Below are the top 100 real estate and social media sites. Enjoy!

1. Facebook

One of the fastest social networking sites. Facebook is one of the easiest ways of finding prospective customers within any given area. Using Facebook, we can target very specific groups according to our business needs; such a high level of targeting is not a possibility with other social networking sites or community sites. We can find our customers based on specific set of criteria including place, age etc.

2. Localism

This is a very niche based community site. At Localism, we can interact with the local merchants. This is one of the best examples of social networking at a micro level. People of the same place get together to share the happenings of their community. This community site is not only for the merchants and business people but it is also for common people. Neighborpedia is the extension of Localism.

3. Trulia

This is one of the top-rated sites for marketing any real estate related services. It has been estimated that Trulia attracts around 5 million potential buyers and sellers each month that are interested in real estate property in some way. Trulia Pro offers highly comprehensive marketing solutions for realtors as well as for professionals from the other fields who want to market their brand online.

4. ActiveRain

ActiveRain is one of the few networking sites that are exclusively meant for real estate professionals. We can make use of this real estate community site free of cost and its membership counts to 98,000 and still growing. We can post our profile online using the free membership. Making use of their referral service, it is possible to get in touch with the top real estate professionals and leads from both local real estate market and outside. The referral service allows us to search the local markets within each county.

5. RealTown

RealTown.com is one of the top real estate portals, which serves as a perfect meeting place for real estate buyers and sellers. This site offers a lot of useful resources for the real estate professionals as well as for people that are interested in buying and selling real estate properties.

6. FlippingPap

If you are a real estate investor who is interested in building relationship with other investors then FlippingPad is the place to be. FlippingPad provides a unique opportunity for the wholesalers whereby they can find many prospective leads. We will be able to interact with the investors using the forums. We can post our doubts, take part in discussions, which makes it a very interactive site.

7. LinkedIn

Almost all realtors will have an account in LinkedIn. This is one of the most happening places on the internet. Professionals from all fields want to be part of this network. This is a very sophisticated network with many tools and in built tools that we can use to interact with the other members. You can send invitations for others to join your network and send requests to other members to join their network. People can find us by our name or by using specific industry related keywords.

8. Puurple

Puurple is almost like Digg.com. We will be able to find and vote for posts that are related to real estate.

9. Zillow

Zillow allows us to search for homes in any given locality. We will also be able checkout on the homes that are recently sold out and their prices.

10. Zolve

This is another useful platform that serves as the meeting place for the buyers and sellers from the real estate industry based area.

11. Real Estate Webmasters

Realestatewebmasers.com has an exclusive section for realtors whereby realtors can interact with the local as well as global real estate professionals.

12. WannaNetwork

Wannanetwork.com is one of the high traffic real estate community sites. Here we can create new groups and also join the existing groups. This community networking site allows us to freely interact with the other members interested in the real estate industry. There is a lot of knowledge sharing here.

13. RealEstateForum.com

You can ask real estate related questions in the forums and get your answers. You can also start a discussion on a hot topic or take part in other discussions. You will be able learn a lot about the real estate industry by becoming a member here.

14. Brokeragentsocial.com

This community site has over 20,000 members. It is totally dedicated to the real estate industry. You will find everything relating to this industry from property talk to mortgage.

15. Inman

If you want to find the latest news about real estate industry, this is the first site you should visit. You can also become a member in this site and interact with the other members who share same interests. This site is again all about the real estate industry.

# 16 – 100 I decided to keep to myself, or we’ll add a second post.

In order to help us protect our reputation, today we can find many Reputation Management companies. How do these reputation management companies operate? Most of the companies offer pretty basic services; they try to find your online reputation status using your name and your website domain name. If there are negative reviews that are associated with your name or with your website, the reputation management companies try to minimize the effects of the negative reviews and feedbacks by using positive feedbacks across the internet and thus trying to project you as a reliable service provider. However, this is not good enough. Before hiring your reputation management company, you must make sure to understand their services. You should find out whether they will actively engage in getting your negative reviews removed from the review sites.

Interestingly, it is our normal tendency to take on to negative feedback more than the positive ones. It can be your competitor who can be posting such reviews or one of your customers who feels that he has not received a satisfactory service from you can be posting such damaging reviews. Most of the reviews are of revengeful in nature. Unfortunately, such customers will not stop with posting their negative reviews in a single website. They will try to create maximum damage by posting in multiple websites. When people search for your services or your name, they might find all these negative reviews lined up one after another in the search results. People often will not take the trouble to find out who has posted the feedback so they will think that all of them are from different people and they disqualify you straightaway.

You need to be highly cautious about your online reputation so that you achieve your business objectives without too much of a struggle. Therefore, hiring a reputation management company would certainly be a useful investment considering the amount of money that it will bring to your company in the form of new business.

If you want to keep track of your online reputation, you can also make use of Google alerts. You can set alerts for your name and for your domain name. Whenever Google picks up something relating to your name or domain name, you will receive an alert and this will help you in acting quickly. The longer you delay to act the greater the damage. So making use of such online tools and reputation management companies will help you manage your online reputation and combat effectively the revengeful reviews