5 Twitter Suggestions

Twitter is everywhere these days as it certainly has become mainstream and it can be very beneficial for your real estate business. But what do you do when first getting started in Twitter?

Here are five suggestions that you should consider when tweeting about your real estate business:

1. Be real. Talk about what you love.
   Whether it be the love of the color orange, or the love of your hot new car, or the love of watching first time home buyers get their keys at closing. Whatever it is that you love, talk about it. People want to see the real you. When they see the real person, they feel more open to discuss their housing needs with you.
   
   
2. Have a well balanced Twitter stream.
   Take a look at your Twitter profile by clicking on "profile" from your Twitter home page. Glance at your recent Tweets. Are they full of self promotion "Call me for your real estate needs"?? If people are only seeing you constantly push your business, then they won't see you as real (see #1 above), they'll see you as spam.
   
   
3. Follow to be followed.
   If you feel that Twitter is not worth your time because no one follows you, then change it. Find people that have similar interests and follow them. Reply to something they've said by using an "@" reply. They usually will follow you back. But make sure that they know who you are. Fill out your name, location, web site and a short bio on your Twitter profile. People want to know who they are twittering with.
   
   
4. Engage in conversations.
   See #3 above. If someone says something you like, then retweet it. TweetDeck makes this easy, as does countless other Twitter apps.
   
   
5. Link your Tweets to your Facebook profile.
   There is no better way to reach tons of people at once, than by tweeting something out. You reach your Twitter followers by the hundreds as well as your hundreds of Facebook friends. Run the Facebook Twitter app to get this to work.

REALTOR Magazine had an excellent article in this month's magazine about social media and networking including Twitter. If you missed it, you can read it here. What do you suggest that people should tweet about (or not) in business? Feel free to leave your comments.

But, before you go...do you follow Missouri YPN on Twitter?