This quick tutorial explains how to use One Click Sharing to share your Virtual Tour links to your Facebook Fanpage instead of your personal profile.  You can watch the video above or follow the instructions below.

1. Make sure that you are logged in to both Facebook and Digital Home Info.
2. Starting with Facebook, click on the “Account” link in the upper right corner of the browser.
3. Click on the “Use Facebook as Page” link.
4. A window will pop up.  Select the Fanpage that you want to post the Virtual Tour or article to and click on the “Switch” button.
5. This will make the Fanpage the active Facebook user.
6. Go back to your Digital Home Info account.
7. Click on “Listings” tab.
8. Scroll down to the listing that you want to share.
9. Click on Facebook share icon.
10. This opens a new Facebook Sharing window with the Virtual Tour information and a space for you to add any additional information.
11. Across the top left you should see your Fanpage name and in the top right you should see “Posting as this page.”
12. Once you have added any additional information click on the “Share Link” in the lower right corner of the page.
13. At this point the Virtual Tour has been posted to your Fanpage instead of your personal page.  If you refresh your Fanpage you should see the Virtual Tour as your latest post.

In early September Digital Home Info officially released our IDX integration to a number of markets across the country.  We launched our first beta with the Indianapolis, IN market earlier this year and learned a lot about how REALTORS want this type of integration to work.  So we enhanced it with their feedback and have now released it in other areas where we have IDX agreements.

Our integration makes our already easy to use interface even easier.  All our agents have to do is assign a property code to an MLS/BLC number and press the import button.  This process takes about 30 seconds.  It imports all of the relevant information about the home (bedrooms, bath areas, price…), and pictures.  Then automatically sets up the text message, toll free call capture, social media and virtual tour.  Once the property is set up the agent can then choose to go in and customize any of the text message, call capture or virtual tour settings.

If you are a customer (or thinking about becoming one) and want IDX integration in your area please contact us to get started.

We often get asked about the signs required to use our service.  What size are they?  Do you have riders? Are they color? Are they reusable? etc…  So here are some answers to many of the questions we have been asked about signs.

How much are they?

18″x 24″ 8mm (heavy duty) Cor-X Panels (including H-stake) are $29.00 each for quantities less than 10 and $25.00 each for quantities of 10 or more

6″x24″ rider (Cor-X Panels or aluminum) are $15.00 each for quantities less than 10 and $10.00 each for for quantities of 10 or more

Shipping is included in the cost of the signs.

Are the Real Estate Signs reusable?

Yes, they are!  Each sign will have a unique code on it.  This code is assigned to a listing when you set it up in our system.  Once you sell the listing you can reassign the code to another property and use the sign again.

Where are the holes in the riders placed?

The standard hole placement is: two center holes are 16″ on center and the two outside holes are 2 1/2″ to center from the outside edges both on top and bottom.  Hole placement can be however you’d like or you can have no holes at all. We will confirm the placement of holes with you before we order the signs.

What do the signs and riders look like?

See image at the end of this post.

I have my own Real Estate sign company, can I use them?

Yes, you can.  We will provide you with a template and guidelines on what is required on each sign.  You can then take this to your sign company and get them or use the guidelines to create your own unique sign.

Do I have to order signs to use your service?

No, but if you want to get the most out of our service it is advisable.  We have many REALTORS® that promote their text messaging and toll free call capture in many other mediums and are quite successful but they still place signs in the yard to get the most impact.

Are the signs full color? Double sided?

Yes and yes.  All signs are full color and double sided.  The colors are designed to match your agency’s colors to provide consistent branding.

Since we just rolled out our new REALTOR.com® enhancement, we thought it would be a good idea to explain some of the benefits of posting your virtual tour links to REALTOR.com®.  Aside from the ~90,000,000 page views/month that REALTOR.com® receives, some of the benefits include:

• Your complete Virtual Tour is linked to your listing on REALTOR.com® – This allows potential buyers to see all of your photos, your contact information, flyers and relevant information.  While at the same time distinguishing you from others that don’t link to their virtual tours.

• Greater Distribution – Your listing link is displayed not only on REALTOR.com® but also on the entire REALTOR.com® distribution network which includes many national real estate portals such as homes.com, move.com, and national franchise brand sites such as ColdwellBanker.com, Century21.com, ERA.com, and REMAX.com.

• Better Search Results – The volume of links generated through the REALTOR.com® distribution channel increases the chance of your home being found when potential buyers are searching the Internet.  All of these links connect back to your virtual tour leading potential buyers directly to you.

The list above is a small portion of the many benefits and marketing opportunities that Realtor.com provides.  If you are interested in learning more we recommend that you check out their site at realtor.com.

The REALTOR.com® logo is a registered trademark of the National Association of REALTORS®

Digital Home Info is excited to announce that we are now capable of posting Virtual Tour Links to REALTOR.COM.  This has been an often requested feature and we are pleased to make it available to our customers.

To use this feature simply click on the “Realtor.com” link in the Active Listings section of the management portal and follow the directions presented.

If you have any questions please feel free to call or email us.

The video below is a quick (3 minute tutorial) on how to set up the automated Real Estate video creation and YouTube publishing feature of the Digital Home Info Real Estate Marketing service.

If you don’t see the video here you can view it on YouTube.com at Digital Home Info Real Estate Listing Video

You can learn how to set up your own YouTube.com channel here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPpjD4ikBXk&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for watching!

Our YouTube.com channel url is http://www.youtube.com/digitalhomeinfo

“Direct” means that the virtual tour was viewed by someone typing the virtual tour address directly into the address bar instead of clicking on a link on another page.

The Short Code is 71813.  To get the property information via text message put 71813 in the “TO” (phone number) field and the property code (HOME2000) in the message body.  For example:

To: 71813

Message: HOME2000

The Toll Free Call Capture number is 877.395.3955

You will be prompted to enter your property number to listen to the Voice Tour