The overwhelming response to our recent feature release of video syndication within the Ubertor system has been outstanding. Tonight, I’m pleased to announce that we have added Viddler.com as one of our syndication partners. Now when you load a video into your Ubertor control panel you can automatically syndicate it to YouTube, Vimeo and Viddler.
Now within your Ubertor website you can add video to your listings and have it syndicated to YouTube.com and Vimeo.com. Not only does it go to these powerful video websites to help expose your listing but it updates the E-Flyer that is automatically built into each of your listings.
Now when you add your E-Flyer to Craigslist.org it will show your photos, property description as well as any videos that you have added. Here is an example of a rental listing in the Ubertor system that is using video and the E-Flyer.
(here is the same example on Craigslist.org)
For Rent: Vancouver 1 Bedroom 1 Bedroom
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388 Drake Street Vancouver V6B 6A8 »map »more details |
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 Queen Size Bed is plush and brand new! |
 Bedroom is fully furnished with linens, pillows and comforters. |
 11 Foot Celings and tall windows ensure you have lots of natural light. |
 Large contemporary desk for work/study. |
 Big closet and dresser drawers for easy organization of your clothing. |
 Bookshelf abuts desk for easy reach to all your books. |
Grand One Bedroom for rent in a spacious designer 2 Bedroom Yaletown Condo.
Don't get trapped in a miniature shared condo! This is spacious 2 bedroom Yaletown Condo. When comparing look at total square footage not bedrooms. You'll find most 2 bedrooms are under 900 SQ/FT. This one is 1260 SQ/FT with super tall 11 foot ceilings! You will feel a sense of space and freedom here.
388 Drake Street is at the corner of Pacific and Drake in the true Yaletown. Your can enjoy an un-obstructed view of calm waters of the False Creek Ocean fed water. Watch rowers and boats sail by or people watch the strollers, bikers and bladers of the Sea Wall. David Lam park is the huge park and playing field that protect this view corridor.
One block in either direction you will find groceries at Urban Fare Gourmet Market or Choices Organic Grocers. There is also a Costco within walking distance.
Being in Yaletown you are in the epicenter of some of the Vancouver's choice restaurants, lounges and bars.
This rental is for a private bedroom in a 2 bedroom shared downtown Vancouver water front condo. I live in the other bedroom. I am looking for a single roommate. Sorry, no couples.
The entire condo was completely gutted and built up with top of the line materials, appliances and designed with a comfortable theme.
Inside you will find stainless steel appliances a 6X14 Foot Granite Kitchen Island with a party sink. The kitchen is fully equipped with everything you need for cooking and eating.
The fridge is extra large, stainless steel and had french doors for east. Your half is larger than most condo's full size fridge.
All the furniture was carefully chosen for its functional and aesthetic features. The antique dining table is made from 300 year old reclaimed wood. Juxtaposed to the table you will find super comfortable modern Herman Miller Aeron Chairs.
I do work from home; so during the day I will occupy the table and desk with my assistant. We do computer work; so are relatively quiet. We are packed up with table cleared by 5pm; Monday to Friday.
Dark hardwood floors throughout all the rooms.
There is a super comfy sofa with a 42 Hi-Def LCD and a Apple Mini that powers it. Sound is 5.1 THX.
I live and work in the condo and are seeking a mature neighborly roommate who wants a quiet, peaceful home to live, chill and study.
You should have full-time work or school. No couch potatoes please. Should be clean and tidy as I keep the place immaculate.
* No Smoking.
* No Pets.
* No Parties.
* No Drugs.
!!!-Rent Reduction during Building Window Refurbishment of $25/week-!!!
Summer Only Rate is $1150/per month; 3 Month Minimum. ($1050/refurb/month)
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One Year lease available @ $945/month. ($845/refurb/month).
