Archive for February, 2008

HomeXposure.com: A New Property Site Service

February 8th, 2008

PFRE reader Michael Asgian is launching a new property site hosting service called homeXposure.com.
Michael’s company panostar.com, based in Newport Beach, CA, has been offering real estate marketing and imaging services since 2002. Panostar offers real estate photography, virtual tours, real estate flyers and postcards.

New Features For Two of My Favorite Slide Show Products

February 7th, 2008

Today I noticed that both of my favorite slide show products, buildatour.com and SlideshoPro have new features.Buildatour.com now has the ability to download your tours to your local computer and make a auto-run CD of the tour. This is a very cool feature. I’ve found that both buyers and sellers love to get CD tours […]

Thomas Grubba: Real Estate Photographer of the Month

February 6th, 2008

As I described in an earlier post, once a month I’m going to choose a real estate photographer of the month from the PFRE real estate photographer directory. My criteria for selecting will be the photographers work, the way the work is presented on their website and their participation in PFRE and the PFRE flickr […]

Open2view.com: An Opportunity For Real Estate Photographers

February 5th, 2008

About a month ago I noticed an ad in Inc magazine for open2view.com, a company that was founded in New Zealand in 1999. Open2view has grown to 200 franchises expanding into Australia in 2004 and to the US in 2007. They are starting out in HI, CA, AZ, WA, GA, NC and FL. I’ve spent […]

Working With Your Local Stager: Mike Martin’s Success Story

February 2nd, 2008

A week ago I did a post about how real estate photographers should get to know the stagers in their area and work together promoting each others services. One of the reasons is good agents use stagers and these are the very same agents that are likely to appreciate good photography. So why not promote […]

Pondering the Deep Questions: Natural Light or Strobe?

February 1st, 2008

There is a wonderful discussion that has been going on for a couple days in the PFRE flickr discussion group. dtruax pointed out that there are several different styles or approaches to interior photography on display in the flickr photo discussion group. One approach uses mostly natural light and the other uses multiple […]