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Why Overlooking Video is a Massive Marketing Mistake

Not ready yet to jump onto the bandwagon when it comes to video in real estate marketing? You could be making a massive marketing mistake. Eighty-five percent of buyers and sellers WANT an agent who utilizes video marketing – and that’s not just for “show.”

  • Video boosts Google rankings, increasing organic traffic 157%.
  • Consumers are more likely to select video results over text.
  • Video listings get four times the inquiries of those without.
  • Adding videos to your emails doubles click-through rates – and reduces opt-outs 75%.
  • Using videos massively boosts sharing – 1200% more than links and text messages combined.

On A Budget? Get the Most Bang for Your Marketing Buck
Though video does cost more than simple photos, it is still quite affordable. Statistics show the best way to focus your video marketing to earn the biggest and best return-on-investment include…

  1. Focusing on property videos and community videos.
    Videos most-popular use: 70% of online home shoppers use video to tour the inside of homes without dragging agents to listing sites. 86% also use it to research a particular community (bonus: it’s slow to “date,” making content evergreen and recyclable).
  2. Syndicating to YouTube.
    Holding a 51% audience share, YouTube is the top video research destination for house hunters. So setup your own channel, organize a playlist, and familiarize yourself with user-friendly keyword protocols and take advantage. (Don’t neglect a bio to build your brand!)
  3. Sharing those videos on social.
    Paste your YouTube link into the local MLS, your own website, emails, Facebook and Twitter posts, and more for automatic embedding to ramp up web traffic and views. Properties Online’s line of products includes this service, with most social sites offering FAQs for the uninitiated.

Still on the fence about video use in real estate marketing? Hop over to the other side and experience the benefits with the help of Properties Online’s fast and easy video builder tool today.

Your Audience on Facebook

Infographic: Your Target Audience on Facebook

Facebook accounts for half of the traffic single property websites receive. Check out Qwaya’s amazing infographic explaining how to understand and find YOUR audience on Facebook.

You may be wondering still if Facebook should be part of your overall real estate marketing plan. It should. Facebook accounts for half the traceable traffic to single property websites, according to our internal research. But, I’ll be the first to admit, Facebook can be a major time suck. You want to be able to focus your time and energy where it matters most. So, who is your target audience on Facebook?

Qwaya recently put together an awesome infographic that is all about “Finding Your Audience on Facebook”. This handy graphic shows you in clear terms all your options when building a Facebook relationship with 1/5 of the world’s population – or at least the percentage that matter to YOU and your real estate business (or any business!).

Use Twitter to Build Your Brand Recognition

Don’t fool yourself. Even if you are a single agent, working for yourself, you still have a brand. Your brand is more than just your image – it is people’s perception of your image, of you, of your business, your credentials, your reputation – you get the idea. As social media takes a stronghold on the world of branding and marketing, we are learning newer and better ways to use it to our advantage. Let’s talk about how you can use Twitter to build your brand recognition.

You may want to sit down and map out a brand strategy. Do a bit of Google research or play around on HootSuite (after setting up a free account, of course), and work out ways other people are building brand awareness through social media. See what catches your eye and what you personally find attractive, endearing or smart. Twitter can also be a great platform to promote open houses and other home events.

Twitter can be instrumental in building brand recognition, because it operates in real time and has tremendous reach. You don’t have to be someone’s “friend” or “connection” to start a conversation. Using hashtags and Twitter Chat gives you – and anyone – the chance to be in on the conversation. This is where the real connections get made.

Make sure others will want to know you by updating your Twitter photo and bio. Be approachable, include an interesting fact or two about yourself or your business, say what you like to talk about, and use a great picture (don’t be the egg!).

Here a few tips to getting the most out of Twitter when you’re trying to build brand awareness:

Use photos and videos. Twitter stats show that tweets with images and videos get retweeted more often.

