​​5 Social media sites that will help grow your real estate business.

5 Social media sites that will help grow your real estate business.

1. BiggerPockets.

This one is pretty obvious. A quick look at the BiggerPockets stat page shows that BiggerPockets has 309,424 people, 7,825 companies,1,328,859 forum posts, 849 articles, 3,775 blogs and 175 new members today.  BiggerPockets is were real estate investors go to learn, discuss, network, and do all things real estate.

2. Facebook.

Facebook is the largest social media site on the planet. With over 1.44 billion active users you would need to live under a rock to be unaware of the reach that Facebook has.

3. Twitter.

Twitter has 302 million active users. According to Forbes' research and surveys Twitter is the go-to platform choice among salespeople when it came to sales prospecting.

4. LinkedIn.

LinkedIn has 364 million active users. Unlike Twitter and Facebook LinkedIn is a business oriented site. It is available in 24 languages and more than 200 countries and territories.

5. YouTube.

Just like Facebook you would need to live under a rock to be unaware of the reach that YouTube has. A quick look at the YouTube stat page shows the following.

-YouTube has more than 1 billion users-               

-Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views-

-The number of hours people are watching on YouTube each month is up 50% year over year-

-300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute-

-60% of a creator’s views comes from outside their home country-

-YouTube is localized in 75 countries and available in 61 languages-

-Half of YouTube views are on mobile devices-

-Mobile revenue on YouTube is up over 100% y/y-

About the author:

James Wise is the Broker and Owner of The Holton Wise Property Group, a real estate brokerage and property management company operating in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area.