video: A Case Study In Enterprise Video Features For A Local Real Estate Association - 12/05/08 10:22 AM
Lots of people think that the only way that a real estate organization such as an association or brokerage can manage their video content is using a channel like you see on popular video upload sites. but, what happens when you have an entire team of people uploading videos?
We'll focus … (6 comments)

video: The Other Side Of SEO: Using Clues From Search Engines To Present Contextually Relevant Real Estate Content - 09/13/08 10:51 PM
You've done all of the SEO stuff that the gurus talk about. Lots of people talk about the "help search engines find you" part of interaction with website visitors. Far less people talk about what to do once the visitors arrive.
It only makes sense that visitors come to your site … (15 comments)

video: Shared Media Catalogs Allow You To Instantly Share Your Video Content And Real Estate Shows - 04/27/08 05:08 AM
Shared Media Catalogs For Video Content
Vidlisting has just launched our shared media catalog functionality designed for content producers and sellers of good and services. Now, Youtube videos, Real Estate Shows, and videos uploaded to our system can be instantly be passed to family, friends, business contacts, prospective buyers, and others that want to view and … (4 comments)

video: Getting Instant Video Conversion and Details About Uploaded Videos - 02/16/08 08:51 AM
Vidlisting's real estate video upload and conversion functionality is fully automated - no waiting for someone to approve your video (which we are sure in some cases actually means manual processing).
You'll have your real estate video available and viewable online within minutes. We've always done an instant automated review of your video … (1 comments)

video: Become A Great Low Budget Real Estate Videographer By Forgetting About The Camera - 01/22/08 05:48 AM
The low budget real estate videographer smiles all of the way to the bank. They dont know more - they just know the right things to know.  For instance, they know that cost of the equipment isnt what makes a good video.   the low budget real estate videographer will just smile and nod approvingly when … (4 comments)

video: How To Get Thousands Of Views And Generate Leads Using Your Own Real Estate Video - 01/19/08 10:25 PM
Ever spent the time to upload a video to a video site and end up with only a few dozen views in the first months?
http://vidlisting.com/ within the past few days surpassed one million real estate videos viewed (over 80% of those views were property videos). Until today, all of the content was filmed … (47 comments)

video: Introducing Performance Based Pricing For Video Tours In South Florida: If People Don't Watch, You Don't Pay - 11/27/07 06:15 AM
Vidlisting will begin offering performance based pricing for video tours for residential properties in South Florida. We'll be adding other areas in the United States over the next few months.
What Does Performance Based Pricing Mean?
Property videos are actually advertisements. Advertising is generally priced on the actual or anticipated views not the cost … (4 comments)

video: Measuring Online User Loyalty And Interest Using Hard Data From Your Website Statistics - 11/01/07 08:01 AM
Hopefully, this post will show people how to glean useful data out of their site statistics. We'll be using our own actual data as the example - therefore all of the analysis is in the context of real estate video.  However, the same techniques can just as easily apply to listings, … (3 comments)

video: Shaking Up The Property Video Business Model: Vidlisting.com To Introduce Performance Based Real Estate Video Pricing In Selected Areas - 10/30/07 09:53 AM
Property videos should only be considered expensive if not viewed
We have been doing a lot of thinking and blogging about how perfomance should drive pricing for any type of advertising platform and how property listings of any kind are really just short advertising spots. Many say that video tours are … (3 comments)

video: Property Videos Can Be Expensive At Any Price When No One Watches - 10/25/07 01:58 AM
Below are the current views for 66 property videos posted on a major competitor's real estate video website. No matter what was paid for the video services, would you consider a property video expensive if you had less than 10 views?
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We looked at a single vendor on the "most active" tab of a very much blogged … (6 comments)

