BEST, MOST PHOTOS SELL HOMES FASTER!

It's up to you.

You want to sell this house.

You know this single, good photo is going to languish on line

for seventy days and the home is going to sell

for considerably less that the asking price.

But if you put it with 15-19 other photos,

32 days is more like it.

That is what REALTOR magazine says.

So add the power:

-of virtual tours,

-redecorating the listing on line,

-an interactive floor plan,

-web distribution of the tour,

-and one million visitors a month.

Do the math.

Looks good, doesn't it?

Call us!

Steve

Obeo WI -262-325-8687

Obeo in Your Area - 800-729-6236

Real Estate Video is NOT the consumer choice.

I hope this real estate video works...hope the lighting is ok...it costs a lot...

where does it go?...who is seeing it?...does this really work?

(clipart courtesy of clipartheaven.com)

Sellsius offers up a late serving of turkey with a video from Brian Copeland , a Realtor in Nashville. (His blog, Nashville and Beyond, has decent content and some pretty funny and fun things things to know about the area.)

Even though the market forces have virtual tours as the leading form of RE marketing-over a million buyers a month visit Obeo-once more we have to hear how RE web video is the way to go.

My reply at Sellsius:

Brian,

Virtual tours are the most widely used form of web RE marketing; this is what the consumer wants because this is where the consumer money is being spent.

Video tours do not work for most listings because:

-Video tours are not aggregated or distributed effectively on the web.
-Video tours lack visual quality: most RE video is poor to average.
-Video tours are not cost effective for most listings.

Obeoman
steven.stearns@obeo.com

Virtual tours are the leading form of marketing properties on the web:
Sellers list with Realtors who sell,and Realtors who sell are using millions-perhaps billions, worldwide - virtual tours to market listings.

Because it is cost and labor intensive, RE web video remains a niche tool for luxury listings, unique locations and as a marketing tool for funny, charismatic or extremely dynamic Relators or agencies.

By the way, keep an eye on the blog here - in the coming weeks, Obeo will be showing you why virtual tours are and will remain the best way to market any property on line or anywhere. How buyers love virtual tours, and sellers love them, too.

Buyers want to own their home when they see it on line.

Obeo will help them do that, and more.


I gotta go sell something!

Obeoman

steven.stearns@obeo.com

NO CRAZY-BAD PICTURES, PUH-LEASE!

Sellers hate them!

Buyers like them even less...

So, why do bad real estate pictures end up on the web when they drive sellers to the brink of hysteria and buyers to nausea, and onto the next mediocre batch of images?

Why are there are millions of bad RE photos populating sites that pretend they are actually attracting buyers with good pictures?

Probably because most people think

the picture is "good enough".

Now, think about that statement.

Then, think about really adding value for clients.

What makes a great RE photo?

(Please, let's not argue about good photos- this is your house we are selling!)

Great RE photos must be technically excellent,

with clear, sharp, crisply focus, not tilted, properly exposed with even lighting and no backflash.

Great RE photos highlight the key feature(s) of the room for the buyer, whether it is a bay window, stone fireplace, fantastic decorating and staging or an awesome view.

Great RE photos invite the buyer into the home,

are composed and taken from an angle the room would normally be viewed at.

Who makes a great RE photo, one that makes the Seller smile and the Buyer stick to the on line tour ?

If you don't know who, just call us at Obeo.

We will go out of our way to do it right-

because that's what it takes to make the Sellers smile

and the Buyers buy!

Stay focused!

Obeoman

steven.stearns@obeo.com

Google ranks top snack for Realtors

Click here to see Google rank the top snack for Realtors

-coming in at #1 out of 1,830,000!

...but what would office meetings be without donuts, anyway?

(Less sweet, I think...)

...but if Realtors like donuts this much,

...BUYERS LOVE PHOTOS!

1,000 pictures are worth 1,000 leads-sink your teeth into this over at RIS Media.

The fact: as long as they are good photos, make sure:

as many photos of your listing on line as possible.

(This is where Obeo comes in, obviously.)

and in other sweet news, uberblogger Teresa Boardman is at the top of a list of 25 most influential bloggers in 2007 at Inman News.

And deservedly so - she is a "real" blogger who is not afraid to share what she knows about her community and real estate. She is open and receptive to other bloggers and their ideas. And she has a great sense of humor, too.

The list reads like a Whos' Who of Blogging with too many names to drop

- here, anyway.

Laugh and sell !

Obeoman

steven.stearns@obeo.com