Use hashtags. Experts say to use three separate hashtags for each tweet to help your tweets rise above the masses. Mix them up, post the same content in different ways, using different hashtags. And absolutely use relevant trending hashtags – get involved in larger conversations for greater exposure.

Ride on the coattails of others. If you’re selling a fixer-upper with a ton of potential, try tweeting about it during episodes of Rehab Addict. Want to encourage buyers to use an agent? Tweet while they’re watching Love It or List It. Or use the Million Dollar Listing time slot to tweet about that gorgeous horse ranch you’ve just listed for a new client. Research shows that using relevant hashtags during a trending TV show can really boost your Twitter exposure.

Be yourself. As a real estate professional, your brand ultimately comes down to YOU. Make things personable and personal. Stick to what you know and what you like. Tweet things that interest or engage you. Retweet and comment often, when others tweet things that are important or interesting to you. Thank those who follow and retweet you.

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Easy Social Media Posting from Single Property Websites

Individual property websites are a great way to showcase listings – they tell both the seller and potential buyer that the home or property has worth and value. They’re also incredibly easy to set up and maintain. And easy social media posting from single property websites is one of their most useful features. The ability to quickly and easily add your listing to social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, makes sharing your individual listing websites a breeze.

Promoting your single property websites through social media allows you to market online in a streamlined way, right where your local buyers and sellers are.

“Essentially, social media marketing is a lot like old-fashioned word-of-mouth marketing, but it is done on a much larger scale, thanks to the wide reach of the internet,” clarifies Amanda Cornelius, co-founder and CEO of Properties Online.

Each time you post a listing to your Facebook page, for example, you open the opportunity for someone to pass that listing on. As the housing market bounces back, you’ll find more and more of your “marketing” can be done this way – organic sharing, through real people.

The great thing about the social media and single property websites connection is just how easy it is. For clients of Listing Domains – one of the leading individual listings web products available – posting to Facebook, for example, can be done on an automated basis via an app that allows the agent to add all of his or her listings to Facebook, without any effort whatsoever.

Once listings are added through the app, the agent’s Facebook profile will dynamically update as he or she adds, edits or removes properties from Listing Domains.

If you want to start by promoting your listings is the best possible way, and finish by marketing them through a simple but extremely effective method, you need to be using individual property websites. And you need to be taking advantage of the fabulous benefits they offer – such as social media syncing.

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4 Key Features of Effective Real Estate Sites

There are 4 key features of effective real estate sites that every agent should start with.

Creating a real estate site is an important step in establishing yourself as a savvy, experienced real estate professional that can add lots of value to their clients. But not all real estate sites are created equal. There are 4 key features of effective real estate sites that every agent should start with.

To be truly effective, a real estate site should include the following features:

1. An effective agent site should be optimized for Search Engines
To make the most of search engine traffic, you need to have control over your meta tags. Ideally, the company who hosts your website should submit it to major search engines to make sure it is indexed quickly and properly.

2. An effective real estate website should include built-in social networking tools
These tools enable you, and your website visitors, to easily add your website to social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. The best websites also enable you to build widgets that get automatically updated whenever you add or remove a listing. These widgets can be posted to social media outlets including a blog if you have one.

3. An effective agent site should include real-time lead alerts
Immediate follow up on website visits is extremely important. The best agent websites include tools that send your website leads, in real time, to your text enabled cell phone.

4. An effective real estate site gives you easy access to the website’s statistics
Websites are live creatures that require constant tweaking and monitoring. But the only way you can improve your website’s performance and its appeal to prospects is by having access to statistics that show you how people behave on your site. Quality agent sites include live stats that allow you to track where your visitors are coming from and what they are doing on your site. This enables you to tell if a marketing campaign is working.

In addition, your agent site should have a built-in Google Analytics tool that enables you to easily install Google Analytics on your website. This is an invaluable tool that can provide you with lots of info on your site’s performance.

Remember: it’s not enough to have an agent website. Make sure you sign up with a company that provides high quality, professional looking, effective websites.

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