Interested? Please fill out the application form: http://www.whistlerdeluxerentals.com/ApplicationForm.ubr
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Century 21 is doing some unique stuff these days. Joel over at FutureofRealEstateMarketing.com points out that C21 has launched their own YouTube Channel in what they are calling “Housing Industry’s First Branded YouTube Channel.”
According to Joel, “They’re hoping to source user-generated (read consumer) videos from home sellers who will work in conjunction with their Century21 agents to produce a video walkthru of their properties.”
Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo run Capulet Communicationstogether. They do web marketing and social media relations, mostly for technology companies. They are based in Vancouver, but they spent most of 2007 working and living in Malta. Their plan for 2008 is to live in Morocco.
If Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Linkedin mean nothing to you or if your looking to understand more about social media marketing then Darren and Julie’s new ebook is for you. It is an easy read with examples tips.
You can buy their ebook here for $29
Here is a little video they put together explaining more about their book.
I asked Christian of WellcomeMat to answer a few questions about his video platform product. Take a moment to learn more about WellcomeMat and how they differ from YouTube.
Ubertor: In your opinion, why is video so great?
WellcomeMat: I’m going to switch your question up a bit and just list off the reasons why I quit a six figure job, made $0 in the last 15 months, spent my life savings, work seven days a week and strained my marriage to make WellcomeMat.com happen:
1) Video saves everyone (buyers, renters, and sellers) a ton of time. Buyers are the most obvious winners in the video equation. Simply put, they don’t have to visit places in person unless they know that they might make a move. Buyers’ agents save this time too! The sellers and listing agents in the video equation deal with less “window shoppers” in person.
2) Real estate professionals that use video as a listing tool make more money. Homes with video tours attached stand out hugely amongst photo and text-based listings. Although there are not many sites able to tell how much more traffic video-based listings get, the evidence is mounting in video’s favor. It is a huge magnetic pull! Add to that the fact that videos will find their way to page one of an organic Google search (because of Google Universal Search), usually within the first week of being posted, and now we’re talking! Lastly, we are hearing time and time again how powerful a good video is when trying to win a listing over competing agents/brokers. I have yet to meet a listing agent that has used video and stopped.
3) Video is the closest thing to a real walk through that you can get online. There are many real estate marketers that view video’s realness as a scary thing. But, their assumption is a fluffed property online will yield more sales. Not true! Matching the physical walk through, and the experience homeowners might have living in a particular neighborhood should be the goal of video.
4) It is a “green” technology, helping to us to use less fuel and be less wasteful.
We often hear about how video is more difficult than using photos, or virtual tours, and more expensive. Completely true! So what? Harvard is more difficult and expensive than a community college, but attending will yield better results (disclaimer: I am a mere University of Colorado at Boulder grad). What our team always finds in terms of adversity to video is a cost analysis: video verses photos, or video verses virtual tours. These discussions are, for the most part, worthless. Use everything you can to win listings and make more money! Photos rock too. And, there are many video producers that have figured out ways to charge less and do more volume. The average cost of video has decreased massively since WellcomeMat first went live (June 2006). Without question, competition is working its magic within the production side of real estate video.
Ubertor: How are people to best use WellcomeMat’s system and technologies?
WellcomeMat: I would start by simply stating dive in! Our team supports our users better than any tech company I can think of. And, we have about 1000 video producers ready to help you get going as well. We are always amazed at how much WellcomeMat video producers want to help people understand how to do it themselves. Truth told, people that want to sell/rent a lot of properties cannot spend their time shooting their videos. They know this, but they also know that many people want to try video themselves.
In general, think of WellcomeMat.com as a one stop shop to: get professionally produced videos (or upload your own), create the best quality video experience for your viewers, and get your videos into every spot desired on the web (blogs, listings landing pages, Craigslist etc.). To us, it’s all about making stars out of those using video well, making sure our members have fun with video, and enriching our members’ sites/web pages.
Ubertor: What makes WellcomeMat better than YouTube?
