10
Aug
Estate agents, are social networks replacing email?
People
now use social networking more than ever. In fact social networking
has been in the news enough times that some estate agents might be
slightly tired hearing about it, whether you are or not, social networking is here to say.
Now social networking is being used more than email. If that is true, is it possible that
email will be taken over by social networks? Discussing social
networking, Troy Stanley CTO of Resource Techniques believes that
is it is possible.
'More and more people now use social networking. One main reason
for this is that users are interacting with known contacts or
friends, and they are therefore trustworthy. Whereas email is
subject to spam but scammers saying that 'you have won the
lottery'.
Going in-depth, Troy Stanley stated 'Email is great for initial
contact, file transfer, official communication, and creating email
campaigns and social networking is great for personal
communication, link sharing, branding and expanding your online
presence.'
'Integrating or replacing email is possible, if social
networking add functions like file transfer, but everyone would
have to be on the same social network or have a universal profile,
without this, it's very unlikely.'
Troy Stanley continues 'A recent report by Ofcom stated that UK
users spend six hours a month of their own time on Facebook and
Twitter's audience in the UK has grown to 2.6 million users. With
such a large increase in usage and users, estate agents cannot
ignore social networks for much longer.'
Resource Techniques provides expert advice on estate agents
looking to create a social networking profile and an online
marketing strategy. For alternate advice on improving your web
design for estate agents, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or a free assessment and web review on your estate agent website, contact Troy
Stanley CTO Resource Techniques or visit our contact page.
If you liked this article, consider if you have a social
networking illusion in our Resource Techniques article, 'Estate agent's social networking illusion'.
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