| Video Marketing is Simple | | | | for apartments for rent online, there are thousand |
| Wish there was a way to help bring in more foot | | | | to view. After you have put together the video |
| traffic to your property? Hard economic times, | | | | add some music to the audio. Something soothing |
| lay-offs, bad credit, and poor rental history | | | | yet snappy! You are set to upload the new video |
| making it hard to get your apartments filled with | | | | to share with others. |
| qualified tenants? You are not alone. Many | | | | Upload to YouTube. They are the largest and a |
| properties are going though similar situations, but | | | | great place to start. Follow the steps in the upload |
| you can do something a little different to bring in | | | | process. Name, description, tags, etc. This can be |
| traffic. It will take a little bit of effort and some | | | | changed later but get something in there that |
| learning to use technology. All at no cost to you. | | | | describes where you are located (city, state, zip |
| I want to start by saying that this will not flood | | | | code) and contact information (phone, blog, web |
| you with hundreds of qualified tenants overnight. | | | | site, Facebook, etc.) You are almost done. The |
| However, I know that based on my experience, | | | | video will take a while to upload and process. |
| you will generate new qualified tenants calling, | | | | Once it is done you can now market your |
| visiting, and even renting in your apartment | | | | property using a video for all to see. |
| community. Let's get started. | | | | With the use of keywords in the video |
| You will need a video camera. Nothing real fancy | | | | description, your video will come up when |
| just a simple video camera to start. I would avoid | | | | someone searches for a property in your area. |
| using your cell phone for video, the quality is not | | | | For example, someone who lives in Arizona wants |
| too good. Now find the best qualities that your | | | | to move to Sacramento, CA. They have never |
| property has to offer. Record the beautiful | | | | been to the area but wants to look for a place to |
| flowers, the clean quiet pool, the sauna, fitness | | | | live. They search on Google or YouTube for |
| center, and all the other amenities. If your | | | | apartments for rent in Sacramento, a long list of |
| property has a model - great! Get that on video | | | | videos will appear on the screen. Those that have |
| too. Show the clean kitchen, the flower | | | | used Sacramento, apartment, for rent, and terms |
| arrangements, the fireplace, and all the benefits | | | | like this in the Title and description of the video will |
| the each unit has to offer the new tenant. Get | | | | be higher on the list, and seen by more people. |
| everything that you will possibly want recorded. | | | | There are many other ways to get your video |
| Forget about the order of things, length of time, | | | | out once you have upload the video. |
| fading in and out, etc - just record. When you are | | | | After uploading you will have a link that can be |
| done you are ready to edit. | | | | used in many different forms of media. For |
| Most computers have video editing software, | | | | example, you can e-mail it to those expressing |
| Microsoft Movie Maker for example. Or you can | | | | interest by e-mail. Post the link to your Facebook |
| download many free editors online. Maybe a friend | | | | page, your web site, or blog. Craigslist has always |
| or co-worker can help you out with this part. | | | | been a good source for leads using a video link. |
| Make a quick video - no more that 3 minutes. | | | | The more ways your start trying the more you |
| Don't worry about the sound, just get the video | | | | will see the benefit of using video to market your |
| to flow nicely. If you need some examples search | | | | property. |