Social Media: Fans, Tweeps and tinyurl’s

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I’ve really become quite fascinated with “Social Networking” and I’ve been learning everything I possibly can.  I think I’m going to schedule a webinar for you to show you some of the great (and free) ways to use these tools to grow your business, but today I just wanted to give you a quick crash-course/to-do list so you’re ready before the webinar.

First: Go to twitter.com and register, preferably with your name.  That way your link will be www.twitter.com/yourname.  Upload your picture, put the link back to your page, write a short 1 sentence bio. that’s it.  you’re done.  Now go find some of your friends and colleagues that are already on twitter and start following them.  Ok, that’s it for twitter right now.

Second:  Go to facebook.com and register, preferably with your name.  Upload your picture and fill out the bio information that you want.  Right off the bat, you might want to join some “groups” such as your college alumni association, or your local Realtor association.  Search for friends and colleagues that are already on facebook and invite them to be your friend.  You can also send a friend invitation to people NOT already on facebook, but be careful, if you invite your whole contacts list and someone replies to facebook that they don’t know you, you might be banned or your account restricted (by the way, thanks to whoever said that they didn’t know me after I invited them!)

Third: Go to YouTube.com and register.  You’ll see why later. For now, just do it.

And of course, if you haven’t done so already, go to ActiveRain right now and join.  This is a social network JUST for the real estate industry.  It also has tools to reach the consumer, so just Click Here right now and register.
More to follow on what to DO with all of these places!