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As a aspect of your realtor marketing, do you often snap listing pics on your own or do you hire a professional?
You have absolutely no idea about the horrible comments prospects are uttering about your listing's pics when they're on-line.
Do you have any clue on the number of prospects who are skipping your home because of the pictures? Can you imagine the lessened "D.O.M." you'd have if you simply spent a couple bucks on professional photos?
We've all taken listing pictures for our sellers and thought they were simply fantastic.
Even listing clients I served said they were awesome and I thought so too until I took an agent job in Seattle a while back.
I worked with over 35 separate buyers a month and every day I'd hear, "Did you see those listing photos?
In terms of the selling agent's Realtor marketing, I could gather from the enormous amount of buyer clients I had, that Realtor needed to step up their game with better photography.
I couldn't believe the number of buyers I had who asked if we were in the right house because the photos were so different from the homes they saw originally. Of course, most of my buyers who said this felt like they got taken.
The bottom line was that the pics my buyers saw on the site needed to match up with real life or else they were ticked. Realtor marketing practices need to include the photography too.
I mean, if you have awesome photos online for buyers to see, they'll run to the house that minute. But throw up a ton of junky, dim, angled photos and you won't get 1 showing.
Worse case, if you took images that made the home look like a kingdom, you know what happens? You still had a buyer walk through the house. The obvious way to selling that home is having as many buyers walk through as possible, correct? So don't skimp on your photography, hire a professional for a few dollars.
Almost all the prospects searching for a home will make their choice to see the inside on how good your photography is when they see it on the MLS or another website.
If you did spend the well invested marketing bucks on some professional real estate photography...
Those sellers you have would jump up and down after the house closed in 45 days instead of 9 months.
There wouldn't be any worrying about losing commission because you had to reduce the list price from a stale listing.Pretend being "The Realtor King or Queen" in the area when everyone sees how fast your listing sell.
Stop complaining about how much it costs to hire a pro. It's easy, it's a Realtor marketing technique that is essential. You can't deny the power of this realtor marketing technique if you're a selling agent.
Want some choices?You could grab a professional real estate photographer in your local region and offer them $50-$200 to come to your listing and take some fabulous photos. Be sure they're top notch, have all the right equipment and know the goal of these photos. The worse thing you could do is hire someone like your uncle Joe who can't take a pic better than your four year old.
Your other choice is to go with a company like Vicaso.com who does real estate photography exclusively.
Vicaso started to provide exactly the type of product we're talking about.
Here's the cool thing about www.vicaso.com, they let you set up everything online, including the appointment, how many pics you want, what quality, if you want extra photos, if they need to use certain equiptment for rainy conditions, etc.
No joke, these guys can turn a run down dump and make it look like Trump's penthouse when it's on the web.
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