Editor's note: This blog was originally published in July of 2014. It has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. 

Not sure if you have time for Facebook? Make time - the reward is worth the investment.

Facebook continues to be the best social medium to use for real estate marketing purposes. Other platforms have their perks, but if you’re looking to grow your business through social media marketing, you should be focusing on Facebook (andreal estate blogging!). 

There are dozens of ways to use Facebook to grow your network and build your real estate brand. If you’re just getting started, try a few of these social to-do’s:

• Use your personal profile to connect with past clients and prospects
• Promote your listings and open houses
• Post on your wall and ask friends and family in your area for referrals
• Add yourself to Facebook real estate directories
• Use Facebook graph search to find new leads in your extended network

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What do top producing real estate agents do differently than average agents? 

Let’s turn to data from Active Rain to find out: 

What metrics really matter when it comes to measuring whether or not your real estate marketing emails are successful? Traditional marketing knowledge dictates that if you have the goal of using email marketing to drive conversions through a certain point on your website – you should focus on these three stats:

• Open rate
• Click through rate
• Conversion rate

Right? Well, kind of...

Those three metrics do illustrate each “gate” or step an email recipient must pass through in order to become a more qualified lead – but they don’t tell the whole story.

Let’s take a look at each one of the three main metrics in more detail: