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Need a reason to start using video?...you just never know where they will show up!

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Real Estate Agent with Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon

Need a reason to start using video?..you just never know where they will show up!

Ever since the ActiveRain video challenge, I've been working on making some local videos, as well as taking some for my blog while traveling. I just recently googled my cwestfall60 Youtube channel and there were a few things that caught my eye that I never noticed before.

I noticed lots of sites that have my cwestfall60 attached to it..many foreign. There was also a travel site, world news network, alternative healing site (thinking the calming beaches maybe), as well as several local sites that linked to my youtube channel. My video is featured prominently on the www.historicwillamette.com web page and I recently was contacted by a musician that plays at the West Linn Farmers Market asking if he could use my video on his site.

I am just starting with this, and I gotta say have gotten the bug. Just taking a peek at the places that my videos have showed up in such a short time tells me there are lots of opportunities here. I just need to really work on tapping into them.

Check out some of the places I've found:

Google search page

Foreign site where my videos show up

 

Home Decorating Spot site

 

My videos on foreign siteM

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Premiere Property Group,LLC

5000 Meadows Rd., Ste. 150, Lake Oswego, OR 97035

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Comments (16)

Stanley Stepak
Howard Hanna - Avon Lake, OH - Avon Lake, OH
Realtor - Avon Lake, Avon, Bay Village, Westlake,

I have heard the same from others that do videos.  I have to get into it.  Thanks for sharing.

Mar 11, 2011 10:49 AM
Victor Zuniga
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services California Properties - San Diego, CA

Our team just got a call to list a high end property from being found on the Internet thanks to video. It works you just have to get over being in front of the camera.

 

Mar 11, 2011 10:58 AM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi Stan, looking at some of the places I show up just pushes me to want to make more. At first I was trying hard to get them perfect...but then realized there just is no such thing...so had to just put them out there!

Mar 11, 2011 11:00 AM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi Victor..the one with me in front if it was the hardest one to make. I am planning on making lots more though!

Mar 11, 2011 11:01 AM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Hello Cindy and I joined YouTube around one year ago and have 333 short video with around 150,000 views. Not all of them are on Real Estate but I have several businesses and I have seen people and other businesses plugging my vids!

Vegas Bob ;o)

Mar 11, 2011 04:11 PM
Steve Scheer
Realty Oasis - Metro Brokers - Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch Real Estate - Denver Real Estate

I have been trying to do more as well and will probably be posting another in the morning if I finish editing it.  I have enjoyed incorporating video into my business plan and am starting to see results as well.

Mar 11, 2011 05:18 PM
John McCarthy
North Hampton, NH
Realtor - Seacoast NH

Good Morning Cindy,

Thank you for the focus on the importance of video. Interesting how many places yours have turned up. BTW, you have a new subscriber :)

Mar 11, 2011 11:42 PM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi VB, You are the king of video! I wish I had started a long time ago, but better late to the game then never right? I can only imagine how many places your videos show up.

Mar 12, 2011 03:41 AM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi Steve, The editing is sometimes the hard part. I still need to go back and edit some that I just put out there when I was first uploading onto Youtube.

Mar 12, 2011 03:45 AM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi John, I was actually amazed at the sites my videos were showing up, so truly realized that I was not utilizing this area to it's fullest. Thanks for subscribing :) !

Mar 12, 2011 03:48 AM
Jill Sackler
Charles Rutenberg Realty Inc. 516-575-7500 - Long Beach, NY
LI South Shore Real Estate - Broker Associate

I'm so amazed! You're really into something. How do you find where your videos have ended up?

Mar 12, 2011 11:52 AM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi Jill, when I typed in my Youtube channel (cwestfall60) into google, it's always on the top and in the past I've just clicked on that and gone in to check it out. This time, I noticed there were all these other sites with my cwestfall60 highlighted to started checking them out. I was fascinated by the foreign ones...but my St. Thomas and airplane rides somehow got on other places..and along with them my other videos. I did have to type in my cwestfall60 to see where I was on the sites...as I was no where near the first page. I was just amazed that I showed up anywhere other than where I put them to be honest. Now I really need to look at ways to utilize this better!

Mar 12, 2011 12:00 PM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Thank you very much Cindy and just keep making those videos and posting them. My daughter and I captured some video and photographs at SeaWorld today that are priceless ...

Vegas Bob ;o)

Mar 12, 2011 05:29 PM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi VB, boy, you sure do get around!

Mar 13, 2011 04:41 PM
Cindy Westfall
Premiere Property Group,LLC Portland Metro & Suburbs Oregon - Tualatin, OR
ABR,GRI Your Tualatin & Portland Metro Real Estate

Hi Richard, thank you!

Mar 22, 2011 06:50 AM