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Using YouTube to promote your community: Sandpoint Blog

By Gary Lirette

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March 29, 2011 11:20 PM

While videos are great for selling things, in our case real estate, it is paramount to promote the communities you are targeting. In my case, I love my community. I want others to love it. Showing what our town and region is all about helps get that sentiment across. Pictures sell a listing, but videos really communicate the essence of a place.

Last Sunday I saw a great 'Traditions' band play rock and blues at a neighborhood spot. It was a great acoustic concert by Cody Beebe and the Crooks at Di Luna's in Sandpoint, Idaho. Always great festivals and things going on in Sandpoint, what with gigantic Lake Pend Oreille underneath Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort. Still, one of the best things is the music scene.

This groups was surprising, and being from New Orleans, they made me feel right at home. Check out their website: http://www.codybeebeandthecrooks.com/

You can always learn more about Sandpoint and North Idaho from real estate to my radio shows at noon on Tuesdays on KSPT and KBFI.

Call me any time at 208-610-1384

We also provide two great community websites for tons of information about Sandpoint and Schweitzer: http://SandpointID.net and http://SkiSchweitzer.net

Di Luna's in Sandpoint, Idaho

Cody Beebe and the Crooks at Di Luna's

Gary Lirette with friend Lisa Guscott at Di Luna's

Concert at Di Luna's in Sandpoint, Idaho

Di Luna's in Sandpoint, Idaho

Di Luna's Sandpoint

Gary Lirette, featured in Where To Retire magazine and host of the Tuesday noon local radio shows: North Idaho Business as well as North Idaho Arts.

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Gita Bantwal

RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA

REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

I have not used YouTube. I will check out the link and also see if anyone is promotong my community.

Mar 29, 2011 11:31 PM

Kathy Denworth

BHHS Keys Real Estate - Islamorada, FL

Realtor in the Florida Keys, Islamorada, Key Largo

I am in favor of video, but what equipment is everyone using? I have an old Flip and my Canon takes movies, but how do you get a good picture and not so much movement?

Mar 29, 2011 11:43 PM

Michael Delaware

North Sky Realty LLC - Battle Creek, MI

REALTOR®, CRS, GRI

Very good plan of action Gary. I have begun exploring YouTube this year, and I intend to put together some great videos about the community this year as one of my projects.

Mar 30, 2011 01:17 PM

Business & Investing in the Inland Northwest

Kathy,

Most of the newer point-and-shoot cameras have better video in them than the best video cameras had just a couple of years ago. I chose my Kodak Z980 because it was 12 megapixels, has wide angle (24mm) and zooms 600. Plus, the video is 1080p Hi-def.

What this means is it has everything I need for real estate for under $500.

Some tricks are to try and get artistic angles, you know, not straight on shots, and not to zoom when possible.

That is the biggest drawback is the subpar zoom.

You can easily edit with Microsoft Movie Maker, and best of all, it's free. I also use CyberDirector, which only costs about $100.

Anyway, as you can see, my videos aren't so great, but compared to what people are putting on YouTube in my community, they are much better, and hopefully brings attention to my town and paints me in a good light.

Hope this helps.

Gary

Apr 04, 2011 08:29 AM

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