 | posted on May 21, 2010 |
HootSuite is The Professional Social Media Dashboard!
If you manage multiple social profiles or share your social media duties with friends or co-workers, HootSuite's for you. If you're interested in tracking how many people click the links you tweet out, HootSuite can help you. If you want to pre-schedule your messages or feed your blog to your social networks, we've got you covered.
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| posted on May 17, 2010 |
If you have a real estate web site or blog, you need video, you know it and so do your prospects and clients. I’m not talking about virtual tours of your listings. I’m talking about using video every step of the way through the process.
Using YouTube for Real Estate Website Traffic.
Videos Can Bring Real Estate Buyers and Sellers to Your Site.
YouTube videos turn up in high position in some searches based on their tags and content descriptions. You can't overlook YouTube as a resource in your Internet marketing plans.
The visitors to your real estate website come from all around the country and the world. Many of them are looking for more information about the area to help them with a second home or a relocation decision. It is reasonable to expect that your site will be re-visited regularly if you provide local area information in detail.
With high speed Internet access in most offices and households, video is expected from a real estate website. It's not difficult to produce a video from still photos, and you really don't even need to place an embedded video on your site if it's costly or difficult for you.
Whether you're doing nature shots, businesses, local parks, or other area sights, get some videos done, and you can upload them to a free YouTube account for all to see. You place a link in your videos to your real estate website. When searching the YouTube video site with your local area keywords, your videos will be found by potential clients. Even if they're not ready now, they will always have that link when viewing a video on YouTube. Knowing it's a real estate site, that visitor must be focused on more real-estate related information if they click through from the video.
Put videos of your listings up on YouTube as well. It will impress your listing clients, plus you can use the titles and credits in the video to put out price and other information. If you're blogging, there are several easy and free ways to embed a video into a post, or a player in the sidebar. Get out with that Flip or camera and start building a YouTube Channel that markets your area and your business.
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