This video walks you through the basic steps of setting up a new listing in the Digital Home Info Real Estate Marketing system.

If you don’t see the video here you can view on YouTube.com at Digital Home Info How To Set up a New Listing

Step by step guide to setting up a new listing in the Digital Home Info Real Estate Marketing System.

1. Make sure that you are logged in to the Digital Home Info Portal and that you are on the “Dashboard” tab.
2. Under the Add New Listing section of the Dashboard select the desired property code from the dropdown box.  If the desired code is not in the dropdown box that means that it is assigned to an active property and you must deactivate the active code by clicking on the “Deactivate” link.  Once this is done the desired code should be available in the dropdown box.
3. Press the “Submit” button.
4. This brings you to a property information form.  At this point we need to fill in the relevant information on the property.  The more fields you fill in the better. You can copy and paste text into the text boxes.
5. Once you have filled in all of the desired fields press the “Save Listing and on to Step 2″ button.
6. This brings us to the upload pictures screen.  If you don’t have any photos of the property just yet you can click on the “Skip this Step” link at the bottom right of the form.  Otherwise click on the browse button to select photos. Multiple photos may be selected at one time.  Although there is no limit to the number of photos you may upload you can upload no more than 15 megabytes of photos at once.
7. Once you photos are selected press the “Save Files” button at the bottom left of the form.
8. The files will upload and once all the files are uploaded the screen will move to the “This listing has been assigned page”  At this point the text message, toll free and virtual tour are all completely set up.  You can visit the virtual tour, text in the property code or call the toll free number and get the appropriate responses and notifications.
9. If you desire you can actually edit the advanced features of the listing by clicking on the “Edit this Listing” link.  Check back on the blog and in the Resources tab for tutorials on the individual features.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact support at digitalhomeinfo.com

Below is a 4 minute video that shows how to Integrate Digital Home Info’s Real Estate Marketing service with a Facebook Fanpage.

If you don’t see the video here you can view on YouTube.com at Integrating Real Estate Marketing with Facebook Fanpages

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

Below is a 6 minute video that shows you how to integrate Digital Home Info’s Real Estate Marketing system with Facebook.

If you don’t see the video here you can view it on YouTube.com at Integrating Real Estate Marketing with Facebook

Feel free to call or email us if you have any questions.

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!

This week we thought it would be a good idea to post some tips for our realtors that we think might help them maximize the Real Estate Mobile Marketing tools at their disposal.

Is it really just as easy as placing a sign in the yard? The answer to that is yes and no. Placing a sign in the yard will develop leads and those leads will turn into customers, but in order to get the most out of your mobile marketing tools you should first exercise the full options of your mobile tools and then integrate the mobile tools into your overall marketing strategy.

The first part of this is utilizing the full options of your mobile tools. What does this mean? Well for the package that Digital Home Info offers this means using the Toll Free Call Capture, Email (adding attachments, pictures, MLS sheets, etc… to the email), Contact, More Information and Mobile Tour features that come with every listing.

Once you have set up the options you want to use, it is time to integrate the messaging tools into your overall marketing plan. This means setting up the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Syndication features so that we can push your listings out to your social media networks and multiple real estate related sites on the Internet.  It also means including the property code and Virtual Tour links in your other advertising.

Here are just a few things that some of our clients attribute their success with using our service:

1) Include the property code in your newspaper, magazine and online listing ads. A great way to do this is to modify the picture of the property to include a small banner across the bottom with the texting instructions.  You will enhance your ability to deliver information to a buyer and your ability to capture lead information for follow up.

2) Remove the paper flyers from the property and place only the Text Messaging and Toll Free signs in the yard. This will encourage buyers to seek information through this service increasing your lead captures and driving additional traffic to your Virtual Tours.

3) Promote the Text, Toll Free and Virtual Tour service as a part of your marketing strategy to prospective sellers to let them know that you are up to date with the latest technology and using it to sell their home.

4) Include links to your Virtual Tour, web site, your email address and contact information in the Text Messages and Toll Free message. This will drive traffic to you through your site or direct contact.

5) Use the Text Messaging , Toll Free and Virtual Tour service on every property! The more visible your service is, the greater the usage will be.

Thanks to all of our realtors who have shared their success stories.  We look forward to hearing more.  How have you used mobile applications for real estate?

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

The link to see a virtual tour is http://www.digitalhomeinfo.com/ followed by the property code numbers.

For Example:  If your property code was HOME2000 then the Virtual Tour link would be http://www.digitalhomeinfo.com/2000