Facebook is the New Coffee Shop!

In 2004 the 22 year old founder of Facebook famously turned down a $1 Billion offer for Facebook. That’s right – a 22 year old kid said thanks but no thanks to a billion dollars.

Nuts!

Turns out he was right. He’s now worth $2 billion plus and he presides over a social network that has over 350 million users and shows no sign of slowing down.

(In case you’re wondering, his name is Mark Zuckerberg.)

The most impressive thing about Facebook is not just its size. What’s just as impressive is the amount of time people spend on Facebook each month – over 6 hours and 30 minutes.

The bottom line is that your clients are on Facebook right now. It’s the new coffee shop and a place where people hang out.

So that’s my simple message for you today – the reason you need to use Facebook is because that’s where you’ll find your next client. You need to think of every new Facebook “friend” as a prospect just waiting to do business with you.

And it’s free! No direct mail costs, no postage, no printer ink! Just open an account and start meeting prospects in your local farm area.

Just as exciting is the trend that tells us that people on Facebook use the site to get recommendations for everything in their life. They ask their friends to recommend service providers like dentists, plumbers and Realtors. If you want to get new business you better make sure people are talking about you online – and saying good things.

That’s the 30-second run down on Facebook for real estate professionals. I’m not going to bombard you with stats because we’ve simply reached the moot point where Facebook is here to stay and it’s going to dominate how you find new online clients.

If it didn’t work the first time you need to get back online and try that Facebook “thing” again.

About Ross Hair

Ross Hair is the baldest man in real estate, a huge fan of social media and founder of Social Media Marketing Camp.

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