Ever since my posting announcing free, high quality video to be added to your website, we have been inundated with requests to continue the service.  So, we sat down with our tech guys and made it happen.  We created The Agent's Video Channel which will rotate consumer tip videos on a month to month basis on the your website.  Topics such as the $8000 tax credit, current real estate events, home improvement tips, seller/buyer tips, recent law changes, REO/Short sale FAQ, etc.  Just like the free video we offered earlier this month: 

All you have to do is cut and paste an embed code onto your site and we'll do the rest.  Heck, we even have someone on standby to do the cut and pasting part as well if you prefer. 

The whole reason we first offered the free video was to help agents improve their SEO results, reduce bounce rates, increase their web presence as a more professional real estate professional, improve image, create revolving content which will ultimately result in increased viewership, along with a million other beneficial reasons. 

Our sneak-previews at NAR last weekend were met with OVERWHELMINGLY positive reactions.  

Here’s the fun part...

To kick off our Video Channel product, we're selling subscriptions for half price to the first 500 agents who sign up.  We will also be randomly selecting 25 agents to receive the annual subscription product completely FREE.  In order to be considered, you must sign up and pay for an annual subscription on or before December 15th, 2009.  We will refund the credit card for 25 lucky winners, just in time for your Christmass present;)

We’re only giving FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS to those read this post on Active Rain, so be sure to place 'activerain' in the referred by section of the form to be considered in the drawings.

Complete this form now to begin receiving the Agent's Video Channel and have a chance at winning a one year subscription.

Monthly Subscription Regularly $19.99 a month

Subscribe by December 1st, 2009 and pay only $9.99 a month for the first year...that’s a 50% discount.

Annual Subscription Regularly $225.00 

Subscribe by December 1st, 2009 and pay only $99.99... Get Two Months Free and a 50% discount when you subscribe.

Video service will begin December 1st, 2009 and will be rotated by The Agent's Video Channel on a monthly basis. 

*You can also sign up for another chance to win on our Facebook Page!  Just click the link and become a fan. 

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So after posting my blog entry to download free video on your site, we were inundated with real estate professionals asking us to produce more so they could populate their site with high quality video and content.  You asked, we deliver.  

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Another Quality Product From Your Friends at Reel Productions TV 

Reel Productions TV

is heading to NAR!  Please be sure to stop by our booth #2806.  We’ll have information on our Real Estate Media Marketing Designation as well as new information on our latest video launch!!! 

We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

In light of my recent post where we gave away a free video for your website, we see a clear demand for high quality video in the real estate industry that is of nominal cost.

So we would like to know if we made this service available to you on an on-going basis where you would only have to make one cut and past when you signed up and we would rotate the video, would you be interested?  

If yes, what is the value of this service?  

We really want to be an advocate for you and your consumers and we believe having professional video on your site is clear advantage in making you a market leader and improving the marketing of the industry as a whole.  Consumers are demanding more and we know it’s expensive to keep up with the latest trends so this appears to be a win/win.  

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below. 

Thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in our very impromptu survey! 

We've been preaching it for a very long time...Real estate professionals need high quality video content on their website.  It helps with SEO results, it portrays a more professional image and retains viewership some 70-percent longer than a website without video.

But let’s get real.  Times are tough and high quality video production can be expensive.  Well, we have the solution.  The Video Connector , is sending out an early holiday gift... FREE VIDEO!! 

It’s simple.  Just log on to TheVideoConnector.com/FreeVideo and cut and paste the embed code, put it on your site and reap the benefits! 

I had a wonderful conversation with a local agent from Atlanta, GA the other day in which he used the following analogy that I would like to share.

He said think of the housing market as a dance with 100 girls.  Given the current market conditions, only 6 girls will be asked to dance out of the entire room.  So now you have to start looking at the competition in the room.  Is your girl pretty?  Does she make a good first impression?  Is there anything enticing about her from a far?  And lastly, how expensive is she to dance with?  If she's too high, the other girls may start to look more appealing. 

So what can we learn from this analogy?  First of all, home ARE selling but only the best of the best.  So if you're listing a property, you owe it to yourself and the seller to do everything you can to put its best foot forward immediately and price it appropriately.  This approach will also help reestablish the competitiveness in the marketplace, ultimately, raising the prices of homes in the long run.  

The above is the exact reason we created the Seller's Video Connector.  It falls right in line with our mission statement of creating tools that help real estate professionals be successful.  This marketing tool is a DVD with 10 videos that teach sellers how to improve their home once they put it on the market.  Topics such as how to stage your home, creating enviable curb appeal and creating a neutral color scheme are all directed to the seller in an easy to understand format designed for them to do themselves, ultimately saving money and increasing the value of their home.  

This makes your job easier as an agent and will hopefully put more money in your pocket in the long run by not only increasing your odds of getting your listing to be asked to "dance".

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DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT post your videos to YouTube among the general mass of videos.  Why?  Your video will reside in the vortex that is YouTube meaning it will be paired with videos that you may not want to be associated with. Each time a video is done playing on YouTube another "video suggestion" pops up for the viewer to choose.  These videos were chosen based on key words in the title of the last video.  

Here's how this can hurt your and your business.  If you have a great video that you posted on downtown Atlanta and after it ends your competitor's video pops up because he, too, specializes in downtown Atlanta, you just did yourself a disservice and helped your competition to boot.  You can also have "unsavery" or distasteful videos pop up after yours if you're not careful, potentially offending clients when all you were trying to do was help.  How does that happen?  Well take one of our clients for example...Bottom Line Home.  After his video was done playing on YouTube various videos pertaining to “bottoms” popped up!  UGH!! Now think about people who embed the YouTube video player on their site and have these problems.  They are now contaminating their own personal site with YouTube issues all for the sake of SEO results.  And here’s the real unfortunate part.  Once you place your videos on YouTube, they’re there.  

So here's how to avoid these massive problems and still get all the  Google juice from posting your video(s) on YouTube.  Simply create your own channel.  This is a free service on YouTube and takes all of about 15 minutes. You can customize the colors, format, etc. to really make it a design that matches your current branding.  The great news is that once your video is done playing, if you have another one posted, that will be the suggested video to play.  No more imposition of YouTube junk.  Just the quality and professionalism you want to portray :-) 

Take a look at our new, revamped channel on YouTube:

If you answered, "How the heck should I know?!", you're not alone.  But I'm going to show you how to check.

Bottom line, if you're website isn't verified with Google, you're certainly not getting the "Google juice" (better known as SEO results) that you should. 

So here's what you do: 

1.) First of all, sign in or sign up for a Google account on Google.com...it’s free. 

2.) Then, go to your settings where you’ll find Webmaster Tools.

3.) Click on Webmaster Tools and you should see two blue bars...one that says “Messages” and one that says “Sites”.  If your site is not listed, click the button that says, “Add a Site”.

4.) After entering the URL (complete with the http://), you will be given a code.  Enter that code on the home page of your website and you’re all set! 

It’s not a lot of effort and it will help improve your SEO results.  After all, Google doesn’t have to search for you anymore...you sent Google a message telling them exactly where you are using that code :-)  

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