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How to upload your videos to Facebook

By Fred Light

Services for Real Estate Pros with | Nashua Video Tours

February 15, 2009 12:57 PM

Facebook has been reviving more than long-lost friendships and reacquainting high school friends—it’s proving to be an incredibly valuable tool for REALTORS.

It's the perfect medium to to promote yourself, pitch your newest listing and keep track of past and future clients.

A little more than one month after announcing it had 150 million active users, and only four months since announcing 100 million users, Facebook just announced today that it has reaced 175 million active users! If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated country in the world, just ahead of Japan. To ignore statistic such as this in your marketing is just plain foolish!

The most successful, aggressive agents in New England are now incorporating video into their marketing. Using video for property tours of new listings or video testimonials from satisifed clients, video is becoming more popular every day!

Many clients are still a bit confused on how to upload their video tours and testimonials to their Facebook pages, so I've made a brief tutorial on exactly how you go about this.

Once you upload your video to your Facebook page, that video will go out to all of your "friends" notifying them of your new listing!

How cool is THAT type of marketing?

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Kathleen Ann Pacheco-Corbett

(FIRST Exclusive Buyer's Office Providence-RI) - Providence, RI

Realtor, RI-MA, CEBA, Master, e-Pro, ABR, ABRM, GR

Fred, I appreciate your information it is very useful. I am on Facebook and just learning about using videos, In fact last week I purchased the Flip from Circuit City with a 30% discount due to them closing. I will follow your directions and start by going to applications (video) Thanks

Feb 15, 2009 06:45 PM

Wendy Svoboda

Reno, NV

Hi Fred, thanks so much for taking the time to post this.....it's just what I needed! Wishing you great success! Wendy

Feb 15, 2009 11:07 PM

Emily Lowe

RE/MAX Homes and Estates, Lipman Group - Nashville, TN

Nashville TN Realtor

Thanks for posting this - it's really funny the timing, because just yesterday I was trying to figure out how to post a video on facebook and I could NOT figure it out!!!!

Feb 16, 2009 02:01 AM

Fred Light

| Nashua Video Tours - Nashua, NH

Real Estate Video Tours for MA and NH

Emily: For some reason, it's NOT very intuitive. I had a really hard time figuring it out myself. The other day I was trying to help a client figure it out and was STILL confused!

Feb 16, 2009 02:17 AM

Bob Dunn

Sutton Group West Coast Realty - Abbotsford, BC

Thanks for the information Fred. I'm hoping to be able to implement this soon and your help will make it sooner.

Bob

Feb 16, 2009 02:22 AM

Larry Story ALC

Total Care Realty - Greensboro, NC

Beneath it all is the Land, Covering all of NC

Excellent post thanks for the tip. I just got a camcorder just for this purpose.

Feb 16, 2009 04:14 AM

Anna "Banana" Kruchten

HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ

602-380-4886

Fred we're trying to get all this stuff going. I read your ideas on a camera in the comments. Could you give me a few ideas of a good camera in the 500 to 600 range. I want one that is simple to use and a no brainer, if there is such an animal. Thanks for this info! Anna Banana www.annabananarealty.com

Feb 16, 2009 04:31 AM

Kristal Kraft

Novella Real Estate - Denver, CO

Selling Metro Denver Real Estate - 303-589-2022

thanks for the encouraging suggestion. I've been making videos of my listings, but haven't taken the time to load them. Guess I'll have to do that right now.

Feb 16, 2009 06:55 AM

Mike Henderson

Your complete source for buying HUD homes - Littleton, CO

HUD Home Hub - 303-949-5848

Awesome post. I can't wait to start doing this. Thanks for explaining it.

Feb 16, 2009 10:01 AM

Maya Garg * ASP/ASA/ABR/CNE/

Royal Lepage Signature Realty,Mississauga, Ontario - Mississauga, ON

Moving you Forward.... Buyers, Sellers, Investors

It was really a great help. Thank you for the tips

Feb 16, 2009 10:29 AM

Eva Aliaga

Partnership Realty Inc - Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton & Delray Beach: SE Florida Real Estate

Fred,

Thanks for the information, just getting more involved with Facebook. This tutorial was great, I just uploaded a video to facebook, not bad. Once again thanks.

Feb 16, 2009 04:03 PM

Douglas Harland

Century21 J.C. Jones American Dream - Grants Pass, OR

Southern Oregon

Hi Fred - Thanks for the info, I just started on Facebook, looks like there are a lot of things that can be done. Doug

Feb 16, 2009 05:58 PM

Bill Blair

Coldwell Banker Realty - Covington, GA

Covington Georgia Realtor Covington Living Homes

Fred... I'm just starting to get into the video, but really had no clue that I could get it on Facebook. Thanks for the post... and instruction!

Feb 17, 2009 04:58 AM

Lise Howe

Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC

Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

Thanks for the post. I am really inspired. What kind of $500-$600 camera do you recommend? I love the low lite recommendation 'cause I also want to use it to tape my daughter's hockey games. Double thanks.

Feb 17, 2009 02:22 PM

Patty Mortara | Hunterdon County (NJ)

Hunterdon County Homes - Flemington, NJ

Great ideas... I love facebook, I have friends from high school, business associates for networking across the country, former customers, family and people involved in my hobbies like cycling and dog showing. I shoot virtual tours using still images, with Visual Tour (and I'm sure other companies now) you can export them as a video file. I have a small digital video camera I bought at the Realtors convention a year or so ago... DigiLife DDV-7300 - I have been happy with it, the buttons are a bit small but it was less than $200 bucks... although what is holding me back is editing. Most software is WAY too complicated.

Feb 18, 2009 12:50 AM

Fred Light

| Nashua Video Tours - Nashua, NH

Real Estate Video Tours for MA and NH

Lise: A really nice camera is the Canon HV20 or HV30. I've seen it around for $600-$700.

Feb 25, 2009 10:28 AM

Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573

MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME

Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

175 million people can't be wrong..if they are there, you need to be there to be seen. Thanks Fred.

Feb 27, 2009 07:55 PM

Tony Grego, 317-663-4173 #1 Trade Association for Alternative Inv

REISA - 317-663-4173 - Indianapolis, IN

Thanks. Folks today need to be on Facebook and the other big social media sites. This is a big help

Tony

Mar 03, 2009 01:05 PM

Albert Vong

Core Horizon - Irvine, CA

Ah ha...going to post a video today!

Mar 11, 2009 10:28 AM

Kathleen Ann Pacheco-Corbett

(FIRST Exclusive Buyer's Office Providence-RI) - Providence, RI

Realtor, RI-MA, CEBA, Master, e-Pro, ABR, ABRM, GR

I just upgraded my Flip ultra to the 3rd generation new Flip Mino HD. It is currently on sale for only $149.00 go to http://www.kathleencorbett.com Use FSANY for FREE SHIPPING I have been having fun taking video clips and posting them on my two fanpages

http://www.facebook.com/ThebuyerschoiceRI

http://www.facebook.com/KathleensAvonBoutique

Oct 23, 2010 05:28 AM