Boy did I get up early
this morning, a lot of showings to schedule for our Cincinnati house-hunter
clients. Just have a lot of other work to get out of the way before making
those calls. I'm not even sure where some of these new Cincinnati home buyers
found us, but one did mention StumbleUpon.
A long time ago, and at
another brokerage, I did place a back-link on StumbleUpon to our real estate
website's home page. That's how this particular client found us. Lucky me, I
had put some tags in there, they helped the buyer find our Southern, Ohio real
estate site.
I had forgotten all
about this venue and its potential for posting about real estate in Cincinnati
and its suburbs. Not everyone Googles, a lot of house hunters have their
favorite forums for finding the right home. Facebook for example. Truth be
told, even though I manage our business Facebook page and advertise our client’s
homes for sale or market our Cincinnati community pages, I’m not all that
social on my personal page. I do answer questions about housing, talk with
buyers and sellers, and people wanting to find a good lease in the area.
I took a little break
from Facebook and uploaded all the Cincinnati suburbs we have pages for on our
site with direct links to their properties and listing information. Added some
other pages too, like our mortgage calculator, rent vs buy a home, best home
loans and first-time buyer. StumbleUpon is a lot easier than I remember.
So, I did a bunch of
posting and then checked the listings and discovered StumbleUpon lets home
buyers browse real estate on our website within StumbleUpon without having to
leave it. Pretty nifty I think:
I like the fact you can
go to town with real estate and community tags here too. I also started using
StumbleUpon as a place for curating real estate, housing and mortgage market
news for future real estate blog posts.
There’s a lot of great
places online for curating content, a lot of new forums you can find real
estate information and housing market news. If you’re an agent, you may want to
go back and visit some of your “golden-oldies”.
I’m not sure that
StumbleUpon can be classified as “social media”, though you can work the “likes”
and build an audience. But for real estate agents, whether you choose to get
social or not, it’s a great place for your community, housing and real estate
blog content.
What are some of your
favorite places to find real estate content and develop ideas? It’s so easy to
get in housing post rut on sites we typically use. I’m just glad a home buyer
stumbled upon our Cincinnati housing site and brought the venue back to my
attention.
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