Real Estate Blog, Mortgage, and Development News
Today is Tuesday, December 02nd, 2008
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Matt Fagioli, DiamondDwellings.com Moderator
Rudy Bachraty, Trulia.com
Christian Sterner, WelcomeMat.com
Bob Stewart, ActiveRain.com
Tony Grey, Vidlisting.com
Tara Jones, AtlantaDwelling.tv
Session:
The talk is about using video to sell homes. The need for quality production is an important part of the theme.
An interesting interview by WelcomeMat [...]
If you are looking for ideas on how effective video for selling real estate is, take a look at this excellent example created by RexNet for Smith’s Landing, a apartment complex just off the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
You may recognize the guy in the photo. He is Bruce Smith a partner in the [...]
This is an interesting concept. The Auction Network will be selling all sorts of items including homes on television and the internet starting in late October and rolling out through the next year. With America’s fascination with eBay and other auctions, this will be a great way to be a voyeur and participant in auctions [...]
20Sep2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | ContinuedFew know the amount of work that a real estate agent or mortgage brokers puts into all of the aspects of their business. The combination of prospecting, selling, showing, managing, repairing, coddling, prodding, advising, cajoling, and advising is taxing for all those in the industry.
But as you are all independent contractors, I hope the [...]
There is a wonderful commercial that Holiday Inn put out last March about blogging. Dave Winer referenced it yesterday and as I tend to do, I put it in a real estate agents perspective.
Blogging is a wonderful tool to get your name and face out in the world as an expert. And the speed that [...]
If you are interested in using video in your marketing mix, I found this tonight via Jeff Jarvis’s site. It is how Google is going to be inserting advertisements in YouTube videos.
It looks very cool and could have a first mover for some smart real estate marketers.
12Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
First there was the whole refurbishing craze of show teaching homeowners how to get their abode in good shape via Lowes or the Home Depot. Then came the plethora of flip it shows, but market conditions are making these shows dated very quickly. Now the good folks at TLC in conjunction with the BBC are [...]
9Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | ContinuedIt is interesting in the new era of media and marketing how emerging markets work. While in the United States we have a huge cost of entry to start a national media company (although Seth Godin points out how this may be the time to own the online video portion of a niche), emerging markets such as [...]
15Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | ContinuedIf you are a fan of home renovations and those ubiquitous Home Renovation and Flipping shows that were so popular a couple of years ago, this is a must read post. The star of “Flip This House”, Sam Leccima of Atlanta, has led a checkered past including losing his real estate license and not selling [...]
2Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 5 comments | ContinuedSelling a home these days means that it has to be marketed through the internet. And for the home to be sticky on the internet, photography is very important. The Los Angeles Times had a great post on photographing homes for the web. I have culled some of the best advice and added some of [...]
29May2007 | Tom Royce | 5 comments | Continued