Real Estate Web 2.0 Secrets

2010 is going to be the year of social media and those who know how to use it will
really start to see it becoming a central part of their strategy to reach out to customers online.
Those who don’t will start regretting it.

As you can see from the graph above social marketing has  than doubled in the last two years and if you notice the trend is upward.  What this means is that more and more people, your customers, buyers, renters, etc., are moving away from traditional media like Newspapers, Radio, TV, and Magazines. So your customers are spending more and more time and money on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Myspace.

As an investor you need to spot trends and use the trends in your favor or the natural progression of the trend will work against you.

Example:  My cost for a months worth of classified ads in my local paper used to be about $2000 per month plus $650 For the Apartment Guide. This was for 2 apartment projects and several retail and commercial properties. If I continue to pay these cost, which continue to rise each month and less and less people see these ads eventually the bottom line cost of lost revenue on my rental and leased space could be huge.  $50,000 to $100,000 or more in lost rental revenue per year.

I don’t know the size of your real estate business but when you look at the end game. To have a fully occupied property or a sold property.  We are talking about big bucks here.

And when you realize that what you lose out on by not knowing how to leverage the trend of social media marketing for you business: Profit! Your take home money, your cash flow.

Bottom Line:  If you are not using the trend of social media marketing and web 2.0 for your real estate business then the trend will be working against you!  And over time those losses can be staggering!

Pennsylvania Newspaper Bankruptcies Signal More Trouble Ahead.

More & MORE People Are Moving Away From Traditional Media!  That’s a nice looking building. I bet you could buy it cheap!

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

Do you think a lot of people are going to loose their jobs in the newspaper business?  They probably could use a training in social media marketing like the one you are getting by reading this blog! So keep reading and watch all of the videos.

If you don’t implement some new effective business strategies right now… and you continue to do the same thing. Where do you think your business will be 5 years from now?

As you can see from the video. Social Media is growing like a wildfire! I that doesn’t convince you to “GET STARTED NOW”  Then look at some of the numbers of people who are connecting to the social media marketplace.

• Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size.*
• 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.
• Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.
• Wikipedia currently has more than 13 million articles in more than 260 different languages. The site attracts over 60 million unique users a month and it’s often hotly debated that the information it contains is more reliable than any printed Encyclopaedia.
• The most recent figure of blogs being indexed by Technorati currently stands at 133 million. The same report into the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-hour period.
• It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year.
• The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
• The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
• Since April this year, Twitter has been receiving around 20 million unique visitors to the site each month, according to some analytical sources.
• Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.

If your thinking that you would like to learn more about Social Media Marketing & Real Estate Web 2.0 Then join me on a FREE Webinar that explains in detail “How You Can Get Started Today Using Social Media Marketing In Your Real Estate Business.

Are you starting to see how your business would look if you are using Social Media Marketing in your business?   Imagine how your business would look a year from now when you have fully implemented effective social media marketing strategy working for you 7 days a week, month after month?

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