trees.\u00a0 I think you know what I’m saying: someone will post about a new technology or share an idea or reveal a new twist or just plain inspire and the conversation will take off.\u00a0 Pretty soon, an ol’ balloon-popper like Jeff Brown will wander by and yell through the ivory-framed window: “Hey!\u00a0 Skinned any cats lately?”\u00a0 Then he’ll pick up his pelt bag and head down to the bank.<\/p>\n

I saw this last week on a great post by Mark Green, who wrote a piece called Please Get Out of My Face(book)<\/a> that touched on some good rules of thumb for the best use of social media tools like Facebook.\u00a0 There were some pretty interesting comments and the conversation expanded on some of the ideas in Mark’s post.\u00a0 Then, a couple days after the comments ended, a new comment went up.\u00a0 It was late and it was overlooked and it reminded me how often we resemble less a cat skinner and more Elmer Fudd in the cartoon where he’s so busy getting ready to go deer hunting – talking about how great it’s going to be with Porky Pig and sharing his newest, shiniest gizmo – that he doesn’t notice the 12 point buck meander right past the cabin.<\/p>\n

Laura Evans wrote the comment.\u00a0 For purposes of full disclosure: I’ve known Laura in the real world for some time.\u00a0 Here’s her comment (I’ve edited for length & the emphasis is mine<\/em>):<\/p>\n

Mark makes some great points about how to use Social Networking tools.\u00a0 I\u2019m not in the Facebook game for marketing purposes, purely social for me.\u00a0 However if I were, I think my strategy for this powerful tool would be slightly different.<\/p>\n

First, I would establish a goal.\u00a0 In your world, I presume it would be to build your sphere of influence to sell.\u00a0 So, if the majority of your FB \u201cfriends\u201d are in your industry (isn\u2019t LinkedIn a better tool for Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the interesting things about reading cutting edge, real estate thinkers here and elsewhere is how, every now and then, we miss the forest for all the trees.\u00a0 I think you know what I’m saying: someone will post about a new technology or share an idea or reveal a new twist or just plain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11261,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11261\/what-if-twitter-and-facebook-go-away-do-you-have-an-exit-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":7818,"position":0},"title":"What if Twitter and Facebook go Away – Do you have an Exit Strategy?","author":"Scott Schang","date":"February 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Pearson is a pretty smart dood.\u00a0 He's the developer of the Thesis theme that I use on all of my blogs.\u00a0 It's a pretty cool premium theme...but I'm not here to pitch Wordpress themes. 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