The following is the status of the RGV Living Social Media Network as of August 25, 2016 and a little bit about each page and how they came about. The goal of all of the networks is to promote, share and support the positive things in our community. We focus on positive local news, locally owned business, charities, non-profits and events.
Brownsville Living. Be part of it.
- Group - 6,052 Members
https://www.facebook.com/groups/brownsvilleliving/
This was the first page in the network. It is in the Group format on Facebook. It was started in February 2010. It remained the only network for about a year. It grew from a few people to over 1,000 people in about 7 months. Once we hit 1,000 people we had our first BL First Thursday. The network was extremely active at that time. The numbers were small but it came up in everyone's feed a lot and we had regular events so there was a lot of community involvement. We did the BL First Thursday events for two years. The first Thursday of every month we would do an event at different locally owned restaurants and bars. Due to other priorities in my life I decided to discontinue the monthly events in 2013. After that we moved to an annual event in February. The annual event typically gets around 300 people.
Brownsville Living - Flag Ship Page of RGV Living Network
Fan Page - 11,885 Likes
https://www.facebook.com/brownsvilleliving
After a couple of years Facebook started changing the way their network worked. They were going public and needed to increase ad revenue so they basically shut down organic growth. They started pushing everyone to the Fan Page format so they could charge for advertising. Fortunately I had already grown my Fan Page to 5,000 people before they made the changes. When they started pushing Fan Pages they basically stopped all traffic on group pages. So the BL Group stopped showing up in peoples feeds and stopped getting new members. For the next few years I focused on the Fan Page... then around 2014 the Group started getting traffic again. Now strangely the group is the most active page but still it doesn't compare to the first few years.
RGV Living
- Fan Page - 4,780 Likes
https://www.facebook.com/RGVLiving1
This page was started by another person but he didn't have time or interest in running it any more so he gave me the page. I try to post more valley wide content on this page as opposed to primarily Brownsville content.
Where are you from, Brownsville, Where's That?
- Fan Page - 2,981 Likes
https://www.facebook.com/FromBrownsville/
This page was also started by another person and wasn't really used after a while. The owner gave me control of the network and I use it to help share most of the same content as BL but I try to lean it to people who no longer live here.
Renew Downtown Brownsville
- Fan Page - 1,800 Likes
https://www.facebook.com/RenewDowntownBrownsville
This network supports the overall mission but is focused primarily on events, businesses and activities in downtown Brownsville. The mission is to help raise awareness about the area and improve the overall opinion and participation in downtown.
Grove Realty Team
- Fan Page - 1,676 Likes
https://www.facebook.com/GroveRealtyTeamLLC
This is the page of my company Grove Realty Team, LLC. Our company is a primarily a residential real estate company. We focus on Brownsville, Rancho Viejo, Los Fresnos, Bayview and South Padre Island areas. The fact that I own the company permits me the time and focus necessary to also work on and develop the RGV Living Social Media Network. So if you enjoy our content and focus, please keep us in mind the next time you have a real estate need.
Founder - Craig Grove
- Independent Real Estate Broker/Blogger/Social Media Guy
https://www.facebook.com/CraigGroveRealtor?fref=ts
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| Craig Grove - Founder BL |
I founded Brownsville Living in 2010 to promote the best things about our community. I enjoy sharing positive content as well as creating positive content about our the area and it's people. I am also a Real Estate Broker and work very hard to grow my business while doing my part to help improve our community.
https://www.facebook.com/CraigGroveRealtor
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