Did you know that you can now use Facebook to 'Like' a property that you find on
Rightmove? Press the Like button on any property details page and your
endorsement of that property will be visible to all of your Facebook friends.
Why would someone want to do that you may ask? It may be fine for hundreds of
people to Like a handbag, but not a house! If they like it that much, why aren't
they buying or renting the place?
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Smashing Magazine\nSmashing Magazine Smashing Network Multivariate Testing in Action: Five Simple Steps to Increase Conversion Rates\nBy Paras ChopraNovember 24th, 2010\nDesign24 CommentsPublishing Policy.Advertisement\nThe attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game. Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab a visitor's attention has decreased significantly (in 2002, the BBC reported it is about 9 seconds1). Picture yourself browsing the Web: do you go out of your way to read the text, look at all the graphics, and try to thoroughly understand what the page is about? The answer is most likely to be a straight "no." With bombardment of information from all around, we have become spoiled kids, not paying enough attention to what a Web page wants to tell us.\n\n
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The automated Like text that is posted when you Like a property includes the name of the selling agent. If you assume (rather safely) that many people's Facebook friends live in the same area as them, a Like for a property on Facebook can create a small bit of brand exposure to other potential customers in your area. Apply the same logic to this as you would to someone seeing lots of your boards close to where they live and you can see the value.
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It's also potentially very useful from a PR perspective. In the same way as getting those palatial places into Country Life and The Sunday Times has helped agents to gain exposure, Facebook can help to do the same. Case in point is this 22 bedroom property through Hamptons, which has attracted 651 Likes to date:
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