By Jason Lyvers | Marketing and Social Media Administrator

Real Estate Pictures You Can Use

I love when I find useful online tools, I love it much more when those tools are free.  I discovered an online tool a few days ago that I feel has tremendous use for the real estate professional, and that can make your photography for real estate much more interactive- thinglink.com.  Thinglink allows you to upload a photo - in this case we're going to assume one of your listings - and then embed links within the photo that, when the photo is hovered over with your computer screen cursor, show up on the picture as various icons.  

My initial thoughts on using this tool is that it's very simple and user friendly.  You do have to embed the finished photo via HTML code into your desired destination, but that's as easy as clicking an "embed this photo" button that Thinglink automatically adds to every picture and then entering the HTML editor screen of your blog/website (like Activerain has in their tool bar when you're adding a blog piece here).  The functionality of Thinglink is tremendous and I've been thinking of all the various links that I could add to a photo - link to that property's page on your website, link to a Google Map showing the property's location in your town, links to your various social media accounts, etc.  You can click on the photo above to see how I put Thinglink into action on our team's website.  I'd love to hear from other agents or marketing folks to see if you have any fresh ideas for using this tool.  

The Miles and Smith Real Estate Group is an aggressive team with excellent communication and follow up, helping 103 families in 2011 and 150 already in 2012!  We are currently ranked in the Top 10 Realtors registered with The Louisville Board of Realtors and the #1 team at Keller Williams Realty Louisville East.  We would love to show you how we can use our knowledge, experience and extensive social & digital media expertise to help you with any of your real estate needs!