SWIFT Real Estate Group is hosting a Halloween home decorating contest on Facebook!

You can enter by visiting their Facebook page and following the steps.

The prize is a $100 Pottery Barn gift card.

It’s easy to think that all social media campaigns are successful almost immediately, but sadly they aren’t. Not unless you happen to end up with a genius viral video or you’re pretty darn famous and let’s face it… that’s not very likely to happen meaning that you have to work at your campaign in order to find success. You need to nurture your platforms just as you would a child.

Here are a few tips that will help you, over time, achieve success through social media:

☑ Log onto your social media platforms daily, update, engage with others all while creating a unique strategy.

☑ Find out what your competitors are not doing and do that.

☑ Be where your target audience is and engage with them, not as a salesperson, but rather as an acquaintance.

☑ Be social, not promotional.

☑ Don’t give up. If things don’t appear to … Read More »

We are often asked how we are able to manage as many social profiles as we do for all of our clients. We use quite a few apps that help us monitor, manage, listen and update different social platforms allowing us the ability to quickly and efficiently take care of business. Here are two of our favorite applications:

Facebook Pages for iPad

Why we love this app: The minute someone interacts with a page we manage we are notified making our response time quicker than most.

Echofon for iPad

Just like the Facebook pages app, Echofon allows us to monitor and manage all Twitter accounts making it easy for us to switch between accounts keeping our response time low.

We are always on the lookout for apps that allow us to keep our campaigns social, just as they should be!

What apps do you use to … Read More »