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Think like one of your prospects for second: would you be more likely to follow up with a Realtor or agent who hands you a business card and flyer OR one that hands you a stunning, hi-resolution DVD with animated listing pictures as well as video clips portraying him as a top producer?

Let’s talk about using video and dvd’s at open houses, the Shiloh Street University way, so you can capture a boat load of leads.

For you, the Realtor or agent, the goal of the open house is to generate leads. It’s a marketing time for you. The seller may think you’re just trying to sell their house but that’s only half the goal, right? You’re trying to capture buyer and seller leads for your business. You don’t care which ones they are, you just want them!

So with this marketing technique, you can use the same DVD for both types of prospects; buyers and sellers. It makes life easier for you so you’re not making different marketing videos for different prospects. And this DVD isn’t going to be your typical “virtual media tour” that you’re used to. This sucker is going to make your prospect’s jaw drop.

With regular virtual media tours on DVD, they bring you through a home picture-by-picture; not much text, animation, video clips or music. It’s basically just a slide show of pictures, right? It’s a decent marketing tool and definitely better than just a boring listing flyer. But what you can do, with a few video software companies out there, is spice up the video An example would be Animoto.com.

You’ll throw all your listing pictures into the marketing video as usual but you can add……

• video clips of the beach, just like the video on the right side of this page.
• clips of the city at night, if you’re selling an urban home or condo.
• video that’s shot looking out of a plane, flying over corn fields if you’re selling acreage in the sticks.
• your own flowing text and captions to enhance the prospect’s experience.
• the right music that will sell that house before lunch time.

(Most of these companies already has these clips, images and music for you, by the way).

Think about the emotion you will create in your prospect. Include images and video clips that will inspire that for them.

People don’t buy “rationally”, as much as we rational folks would like to think. Buying is all about emotion, as you already know as a Realtor or agent. Inspire that emotion in your prospect and they’ll act accordingly.

It’s like creating a mini motion picture for your prospects. Imagine what that’ll do, not just for selling your listing but for building and marketing your personal brand and reputation as a Realtor or agent.

In addition to trying to sell them on the particular listing you’re holding open, you’ll want to use the 2nd half of the video to include images and video clips that convey YOU; your brand, your reputation, your image.

If they don’t end up buying this house, you want to sell yourself so they use you on the next one. The same principles apply here as they did when trying to sell the house in the first half of the video. It’s all about images, video clips, scenes and music that create that emotion in your prospect.

From a brand standpoint, having a high-quality, unique video enhances and solidifies your image beyond what almost every other media can do.

Think about the movie industry. It’s like a “bajillion” dollar industry, right? People pay big bucks to go to the movies because they love stories. They love the emotion that goes along with watching a movie.

Books don’t give the user that same experience. Radio doesn’t either. But when you add words, images and sound together, like a movie does, it moves people. That’s what you can create with a DVD like we’re talking about.

Where do you think prospects will rank you among all the Realtors or agents they’ve had brief contact with after they watch a DVD like this? Far higher than the last guy, who handed them a business card and smooth talked them as if they just walked up on a used car lot.

If they haven’t chosen a Realtor or agent to work with yet, who do you think burnt the best impression in their minds? YOU. Without a doubt. This will put you so far above every other “business-card-handing-out-Realtor” in your area. They’ll all be trying to catch up to you.

And at the end of the video, just as with any other marketing piece, tell them what you want them to do. Throw in your website address and phone number. Add some text about giving away something for free if they go to your website and fill out the “opt-in box”.

When you hand out the DVD let them know there’s some kind of freebie offer at the end, so they’re enticed to watch the whole video. Curiosity never hurt anyone.

I hope this marketing idea made sense. I feel like my words aren’t conveying the power of what this marketing tool can do for your brand and lead generation. But it’s the best I can do so it’ll have to do. Just watch some videos from Animoto again and you’ll get the idea. Animoto.com would be a good place to start for ideas, for sure.

Now go start burning some DVDs with Animoto and find an open house to hold!

Exposure is the key to marketing real estate: you have to get as much of it as possible, and use it to show your home in the best possible light. If you are hoping for the prospective purchasers who display interest to end up as actual buyers, rather than being turned off when they see the property with their own eyes, then you should make your real estate marketing is both thorough and truthful. There are a number of opportunities where you are able to promote a property that you are selling: at the office of the real estate company, online, and at the home itself. These are the most popular avenues in which buyers claim that they first heard about the homes they eventually bought.

Advertisements can be put in a range of different places, such as websites, the offices of the estate agents, and with signs at the property. These are the most popular ways that purchasers claim that they first discovered the homes they wound up buying.

You may also buy ads in local publications, although these are increasingly less effective as buyers tend to rely on other methods of hunting for potential purchases. Vendors frequently believe that they have to get as many newspaper listings as possible, but potential purchasers only rarely read them to find out about properties for sale, so it is not really worth it.

It is as well rare today for a purchaser to learn of a property from a real estate agent. This is mostly because of the popularity of online real estate postings, with many buyers looking for interesting homes on the Internet before they meet with a real estate professional. The Internet is presently the chief concern for anyone who is marketing real estate.

An advertisement should get the attention of potential buyers as they skim through a list of available properties, and it should include information on everything that makes the property desirable. Frequently, Most of what can be seen of an ad initially is the headline, a small photo, and maybe some basic details such as the location and the number of bedrooms. If you are going to entice the reader into buying, you first need them to want to peruse the full advert describing the property. Attempt to avoid cliches and hype in your real estate ad titles. It needs to be unique and eye-catching, something original from all the others.

If you can supply the main selling essence of the home into the caption, then do so, and don’t be frightened of utilizing descriptive language instead of putting in details such as the number of bedrooms and washrooms. Headings that create an passionate reaction are far more likely to generate enthusiasm than dry facts can do by themselves.

You will have room to expand on things in the full description. Remember to add in everything that will be of use to the purchaser. Don’t leave any nasty things for prospective buyers to discover when they look a little closer. Most buyers are greatly influenced by the kind of community that a piece of real estate is located in, so be certain you add in any appealing or compelling facts about the immediate area.

Stefan Hyross writes for Real Pro Success which is a site that has a strong focus on the success of realtors and provides real estate marketing that is eye catching. Discover market for real estate like you have not seen before.