As some of you may know, we sell custom posterous skins as part of our social media branding packages. We’ve been asked several times recently what Posterous is, and why it’s useful to a real estate agent — so we wanted to cover that topic here so we have a nice concise blog post to send future agents or brokers who ask us.
Q: What is Posterous?
A: Posterous is a blogging platform on the surface, but in my opinion, it’s more of a syndication platform than a blog since it’s best feature is updating your various social media accounts from a familiar interface that you already understand — your email inbox. For example, you can take a photo from your iPhone, attach it to an email and send it to twitter+fb@posterous.com, and that will instantly post the photo to both your Twitter and Facebook accounts with a link back to your posterous blog.
Q: How is It Useful to Real Estate Agents?
A: Two reasons: ease of use and conversion. First, Posterous simplifies social media by enabling you to control the posting process from your inbox – no apps required. Second, Posterous can help with conversion. Websites are great at conversion, but attracting traffic is hard. Social media is just the opposite — it’s easy to drive traffic via social media, but conversion is hard. A custom posterous skin aims to bridge that gap by bringing your social media traffic to a place that contains conversion tools. Two example skins are Ines’ Miamism posterous skin and the Doug Heddings’ TrueGotham skin. You’ll notice that the posterous skins look just like their respective websites with all the appropriate calls to action to convert traffic to leads. So whenever someone sees a photo, status update, link, etc on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, or any other social media channel and clicks through to the source – they land on a page WITH conversion tools built in.
If you want to learn and implement a cohesive social media strategy that can be executed primarily from your Smart phone using Posterous, please head over to Jim’s other company, YouReachMedia, and ask them about the services they offer.
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Thanks drew- good stuff. Also, here is a link to a post I recent wrote on tag strategies for agents on Posterous.
http://youreachmedia.posterous.com/tag-strategy-to-market-and-enhance-your-real
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[…] Before we get too far on this subject, there is a post over on Virtual Results that you should read prior to this — What is Posterous and How Is It Useful to a Real Estate Agent. […]
Drew –
Posterous syndicates to your social media but not to your website, right? Is it more for the statusphere then? And it would be for single photos, right? I was at a wedding shower and wanted to post a group of pictures together, but I didn’t know how.
Posterous won’t work for groups of photos (I’m pretty sure at least). Posterous can syndicate to your WordPress website if you want it to – WordPress is one of the services they connect to.
Our world is changing as well as people look for stuffs and mainly dependent to these great advancements and I believe blogs sites like Posterous will be a great tool to create awareness and tell the world your service and stuffs do exists.