by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
We learned that we are not alone, yesterday. It might do us all some good to look outside our little world to see how other small businesses are using technology and new media. You’ll recall that I started tweeting rates about a month ago.
It is in this spirit that I offer you a series of articles, written by Jennifer Laycock on Search Engine Guide:
If you’re just joining the series, make sure to go back and read part one where I gave step by step directions on getting your Twitter account up and running, part two where I explain how to send messages and take advantage of the Twitter follow/followers system and part three where I explained how Twitter can help you meet new people. In part four, I looked at the traffic potential of Twitter and explained the value of retweets in making a link go viral.
Greg, I’d like to include her series in the Odysseus Competition.
Ken Smith says:
I just don’t get twitter. Why would you want to share with anyone and everyone your every move. Some people are really obsessed with this and send messages about everything they do during the day, like I care that you are walking into a coffee shop, or getting your hair done, or any of the other stupid crap people twitter.
On the flip side there are some business applications that might make sense. Just doesn’t seem like something that anyone needs sent to their phone the second you decide to post it. Guess I just don’t really get it or more accurately I don’t care to get it.
February 24, 2008 — 3:22 pm
Mike Brown says:
I started a twitter account just to see what it was a couple of months ago. I made a post or two and forgot about it. Recently I was checking my back-links and found these two post I made at twitter were still floating around cyberspace. You are not going to rank #1 overnight for the term ” Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World ” because you use Twitter, but every little bit helps!
February 24, 2008 — 3:39 pm
Brian Brady says:
Ken,
I think you need to read the series. I didn’t get it either until about 6 weeks ago.
February 24, 2008 — 3:42 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
My one problem with Twitter is that – to me at least – it is a way to have public, IM style conversations with people. And having conversations going on with 10 or 20 different people all at once was exhausting.
Threading would help. Anyone know of a TwitApp to thread conversations?
If you use Twitter to simply broadcast information, rather than feeling an obligation to respond to everyone that follows and @s you, you’ll burn considerably less time and energy.
Godin and Kawasaki seem to do it that way, with no loss in stature. 🙂
February 25, 2008 — 5:26 am
Brad Coy says:
FWIW – Seth does not use twitter as mentioned in the article. A common misconception he addressed recently http://urltea.com/2shj
Guy Kawasaki until recently had a couple of his sights fed to twitter using twitterfeed with the occasional tweet response. Now he seems to engage regularly with most everyone connected with him.
I see twitter used at different capacities all the time. There are no hard line rules and that’s what people like about using it. Chris Brogan recently posed a great analogy in calling Social Networks the Local Pub. If you think of the conversations that happen in the Pub in those terms, there in lies the variety; casual, serious, business, and play, both bellied up and noisy at the bar and hushed at a candlelit table.
February 26, 2008 — 3:38 am