Pawpro Hears and Sees the Whos of Horton’s Kids

What’s that sound? It’s not coming from a dust speck, people! It’s coming from the great efforts of Horton’s Kids, a Capitol Hill based organization which provides tutoring and support to students and families of the lowest-performing schools of Ward 8 in Washington, DC. Pawpro Media will be producing a series of videos for this great organization led by Brenda Chamberlain, and founded by Karin Walser. It’s only fitting that we make this announcement on Dr. Seuss’ birthday.

While filling her car with gas in 1989, Karin had a chance encounter with a group of children from this troubled area of our nation’s capital, and it inspired her to recognize their need as well as their presence in the shadow of her everyday life working on Capitol Hill. It was as if they were calling out, We are here! We are here! We are here! just as the tiny Who’s in Who-ville did in the infamous Dr. Suess book, Horton Hears a Who.

For 20 years Horton’s Kids has advocated, transported, and enriched the lives of these neediest of children with educational tutoring, mentoring as well as the basic necessities of food and clothing when necessary. Horton’s Kids’ work is funded entirely by donations. Please visit hortonskids.org/donate.html if you would like to make a donation.

Pawpro working with McEnearney Associates Realtors

Theresa Graham - Return HomePawpro will be working with McEnearney Associates Realtors to produce promotional and inspirational video content for the company’s Website.  The first will feature Executive Vice President, David Hawkins and the Alexandria office.  McEnearney plans to utilize video to keep it’s brokers and clients informed about the Washington Area’s fast-moving market tides.

Pawpro has previously produced video home tours for McEnearney brokers Theresa Graham and Deb Pietras.

Dom Bower Photography Blog

Dom Bower Videos

Pawpro loves the photography tutorials by Dom Bower because they’re easy to understand, cover useful topics, and, at moments, a little tongue-in-chic.  That’s right, chic, not cheek.  He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he does offer hundreds of instructional videos for the casual user, as well as the serious photography hobbyist/pseudo professional.  He has a couple of YouTube channels and Websites, so you’re sure to find help on most any photography topic you desire.

If you plan on taking photos for your own Website, you can’t beat these tips.  Real estate brokers who take their own photos could really benefit from watching of few of these videos. 

The Value of the Viral Ad World

In this world of buzz words such as viral advertising and YouTube’s top viewed videos that come and go in a couple week’s time, how does a business position itself?  Should a business go viral, or not, is the question?

Sample Viral Ad

The viral advertisement and media arena has a value to almost any business.   Search engines now routinely separate and display multimedia content with text content results in keyword searches.  The test in producing virally is to remain true to the nature of your business and the message you want to send.  It’s easy to get caught-up trying to get noticed online, and lose sight of what is truly effective or appropriate .  Viral ad attempts often lead to poor quality and, or bad production choices that don’t necessarily have a marketing benefit.

The best strategy against these pitfalls is to develop a concept that’s realistic to achieve, fits within your budget, and remains mindful of production quality.  Bad audio and poor quality video are a distraction to a viewer, and can detract from a customer’s impression of your company .  Viewers will accept poor quality in a funny family video clip, but not so much from a company with whom they are considering investing their time and money. Always remember, it takes a customer one click to get to your site, and it just one click to leave it.  Keep it simple.

Video and Online Marketing for Real Estate

Real estate brokers and brokerage firms are steadily starting to switch from the traditional forms of marketing such as print and newspaper to the Internet, blogs and multimedia.  Why?  For good reason, some 27.7 billion online searches are launched each month in the U.S. alone, according to the book, “Marketing in the Age of Google™.” Those numbers are expected to rise with each passing month and year as more and more consumers rely on the Internet to find products and services, and less and less on print options such as newspapers, phone books, and mailers which end up in trash cans or recycling bins never to be seen.

A smartly produced video showcasing a home for sale not only serves your client now, but becomes a long-lasting marketing and branding tool for the broker, which can be linked endlessly, and viewed by past, present, and future clients as an example of the quality of work you do.

As for branding, what better way for your clients to get a sense of who you are than creating a one minute stylized and personalized video profile of yourself.  Again, it’s a onetime expense that can be viewed endlessly by potential clients in the convenience of their home.  It doesn’t cost you anything to send a link.  Can you say that about a mailer?

Brokers are also realizing that there is much greater value and longevity to dollars spent on electronic marketing than for the conventional print options.  Although it’s uncharted and intimidating territory for many, it is the way the real estate industry is surely moving as far as marketing is concerned.

Consider letting Pawpro produce a video profile or a reuseable tag for a home tour for you.

See a Pawpro profile/tag.