VHT Celebrity Sighting – Blagojevich Home

October 5, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Patti and Rod Blagojevich are selling their ‘Ravenswood Manor’ home for $1.07 Million.  If you want an inside glimpse into this beautiful home, check out the photographs that VHT Studios shot.

Click here for the Virtual Tour

Click here to see the home featured on Chicago’s ABC7 News

The home is being listed by Patti Blagojevich.

The property description is listed online as:

* * Ravenswood Manor * * One of the largest homes in the neighborhood. Built like a fortress, this 5 br 3 ba, home has over 3,800 sq ft. of living area plus a 2,200 sq ft basement with gym. 3 fireplaces, incredible crown molding, steam and radiant heat in the rehabbed baths, music room and library, huge master suite. Truly unique for the area. This home has an enormous amount of storage space. El 1 1/2 blocks away.

Let us know what you think!

–VHT

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Bad Photo of the Day

September 16, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Stacked pillows in a corner...enough said.

Bad Photo of the Day

August 1, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

M.C. Escher spent a lot of time and got his inspiration from this master bedroom...At least I think that's what it is, way too many shapes and angles going on...Step back a little next time.

Bad Photo of the Day

July 28, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

"Honey, Where's the bed? I was just sitting on it a minute ago, got up and now it's gone..."

CENTURY 21 Selects VHT ImageWorks Digital Marketing Platform

July 27, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Today, we released an announcement that Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the franchisor of the world’s largest real estate organization, has selected and launched our  ImageWorks platform to boost online visibility, drive homebuyers to its website and increase sales conversion.

VHT ImageWorks is a comprehensive and automated digital marketing platform used by industry-leading brokerages to drive buyers directly from search engines to their sites and engage them with visually alluring listings.

Within a few weeks after launching VHT ImageWorks, CENTURY 21 achieved the following results:

  •  An increase of more than 200,000 incremental visitors from search engines to century21.com, compared to June 2010. During the same period, real estate search traffic dropped 5 percent nationally, according to Google Insights.
  • A 45 percent jump in the volume of keywords and search terms associated with century21.com.

Click here to read the full article

–VHT

the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly – July 22nd

July 22, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Every week we are featuring the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of real estate marketing.  Firstly, our ‘Wall of Shame’ features the bad (…and the very ugly…) photos that some agents are using to market their listings.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, our ‘Wall of Fame’ features some of the best real estate marketing you can find.


WALL OF SHAME

Step awaaay from the Photoshop!

This is what a night of drinking and an attempt to learn Photoshop gets you!

And with this lovely home you get a heaping pile of trash! Congratulations!!

The only way I’d even remotely want to see this place is to check if there were actually Goldfish in that box. Something tells me I would be disappointed!

There are just no words for this one

…I’m Scared…

WALL OF FAME

Agent for the above listing is Sean Aikman of Sotheby's International Realty in Connecticut (click the photograph for full listing information)

Sean Aikman of Sotheby’s International Realty in Connecticut (click the photograph for more on this listing)

Agent for the above listing is Manley Stockton of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Georgia (click the photograph for more on this listing)
Manley Stockton of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Georgia (click the photograph for more on this listing)

This home is listed by Sailfish Point/Sotheby's International Realty in Florida (click photograph for more on this listing)
Sailfish Point/Sotheby’s International Realty in Florida (click photograph for more on this listing)

Sound off! Tell us which of these photographs you think are the best and the worst.  We’ll tally up the votes and we’ll post the results for the top ten best and worst photographs of the month!

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Bad Photo of the Day

July 21, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Is this a Dollhouse we are looking into? Is it just me or do you feel like Alice walking down the hallway where everything contiues to get smaller and smaller. Just leave this shot out next time...

Bad Photo of the Day

July 20, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Artwork on the ground, Artwork on the ground, looking like a fool with your artwork on the ground...anyone? ...Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?

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Google Panda, the End of SEO? Open View Blog

July 19, 2011 in Agents & Brokers, Marketing by Nick Teel | No comments

The SEO game is always changing.  Google is always changing their algorithm to make it harder,  or easier in some site’s cases, to get yourself in the elite 3! The new Google Panda release is a huge step in the direction Google has always wanted to go.  More value in what people actually think of sites, than just, who can optimize for the most keywords.

It will be interesting to see what Google has in store for the future, creating a more strategy based war than the SEO game people play now.  But for now, things are pretty much the same, until we see otherwise, wherein we will let you know.

Read more Here

Does Google Panda Signal the End of SEO as We Know It?

–VHT

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Bad Photo of the Day

July 19, 2011 in Smart Tidbit by Nick Teel | No comments

Ease up on the Photoshop, lady!

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