For Real Estate Agents if you could be an expert in using one social media platform, which one would it be?

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Matthew Krause (Forbes Realty of South Florida)

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Rainmaker
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Ajay Pandya

e-Merge Real Estate Unlimited - Columbus, OH

Realtor Ajay Pandya

Facebook.

Jan 17, 2018 03:01 PM

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Ambassador
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Bob Crane

Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI

Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Blogging seems to be a good source that feeds all the rest.

Oct 18, 2017 10:43 PM

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Bob Crane

Stevens Point, WI

Rainmaker
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Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers

Serving the Greater Phoenix and Scottsdale Metropolitan Area - Scottsdale, AZ

Haven Express @ Keller Williams Arizona Realty

Active Rain!

May 11, 2017 04:38 AM

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Bob Crane

Stevens Point, WI

Rainmaker
4,319,773

Praful Thakkar

LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA

Metro Boston Homes For Sale

I do have profile on all of them - and since all of them are free, why to limit to one?

However I use ActiveRain for my internet presence - and then spread the message to other platform.

Jan 16, 2015 12:01 PM

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Rainer
279,878

Dipti Thakkar

LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA

On a team with Praful Thakkar

Faceboo.

May 27, 2018 10:35 PM

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Rainer
223,831

LUXURYSOCALREALTY COMPASS La Jolla

Compass - La Jolla, CA

San Diego Partner - The Private Client Network

Unfortunately none a lot to learn.

Jan 11, 2016 07:39 PM

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Rainmaker
5,112,896

Nina Hollander, Broker

Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC

Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

I suppose it would be Facebook.

Jan 16, 2015 09:18 PM

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Rainmaker
1,624,853

Inna Ivchenko

Barcode Properties - Encino, CA

Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

Most of my time( at least for last year) I spent here, on Active Rain, I read thousands of blogs, listened tons of webinars, wrote few hundreds of posts. Would I call myself an expert? Not sure. But I definitely can give a few very good advice to AR new-bees:)

Jan 16, 2015 02:58 PM

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Rainmaker
4,800,132

Gabe Sanders

Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL

Stuart Florida Real Estate

ActiveRain comes to mind as an excellent choice.

Jan 16, 2015 05:14 AM

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Rainmaker
5,772,587

Ron and Alexandra Seigel

Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA

Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Matthew.

After spending time on social media since 2008, I would say, that I am not an expert on any of these platforms. Linked In is a good source of biz for us, and they keep changing to be more like Facebook. Facebook just changed a bunch of stuff, and I dislike the lack of privacy on the site. Several of the real estate related media are out of business.

I like Active Rain, am I an expert, and I don't really believe there are bona fide experts, because of the constant changes and the newness of this media. We are seeing social media fatigue on many levels and demographics. A.

Jan 16, 2015 01:36 AM

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Rainmaker
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Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041

ReMax Realtec Group - Palm Harbor, FL

Making FLORIDA Real Estate EZ

I do not care to be an EXPERT in any social media platform. I pay experts to advise me. What I, as a real estate professional, want to be is EFFECTIVE.

As a small business owner, I want to be EFFECTIVE in those environments relevant to my business. Since YouTube, Zillow, Trulila, Active Rain, Realtor.com are NOT social media platforms, by default one must pay attention to the 800 pound gorilla in the kitchen...Facebook. (and every time you think you've got Facebook figured out, they rearrange the deck chairs.)

So, it may be more beneficial to actually focus energy on those things that have more consistency and do not require an over investment of time. That would be investing the intellectual energy to identify the right key words and phrases for your real estate market and being an expert on ad copy and ad-word campaigns.

Then driving traffic to your WordPress website.

Jan 16, 2015 12:25 AM

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I do have profile on all of them - and since all of them are free, why to limit to one?

However I use ActiveRain for my internet presence - and then spread the message to other platform.
Most of my time( at least for last year) I spent here, on Active Rain, I read thousands of blogs, listened tons of webinars, wrote few hundreds of posts. Would I call myself an expert? Not sure. But I definitely can give a few very good advice to AR new-bees:)
Matthew.

After spending time on social media since 2008, I would say, that I am not an expert on any of these platforms. Linked In is a good source of biz for us, and they keep changing to be more like Facebook. Facebook just changed a bunch of stuff, and I dislike the lack of privacy on the site. Several of the real estate related media are out of business.

I like Active Rain, am I an expert, and I don't really believe there are bona fide experts, because of the constant changes and the newness of this media. We are seeing social media fatigue on many levels and demographics. A.
I do not care to be an EXPERT in any social media platform. I pay experts to advise me. What I, as a real estate professional, want to be is EFFECTIVE.

As a small business owner, I want to be EFFECTIVE in those environments relevant to my business. Since YouTube, Zillow, Trulila, Active Rain, Realtor.com are NOT social media platforms, by default one must pay attention to the 800 pound gorilla in the kitchen...Facebook. (and every time you think you've got Facebook figured out, they rearrange the deck chairs.)

So, it may be more beneficial to actually focus energy on those things that have more consistency and do not require an over investment of time. That would be investing the intellectual energy to identify the right key words and phrases for your real estate market and being an expert on ad copy and ad-word campaigns.

Then driving traffic to your WordPress website.