Thank you Facebook Fans –
all 3,284 of them!
Social media has become woven into the fabric of our lives enabling all of us to hear and be heard – Drew and Peter really appreciate the support and contributions from our fellow real estate agents on Facebook!
With you input WebRealEstateTools on Facebook is turning into a vibrant community that we are thrilled and totally excited to be part of.
But here's the thing – with so many Fans we couldn't help but notice the lack of Facebook Profile photos, what's up with that?
This graphic is from the Fan Badge at the bottom of our site.
So Mary, Grail, Jay, Barbara, Ron and Dahlia are you new to Facebook and haven't had time to upload a photo? Or are you just shy?
10 things to consider with profile photos on Facebook:
- Your photo is an essential part of your social media brand, use one!
- Use the same photo on all your social media profiles for maximum visibility.
- As a general rule it's best to display an image of you on your Facebook profile page and a logo on your Facebook Fan Page.
- Potential Facebook friends will know exactly who they are sending a friend request to – especially if you have a fairly common name.
- Well taken photo(s) add life, meaning and hopefully a glimpse of your personality to a profile.
- Never use an image with your arms crossed in front of you – it sends a bad psychological message, as in " Keep out, I'm not letting you in"
- If you are using your Facebook Profile page for business, please for goodness sake don't have the "drunken party photo's" in your Facebook albums with a beer bottle in your hand. Your potential clients are going to wonder if you are going to be sober in the morning (it's tacky at best).
- Why do some female real estate agents have large amounts of cleavage and some male Realtors sprawl in front of expensive sports cars – maybe this will work in Beverly Hills but where are you selling homes?
- You may have been cute as a child, but that's no reason to use a photo of you at age 4.
- Don't use provocative poses, if you are looking for a date go visit match.com.
BTW – what's up with the dude with the six pack, different way of marketing if he's a real estate agent!
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Forgive me please Facebook, for I have egg on my face :-(
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I tend to agree and disagree. I feel that it is a waste of time and energy to have two FB pages. One for you and one for work you, I have my personal FB page and I made a Fan Page.
On my personal page I just group my potential clients and set limits on what they can and cannot see on my page. It is very easy to pick and choose what each friend can see and have access to.
That being said, I have many party pictures on my page given that I am 25. And I have closed deals with my clients and gone out partying with them that night and posted the pictures later… they loved it.
“If you are using your Facebook Profile page for business, please for goodness sake don't have the "drunken party photo's" in your Facebook albums with a beer bottle in your hand. Your potential clients are going to wonder if you are going to be sober in the morning (it's tacky at best).”
- “Tacky at best” I take offense to that and assume you do not know how to control what each person can see on FB. Tacky to one person is awe-inspiring to another.
The point is… don't be someone you are not… particularly when it comes to social media.
http://www.valor-properties.com
If your potential clients are all party goers and love getting drunk with you, then you have found a niche, otherwise “beer bottles in your hand” will just limit your appeal to the majority of the home buying public …
Also… it would be a good idea to use a blog that allows the user to cut and paste text from word without any problems.
I just edited your last post to remove all the “Crap” MS Word puts in there.
Almost all comment systems are essentially an html page so you might want to review this post: One of the biggest mistakes bloggers make
Peter,
Thanks for the link. I will have to educate myself a little more.
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