Video Tours are a great tool for Real Estate Professionals. Making these videos is becoming easier every day; my wife has been experimenting with these tours for a few months. She has several videos uploaded to Google Video and You Tube. My customers seem to like that there are videos of their home available on the Internet for potential buyers to view.
The videos that she makes are really more slide show tours but they seem to appeal to many people. Many people have viewed my videos since I uploaded them to Google and Utube. Additionally, these tours show up on many search engines helping my web presence and page ranking.
I plan to make video slide shows of all future listings. I have thought about making "real videos" instead of the slide shows but I am not sure that without investing a lot of money these videos will be a real benefit to me. I like being able to describe the picture in writing and letting the viewer read the details. I must say that this is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words but the words you choose to describe the pictures are also very,very important.
As these videos evolve, more realtors will want to use them to enhance their listings. Remember, these videos are FREE ADVERTISING, at least at this time, so make the best use of them that you can before there is a cost associated with the upload services.
Some of the tours that I have uploaded have been of my listing, but I have also uploaded videos tours of communities, and a compilation of homes currently for sale in a geographic area. Not to mention the videos of personal parties, so that friends who attended can view my pictures online. View My First Video Slide Show
Video tours will be the wave of the future for Real Estate Professionals, as well as anyone with a business that they want to promote online. You can pay to have these videos professionally done or you can spend a little time and learn to "make movies" all by yourself.
The most important thing to remember is to keep the video fairly short between two and three minutes and to title the video so that it can be easily found by anyone searching for your products, your sales area or your area of expertise.
These videos can be used in real estate to advertise yourself, your listings, your community, your services, affiliate services and just about anything else that you can imagine. Take advantage of the opportunity to use this free service before things change and there is a charge associated with each upload. To remind you, Realtor.com charges around $20 for each Virtual Tour that is uploaded by your Virtual Tour Provider for your listings in Realtor.com
Don't be left out, Get in the game!! Make sure the "shoppers" find you and your listings.
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