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Half day course on using facebook as part of a real estate agent's online marketing
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Facebook for real estate- 541,261 reasons to be on it, (…and counting)!
- REIWA Learning, Mon 19th Oct 2009
Charlie Gunningham
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Charlie
Your name please!
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OBJECTIVES
3 things you want to get out of today?
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CAR PARK
things that may have to be handled later
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INTROs
- Me- Flavour - Demos- Order- Objectives
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AGENDA v1.0 9am-1pm:
_ What is FB? _ Building your FB profile & contacts _ FB Business Pages – how to use _ FB Ads – the most targetted adv’g possible _ FB policy – how to control it in your office _ Other social media, and conclusion
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AGENDA v2.0 9am-1pm:
_ Connect with clients/prospects _ Lower your ad costs _ Drive customer loyalty _ Brand yourself as tech savvy More Listings _ Motivate + empower staff More Sales _ Have some fun along the way _ Educate marketplace _ Listen + learn
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5 RULES
_ Suspend your disbelief! _ Think how this can be applied _ Try it out for real _ Let me know how you get on _ Don’t give up (most do)
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Ad Spend in Australia - 09/101. Takeaway Food …..….$3343m 2. Real Estate Agents ……...$1563m 3. Auto Industry ……….$997m4. Banks ……….$966m5. Supermarkets ……….$774m
Source: IBIS World Research, July 2009
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INTERNET USE – Globally/Australia
_ Created 1990, Web Sites 1994, Search 1998
_ Total World Pop (09) 6.7bn, Internet Users 1.7bn (25%)_ Aus: Pop 21mn, Net 17mn (81%) (user growth 156% since 2000)
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SOCIAL MEDIA in Aus (Jun09)
_ Facebook: 6mn visitors (+95% p.a.)
_ MySpace: 3.5mn (only +5%)
_ Twitter: 800,000 (up from 13,000)
_ 70%+ net users visited social netwks (+29%)
_ Twitter the fastest growing
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Facebook Stats
_ 540,000+ in Perth are on Facebook _ more over aged 40 (150k) than under 20 (143k)
It’s not a question of WHETHER, it’s a question of HOW you are there
(very similar to “The Internet” in 1999?)
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1960-2000
Golden Ageof Advertising
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Fragmentationof all media
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Demise of trad media
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Warren Buffett (May 2009)
“ I would not buy a newspaper stock at any price … their business model is over”
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If this is all true, then how do we use the new media?
… and what IS IT anyway?
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Let John Heileman explain…
‘Download’ _ Discovery Science _ doco 2008
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Chad Hurley, Cofounder, Youtube.com
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Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook
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Biz Stone, Founder, Twitter.com
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Advantages SOCIAL MEDIA
- Cheap! and fast/instant- Reach / Accessible- Can be updated/improved- Democratic (power to the little guy)- It involves your clients (directly)
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SOCIAL MEDIA – defined
Social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
incl blogs, youtube, facebook, twitter, flickr, slideshare, …
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Power that is SOCIAL MEDIA
- free- powerful- scares big media silly- elected a President?- not being used by your competitors (yet)
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“Markets are conversations”conversations among humans sound human
natural, uncontrived, honestpublic switch quickly
tell us something! (then we might speak to you)
business is only part of our lives, it’s all of yoursThe Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usualby Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David WeinbergerPub 1999 : read it for free at www.cluetrain.com
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“Markets are conversations”
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OK – back to the workbook
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_ What’s the social graph? _ How does FB make money? _ How many ppl are on FB in Perth? _ What’s the breakdown? _ How can we check this? _ Why go on FB? _ The Good, the Bad and the ugly…
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_ What are your concerns about FB?
Many are to do with privacy & time wastingDo you know how to change privacy settings?
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_ The Case of “Amba Friend” (BBC)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2068766.htm
Do you know how to change privacy settings?
Time Wasting – have a policy (see later)
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_ Your social media pages (FB, twitter…) can be found on Google _ this has an advantage, _ but don’t think it’s private (unless you set it so)
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http://www.facebook.com/gunningham
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EFFECTS
_ How many of you have been on FB past wk? _ How many of your friends? _ is it replacing email? _ How many new friends? _ is it more than connecting with friends? _ are more and more making comments, tagging, interacting on your page now?
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GETTING STARTED
_ Set up a personal profile (…what you put on it is up to you) _ Can also directly set up a business profile (but without personal profile, it’s less effective)
* DEMO
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_ Do you (are you going to) mix business with pleasure? _ keep your profile to friends only, or be the real estate agent you are (your friends know this)
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FRIENDING Policy
_ Do you friend everyone? (… and let then friend you?) _ WIIFT? _ Avoid the cringeworthy _ Go on and have a conversation, feel your way _ see how others do it, it’s got to feel right to you
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FB Groups vs FB Business Pages
_ Groups are like ‘clubs’ _ invite ‘members’ _ post info, events, photos, video… _ members then see changes everytime they are logged in (or are contacted)
BUT – Business Pages are better…
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FB Business Pages
_ Very much like a personal profile _ Everything available, very powerful _ it’s like having your own company web site within the FB community_ BUT – whoever sets it up CANNOT be deleted!
*DEMO
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FB Business Pages
_ What could you put on your page? _ and why?
(Imagine the REAL ESTATE applications here)
and the opportunities to connect, have a conversation, educate, brand yourself, positive PR, .. But there’s also opportunity to look foolish, and bug/spam people.
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FB Business Pages – ADDING FANS
_ make it interesting, fresh _ suggest fans _ link to it from emails, your web site _ use FB ads _ add a fanbox _ twitter, blog about your FB page _ interact on others, and make them favourites _ spread the word
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FACEBOOK Fan Box
Have your FBBusiness page
Update your site+ advertise FB page
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FREE FACEBOOK Business Page e-Book
by Peter Fletcher
TheRealEstateMarketingMaven.com
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FB Business Pages – Examples
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Pay per Click Ads
PAY PER CLICK (Facebook ads)
_ FREE for people to VIEW the ad _ You ONLY PAY of they CLICK on the ad (and then you get a visitor to your web site) _ cost 12c per 1000 views (CPM = $0.12) _ target to age ranges, geography _ turn them on and off when you like _ set a budget per click, and total daily spend (from as little as $1/day) _ can see results (graphs/tables)
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Google Adwords vs Facebook Ads
* DEMO
FB ads better?
- includes IMAGES- only 3 per page- can target ages and where people live
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Few relevant terms
_ CPM = _ CPC = _ CTR =
* DEMO
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FB Ads
_ How could you use these?
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_ We’ve seen how big it is _ We’ve seen the options (personal profile, business pages and PPC ads)
NOW – you need to rationalise its use, persuade others, and do it. You need a policy.
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Facebook - POLICY
_ what are the rules going to be?
bit like your internet surfing rules, use of company telephone, equipment, mobile…?)
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OTHER Social Media
_ it all works best, if used together
_ link FB to Twitter( www.facebook.com/twitter )
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Benefits of FB
_ those listed – any others?
Applications of FB
_ those listed – any others?
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FB – on mobile devices
_ iphones, blackberrys and others come with it _ you can download free FB apps _ meaning you can upload pix to FB pages, update your profile, all on the go…
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Conclusions from today
_ what are they - for you?
Take-Aways from today
_ what are you going to do about this … as of tomorrow?
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FACEBOOK for real estate
- 5 Tipshttp://mashable.com/2009/04/01/optimize-facebook-page/
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[email protected] 0411 092 669 or 9389 5833 follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more tips and ideas and Peter Fletcher’s excellent blog: www.therealestatemarketingmaven.com