Social media is a great tool for sharing your flatmate advert. If you want to find a flatmate quickly, using social media can open up a whole new audience, increase your ad’s reach and really speed things up.
Here’s how to share your advert on social media properly.
1. Share a Quality Advert
The first step, of course, is to make sure you’ve written a good room advert. You could reach a million people with social media, but if your spare room advert isn’t good enough, you might end up with the wrong flamate – or not find a flatmate at all!
So before you do anything, click here to find out how to find a flatmate with a great flatmate advert.
2. Match the tone of the post to the tone of the advert
If you’ve written a relaxed an informal spare room advert, it’s because you wanted to attract a relaxed and informal renter, right? So why undo all that good work by posting your advert to social media in a formal way!
The same tonal rules that apply to writing the advert apply to sharing it in a post. To get the right people to click on your post, you need to entice them in by sharing it with text appropriate to your target audience.
3. Make Sure Your Profile Is Looking Spick’n’Span
It’s all very good writing on your easyroommate.com advert that you keep the house tidy at all times. But when you share the advert on Facebook, everyone can click through to your profile page, and if it’s full of pictures of you lounging around a messy flat, people might think again about your credentials!
It’s good to keep this in mind in general. Anyone potential flatmate can and will check out your profile. So make sure you clean up your profile or check those privacy settings.
4. Get Your Friends to Share, too!
Sharing your advert with your friends and followers is a good start, but getting a few good friends to share your advert is a huge improvement. Not only will this get your advert seen by hundreds of new people, you’ll also have a mutual friend, meaning you’re more likely to get along and they’re more likely to think seriously about the proposition.
Win, win. Just make sure you invite your mutual friend over to say thanks when you move in together!
5. Share to Find a Flatmate Groups
Getting your pals to share will help, but to really increase your reach, you’ll need to share your property to relevant groups. On Facebook, for example, lots of areas have local Find a Flatmate groups.
Joining these groups and sharing your advert will give thousands of people looking for a new room a look at your Easyroommate.com advert – all for free!
And that, friends, is how to boost your flatmate advert’s reach using social media. Try these tips and you’ll find a flatmate in no time. To set up your flatmate advert, visit EasyRoommate and find a flatmate today!
