June 14th, 2007
Drew King who works in the NY area sent me this craigslist ad. Since it will expire some time, I’ll repost it below so everyone can continue to read it: I am a real estate agent who needs someone to take pictures of homes in the Nassau and Suffolk area (wwww.BrianSilvestry.com) I work with deadlines [...]
June 13th, 2007
A recently released study of the California Association of Realtors use of Technology by Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist of the California Association of Realtors (CAR) reaffirms the trends in the Real Estate that are driving the demand for good Real Estate photography. Here are a few of the report’s findings: About 3 of 4 (73%) [...]
June 12th, 2007
Cheri Irwin reports that her new Manfrotto 682B monopod with retractable legs has sped up her work flow by helping keep her camera straight. She says: “Since falling walls always seem to be an issue for us, especially those who shoot off-tripod, I found a really great item. I have been shooting on a tripod [...]
June 9th, 2007
Last week I had to post our rental home on craigslist.org. Since I use vflyer.com to create my craigslist ads I was looking around on vflyer.com and noticed they have added some new features since the last time I was there. To me the most interesting feature is the listing widget feature. This is a [...]
June 7th, 2007
The recent latimes.com article by Ann Brenoff is another must read real estate photography article for your marketing kit. Much like the NYTimes article I featured last February, this article gives a some good real estate photography statistics and some shooting tips from Santa Monica-based Nick Springett and Everett Fenton Gidley, the big guns of [...]
June 7th, 2007
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Realtor Norm Fisher has put together a hilarious presentation on how unbelievably bad real estate photography can get. The “hold on, I think we are going over” shot is my favorite. If you watch the presentation to the end you’ll see that this “tour” does more than show bad photos, it is a [...]
June 7th, 2007
PFRE reader John Grow sent me a link to 2901 Broadway St, San Francisco , a property currently listed for $55,000,000 that he just photographed. Notice that John has used plansantours.com for the tour of this property. Wow what a view!
June 6th, 2007
I just ran across an article and audio interview over at Small Business Trends Radio on how Kelly Thomas the founder of www.sihometours.com has combined real estate photography with tour hosting as a business. There is a 50+ minute audio interview at the bottom of the page. I noticed this article because Kelly signed up [...]
June 5th, 2007
I can tell by comments and the flickr discussion threads that I need to say more about finding successful Realtors to sell your real estate photography services to.First of all the technique I described yesterday of researching who the listing agents are in your area is not so much about sending post cards as it [...]
June 4th, 2007
In the last week I’ve explained how to find real estate photography clients to several people so there are probably others out there that need to know the same thing.Since your primary clients are Realtors you need to understand that all Realtors specialize in either working with buyers (buyers agents) or sellers (listing agents). As [...]
