I have a feature for agents that I work with and past clients called VidTips.  It's basically a video newsletter with helpful information about owning a home.  I thought about emailing the actual video, however, that leaves you with only two options.  Either you attach the video to the email, which would be a huge attachment, not to mention most people don't open attachments in fear of viruses, or you embed the player in the email and host the video on your server.  The problem with the second option is that all email programs aren't alike and one might open the video and one might not.  Here's the method I use.  I send my email with a jpg image of the player.  Make the picture a hyperlink to your website where the actual video is hosted.  When people click play, their internet browser opens and the video is set to auto-play on my website.  This also drives more traffic to my site and they might want to browse around once they're there.  Go ahead, try it out:

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9 Comments on What's a VidTip?

AUG
06
2008
564,697 Points 10 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hey, Kevin.

I like the name, VidTips, and driving traffic to your web site is great. I'm just getting into video because I think that's where everything is headed. As much as I love PDF files, web pages, audio, and video is where it's at. Just look at YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook.

1:49am • #1
289,709 Points 4 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Hi Kevin, thanks for the VidTips.  Love it when people visit my main site, for whatever reason! 

2:16am • #2
100,917 Points

Great Post!  I like the VidTIps, and the name! Catchy!  VidTips is ideal for the technological world we live in.

4:52am • #3
AUG
07
2008

Kevin, thanks for the tip. I think this is the wave of the future in keeping in touch with your data base.

4:57pm • #4
AUG
08
2008

Great idea - I like the fact that you can be helpful and drive traffic to your site.  Do you create your own vids?

3:15pm • #5

Rick-No, I've been using videos from about.com.  I'm working on one of my own now that will probably be done for my Septmeber or October VidTip. 

3:22pm • #6
AUG
14
2008

Kevin Vidtips is a great idea.  Now I know what my nest big project for my site will be.

 

8:49pm • #7

Jack-Let me know if you need any help when you tackle your project.

8:54pm • #8
AUG
15
2008

Thanks Kevin I'll do that.

11:16am • #9

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