Archive for the 'Real Estate Marketing' Category



Scent Marketing: Turn Paint Into An Air Freshener

We’ve written before about the marketing power of scent. Companies are using pleasing aromas to market everything from hotels to tennis balls. Real estate professionals have long known about the warm fuzzies induced by baking bread and chocolate chip cookies.
But can baked goods solve all your scent marketing needs? […]

The Poll Results Are In: Blogging is Advertising and Video Gives an Edge in Listing

Here are the results of 2 recent polls. They are by no means scientific.  Thanks to those who voted.
65% say agents who offer video marketing have an edge in listing presentations over agents who don’t.

On the question whether blogging is advertising, 59% voted yes it is.

Technorati Tags: real estate polls, blogging, […]

Is This Zillow Ad Misleading?

This Zillow print ad appears in RISMedia’s December 2007 issue. We wonder if Zillow has evidence to show you will sell a house faster on it’s site than somewhere else. And to what are they comparing? Knowing Zillow’s reputation for transparency, we ask they back up their marketing claim with some data. […]

The Great Video Debate Continues

Jeff Turner of RealEstateShows put together a video “conversation” to examine the “good, the bad, and the ugly” of videoblogging and podcasting in real estate. Quite informative and entertaining– exactly what an effective video ought to be.
Now, you have a choice. You can skip over the 14 minute video and read […]

Sellsius Holiday Gift Ideas: Personalized Gift Card

Want to market yourself for the holidays? Give your own personalized Visa Gift Card, courtesy of Gift Card Lab.
It’s easy. Just go to the site and upload your image (or use one of their designs), add an embossed message, choose the amount of the git card ($10- $250) and the number of cards […]

Slideshare is YouTube Clone for Slideshows

Slideshare aspires to be a YouTube for slideshows (called slidecasts).

The site is free to use
Upload your photos and add a soundtrack to create your slidecast
There is a bulk upload capability
Tag your slides and set up a community to attract similar minded folks
Share your slideshows
Compile your shows and others on your slidespace. (Sample slidespace here)

Real […]

Real Estate Porn: Hotel Edition

In our continuing series on Real Estate Porn, we have a look at the world’s most expensive hotel room, the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa in Las Vegas. The price for a night’s stay is $40,000. Now, that’s what we call obscene.

Hugh Hefner’s Sky Villa is located at the top of the Fantasy […]

Real Estate Porn, Developers Edition

Real estate developers push the advertising envelope much more than your average real estate brokerage. With these ads, the envelope may be starting to tear.
They’re talking about windows, right? Edge (Brooklyn, NY)

They mean affordable, don’ t they? BurnhamPointe (Chicago)

images from copyranter (my new must read blog, written by a fellow New […]

Play Real Estate Videos at Rex Net TV

RexNet.tv is a real estate video website created by Norvell Rose, a Realtor from Virginia Beach, VA.  The videos I sampled were well produced.  The user friendly video player features include Map (via Mapquest),  Track (get alerts when listing changes), Rate (feedback), Email  (video link), Save, and Print.  A short preroll ad (5 seconds) does […]

Use Video To Get The Home Listing

The jury is still out on whether real estate video marketing attracts more home buyers than photographs or slide shows. But it may be game, set, match when it comes to video giving you a listing presentation edge over your non-video competition– at least Brian Copeland thinks so. Brian credits video for his […]