Tip Tuesday: Creating a Killer Listing Presentation
Here’s a fast and easy way to create a killer listing presentation using some off the shelf, free tools.
Download Photo Story 3 from Microsoft. Microsoft will need to validate your copy of Windows before you can download this software, so make sure you have a legit copy of XP!
Photo Story allows you to quickly create photo slideshows using the very cool ‘Ken Burns effect’, which gives life to your static images by zooming in and out and panning across the subject matter. You can personalize your photo with titles and captions and even add voice narration to each one. Add a background music track and then export the whole thing as a movie for playback on your computer or online.
Now you have something you can embed in a PowerPoint presentation, or by using Google Video, Vimeo or YouTube you can upload it and stream directly onto your web site.
Here’s one, I put together quickly as a demo for my company, Prudential Northwest Properties.
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Chicago Real Estate | Oct 17, 2006 | Reply
I did basically the same thing, without using YouTube. YouTube has a non-business/promotional use clause in its terms of use document, so I try to stay away from YouTube.
I host the video and my virtual tours on my own server and on Yahoo! Video.
Give the Chicago real estate online real estate listing presentation a look, as well as one of my latest video tours - a knock out condo on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive.
Fred Light | Dec 5, 2006 | Reply
The advantage of putting these videos on sites like YouTube, Blip.TV, Yahoo Video, etc. is that if they are written and tagged correctly, they get indexed in the regular Google search results very fast - and it creates a great one way link to your website. For example, search on "Hudson New Hampshire House for Sale" and you will see a number of listing videos showing up in the top ten. Not too shabby!
Laura Kaan | Feb 12, 2007 | Reply
Interesting, I never thought about using your video listings to help with SEO. I looking into using these tools for my listings, I’m just not sure which service to use.
Dylan Tanaka | Feb 13, 2007 | Reply
The future of real estate sales will be highly affected by the use of video.
Dylan Tanaka
President
Pretty Michigan Homes, Inc
http://www.PrettyMiHomes.com