Photography For Real Estate

Mike Miriello over at RealEstatePhotographyPodcast.com has decided to add a regular Q & A feature to his Podcast and Mike invited me to join him via Skype to discuss answers to questions sent to us via this Q & A form on his site.
The way this will work is you just send us your questions [...]

A few days ago I changed the blog header to my Christmas header. In 2007 when I first used this header, Aaron Leitz pointed out that he had a similar shot that he’d taken during the 2005 Christmas season from Gasworks park on a tripod and telephoto lens. The exact same series of lights [...]

I want to point out a change to the blog that may not be all that obvious. At the bottom of each post there’s a line of text that says, “Share and Enjoy“. Under that text is a line of little icons and links for posting to social networking sites. The icons are a little [...]

I’ve posted updated versions both the English version and the Russian version of the Realtor photo guide. Andrey Khrolenok who did the Russian translation inspired me to do this update. Andrey reduced the font size in the Russian version so there is room for photo examples. He also overlaid each photo example with a red [...]

OK, check this out this new look! Based on all the reader input that I got last week when Peter, my WordPress guy, moved the blog width to 1280 and 1024, I had Peter do a refinement to make the blog center content column fluid, based on the browser window width.
The way the blog works [...]

It’s hard to miss the new wide (1280 pixel or 1024 pixel) format PFRE. Last week I hired Peter Spannagle ( blog customization consultant) of yourcustomblog.com to help me fix the problem I was having with the real estate photographer directory. Along with fixing the directory and some long time widget problems Peter suggested [...]

The 20% discount on all PFRE blog products (e-books and real estate photographer directory registrations) during August has been very popular so I’ve decided to extend the sale through Sept 30. The 20% discount will automatically be applied at checkout to all purchases.

For the last 18 months I’ve experimented with second party advertising on the blog but I’ve now decided to drop all non-PFRE ads on the blog for two reasons:

I want to remove any and all appearance that advertising income or advertisers in any way effect what products I write about or what I say. My [...]

Peter (flickr handle: Big Other) Just suggested that I should do a sale. So I’ve just setup my E-Junkie cart processor to automatically take 20% off of e-books and real estate directory entry registrations through the rest of August. No discount code required. Everyone gets one 20% discount.

I’ve decided to make a blog page for the Realtor’s guide. Due to reader suggestions I now have three versions for the Realtor’s Guide for Using Photos:

The original version with some editing thanks to  John McBay. This file was created with Smallest Size parameters so it would be small (108K).
The same version as #1 except [...]

I want to thank everyone that’s given me input on my Realtor’s Guide to Using Photos In Real Estate Marketing. I just put an updated copy of the guide up for download (click here to download). Although I did a post earlier on what this free guide is all about, just for clarity I want [...]

I’ve been tinkering around with Twitter for a while now. What finally lead me to decide that Twitter is to important to ignore is that the blog has been getting visitors from Twitter links in the last month. What got my attention is that several people are doing tweets on PFRE blog posts. Brad Claghorn [...]

I was working away on Friday when my Google chat came alive and a friend told me he was going to “make my day”. And indeed he did! He’d managed to pick up the PhotographyForRealEstate.COM domain for me in an auction. So I now have the .com domain for PFRE in addition to the .net [...]

I wanted to give everyone an update on what I’m doing with my real estate photography e-books.
First of all, after offering a hard copy version of the Photography For Real Estate e-book for the last three months, I’ve decided to discontinue hard copy completely and only do electronic distribution from now on. Hardly anyone is [...]

A little shameless horn tooting is in order here! Invesp consulting implemented a new blog rank tracking system last week that uses Google and Alexis ranking, Yahoo’s count of incoming links, social site ranking and some secret sauce to come up with a blog ranking is various subject areas, and guess who comes out ranked [...]