Question for agents who have a website

[RayGroupInsurance]

Someone mentioned putting a video of themselves on the main page. How does everyone else feel about that?

I worry that it would take longer to load the page and potentially scare off some customer becuase of the slowness. I also worry that it might 'cheapen' the look of my site if I didn't have a good quality camera and do it right.

Am I too worried? Should I put a video on my site?

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

Am I too worried? Should I put a video on my site?

Dunno. Depends on what you look like. How 'bout a video of Tom Wilson or the RVP?

 

[RayGroupInsurance]

I try to keep everything to do with the company off of my site. It is a pain in the butt to get stuff approved from them so I just leave them out of it.

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

Smart. "You're In Good Hands".

 

[nickkime]

Do you create and build your own site or do you pay someone to develop it? What have you found to be the average cost of having a website created?

 

[sunkist219]

The cost for a website depends on how nice & professional that you want it to be. In my opinion, it's pretty easy to pick out the agents who have attempted to build their own. I always say go with a company and make sure they don't create you a website that looks like a template. I know of realtors who've paid thousands for a nicely designed website. Mine was about $700.

 

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[Charpress]

I wouldn't do a video. I think that is a bit over the top and would be a negative for more people than a positive.

A big, toothy-smile picture is always plenty enough.

What would one be doing in a video anyway? I can't really picture that.

 

[padthaiforlunch]

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[Charpress]

When I think of videos on the main page, I can't help but think about the annoying recordings people used to put on their phone answering machines. They seemed cute and were funny the first time you called someone and left a message. And then you got really sick of wasting your time with the same lame message over and over again.

Unless you think people will visit your site just once, I would have any videos on a link, maybe in an "about us" page.