Ken Horst

Metropolitan Financial Mortgage Company, a Minnesota mortgage company, launched it's new web site today which is a real upgrade from what they had. The previous site lacked good content for Minnesota home buyers or people looking to refinance. The new site offers free reports including;

• 20 Ways to Sell Your Home Faster and for More Money

• Adding Up the Impact of Your Credit Score

• Credit Basics

• Glossary of mortgage terms

The companies new domain name is Minnesota mortgage company which should bode well for some of the keywords they are trying to get ranked for.

Congratulations to Ron Wellbaum and the crew at Metropolitan Financial Mortgage!!

TweetMeHomes is a new service that instantly delivers homes for sale and real estate to home shoppers using Twitter. We've currently set up 40 major metro areas and made it super easy to subscribe. You will get instant notification of any new homes for sale on your twitter account or as a text message on your cell phone. Each Tweet Me Homes city page also links to a corresponding page which provides access to MLS listings in the same area.

For the Home Buyer

It couldn't be easier! Create an account on Twitter, visit TweetMeHomes, find and subscribe to the desired city or metro area, and have new homes for sale automatically sent to your Twitter account or cell phone as a text message via Twitter.

For the Real Estate Agent & Realtor

While Tweet Me Homes is in beta, we are currently tweeting thousands of real estate listings and homes for sale across the top 40 metro areas and we are adding new cities and metro areas every day. Real estate agents will soon be able to submit their individual listings through Agentopolis and local, regional and national brokers can mass submit listings through RSS or XML feeds.

The initial feedback we are getting is that this is a great new real estate marketing tool that makes it easy for Realtors to connect with home buyers where they live on the Internet. A recent article show the tremendous growth in social media use and surprisingly, it's not just the younger generation.

Contact Ken Horst for more info at 612-251-8237.

Follow us on Twitter @tweetmehomes

I recently created a short video to show how to use Twitter to follow real estate listings in your local area. Tweet Me Homes, a new real estate marketing site, is currently in beta and has home tweets available in the top 40 metro areas in the US. Follow this link to watch video http://www.screencast.com/t/gfZpwteJ

Agents and brokers can submit RSS or XML feeds by location and their real estate listings will be tweeted to home shopping followers in their metro area. By mid August, individual agents will be able to submit their listings to www.TweetMeHomes.com through the home listing feature on Agentopolis so their listings will be marketed both on Agentopolis and Tweet Me Homes at the same time.

Stay tuned for videos on how to get local real estate listings sent to your mobile device and how to use RSS feeds to send local listings to your IGoogle or My Yahoo page.

Follow Tweet Me Homes on Twitter

Wade Ryan of Remax Results in Eden Prairie, Minnesota has been providing local home buyers with mls listings information as way to generate home buyers leads for quite awhile. Using a couple of different real estate sites that focus on both map based search and simply mls listings search, Wade has been able to stay ahead of the competition. Using terms like mls minnesota and minnesota mls, Ryan has managed to get in front of a small set of home buyers and first time home buyers who are familiar with the term mls.

Ryan and his team of ReMax Realtors plan to start using a lot more of the social media tools including FaceBook, Twitter, outside blogs and through sites like Agentopolis, MLS Maps, and more.

Real estate agent directory Agentopolis hit two milestones last night on Twitter. We reached 4,000 followers and we passed Trulia on www.wefollow.com. Twitter is fast becoming one of the top sources of traffic for the Agentopolis directory with more and more of our visitors also spending time on the Home Search area where Realtors can list their properties for free.

Agentopolis has also seen significant traffic gains from Twitter on a number of our other real estate sites including www.mlsmaps.com, our MLS listings site using map based property search, and www.mnonlinemls.com, a consumer facing Minnesota MLS site.

Stay tuned as Agentopolis will be presenting a free webinar in May on the topic of "Using Twitter to Find Home Buyers and Sell Homes". We are also in the final stages of deployment for our killer Twitter app that will allow Realtors who post their listings on Agentopolis to automatically have those listings fed to home buyers through Twitter in the market where the home is listed. We are running in beta and have already started to build a list of home buying followers in the top 40 metro markets. We will be live in May!