Social Networking
With People From Near And Far
Through the Internet we can engage in social networking to connect and maintain contact with people we know but whom we are unable to see regularly. It also allows us to dramatically expand the people we know, if only in the world of cyberspace.
How Other People Can Help You
Establishing yourself as a real estate agent takes a lot of time. It’s hard work to develop and maintain your client base. Although there is no end to the work that must be done, there is no legal or moral requirement that you must do everything yourself. Certainly there are specific elements of buying and selling real estate that only licensed agents should perform. In training to qualify as an agent, you learned what these tasks are and what is required to complete them. Ensure that you or a qualified agent handle these ‘agent-only’ tasks. There is more work that can be done by non-licensed people than must be performed by agents. This means that not only can other people help you with your work, you should involve them as much as possible.
Help From Afar
The people you know represent your first choice as a source of help. Those folks you know well and see regularly are also your best choice for supporters. Helpful as these individuals will be, they are not the only people who are potentially helpful. You can also build your network of contacts using social networking features such as Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger YouTube or Face Book. The voice features allow you to chat as you would on a telephone, but without the long distance charges. If for example, you have a friend who lives in another part of the world, thanks to the Internet, he can help you just as much as your next-door neighbor. By exchanging emails and chatting online, you can discuss your business and marketing plans. Obviously, using the Internet to communicate is not limited to chatting with friends.
Friendly Strangers
At the time of preparing this material, a Google search of “real estate” generates almost 350 million hits. Most of these hits are useless, but many of the people behind these sites could be helpful. By visiting some sites you might see approaches that other people are using that you can adapt for your own purposes. Or perhaps you could email them with a specific question or request. Who knows, it might lead to an ongoing exchange of mutually beneficial advice and information. A Google search also identifies tens of millions of real estate oriented news groups and user groups. Regardless of your focus or interest, chances are good to excellent that you can find online groups of people who share the same interest as you. These groups can help you the same way that web sites can. You can learn lots just by monitoring the discussions. Or you can identify individual people with whom you can initiate and maintain contact. Certainly when you allow other people to help you with your business you dramatically expand the resources available to run your business. And by other folks performing some of your work you can concentrate on doing what you do best and get even better at it. Just as certainly, the Internet will help you identify and connect with more people who can help you. This is social networking at its best!
Starting Your Search for Helpful People
The easiest approach to social networking to find helpful people is to start small. Perhaps overly simplified, start by identifying 10 sites of people who might be helpful. In all probability these sites will refer you to other people who might also be helpful. And so your
social networking through the Internet
will go, searching for helpful people. As this process continues, you will identify more and more potentially helpful people, wherever they may be located.
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