Part 2 in a Series: At Mediamax we photograph more than 1,000 listings a month during our busy season. With so many clients using our services, you’d think everyone in the business gets it. Everybody knows professional photos not only attract buyers’ attention online, they polish your reputation as a real estate professional. Right? Well, […]
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Maybe you’ve decided to make the switch from DIY to professional photography to market your listings. Or, maybe you need to find a new photographer. Here are five questions to ask before hiring a real estate photographer: 1. Do they have experience photographing real estate? Don’t assume that anybody who knows their way around a
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Barley Haven in Lakewood has a great website touting a wide selection of supplies and gear for the home brewer, including 110+ beer grains. Why does the store need a Google Virtual Tour? “When I saw it and realized the benefit to it, that’s when I decided to go ahead and go for it,” says
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Realtor Steve Olson with RE/MAX Masters, Greenwood Village, got a call from some sellers whose home had been on the market with another agent for about a week. It was Friday morning. “The sellers were not happy with the marketing that was presented mainly around the photos,” Olson says. They were DIY photos taken on
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Everybody thinks about staging home interiors when getting ready to sell. But what about staging the exterior? We called Lauren Matthews, design director and co-owner of White Knight, Mediamax’s preferred partner for home staging, for advice on how to boost curb appeal and get better exterior photos. Most important, says Matthews, is “making sure everything’s
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Angela Hacker, broker associate at RE/MAX Professionals in Cherry Creek describes herself as “really hands on.” She works hard for her sellers. “I care about the service they receive,” she says. And it shows in her approach to marketing their homes. “Regardless of the market, I don’t cut corners. I spend the amount of money
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Jon Eady is one of our most experienced senior photographers, so when he says a shoot is “challenging” you sit up and take notice. Elaine Stucy, owner of Stucy Realty Co. in Castle Rock, recently called him in, as she so often does, to shoot a multimillion-dollar listing for her near Franktown. “HDR was really
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The marketing gurus tell you to go out and snap some pictures of your neighborhood and slap `em up on your website for an instant traffic boost. How come it’s not working? As Christina Etheridge, frequent Inman News contributor, puts it in her tell-it-like-it-is style: “While posting events and blather about local businesses is all
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We’ve been doing a bit of a spring spruce up on the Mediamax website. Time to refresh and renew, blow out the cobwebs and rearrange the furniture, so to speak. Our main aim is to give you a more visual, easy-to-navigate experience. I hope you’ll explore mediamaxphotography.com and let me know what you think. Here’s a
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Here’s something you might not know about Erica Chouinard – she has this photo of a baseball diamond as the screensaver on her smartphone. “It is one of the best photos I’ve ever seen,” she says, describing herself as a “baseball nut.” But she didn’t find it in the AppStore. Mediamax Senior Photographer Mark May
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I went house shopping recently. Not because I’m planning to move but because I wanted to see what kinds of photos home buyers see when they search online. I have to tell you, it’s not pretty. Using realtor.com, I sampled listings from around the country and quickly found some ugly gems. I actually thought it
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What does it take to capture a truly stunning Twilight image? Mediamax Senior Photographer Jeff Davis recently shot Twilight and HDR photos for Jeff Manley, RE/MAX Professionals – Denver, including the one featured above. With an experienced pro like Davis you know you’re always going to get great photographs, but I think he outdid himself
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Your sellers may be worried about the photographer coming. First-time sellers may be be feeling more than a little overwhelmed by the process. But even experienced sellers can use a few pointers. Ease their stress and yours, save time and make sure everything goes well by using this helpful checklist. Download a copy here. Exterior
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In tennis they call the perfect shot an ace. In photography, sometimes it all comes together just like that. Todd Yokomichi’s listing at Larimer Place downtown offers “champagne views and caviar location,” as he puts it in his marketing. Yokomichi is broker/owner of Denver Fine Properties in Englewood. Yokomichi wanted to capture what it’s like
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John Matthews, co-founder of White Orchid Interiors, calls it “the grand slam” – staging plus professional photography plus the right realtor. “Those three components produce the winning combination” in real estate today, he says. I’m pleased to announce White Orchid Interiors is our “preferred partner” for home staging. “Appearance and how you present yourself is
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You might not think of a real estate office as a good candidate for a Google Virtual Tour. What’s there to see? But Lorrie Grillo, vice president of marketing for Perry & Co., sees an invitation. “You’re inviting somebody into your space. So, that’s what I like about the Google tour. It really says, `come
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The listing photos you just ordered on a property were good. Your sellers were pleased. So, why aren’t buyers beating a path to your door? Consider the image featured above. This is a standard, front exterior shot. But maybe it’s a little too standard. By the time buyers have paged through listing after listing, this
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Jim Romano is a relationship builder. Instead of specializing in a geographic area or a price point, Romano, broker associate with Elite Home Sales Team at RE/MAX Professionals in Highlands Ranch, has built the kind of relationships that keep the referrals coming. Whether it’s a $100,000 condo or a $1.25 million dollar estate, “I have
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A blogger on Activerain recently offered “Top 10 Photographic Crimes Agents Commit” and Inman News reposted it twice. I’m afraid the only real “crime” here is agents thinking they can still get by taking their own photos. To put it bluntly, you can’t “get by” anymore. The DIY ship has sailed. With more than 90
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Dawne Collier, broker associate with Coldwell Banker Devonshire in Fort Collins, scheduled Mediamax Senior Photographer Phil Ryman to shoot HDR photos for a Loveland listing on a Saturday afternoon. Phil turned them around quickly and she posted them online the same day. A buyer saw them online and scheduled a showing for a couple of
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It’s not hard to figure out that Beverly Testa is a powerhouse seller. It’s not just her long list of professional credentials. Or her many prestigious awards including RE/MAX Hall of Fame, Chairman’s Club, multiple years as a Platinum seller and so on. No, the real tip off is her high standards – both for
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Every realtor at the top of their game uses professional photography. In a competitive market, no top seller in this business sets out to sell a home or win a listing without high-quality images. I’ve heard this time and again from Colorado’s top producers. Read their stories here. Which begs the question, if professional photos
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I understand why you might be skeptical. After all, word on the street has the market slowing lately. Plus, it’s winter. Everybody knows homes don’t sell in the winter. Oh and you’ll never get a showing if there’s snow in the photos, right? Well, Troy Warrick might beg to differ. Late in 2013, he turned
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The buzz around drones is more than just the sound of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) zipping overhead. If you follow Inman News, you’ve seen the recent coverage and you know drones will have their day at the upcoming Real Estate Connect conference. Even the New York Times has taken notice of their “cool factor,” at
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