Twitter is the real deal when it comes to effective online tools for small businesses. “If you don’t know, now you know.”
With so many people unwilling to proclaim this same sentiment when it comes to Twitter, you may want to know how I’m so sure. Well, first, it’s just my opinion, but with that said, my opinion is based on certain facts. One of the biggest indicators for me, that Twitter is the real deal, is the fact that there are so many businesses being built around the use of Twitter. When there are other companies who bet their business success on your business, then it’s safe to say you’ve arrived. Now, whether you flourish from here, is another story.
Their are already numerous add-on tools for Twitter out there and sure to be more to come. The online tool I want to highlight in today’s post is a tool for Real Estate Agents, Brokers, and Real Estate Investors – TweetLister.
TweetLister is a free online tool focused on helping real estate agents, brokers, and investors list their properties & display them on Twitter. Users can easily create, post, & manage Twitter listings. The main property types listed on TweetLister are:
- Residential
- Commercial
- Vacation Rentals
- Land
TweetLister allows you to add a lot of information about your listing and organizes it in a way that makes reviewing that information very easy for possible buyers. Some of the things you can list about your property, besides the standard things like, price, square footage, # of bedrooms/bathrooms are:
- 5 photos
- Map
- Mortgage Calculator
- Open house information
If you’re in the real estate game and you want to reach a larger audience for your listings, I’d suggest signing up for Twitter if you haven’t already and then signing up for TweetLister.
TweetLister is among the many tools that’s changing the real estate game for Agents, Brokers, & Investors. With that said, tools like TweetLister are empowering more and more homeowners as well. Homeowners now have a tougher decision to make when it comes to selling their home since doing it themselves is becoming a more viable option these days. A few years ago, if you wanted to sell your home, you’d contact an agent. Today, with a little time spent learning what’s involved in the process and learning what online tools are available to you, selling your home without an agent is becoming easier.
Keeping the above in mind, all of you real estate agents out there should be aware of this change, and should figure out how to make yourselves more valuable to customers. This way customers will still come to you to sell their home instead of doing it themselves.
Industries evolving is an ongoing cycle as technology advances. Today we’re focusing on real estate tools, but it applies to almost any industry. How are online tools changing your industry? AND what are you doing to change along with it?
I am not sure I share the same level of excitement as you do about tweetlister. I am an agent and while I embraced twitter from the onset, tweetlister was less desirable for me. Maybe it’s because it crashed twice as I was adding a listing. Maybe it’s because I am not too happy that it caters to both agents and for sale by owners. Maybe it’s because it’s another system I have to maintain. I agree with you. They are on to something and I will roll with it for my clients sake. Exposure is exposure and as the number of twitter users increases monthly, the importance of tweetlister will grow as the first listing service for twitter users who have property for sale and want to advertise it not only to there followers but for people who are searching in general. Only time will tell.
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I understand your opinion. I run into this all the time. When new tools are created and used, something within the target industry changes. In this case, TweetLister opens the door for more owners to list their properties without an agent. You can look at this as a negative OR as I said in the post, you can figure out how to evolve your own business so that you can take advantage of it. Perhaps you can become an expert in TweetLister and start a side consulting business for property owners – coaching them on how to use it. Just thinking out loud…
As for the platform crashing, that’s unfortunate. All new technologies have bugs, so hopefully TweetLister is aware of this and they’re working on a solution. Sometimes people are so eager to get the new software out, that they haven’t fully tested it yet. There are pros and cons to this approach. Either way, as you said, I think TweetLister is onto something. Now we just have to figure out a way to make it work for us.
Thanks for the comment!
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I wanted to point out a new service from TweetLister. It’s called Propertybot, and it allows you to: Get Targeted Real Estate Listings Sent to You on Twitter – Just by Sending a Direct Message. You can find it at http://www.twitter.com/propertybot.
The help page with all the commands is at http://tweetlister.com/propertybot.aspx.
Hope you find this useful!