While it can be a game-changer to be suddenly watched by the world, most small businesses don’t need this level of exposure to see results.
Source: Why You Don’t Need to Go Viral to Make Video Marketing Work
Realtors need Video Marketing
It’s 2016. Mr. or Mrs. real estate professional you no longer have an excuse for not AT LEAST looking into video marketing.
We know the excuses.
“I don’t have the money.” – A couple of thoughts here: 1. When are you going to get the money? When your invisibility on the internet magically brings you lots of new clients? We don’t mean to sound mean. LOL. But its true that to make money you must spend money. And every marketing expert will tell you video is key, along with a strong presence on the internet (i.e. social media). We know you’ve heard this at your real estate company’s monthly sales and marketing meetings. Haven’t you?
2. How do you know you don’t have the money if you don’t pick up the phone and call a video production expert, like Total Broadcasting service? It’s easy to dismiss something of which you have no knowledge. But when you invest the 5 minute phone call and 20 minute face-to-face meeting with someone who knows yours questions before you ask them and provides all the answers you will then authoritatively know if you have the money or not. Perhaps someone who has worked with other professionals like yourself can provide some ideas that you’ve not thought about.
“I can do the videos myself”- OK. Ignoring the FACT that your video production quality will inevitably be of poorer quality than what can be done by a professional, we must ask the obvious question, why haven’t you? Again, its an easy excuse to say you’ll do something and then never get around to doing it. It’s also a poor business decision to take all the time necessary for scripting, recording, editing, and then posting or placing your video where people can see it rather than concentrating your valuable time working on behalf of your clients buying and selling homes. Best to invest the money in someone whose entire business interest is in helping you grow yours.
“I get all my business through referrals”- Let us repeat…its 2016. No matter how successful or unsuccessful your real estate business is, imagine how it could be if your referrals could actually find you on the internet thanks to some quality, well produced and well placed marketing, and introductory videos. In today’s internet age no referral just calls you based on someones recommendation. They Google you first. And if you are not showing up, or blanketing the 1st page Google search results, you know who will appear before the eyes of YOUR referral? Other Realtors. Other real estate professionals who spent the money, and time to get their presence seen on the search result for a local Realtor. That should be you in front of their eyes. But its not because you have no valid internet presence. We can change that.
Windermere Realtor Cathy Wahlin is just one of the real estate professionals we’ve helped with videos like this one:
Mortgage agents, Home inspectors, and anyone whose business profits from the buying and selling of residential homes need the monthly video service Total Broadcasting provides.
Don’t take our word for it. In a buildfire.com article titled Real Estate Marketing Ideas From 19 Top Experts nearly all of them specifically write about the need for professional videography/photography.
If we have finally convinced you to do what you know you should have been doing all along stop reading now. Stop surfing the internet now. Don’t click on another link. Let’s see if we can help you. Call Total Broadcasting Service at 425-687-0100. While they last we’ll give you a pair of Seattle Seahawks game tickets for this 2016 season just for becoming a new monthly video customer.
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What Business Owners Want
Total Broadcasting’s Picture/Quote Service is great at improving interactivity between businesses and their customers.
My personal habits, likes and dislikes provide for some interesting contradictions. One that I admit to is the fact that I like quality service and products for myself and for my customers. In the eyes of many my other more overriding quality is that I am quite thrifty. Not cheap. I just don’t like spending money unnecessarily.
As with many I have translated my personality and preferences into what is offered my clients through Total Broadcasting Service, my video and audio production company in Seattle. I could get into great detail, but I won’t. Simply put, business owners want quality and lots of money-spending customers…but they don’t want to pay for it. Business owners want marketing exposure and the results good marketing and branding provides…but they don’t want to do a darn thing to facilitate this marketing. They want you to do it for them. And far too many don’t want to pay you for the work you provide.
