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Leveraging YouTube™ to Connect With Customers

By
Services for Real Estate Pros with The DotLoop Company

With nearly 500 million unique visitors per month, YouTube™ frequently ranks among the most highly trafficked websites in the world.

Many REATLORS® are using YouTube™ for the same reason any other businesses do: millions of people use it every day! It’s a fantastic platform to showcase properties, introduce yourself, boost your brand and inspire people to contact you immediately.

Here are a few tips on how to use YouTube™ to your advantage:

Make quality videos- The viral nature of YouTube™ should incentivize you to make quality videos. Viewers won’t be inclined to share a video if it’s bad (unless it’s really bad and goes viral for the wrong reasons). Never put out a video that would make one question your integrity and competency. 

Some Basic Considerations for Agents Using Video in Their Marketing

Create a Channel- A YouTube™ channel allows you to categorize your videos with topics and keywords that make it easier for your viewers to find what they’re looking for. You need to tag your videos with phrases commonly used by your target market in order optimize the results on both YouTube™ and Google™.  YouTube™ channels also make it possible to make playlists that direct your customers to similar videos that may be of great use to them.

View DotLoop’s YouTube Channel: DotLoop TV

Interact with viewers- People will leave comments and you need to respond to them. This is an excellent form of engagement to establish relationships with potential clients.

YouTube has provided an immensely pervasive platform for people to share a variety of content. Many REALTORS® in particular have found the site to be a useful source of generating leads or awareness for their brand.

As a REALTOR®, are you building a YouTube™ presence to reach new clients?

Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty
Waves Realty - Melbourne, FL
Florida Space Coast Homes

thank you for the very timely and well written post you have put together here. I need to do this...but have dragged my feet a little.

Sep 21, 2011 03:47 AM
DotLoop Company
The DotLoop Company - Blue Ash, OH

Jeffrey- Like all social media, people need to explore the space to to develop their content.  The advantag of YouTube is that REALTORS have the opportunity share their personality with potential customers in a more dynamic way than with other social media outlets.  The best of luck to you in beginning your YouTube videos. 

Thanks for reading!

Sep 21, 2011 04:03 AM
Diane Grady
Endless Summer Realty - Saint Augustine, FL
Me too! I have wanted to do this for awhile and have not started yet either. I am making this my October goal. Thank you for the motivation!
Sep 21, 2011 04:15 AM
DotLoop Company
The DotLoop Company - Blue Ash, OH

Diane- We're happy to help! That sounds like a great goal for October. We wish you luck and hope it generates a lot of activity for your business! 

 

Sep 21, 2011 04:30 AM
Steven Cook
No Longer Processing Mortgages. - Tacoma, WA

Very good suggestions.  One wonders about the "talking head" agents who seem to think any video will be good for business.  You have pointed out the basics for making it useful.

Sep 21, 2011 04:39 AM
DotLoop Company
The DotLoop Company - Blue Ash, OH

Steven - Those are very good points to bring up. That's why we emphasize "dynamic" content as the way to engage with viewers as opposed to a stagnant "talking head" piece.  We're glad you find the points we've made useful.  

Thanks for reading!

Sep 21, 2011 04:56 AM
Phil Leng
Retired - Kirkland, WA
Phil Leng - Retired

Hi Dot,

I have been doing an average of one video a day.

Quality? Ahhh?

But volume!

Phil

Sep 25, 2011 11:38 PM
Anonymous
DotLoop

Phil- That's great you've been using video to cater to you customers.  Perhaps the more you do it, the better it will get. 

Always great to hear from you.  Thanks for reading!

 

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