video: Extending Pat Kitano's Concept Of “Hubs And Spokes” To Include Value Measurements - 10/20/07 04:12 PM
Thinking About A Hub and Spoke Model
Pat Kitano captured the idea of distribution of content with Web 2.0 re.net sites (or perhaps even web 3.0)  far more eloquently than we have been able to with a model of "hubs and spokes".  He outlines his thinking in an excellent recent article about redefining … (0 comments)

video: Property Video: Ednam Drive - Charlottesville, VA - 10/14/07 08:09 AM
Here is another property that Vidlisting.com recently filmed in Charlottesville, VA. The agent is well-known real estate agent and blogger, Jim Duncan of Century 21 Manley Associates. This video is narrated in English but also has additional narration in Spanish and Portuguese.

We love Charlottesville because it is such an … (0 comments)

video: MarketingUrbano.com Exclusively Partners With Vidlisting.com For Real Estate Video - 10/12/07 11:52 AM
Agreement With MarketingUrbano.com 
We are pleased to announce a video content production agreement with MarketingUrbano.com and it's parent organization, Marketing Urbano.  Marketing Urbano is a federation of international real estate brokerages with member offices located in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Miami Florida; Orlando, FL, and Los Angeles, CA.  The organization serves as a marketing … (2 comments)

video: Spanish Language Property Video Listing In Marietta, GA - 10/09/07 11:42 PM
We just recently posted a set of listings in Spanish and Portuguese from a beautiful property in Marietta, GA. An English language version will be posted shortly.

There is no easier way to instantly market your US property to international buyers and investors looking to take advantage of their strong … (0 comments)

video: Progress Report: Performance For The Critical First Fourteen Days Of A Video Listing - 09/09/07 04:25 PM
The first 14 days of any listing of any listing are critical with the second 16 days running close behind.
Here is the 14 day performance for an video of Los Bosques (a recent development project in Panama):
First 14 day total: 541 video views
24 day total: 975 video views … (0 comments)

video: The Leading English Language Real Estate Portal In Colombia, BuyColombiaRealty.com, Partners With Vidlisting.com For Real Estate Video - 08/31/07 11:43 PM
http://buycolombiarealty.com, the leading English language real estate informational portal in Colombia, has partnered with Vidlisting.com for property videos and a supporting real estate video infrastructure in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for their website.
This is a two part agreement. BuyColombiaRealty.com will distribute property videos from the United States and other parts of Latin America to … (0 comments)

video: Testing 1024 pixel wide Real Estate Video That Doesn't Buffer Or Pause / Is It Worth The Effort? - 08/28/07 07:07 PM
Online video normally buffers...for us, it is usually one of the drawbacks of using video online.
However, our 640 pixel wide video doesn't buffer on probably 95% of the systems out there.  So, always trying to push limits, we have been hard at work on pushing 1024 pixel wide video without buffering.  … (3 comments)

video: Game Changing Day In Real Estate Video: Adobe Releases High-Def Version of Flash Player - 08/21/07 05:09 PM
Real estate video will have tangibly better quality starting today.  Those that film their property videos in high definition (HD) will be to display HD quality videos via the web with a beta version of the flash video player 9.
Technical details are here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200708/082107FlashPlayer.html
What does this mean? Property details will be … (6 comments)

video: Obeoman Returns, Challenges Again, and ... Well...You Decide - 08/17/07 02:02 PM
A comment today from Steven Stearns (Obeoman) from the virtual tour company, Obeo, on MyBlogLog:  (http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/marfie)
"A general though [SIC] about content: Inman news can get over a thousand views of a video from RE Connect. Again, I doubt there is a single residential listing in the median price range in its market with … (8 comments)

video: Vidlisting.com On Track For 90,000 Real Estate Videos Watched In The Month Of August 2007 - 08/17/07 09:55 AM
Our Video Audience Continues To Grow We crossed the 75,000 monthly video view milestone in July 2007. Right now, at the halfway point for the month of August, our network of real estate videos is on track to approach or surpass 90,000 video views for the month of August. Considering that … (0 comments)

 
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