If you are like a lot of real estate agents, all this talk about Social Networking gives you a headache.

If you are like a lot of real estate agents, all this talk about Social Networking gives you a headache. You cant open a real estate industry magazine without hearing that merely having a static website is not enough anymore and it is all about building relationships through networks.  But, it is all a little overwhelming. Between MySpace, Friendster, Tribe, Jibber Jobber and 100s of others, where do you start? 

This week I have taken a number of training classes from Mary McKnight of RSSPieces on building your business and generating leads through Social Networking. I love Mary! For one, she doesn’t speak Geekeze. She explains the workings of cyberspace in language any human can understand. And two, she is extremely knowledgeable, down to earth and fun to listen to.

Mary explained that spending hours a day on these networks commenting on posts is not the important thing, but having a profile on various social networks and building backlinks to your blog and website is important. Search engines think your are more important if there are more incoming links to your sites. Below are Marys Top 5 Social Networks she recommends we all belong to:

1. Active Rain
This is a network of 60,000+ real estate professionals discussing current happenings in our industry.

2. LinkedIn
Focusing on business networking.

3. FaceBook
Originally a network for college students, but ahe evolved to anyone with an email address.

4. WannaNetwork
Real estate specific networking. Not as large as Active Rain.

5. Zolve.com
Also for real estate professionals.

If you are thinking I dont have the time or the desire to deal with all this Internet stuff, I just want to be out there selling real estate. Thats what real estate Virtual Assistants are for! Give me a call. I am glad to take care of it for you! You can reach me at 757-271-6047, ruthann@myreassistant.com or www.MyREassistant.com.