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Panasonic HDC TM90 Camcorder

Equipment Recommendations For Shooting a Real Estate Tour Video

Panasonic HDC TM90 Camcorder Panasonic TM90 camcorder with built in memory, double image stabilization and a wide angle 28mm lens. I use these new Panasonic cameras in my business.  It has a great optical-type video stabilization system that can defeat even the shakiest hands and its superb light-handling characteristics are ...

So Long Real Estate VIRTUAL tour – Here come VIDEO tours!

Are Video tours Making the Real Estate Virtual tour ‘passe’? Real Estate VIRTUAL tours – we’ve all seen them. A series of photographs stitched together with some titles and background music, the sum of which raises more questions than it answers.  And with the advent of YouTube, the consumer isn’t ...

Do I Need Videos on my Real Estate Website?

Video used to be little more than a  'nice extra touch' for people who could afford to produce and host them.  YouTube's changing that.  Videos are now a MUST for any business concerned with SEO (search engine optimization), conversion rates and brand identification.  Watch this short video to learn why ...

How to Make a YouTube Channel & Upload Videos

How to Make a YouTube Channel First you need to set up a profile. You will find out How to Make a YouTube Channel in YouTube's guide here. How to Upload a Video to YouTube Find instructions on how to upload a video here. Need Help With How to Make ...

Can I Take Video Tours Using My iPhone4?

I never thought I would say this, but… yes – you can take a very good quality video on the iPhone 4. There’s a few tricks you’ll need (as you'll see in my video tutorial) Go to the Settings on your phone and turn ‘Airplane Mode’ from OFF to ON ...

Are Video Tour Views the Same as Showings?

Averaging 50 video tour views per day I noticed an interesting thing in my YouTube account today. There's a graph that shows the number of times someone watched one of my unedited video tours shot in 10 minutes and uploaded to YouTube.  Over the past two weeks, that number was ...

Is Your Property Management Competition on YouTube?

By now we all know that Google is far and away the #1 Search Engine in the world.  What most people don't realize is that YouTube is the second most used Search Engine in the World.   So that means YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind ...

Who Watches More Video Tours: Men or Women?

Women watch TWICE as many real estate video tours as men! Marketers have long recognized that women 'lead the way' when it comes to shopping for a home.   The chart to the right is from my real estate company YouTube channel, and reveals women not only shop our home ...

My Videos are too dark when light comes through open windows

Subscriber asks: Bought the camera you recommended. I when into home that had no window coverings and turned all lights on like you said. Because I have large luxury homes it will take over 10 minutes so I have 3 takes on this. But light was coming in thru windows ...