Comments on: Why Selling a Home on YouTube is Impossible. http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/ Real Estate Blog, Mortgage, and Development News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Andrew Mooers http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-414913 Andrew Mooers Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:33:49 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/#comment-414913 Posting to youtube but also to many other video platforms is key. Then putting links on social media web 2.0 outlets...embedded them on your website, in your stand alone blogs and adding them to emails all help. Really slick to do a search for a term and see one of your own videos embedded on the first page of the search. Real Video..not a slide show with piano tinkling is huge!It hits all five senses..not just the eye balls and brands the broker, shows the area...not just the sticks and bricks. Posting to youtube but also to many other video platforms is key. Then putting links on social media web 2.0 outlets…embedded them on your website, in your stand alone blogs and adding them to emails all help. Really slick to do a search for a term and see one of your own videos embedded on the first page of the search. Real Video..not a slide show with piano tinkling is huge!It hits all five senses..not just the eye balls and brands the broker, shows the area…not just the sticks and bricks.

]]> By: Carl Ringwall http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-42242 Carl Ringwall Sat, 05 May 2007 16:43:15 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/#comment-42242 We decided to just take the YouTube method and apply it to my wife's real estate site, ReelTours.biz. We use the same type of FLV encoded videos, and couple the videos with other property info and Yahoo! interactive maps. We are now experimenting with uploading the vids to YouTube as well. Also, it helps to export your listings to Google Base if your broker doesn't already. We decided to just take the YouTube method and apply it to my wife’s real estate site, ReelTours.biz. We use the same type of FLV encoded videos, and couple the videos with other property info and Yahoo! interactive maps. We are now experimenting with uploading the vids to YouTube as well. Also, it helps to export your listings to Google Base if your broker doesn’t already.

]]> By: Fred http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-37838 Fred Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:36:10 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/#comment-37838 I have been doing <a href="http://www.NashuaVideoTours.com" rel="nofollow">real estate videos</a> for a year and a half, and have uploaded hundreds to about a half dozen video websites. The main benefit is that the YouTube listings getting indexed in search engines, where people DO search for real estate. I have, at times, occupied 4-5 search results on page ONE of Google... <em>all with videos.</em> I have been doing real estate videos for a year and a half, and have uploaded hundreds to about a half dozen video websites. The main benefit is that the YouTube listings getting indexed in search engines, where people DO search for real estate. I have, at times, occupied 4-5 search results on page ONE of Google… all with videos.

]]> By: Saverio R. Pellicano http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-37309 Saverio R. Pellicano Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:16:59 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/03/12/why-selling-a-home-on-youtube-is-impossible/#comment-37309 I agree. YouTube is not appropriately categorized YET for real estate buyers to search for properties. I have been producing real estate videopodcasts for about five years now. They are primarily broadcast from my own website RealEstateTVshowcase.Com in a higher quality Windows Media Format (wmv). While I do also upload them to YouTube (It can't hurt), I have found that the best apporach is to provide a link to my website video from wherever on the Internet thatI advertise my listings, usually with the link tag saying somtehing like "See Video of this Home At RealEstateTVshowecase.Com". These real estate related public websites like Realtor.Com etc. are where the real buyers go to look for properties. I also use sign riders at the property with the video link to direct drive-by buyers to the videopodcast of the property. I now host the videos on a dedicated video server which allows them to be podcast in a higher quality than what I have seen on YouTube. Saverio R. Pellicano Alternatives Real Estate Services Pleasant Hill, Ca I agree. YouTube is not appropriately categorized YET for real estate buyers to search for properties.

I have been producing real estate videopodcasts for about five years now. They are primarily broadcast from my own website RealEstateTVshowcase.Com in a higher quality Windows Media Format (wmv).

While I do also upload them to YouTube (It can’t hurt), I have found that the best apporach is to provide a link to my website video from wherever on the Internet thatI advertise my listings, usually with the link tag saying somtehing like
“See Video of this Home At RealEstateTVshowecase.Com”. These real estate related public websites like Realtor.Com etc. are where the real buyers go to look for properties. I also use sign riders at the property with the video link to direct drive-by buyers to the videopodcast of the property.

I now host the videos on a dedicated video server which allows them to be podcast in a higher quality than what I have seen on YouTube.

Saverio R. Pellicano
Alternatives Real Estate Services
Pleasant Hill, Ca

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