real estate video: Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome With Help From The New Educational Media Library - 01/28/09 05:56 AM
Change is all around us. Everyone wants to know what to do next in today's challenging economic times. What specific tools, tips, and techniques should you use that can help survive and succeed in this market.
The Educational Media Library is an online real estate resource for REALTORS, investors, and anyone
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real estate video: How To Add A Custom Video Widget To A Wordpress.com Blog - 10/09/08 04:34 PM
Know someone that has a Wordpress.com outside blog that wants to be able to embed custom video widgets there without having to upload the videos again to Wordpress?
Did you know that there is now a way to upload real estate videos and podcasts to a site and get access
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real estate video: Missing The Video Mark: A Post That Is A Response To A Comment - 09/20/08 06:22 AM
I've made a blog post out of a response to a comment on another post:
The Comment
Here's where most people in the industry miss the mark when it comes to video compared to virtual tours:
The REAL power in video is the portability. It is not about "putting all your
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real estate video: Understanding The Real Estate Video Space - 09/18/08 07:02 AM
Did you know that real estate video companies occupy different market segments and actually involved in helping you in different ways?
We've sat down and segmented the real estate video market below. While not definitive, it does provide a beginning framework so you can better understand the types of services that
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real estate video: Upgrading The Real Estate Video Upload Form - 02/11/08 07:59 PM
We've just upgraded the vidlisting video upload form. Why? We'd been receiving scattered reports that the geolocation section was failing on occasion for a small group of users. We also closely monitored the results of video uploads on a daily basis (number of visitors that started versus where they ended if they
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real estate video: Why Writing Great Property Video Transcripts Helps To Sell Properties - 01/28/08 05:34 PM
Ever heard bloggers discussing property video transcripts? Usually, they subscribe to one of three schools of thoughts about real estate video narratives: School of Thought #1 - Property videos should be less than a minute and only have music. Narration is an unecessary extra. School of Thought #2 - Property videos are most
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real estate video: New Ways For Prospective Buyers To Discover YOUR Property Video - 01/05/08 09:36 AM
Discoverability of Video Content We've previously discussed the four ways that real estate video content can be discovered online using the YouTube model. What is important is how are customers going to find the property that YOU have for sale. Our beta refresh functionality looks to break out of the limitations of that model by
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real estate video: Adding A Bit Of Your Own Marketing Boost To Real Estate Videos - 01/04/08 05:14 PM
One of the big advantages of video marketing that isn't often mentioned is the use of video to maintain or boost the value of your own brand. Unlike other forms of marketing, video retains the original branding whether online or offline (downloaded video files, TV, DVDs, etc.)
There is value in
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real estate video: Understanding The Value Equation In Virtual Tours And Video Tours - 12/29/07 01:55 PM
Someone much wiser than I once told me that a successful business either has to create value or transfer value. So, sticking with that assumption, much of the argument to date about the benefits of virtual tours versus video tours has focused on the value created. To be clear, we'll use
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real estate video: Why Are We So Attached To The YouTube Model To Distribute Real Estate Video? - 12/22/07 06:53 AM
Initial Models Have Always Been Limiting There was a time when the world was thought to be flat. Humans just could not break out of that model. People simply could not conceive of a round earth. They drew dragons on maps to represent falling off the edge of the world. Even though there
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real estate video: How To Add Services Like Professional Narration and Transcript Generation To A Real Estate Video - 12/19/07 03:17 PM
More and more people are joining the real estate video revolution. However, there are few upload and conversion sites that do anything other than upload your video. http://vidlisting.com/ is now expanding their real estate video beta so that content producers can easily add professional narration, transcript generation, and even video editing
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real estate video: Hi! I Am A Real Estate Video And Feeling A Bit Socially Inept - 12/15/07 07:10 AM
I've been waiting for you to say, "hi". You've likely seen me around - I'm usually the one in a black or gray outfit with big buttons. I know that I've seen you. Most of the time I am alone. I dont really like it that way but mostly we have to use email to
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real estate video: Real Estate Video Beta Is Now Live | Make Video Widgets With Multiple Videos | Virtual Private Upload Capability for Brokers, Agencies, and Portals - 12/14/07 11:06 AM
Live Beta Link http://vidlisting.com/beta/betaupload_english.asp Overview of beta functionality is here (http://forsalebylocals.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/real-estate-video-features-and-widgets-for-agents-brokers-portals-and-organizations/) If suitable content is uploaded, we'll even consider sydicating it live on our website as no cost as a thank you for participating in the beta. Widgets We have lots of functionality for individual agents as far as quickly building video widgets that can be used
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real estate video: A Whole Slew Of New Features And Widgets For Agents, Brokers, Portals, and Organizations - 12/13/07 07:08 PM
We are launching a set of new real estate video services in beta at about midday US Eastern time on Friday (labeled as Friday Beta Launch below) or over the next week (labeled as Beta Refresh). We have a new set of beta links to send out at launch and a blog post
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real estate video: Real Estate Video And The Wizard of Oz - Part 1 - 12/09/07 05:39 AM
In order to figure out how to break away from the confines of our thinking, let's look at and understand some of the constraints of the current model for real estate video....particularly property video tours. - Where To Start: (a.k.a "we're off to see the wizard"): Generally video involves an online journey by way
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real estate video: Video Upload and Conversion: Small Public Beta of Real Estate Video Functionality Available - 12/07/07 04:41 PM
Want to try out our our new video upload and conversion mechanism and help us put a load on our system? We'll be briefly putting a small part of the functionality online (Upload and conversion mechanism) to see what types of uploaded videos we can and cant convert (we think that we know
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real estate video: Listing SOLD To Foreign Buyer That Viewed Online Video Tour - 11/29/07 07:49 PM
Just found out that another property that we highlighted with video has been sold to an international buyer. As others have pointed out, at the end of the day it is the sales of properties that matter. The broker indicted to us that the vidlisting property tour was a key part of the sales process and that
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real estate video: Are The Needs of Real Estate Brokerages and Other Organizations Being Met By Video Upload Services? - 11/29/07 10:41 AM
Conventional thinking: Go to external video upload site. Upload video. Cut and paste. Hope for visitors. Once I have more than 1 video, manage video content on a "channel" hosted and branded by another company.
New Thinking: The real estate organization has its own real estate video upload and management
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real estate video: Distinctive TV - Real Estate Video Meets Luxury Property Marketing - 11/28/07 09:27 PM
Many of you know that Vidlisting.com has been working to develop a dedicated luxury multimedia program for properties across the U.S. and throughout the Americas. Today, we announced the DISTINCTIVE TV luxury real estate video marketing program at a luxury home marketing training event for the REALTOR Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches (RAMB)
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real estate video: Integrating Real Estate Video Content Distribution Across Blog Networks - 11/23/07 09:04 AM
I was using an application the other day that allowed me to insert any image from my hard drive into the document that I was writing. Think of this as a process involving the following chronological points: consent to adding content, search (from within a known but variable set of content
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