Over the course of the past week, I opened a twitter account for myself and my company, created a fan page for my real estate company, Gilliam & Associates Realty, and began using my linked-in account. Now today I opened a BlogSpot blog!
At this point, you may be impressed or you may be yawning, thinking, “Well it's about time you jumped on the bandwagon.” My brother, a DJ in Nashville, TN, has been doing all these things for years now. Of course, he is 6 years younger... 6 1/2... but who's counting anymore? He periodically sends me links for social media sites, which in the past I ignored. That is until I would talk to him and he would extol the virtues of whatever site it happened to be and promise me that it would be life changing, if I only would embrace the technology.
Fast forward to last week. My brother came to town unexpectedly for the funeral of a friend of the family. As we were standing in line waiting to express our condolences to the family, he proceeded to sell me on twitter. Keep in mind we were in line for 2 hours. By the time we left, I was promising I would sign up and commit. This commitment aspect was missing from all the other tech adventures he had talked me into in the past.
I figured, "how hard could it be... ?" I will give it one week. I will tweet away for one week and then when the week is done, I will see how my life has improved. I am a very social person by nature - most Realtors are; but, even so, tweeting does not come naturally to me. Does anyone really care what I am doing at any given time of day? ... Probably not. Fifteen years in sales has taught me most people care about one thing: “Is this about me?”
All of this leaves me wondering, “Am I social enough for social media?” What do I write in the status update bars on my linked-in, facebook, and twitter pages? I have been told by my brother and a friend, “Oh, you need to link them all together so that you only have to come up with one update.” That doesn't seem right. Do my high school/college friends and family want to see what I would write on linked-in, or vice versa? Do I tweet about the same things I would post on facebook? And now... what do I blog about? Expanded versions of my tweets? My facebook adventures? Or, something completely new?
What to do, what to do, what to do??? I am looking for advice - if you have any, please share! Oh, and thanks for reading, even if this is all about me : )
1 comment:
Great first post! I would definitely recommend against posting the same thing to Twitter and Facebook. Once Facebook changed to a real time stream I had friends telling me I was driving them crazy. I tweet much more than I update Facebook. As far as what to tweet, share your wealth of experience as a realtor for starters. Share useful links to things related to real estate and selling. And, give it more than a week. You've got a great writing style. People will find you.
Best wishes,
Gregg
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