Selling a property on social media

I’ve put my money where my mouth is and am attempting to sell a property using social media tools.

After all, the whole idea sounds perfect. First advantage – no costly estate agents.  Second advantage – it’s easy. It took me six minutes to set up two ads on Facebook, with a selection of pictures. (Compare that time spent to placing an online ad on a newspaper website)

This activity was also fed into Friendfeed , this blog post will also publicise the sale and then twitterfeed will kindly syndicate to another new set of potential purchasers on Twitter.

I concede using my Flickrstream is possibly a bit random, but I figured that you just never know who might be looking to relocate and searching for pictures in the locality.

Free and easy then, but will it work?

I was astonished to get an email within hours of posting the ad – but opened it to see it was from another journalist wanting to know whether advertising on Facebook was working!

And to date, that’s my first and last inquiry.

So, it you’re reading this and would like to purchase a two-bedroomed genuinely spacious (trust me, I’m a journalist not an estate agent) apartment with views over the Peak District and just 12 miles from the centre of Manchester (in the UK) drop me an email to sarahhartley2004@yahoo.co.uk and we’ll come to some arrangement.