{"id":634,"date":"2008-11-14T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfindevelop.wpengine.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/promoting_your_home_for_sale_on_twitter.html"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:08:45","slug":"promoting_your_home_for_sale_on_twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/promoting_your_home_for_sale_on_twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Your Home For Sale On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We think <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisahurt\">Lisa Hurt<\/a> is the first Redfin seller to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\/WA\/Bothell\/15604-111th-Ave-NE-98011\/home\/284144\">her home for sale in Bothell<\/a> with Twitter!<br \/>\nWhile Lisa is new to Twitter it&#8217;s exciting to see sellers using different online mechanisms to promote their listings. I definitely think that Twitter, especially if you have a decent number of followers, can be a great way to generate traffic to your listing.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t have a lot of followers yet? Check out Guy Kawasaki&#8217;s guide, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2008\/11\/looking-for-m-1.html\"> How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter<\/a>.<br \/>\nOr maybe you have a tech savvy friend who already does? Get them to Tweet your listing for you.<br \/>\nIf you do have some followers and your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/application.php?id=2231777543&amp;b\">Twitter and Facebook are already hooked up<\/a> here are some ideas on how to use Twitter to promote your listing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let your followers know when your listing hits the market\n<\/li>\n<li>Let your followers know when you hold an open house\n<\/li>\n<li>Let your followers know if you do a price reduction\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep followers up-to-date on how things are going. How many people came to your open house?\n<\/li>\n<li>Use a service like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\">bit.ly<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bitly\/status\/1004473474\">@bitly<\/a> thanks for helping us with bulk URLs!) to make the Redfin URLs shorter and Twitter friendly\n<\/li>\n<li>You could switch your profile background to a photo of your house or a screenshot of your home&#8217;s details page on Redfin\n<\/li>\n<li>Change your Twitter web link to your listing details page\n<\/li>\n<li>Link to your listing details page from your Twitter Bio\n<\/li>\n<li>Ask your followers for help moving once it sells! \ud83d\ude42\n<\/li>\n<li>Let us know at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/redfin\">@redfin<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you any other ideas on using Twitter for real estate?<br \/>\nYou can find Redfin on Twitter in a number of spots:<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/redfin\">Our company account<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgarty\">Rob<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/glennkelman\">Glenn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgoyer\">myself<\/a> and many more.<br \/>\nIf you have a question about selling your home ask in our <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.redfin.com\/rf\/board?board.id=sellers\">seller forums<\/a> and we&#8217;ll be happy to look into it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think Lisa Hurt is the first Redfin seller to promote her home for sale in Bothell with Twitter! 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