Video chat allows real estate agents and clients to see each other in real time while they are talking, creating a more intimate and personal communication experience. Video chat makes it possible for real estate agents to develop a personal relationship with home buyers that do not live in the area, as well as with local buyers who have extremely limited availability.

The stress of finding and purchasing a home can be particularly grueling for long-distance home buyers who, by virtue of their absence, are forced to be more dependent on their Realtor than local buyers for reliable information about local schools, community services, neighborhood ambience and other issues that are important to home buyers. The ability to actually see their Realtor while discussing their housing needs and potentially suitable real estate listings can provide the extra bit of comfort and reassurance that many long-distance home buyers need.

Beyond its use as a highly effective client communication tool, video chat also offers real estate firms a viable video conferencing alternative. Video chat provides the benefits of video conferencing without the need for a video conferencing system. There’s no complicated set up, specialized equipment, lag time or expense. Video chat allows real estate firms to connect agents or multiple offices in real time for weekly briefings, training sessions or idea exchanges. Video chat allows real estate companies to create an anytime anywhere virtual conference room via computer or smartphone, a considerable advantage in our highly mobile world.

Make sure you’re reaping the full benefits of new real estate technology; contact Properties Online today.

Video Chat Offers Realtors New Communication Tool is a post from: Properties Online Blog

Still marketing your listings with flyers and print ads? While these no doubt still work, you should not be missing out on the amazing power of the Web! Using Web tools to market your listings, when combined with traditional marketing methods, will expose your listings to a significantly larger number of prospects and can help you land listings.

There are many ways to market your listings online, including posting them on your agent site, creating a single property site for each listing, and using social media channels such as a blog, a Facebook business page or a Twitter account.

One of the more exciting ways you can market your listings is by creating a real estate video for each of them. This takes advantage of the “fun” and “cool” aspects of online marketing and has a great potential of becoming viral and being shared by many users.

Creating a video for your listings is easy with the right tools. A site such as Virtuets, for example, enables you to create stunning videos for each listing, using still images, music and special effects. You select the genre and the soundtrack that best fits the property, and the Virtuet engine does the rest.

These engaging videos are included in each single property website and will help you land listings by impressing even the most discriminating sellers. The videos can also be uploaded to YouTube, embedded into your agent website or blog, and posted on your Facebook business page.

Step into the 21st century by using one of the richest media available to agents. Impress sellers and buyers alike, and create a name for yourself as a social-media-and-tech-savvy agent. Don’t allow yourself to be left behind!

Market your Listings with Video is a post from: Properties Online Blog

This is where search engine optimization becomes important. There are many things you can do to help major search engines such as Google index your site correctly, and we help you with them. One of the things you need to do is submit your website to all the major search engines. We do that for you – one less thing to worry about!

We also include a link exchange opportunity in our agent sites. When you get legitimate links from other websites that point at your site, you increase your site’s authority and therefor its visibility in the search engines.

When it comes to on-page optimization, or in other words the way you optimize your own site to include important keywords, our real estate sites enable you to modify your meta tags to include your surrounding areas and your areas of expertise.

We also provide tutorials on pay per click marketing using tools such as Google Adwords, on blogs (blogging is a great way to add relevant, optimized content to your agent site!), and other ways to help drive traffic to your real estate site .

Real Estate Websites: Why You Need Search Engine Optimization is a post from: Properties Online Blog