The Friday Five for January 6th

Happy New Year Everyone. If you have been away or taken some time off, welcome back. It’s time to get back to work so I hope you will ramp up your social media endeavours. Here are the five essential finds for the week. Enjoy.

By now you are writing a blog post every week, right? Writing a blog is one thing, but you need people to read it to. The best way is to capture a person’s interest with really good headlines, so here are a few tips.

http://smartonlinesuccess.com/mind-blowing-headlines

Wondering what will happen to Social Media in 2012? I do. Here is one person’s opinion. I think there are some great pionts here. Thanks to @ jsncafe for sharing.

http://socialmediatoday.com/jsncafe/418461/social-media-what-expect-2012?ref=popular_posts

I’m always giving suggestions about what to post on your social media sites so today I’m passing along this article on what NOT to post. Enjoy. Thanks to @jeffbullas

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/03/21/30-things-you-should-not-share-on-social-media

I don’t know if I like this site because of their name ‘duct tape marketing’ but regardless, there are some great posts on Social Media including this one.

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2012/01/05/how-to-sell-anything-using-social-media

Some good real estate predictions from NAR. I especially like the line that “competance in Social Media will be the norm”. It got me wondering what will happen to those agents who aren’t using social media.

http://speakingofrealestate.blogs.realtor.org/2011/12/29/real-estate-industry-predictions-for-2012

Have an awesome week!

Mark McLean