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Daily Real Estate News | August 19, 2010 | 7 Ways to Increase Your Twitter Followers
Having engaging content on Twitter will mean little for a real estate sales associate or other professional who does not have a large following on the social media site. The bottom line is that the more people a practitioner follows, the more followers he or she will have as well.

To build mutually beneficial relationships, it is best to follow people with similar interests -- industry insiders or community leaders, for example. Another effective way to cultivate a big following is to use hashtags, like #realestate, in searches and to add appropriate hashtags to tweets so that they appear in those Twitter streams, thus improving the odds of being re-tweeted.

Having followers re-tweet their content should be an objective of the agent, as this is comparable to an endorsement. The best way to accomplish this is by re-tweeting others, ideally three to five posts daily.

Repeating especially worthy content two to three times a day for two to three consecutive days is yet another strategy.

Sales associates should also ensure that their Twitter profiles are part of their e-mail addresses, other social media site profiles, e-mail signature, and blog. It also should appear in a prominent place on their home pages.

Source: Inman News, Katie Lance (08/18/10)

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