listing on social media
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Todd Carpenter's presentation slides from the 2012 Multiple Listing Issues and Policies Committee/Multiple Listing Service Forum at the REALTORS® Conference & Expo asks the question, "Do IDX listings belong on Social Media?"TRANSCRIPT
Listing On Social Media
Todd Carpenter, Sr. Manager of Industry Engagement@tcar on Twitter | [email protected]
So many people…
1,000,000,000Active monthly Facebook users
And everyone is talking to everyone…
The question you’ve been trying to answer…
How can we structure our IDX policyto allow for display on social media.
The question you’ve been trying to answer…
How can we structure our IDX policyto allow for display on social media.
The question you might want to answer first…
Do IDX listings belong on social media?
Just My Opinion…
Nobody buys ANYTHING on Facebook.
Do you shop for anything on Facebook?
“I asked my daughter, who is a freshman in college, she responded: No. And no."- Jim Duncan
“Never even crossed my mind....”- Jay Thompson
“the only time I would go to Facebook.com to buy something is for Facebook ads”- Katie Lance
“The closest I came to buying something was an ad for a new record for a band I liked. And then I researched/bought it on iTunes.”- Nobu Hata
Sears practically invented mail order…
You can furnish your whole house at Ikea…
Can you apply for a loan on BoA’s page?
Trading stocks on Facebook? Not with Chuck.
32 million likes… no lattes
Seems like selling on Facebook would be easy.
Book a flight on Delta’s page? Not any more.
People don’t trust Facebook storefronts
And then there’s those dang privacy notifications…
It’s not you… it’s Facebook
Hurricane Sandy Coverage
Sandy Gangnam Style
Political graffiti on Facebook
Biggest Olympic story on Facebook
Just My Opinion…
People use Google to find things.People use Facebook to find people.
Just My Opinion…
Listings are things.REALTORS® are people.
If you were going to buy a book..
If you were going to buy music…
If you were going to buy a car…
If you were going to buy a house…
?
We’re all a bit biased…
?
What NAR’s 2012 PHBS says…
Brands give F-Commerce an “F”
“Essentially, F-commerce only gets an “F” because brands used Facebook as yet another digital catalog for selling products and not as a platform for activating new experiences based on the nature and the psychology of the relationships that define the network.”
-Brian Solis, Social Media Consultant
You can succeed on Facebook
How Facebook ranks stuff
Facebook has their own agenda…
How the Tech Savvy YPN’ers do it
Hey, I could be wrong…
