{"id":17908,"date":"2011-08-24T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewm.com\/internalblog\/?p=17908"},"modified":"2011-08-24T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:50:06","slug":"the-secret-to-using-your-facebook-personal-profile-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=17908","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Using Your Facebook Personal Profile for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each of us has ~5,840 waking hours each year. Assuming we work on average 50 hours a week, we are spending 2,600 hours per year working.<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, work is a large part of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Many Realtors struggle with the issue on whether or not we should separate our personal presence on Facebook from our Business life.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth the effort, as Jay said, they are too interwoven.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I think we should take it one step further and \u201cfriend\u201d your clients.<\/p>\n<h2>Generate more Referrals<\/h2>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/next.inman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/List.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"List\" src=\"http:\/\/next.inman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/List.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you read automated canned emails?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I like taking a more proactive approach to \u201cstaying top of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how Facebook can help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect with as many clients as possible<\/li>\n<li>Add them to a Facebook List.<\/li>\n<li>Filter your News Feed to only show this list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your News Feed becomes a real time feed of client conversations.<\/p>\n<p>This is powerful.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t done this already, stop reading this post and go do this now.<\/p>\n<p>I have used this technique personally.\u00a0 I made a Facebook list of \u201cinfluencers\u201d and made a concerted effort to engage with these people as often as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, it works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/next.inman.com\/2011\/08\/the-secret-to-using-your-facebook-personal-profile-for-business\/\"><strong>For more tips click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of us has ~5,840 waking hours each year. Assuming we work on average 50 hours a week, we are spending 2,600 hours per year working. Like it or not, work is a large part of our lives. Many Realtors struggle with the issue on whether or not we should separate our personal presence on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[9,59,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}