DomsNetwork has just launched a new Twitter real estate
listing tool that is feature rich; and, best yet, its completely FREE. It dwarfs ANY competitor, including Tweetlister.

Love for you to critique it. Find it at: http://domsestates.com.

Dominic

1- “Just pumping out listings” may not be a bad thing if that’s what your follower is looking for. We have been very successful in “just pumping out listings” via twice weekly email blasts. The only caveat is that the listings are always very good deals and we only send 2 homes per message.

2- Don’t discount the effectiveness of tweeting listings in a very factual manner. IMO- internet home shoppers are turned off quickly by realtorspeak and smarmy hyperbabble. Just the facts works.

Be creative with your tweets. Use compelling headlines like the newspapers do to create attention.

I think this service is for the lazy agent. As an agent you have been given the job to market the home the best way you can. Use your creativity within your tweets.

If you don’t believe me do some split testing & try the boring tweets. Then try some creative ones & see which ones you get the most click thru rate on. I know which one will win every time.

If you want to measure your conversions use tr.im, bit.ly or budurl.

PS: Keep in mind your strategy for uploading your listings onto Twitter is to ‘Sell the Click’ not the property.

‘Sell the Click’ first and once they gone over to your website, blog or individual property website, etc that’s when you’ve got them looking exclusively at your listing & your real estate company. Before then just ‘Sell the Click’

To learn more, click here…just kidding. I hope this helps. Cheers Greg

You do bring up a good point regarding indexing and I agree with you that it is important but it is just not the way I personally would use Twitter. Doesn’t mean I’m right and you’re wrong. It just means I feel the interaction is the key to social media not just the information.

John,

Our twitter handles are on the side of the comments. If my point was lost in translations, I apologize. What I was trying to say is that if someone new to Twitter was only pumping these canned listings (daily, weekly, monthly) and that was all that was in their stream, I’d be reluctant to follow them or keep following them. If they had interaction within these particular tweets, I would not see an issue.

Derek
@doverbey

What’s ironic is that several of you have said you would unfollow someone who pumps out listings only and doesn’t have any relevant content. In looking at the author’s post (no disrespect niknik – you’re the only one who left a Twitter account here), how many of your 4600+ followers do you honestly feel would say that your past 20 tweets are relevant to them? For that matter, how many of those 4600+ followers are truly followers?

I think that’s the big problem with Twitter. Everyone thinks people see what you write. Only your closest network of followers are probably really tracking what you say, and I agree, you don’t want to piss them off…so probably best not to pump those listings in their face, but let’s be honest….if you’re only on Twitter to pump listings, you’re probably in the wrong place anyway.

Again, I personally don’t see how many

Now you’re probably saying what would the value of posting your listings to an empty Twitter account be? That’s where everyone is missing the point, big time. Once a tweet gets into Twitter, it’s archived and it’s available from search.twitter.com and TweetLister’s own search engine…and what that does is allows ANYONE on the Internet who’s searching for rental or sales properties to potentially find your listing.

Why do you list properties on multiple sites all over the Internet? The goal here should be the same. If you’re worried about your followers, create a 2nd account with no followers. The key is not to have your postings appear daily to your 1000s of followers who probably don’t read much of their daily timeline, but rather get that listing into Twitter. Get indexed. Get that listing available by search. That, and that alone, should be the key to getting your listings on Twitter or any other service…so that potentially, you’ll find a buyer or renter! (I’ve seen many Tweeple with 1000s of followers and can’t possibly imagine anyone taking much notice of a few listings here or there amongst other possibly useless information).

If brokers start to look at the utility of a tool like this with that mindset, I think you’ll find TweetLister is a great tool to accomplish just that. If has nothing to do with who’s using Twitter…it has everything to do with who’s finding that listing – whether it appears on Realtor.com or TweetLister.com. Oh and fyi, every time you post on TweetLister.com, looks like you’re getting a free backlink to whatever site you link your listing to for details. That alone could be worth taking the minute or so to post a listing on TweetLister in my mind.