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Virtual Tours should be mandatory

I love Virtual Tours on listings.  But what is surprising to me is how few agents use them.  I am putting them on all my house and condo listings.  Also I will be adding them for each land and lot listing.    I just got a listing that was an expired.  The previous agent had not used a virtual tour.  In the first 24 hours of taking the listing there were over 20 views of the tour.  Most tour vendors have traffic tracking that can be viewed and emailed to your clients.  What a great way to stay in touch with your seller.  Also on REALTOR.com you can use the traffic reports to see how many page views and how many times someone clicked on the tour.

So, it seems as web site traffic goes up the showings go up a week or so after.  And vice versa.  Another point is that when you are getting no showings but plenty of web traffic you have to discuss with the seller that the market is making other selections to go see and eliminating theirs.  I think REALTOR.com is a great tool for tracking web traffic of out of town buyers.  Most of the buyers I have spoken with that use REALTOR.com,  have started there but ended up changing to a local broker’s web site.

I just sold a condo site unseen except for the virtual tour and a youtube.com video.  So why not put them on every listing?  If you are a new agent, take the advise that you are going to put this in your budget for each listing.  The company I use is Visualtours and they charge $29.95 a month for unlimited tours.  The company I used before sent a photographer out and did everything for $75 a pop.  Either way I think our clients deserve the best Internet exposure.  It also help other agents preview the home for potential buyers.  I do that all the time.  When available.  I wish they were mandatory.  Set yourself from the pack and do tours on all your listings.  Most companies brag about tours but when you look at your mls you will see that most agents do not have them.

Good Luck.  And remember if you have a referral for the Lake Norman, NC area.  Please give me a call.  We will take care good care of your referral.  And use a virtual tour.

 

Rick Knight

1-888-892-7373 Ext 105

I love youtube.com

I use youtube.com for my real estate sales business.  I also use it to to learn new songs for my guitar playing.  I use it for doing research for any upcoming trip.  I have noticed that more and more web sites have youtube.com videos.  If you are in sales you must.  I say ” MUST !!!”  get with the program. 

Check out www.youtube.com  then search for  Rick Knight ERA Wilder Realty

The commercials in red were produced by Time Warner cable for my TV ads on the local cable channel.  I just then post them on youtube.com.