Friday, January 23, 2009

Real estate and social media promotion

Hope the new year is treating you all well. It has been quite cold here at the beach
but that will hopefully be changing SOON! At least the sun is shining so that's a start.

I ran across another real estate video website with some great features that would benefit you if you had the same features on your own website too so I wanted to share my thoughts on those with you. You may have already seen this site before:
http://www.zipvo.com/

It might not jump right out at you but there are a few features on that site that really add a greater social element to, which creates more interactivity for the users and increased ability to get more people to
join. If you notice on their home page they have integrated their member comments
into their blogging system. Similar to the way AR does it, they give all of their members their own
profile pages and blogs, and use those entries to bulk up their own main blog.
It is a GREAT way to both inspire more people to want to join in and comment,
plus at the same time it helps to exponentially grow a big network of contacts and leads.

Second, if you take a look at their member profiles, like this one:
http://www.zipvo.com/NickVandekar
members get their own profile pages that can even include their Twitter updates
and links to their Facebook profile, LinkedIn, Trulia, etc.
They are really helping their members feel more like part of a bigger community there.

These are exactly the types of features that would greatly benefit many of your own personal and agent websites as well!
When my company works on Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) for our clients, it is not only just to help with search engine visibility for the top keywords, but we also watch for all of the new or innovative ways we can integrate social media and community building features into our clients' sites.

With our many years of programming experience, combined with our extensive knowledge of Internet marketing and search engine optimization, we have the ability to build any type of feature you want into your website and tie in many different kinds of social media aspects into it in new and interesting ways.

The key to getting the most leads and members on your site is getting your site found out there
in as many places as possible, and social media word-of-mouth can be your greatest assistant toward that goal, if done correctly AND promoted properly.

Let me know if you are interested in adding any of these features to your site and I will work up a personalized quote for adding these features to your existing website, or for building a new website. Together we will get you the maximum amount of visibility and traffic you need.

Feel free to contact me directly for your customized quote today.
adam@icoastalnet.com