Comments on: Does Social Media Really Work For Agents and Advisors?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:41 +0000

Great comment Robert.

By: robert browning

robert browning — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:52:20 +0000

Good Discussion,

In my social marketing marketing practice, I talk to a lot of agents…One point not mentioned here is that the goal in social media marketing is to get your friends and fans off of your social networks and onto your marketing funnel after you have first added value on the particular social network.!.

Redirect the conversation to your web 20 website or blog. Having high value content offers can accomplish this. Your goal is to build your number asset which is your email list!…

Use email marketing to further build the relationship. I use an email auto responder that also makes adding audio or video to your emails, website, blog post and social sites easy. See signature for info…But, audio, video help personalize who you are and lead to new appointments…

If you do not have offers yet, think about inviting experts to speak on topics that can help your target audience. This can be a Teleseminar, webinar, a blog post or just record a telephone interview and save it as an mp3…

Robert Browning
marketingrepairshop@gmail.com
http://www.attainresponseplans.com

By: John Torrence

John Torrence — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:28:42 +0000

This was good for me to read. Being an old school agent using only mail and cold calling to get leads, I deserve to get on the web and learn how to use Facebook, my kids and grandkids have been begging me to get myself on there, and twitter, to not only promote myself, but to keep up with family and friends. I always enjoy reading your blog. Thanks again.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:27:14 +0000

Going viral can be very smart, but you need a “reason why” to go viral. In other words … do you have a really neat video or report to build up your facebook account.

You can do it by putting a video up on You Tube and getting views, and including the URL so people click to your site and you can ask them to join you on Facebook.

Or, even better, is to work with a Partner who you can add value to their clients and get them to send out a free report and part of that process is to get them to join your facebook account.

By: Mike Coleman

Mike Coleman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:32:34 +0000

Facebook is a great way for me to keep up with existing clients and it gives them one more way to stay in touch with me.

By: Rob Loewen

Rob Loewen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:51:28 +0000

Ethan,what about using viral marketing to create your following on face book?
I don’t tweet.
So would you go viral?

By: Jet

Jet — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:45:15 +0000

yes, connection is very important so people will know your business, and how people can benefit from you.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:29:33 +0000

Good point. I am glad to hear social media is working for you. Face to face is still essential to build a strong relationship quickly and close at at higher ratio.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Ethan

By: T.A. Swain

T.A. Swain — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:52 +0000

FB, Twitter, & LinkedIn have been good to me. It’s still important, from my experience, to have face to face time. The connections are easier to make online because a much broader group with similar interests tend to congregate and divulge talking points that can be used in conversation once you finally meet them in person.