YouTube Thursday | Flying A Real Estate Drone

Your listing presentation. If you shoot a few cell photo verticals in a dark tight room with a dirty lens and no staging, that is the look you want to upload Paddy Deighan MBA JD PhD ?

Do a better job describing your property in the narrative, in the media stills and video. That gets more listings, more sales and a bigger slice of your market share no matter what interest rates are.

No I spy with the little drone eye Laura Cerrano . Had a horse farm video shoot and it was neat capturing horse playing and running. But not because they were scared because of a drone tip toeing in and circling out.

Dennis Neal, thank you for commenting and so true. A video opening drone loop skimming low across a big lake, the ocean, whatever waterfront beauty and then up and over the vacation home that goes with it is dramatic.

If you go too high though, your audience wonders what are we looking at, what's for sale confusion happens. Especially on a mobile phone screen. Think audience UX.

The drone lets you get out over the water and with more than one lens, you can telephoto and compress the distance for say during a spring canoe race community video.

Thank you Michael Jacobs. No different than the other AR alumni right? Delivering information using technology. To avoid becoming a dinosaur lying in the dust wearing a rusted R, we all reinvent, share and learn to stay vibrant. Real estate is a jealous sport and commission based so no other way to approach it if full time committed.

Thank you Wayne Martin. Just broadcast where you are and make the audience feel "You are here" in your zip code location. New routines and changes are part of marketing life reality for sure. Embrace them, don't get stuck in a marketing rut with the rest of the herd.

Just break free and accelerate where the view is better up front. Invest in new equipment but only if you intend to study hard to make it work for you in your unique real estate market. It's all trial and error and refinement.

Anyone can do it and starting small with community videos... short video format production. They don't get easier until you start logging time on YouTube or whatever media channel you feed, weed and water for your audience Dorie Dillard Austin TX !

Going to Galveston is three weeks to climb on a brand new cruise ship headed to blue green island waters! Any pointers as the local Texan I  should know about?

You learn about what class air space, sectional charts, which direction planes approach runways and FAA systems for safety. No one should fly without instruction and testing Brian England ! The Tony Northrup video below is the best start for the 60 question FAA study for your drone license. Then take lots of practice tests, study the publications. A lot to it.

And who knows, if a commercial pilot ever had medical problems, the co pilot ate a bad burrito up in the cockpit, Kat Palmiotti might click her ruby red slippers. Volunteer to give it a try, go up front. To help land the bird. She knows more than the average bear about airspace because she took the test. Carries an unmanned drone FAA part 107 shiny green blue and white license to fly.

Haha about your photo!

The sectional chart for Dallas Fort Worth TX air space can hit you as a little intimating until you dissect to find out where you can fly or not.

MOA (Military Operational Areas) might make your drone real estate missions a little more restrictive Mark Don McInnes, Sandpoint-Idaho .

Lucky to live in rural Maine with few obstacles due to low population.

Good thinking Dan McElfresh. The drone is not just for YouTube channel or to embed in website blog posts or to email the url to buyers. The drone video can be your website header and used on LED digital signs out front your real estate office displays.

The cinewhoop Avata drone with joy stick can glide through the open sliders and come out the end of the inside tour second floor bathroom window.

You sit on the floor in a closet with virtual goggles to not appear in the video Kathy Streib. More like technical instrument flying in tight quarters.

But outside, lots more freedom if not windy, raining, or in a restricted airspace or lots of tree limbs, electrical guy wires, buildings, even birds to maneuver around. Like this ice fishing lake video snippet shows tracking three snowsledders from overhead.

Here to help get a real estate video channel off the ground and to avoid the turbulence and flatten the learning curve if I can. Craig Daniels and others on the AR University campus all pitching in to do the same Roy Kelley !

That link is the official FAA site created by Uncle Sam Raymond Denton. If you benefit from the drone work, video uploads, then it is commercial.

Many think unless I hire out the drone services, it is not commercial activity. It is and everyone should be licensed otherwise a lot of drone aerial birds added to already crowded skies. Fly safe, know the rules. No one wants to cause an accident or be aviation unsafe right?

Which drone to buy? Tony Northrup compares a few drone models.

Lots of AR bloggers textingd and emailing wanting to do simple videos to tap the most powerful marketing weapon in the entire tool box Jeff Dowler, CRS. There are so many ways to increase your views with not much extra effort. Checking out your channel.

Expand the community flavor video playlist with all that happens locally around Escondido or wherever the agent lives just makes practical sense.

     Today with all the commission talk and how to slice and dice the fee, the listing agent that does video will take off and soar. The drone only enhances the experience @edsilva !

     No more hemming, hawing waiting around for a buyer agent to call back, set up a convenient time showing. Videos, another longer word for N-O-W. Drive through NASCAR pit stop quick and easy.

     Quality presentation, being available to instantly tour the property listings, the local community events and having one after another property to try on for size 365-24-7. No more 9-5 M-F dilly dally using  the dinosaur yesteryear agent.

     Move aside for the stampede. Available 365-7-24 open house on demand tours makes videos the crown jewel of marketing. Sellers expect video, buyers demand them and if you don't provide them. Well now Chummy, I bet the home buyer can find someone in every real estate market that is stocking their shelves with helpful time saving videos. Think customer UX.

     The problem Jerry Newman is dusty, hit or miss and no dialed in correctly video channels. If you have one that is fed, weeded, watered, whoa. So many leads are generated because videos deliver instantly. IF.. IF done right and you keep uploading more of them to save your buyer beaucoup time.

     Listing agents using video, already have buyers who saw the house and calling them directly. That's what buyers want. No delay, give me one after another video to take the tour on their time frame. Not the seller, not the renter, not your availability. They need to see, hear, tour the property right now... like tapping your UBER or Lyft app, done in minutes quick and easy. Real videos not slide shows do that. 

Thank you Kathy Streib !

So many tips to share on drone safety and creative maneuvers Vickie Teel. This listicle top ten drone mistakes video helps any pilot new or old stay sharp.