WellcomeMat: Nobody is “better” than YouTube! For what YouTube does, they are the best. That site is raw volume and SEO. There aren’t many smart people questioning the amount of traffic videos get on YouTube; and, now that Google owns them, videos posted on YouTube show up quickly within organic search results. What WellcomeMat does better than anyone is a) helps people gather high-quality content through support and our videographer directory, b) provides the highest quality playback (clarity, chaptering for clickable scenes etc), and c) helps people to get their content into the right contexts. Context is a big deal right now. People are posting their videos to a bunch of different sites that provide zero relevance to a real estate search. If the intention is to show up within search engines, posting videos to the generalist video sites makes sense. If you want to use quality video where it should be used (your site(s) and your blog), WellcomeMat is where you do all of this.
Royal LePage launched www.royallepagetv.ca, a web portal of instructional/educational videos for real estate consumers to watch and learn more about the buying/selling process. From my initial look, the site looks great. It is great to see a Canadian real estate company stepping up and investing to become Web 2.0 friendly in this ever changing business.
One big complaint is that they did not make the videos embeddable. Lately widgets have become all the rage. An embeddable widget would allow users to spread a message. Why not let anyone embed the videos on their website or blog. They have Royal LePage branding so all it could possibly do is help spread the message about the company and get ten times more exposure.
I’m sure the team over at Royal LePage has heard of www.YouTube.com or maybe even www.wellcomemat.com. Both services have embeddable features for their video platform.
Maybe they allow Royal LePage agents to embed videos with a username and password……. I hope that it is something that is in the pipeline and that they will be releasing shortly. The power of the internet is immense if you embrace it.
Concord Pacific, the developer of much of Vancouver’s Yaletown and most recently Toronto’s downtown has put out a short marketing video on YouTube using the expertise of the RealEstateChannel.
Is there a video that you could put on the internet about your real estate business?
Mike Andruff of RE/MAX is using YouTube to showcase a video of him discussing why team real estate is a great option for home buyers and sellers. Take a peek, it is an interesting way to get your message out.
Mike Andruff - www.teamandruff.ca
Ian Watt of Century 21 has created his own YouTube Channel with the RealEstateChannel to interview different personalities about their expertise as it pertains to real estate. This is a great idea as it opens up Ian’s brand to other businesses client bases. Here is his latest interview with my brother Mike Jagger of Provident Security talking about condo security.
Ian Watt - www.ianwatt.ca
Vancouver’s Brent Chapman has a spoof video on YouTube. Embedding has been disabled so you will have to visit the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANTJ1JlNbc
Ed Gramauskas and Reid Dewson were our first real estate clients!
They were a help in getting the original version of the Ubertor website engine off the ground, actually, the suggested the idea of creating it in the first place. The thing I have noticed about Reid and Ed is that they are always ahead of the curve within real estate.
- They had a niche website when real estate agents were just getting online
- They sought out a better solution for their old website (enter Ubertor)
- They autofill listings automatically from all loft buildings within Greater Vancouver making their site the one stop shop for lofts in Vancouver
- Now, they have embraced video, YouTube and Google Video to showcase who they are and what they are about
Check out their video below… you might even seen me for a couple seconds near the end. 
2007 Online Real Estate:
- Do you have a website?
- Are you blogging?
- Do you have a niche website?
- Did you create a video about you and your business?
Feel like you are falling behind the quick moving online real estate business?
- If you need a website - Ubertor can help!
- If your interested in who made the LoftsVancouver.com video? - chat with these guys
- Want to learn more about blogging? - chat with our client service team!
Ian Watt has created The Spot On Urban Real Estate using the RealEstateChannel.ca, YouTube.com and the Novus Network to gain exposure to himself and his business.
“The Spot, On Urban Real Estate with Ian Watt, is a weekly segment featured on the Real Estate Channel (Novus Network - Channel 80) highlighting real estate related guests offering a variety of services that will help you through the buying and selling of your home.”
Here is one of his interviews:
Rick Valouche, President of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
What are you doing to differentiate yourself?