Hmmm….so as an owner of a business-to-business company with a goal of pleasing our customers and helping those business owners achieve their business and personal goals how do we overcome this clear contradiction in business owners wants?
Here is our personal example. Total Broadcasting Service was a pioneer in the video-marketing for the web services that are growing exponentially now. When we added video to our menu of services nearly 5 years ago our primary goal was to provide the service inexpensively, thus complying with this authors personal beliefs and desire to be thrifty. We worked hard to get early customers in a field for which we had nearly no experience. Upon reflexion I can say our videos weren’t very good. But they were cheap. Our practice was to get a customer, take their money, produce their video and provide it to them and then thank them, hoping they would use their videos well and call us again in the future with orders for more work.
You can probably guess what happened. The business owners took the videos and (presumably) stored them in their computers never to be seen again…by anyone…most notably their customers or potential customers. The business owners didn’t have the acumen or the time to acquire it to post their own marketing videos anywhere on the internet including their Social Media (“What’s that? Oh you mean Facebook and Tweeter or whatever its called?”) or their websites. As a result few of them called us back for more work and some looked at their time and money invested in the creation of the video as a waste.
Graphic Facebook Insights shows tremendous improvement in customer interactivity while employing added services, and a decrease when not.
So, we had some work to do. We chose to improve our services. Going forward, anyone we sold a video was going to have us post that video onto their own YouTube Channel, and if they didn’t have one we would create one for them; and we would post that YouTube video onto their Facebook business page, and if they didn’t have one we would create one for them.
Simultaneously while assuring that the videos we produced for our customers would at least have a chance of being seen or found we worked diligently at improving the quality of our videos. We learned better editing and production techniques and programs. We learned better methods and got better equipment for when we shot video.
The results were wonderful. As expected our customers benefited from the changes we implemented and didn’t mind the slight increases in pricing these changes required. And they showed their pleasure by routinely renewing their orders with us and keeping us growing as a company.
Skip forward a couple of years to 2014. The internet, marketing, search engines and social media are all constantly changing. What worked yesterday may no longer be a best practice. So it was with our video, social media, and internet marketing service. We added services since it became apparent our customers needed those added services to best market themselves and grow their business. With the added services our prices increased.
The good news is we made more money with a few customers who added these extra services and we were quickly able to graphically show results for our customers. The added services and expenses were proving to be worth it. The bad news…not enough business owners wanted or could afford to pay for the added services we felt would be necessary in today’s world of internet advertising. So we lost out on too many customers we otherwise might have been able to sign-up had we been offering them the earlier diminished services at lower prices.
The lesson learned; a lesson that is an age-old lesson in business, don’t give the customers what you think they need. Give the customers what they want. But we don’t have to be so cold about it. There is good news on the other side of this seemingly dark lesson. Once you give the customer what they want, you earn their trust. Upon earning their trust…you can add to the services you provide and grow your business with the customers you already have. After all, it’s an age-old business adage that 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers. In following this method everybody wins. And isn’t that what you were shooting for to begin with?
Make providing your customer what they want your top priority, work your butt off to make it serve them as best possible. Upon earning their trust and serving their wants…approach them again…give them what they need…and subsequently serve them better.
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YouTube vs. Facebook: Only One Of These Still Has An Audience | Betabeat
Is it possible that the King of social media could be taken down? The answer is…its already happening. Click on the link below for some hard facts about your need to put your business on YouTube.
YouTube vs. Facebook: Only One Of These Still Has An Audience | Betabeat.
Total Broadcasting Service puts you and/or your business on YouTube. You can’t use 20th Century business practices in the 21st Century and be successful. Grow your business. Join the 21st Century. Call Total Broadcasting: 425-687-0100.
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Why All Businesses Should Have a YouTube Channel
Online advertising is available in many forms. But few are as effective and inexpensive and convenient as having a YouTube video, or better yet, videos. Click the link below for a very good article we strongly endorse.
Why All Businesses Should Have a YouTube Channel.
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