Tara Jones- Atlanta, GA

We've been preaching it for a very long time...Real estate professionals need high quality video content on their website. It helps with SEO results, it portrays a more professional image and retains viewership some 70-percent longer than a website without video.

But let’s get real. Times are tough and high quality video production can be expensive. Well, we have the solution. The Video Connector , is sending out an early holiday gift... FREE VIDEO!!

It’s simple. Just log on to TheVideoConnector.com/FreeVideo and cut and paste the embed code, put it on your site and reap the benefits!

I had a wonderful conversation with a local agent from Atlanta, GA the other day in which he used the following analogy that I would like to share.

He said think of the housing market as a dance with 100 girls. Given the current market conditions, only 6 girls will be asked to dance out of the entire room. So now you have to start looking at the competition in the room. Is your girl pretty? Does she make a good first impression? Is there anything enticing about her from a far? And lastly, how expensive is she to dance with? If she's too high, the other girls may start to look more appealing.

So what can we learn from this analogy? First of all, home ARE selling but only the best of the best. So if you're listing a property, you owe it to yourself and the seller to do everything you can to put its best foot forward immediately and price it appropriately. This approach will also help reestablish the competitiveness in the marketplace, ultimately, raising the prices of homes in the long run.

The above is the exact reason we created the Seller's Video Connector. It falls right in line with our mission statement of creating tools that help real estate professionals be successful. This marketing tool is a DVD with 10 videos that teach sellers how to improve their home once they put it on the market. Topics such as how to stage your home, creating enviable curb appeal and creating a neutral color scheme are all directed to the seller in an easy to understand format designed for them to do themselves, ultimately saving money and increasing the value of their home.

This makes your job easier as an agent and will hopefully put more money in your pocket in the long run by not only increasing your odds of getting your listing to be asked to "dance".

TUES, NOV 3RD 10AM TO 1:30PM

1303 PARKER ROAD, CONYERS, GA 30013

3 HR CE | Cost of course: $12

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6 OF OUR TOP INSTRUCTORS IN ONE DAY HELP YOU FIND YOUR NICHE!

This three hour CE course is designed to give you a better understanding of many of the real estate specialization courses available today. You will have the opportunity to hear from the instructors of these courses in an interactive setting. These short informative sessions will give you the information you need to navigate through the many courses and specialties available to real estate professionals. There will be a Q&A session and a meet and greet following the presentation.

3 Hour Overview Course

Course 3 Hrs | Registration begins at 9:30am Class starts 10am and ends at 1:30pm

• Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate & Investments
• REO Specialist (Bank Owned)
• Real Estate Short Sale Specialist
• Quick books for Real Estate Agents
• GAR Contracts - Special Stipulations - Ethics
• Media Marketing
• International - Immigration - Investments
• Home Staging
• Buyers Agent Specialist

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This class is brought to you by The Georgia Training Center dba American Real Estate University

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DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT post your videos to YouTube among the general mass of videos. Why? Your video will reside in the vortex that is YouTube meaning it will be paired with videos that you may not want to be associated with. Each time a video is done playing on YouTube another "video suggestion" pops up for the viewer to choose. These videos were chosen based on key words in the title of the last video.

Here's how this can hurt your and your business. If you have a great video that you posted on downtown Atlanta and after it ends your competitor's video pops up because he, too, specializes in downtown Atlanta, you just did yourself a disservice and helped your competition to boot. You can also have "unsavery" or distasteful videos pop up after yours if you're not careful, potentially offending clients when all you were trying to do was help. How does that happen? Well take one of our clients for example...Bottom Line Home. After his video was done playing on YouTube various videos pertaining to “bottoms” popped up! UGH!! Now think about people who embed the YouTube video player on their site and have these problems. They are now contaminating their own personal site with YouTube issues all for the sake of SEO results. And here’s the real unfortunate part. Once you place your videos on YouTube, they’re there.

So here's how to avoid these massive problems and still get all the Google juice from posting your video(s) on YouTube. Simply create your own channel. This is a free service on YouTube and takes all of about 15 minutes. You can customize the colors, format, etc. to really make it a design that matches your current branding. The great news is that once your video is done playing, if you have another one posted, that will be the suggested video to play. No more imposition of YouTube junk. Just the quality and professionalism you want to portray :-)

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