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I'm curious if any of you have been successful in generating real estate leads using Twitter. I use Twitter primarily to connect with people I may know or thought leaders in various industries, but don't really consider it a place where you'd go to find leads as a real estate investor, agent, etc.

Has anyone found it to be a successful platform for generating leads? If so, what is your Twitter strategy?

I have connected with a lot of rehabbers, flippers, and wholesalers, all of them thanking me for either following them, or vice versa. but I have yet to see a deal come of it.
So I just us it to stay connected with them, in hopes that it will produce something.

I agree with Josh, I actually have several different twitter accounts, and it gets almost daunting at some points... trying to keep a check on who is talking...

Recently, I've been using twitter to generate leads on good tenants and trying to increase my 'PM' brand recognition for a specific area.

I will say it is working, as I monitor web traffic. I would still say CL delivers the most traffic / word of mouth / buzz for my time invested. I still like twitter as it adds to the overall value of the business. I plan to expand in the technical arena with time, however, time always seems limited. I still need to get my server functioning properly, and add Php / mysql functionality...

I've been ignoring the big fat face book. And for no reason really... other than lack of time :D

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MC

I agree Josh-I have probably watered down by the shear number of folks I am connected to on Twitter and it sometimes seems like a lot of noise. I am thinking like Lacore and will see if I can make something from it some day. I have notices that most of our followers are in the real estate and finance industries, so I am sure there are some good connections there.
I have had much better luck on FB as well but, more so with my personal page than my fan page so far. When I first got going with FB it allowed me to re connect with all of my class mates, long lost friends, family and biz associates, in one place in a ways that you just can't do on Twitter. You can actually see what people are up to on FB and get a glimpse at their lives. I know all of my FB friends, and have no clue who most of my peeps are on Twitter. Like I said, I am using it mostly for research even though I do give a shout out from there once in a while. I am tracking some web traffic from there.

Besides it being the social media de juor, what is the difference between facebbok and twitter? I understand the mechanics of each but what are the pros and cons?

BTW, I don't do either. My list of social media sites includes one site. BP!

I'll bet FB is better. I'm not sure why I dislike it so much... I should definitely be promoting there versus twitter, at least for the time being. Facebook seems like more of a friend network, and I always dismiss the opportunity for marketing due to the fact that I'm annoyed by them, and their marketing.

I have had great luck with finding persons who are looking to make connections with me for a number of real estate related topics. This is international and national alike. LinkedIn is also a great place to find people as well.
Also I had recently found this site.. www.helpmerentmagazine.com Don't know much about it but I like what I see as far as them being able to create leads for people that aren't associated with Twitter or engaged in the social side of things.

Josh,

I think your right on. Facebook is powerful, I have yet to find Twitter's usefulness but I am still evolving with it. I have a FB profile dedicated solely to RE people and have done many deals with people I have met there. Also people who find me there have told me they found BP because they found me on FB, googled me and found my BP profile!