http://ping.fm/nocRj A whole new meaning to the "24 hour open house".

http://bit.ly/REVideo Here is a post about RE Video - a couple of major points highlighted - full article is linked.

http://bit.ly/Video2010 Great article from Inman News today about Video - things we can help you with!

http://bit.ly/WhirligigHDPlaxo Come join me on Plaxo! It rolls everything you do all into one stream - check it out!

Even more flexibility in your virtual tour

We listened again and have come up with a way for you to open your tour to a specific page. While we don't recommend this, we understand this is something worth-while!

It's not that we don't recommend it...we just think the normal landing page is best because it is MOBILE.

The "normal" landing page is designed to open in mobile browsers and display all pertinent information about the property - including description, 8 photos (that can be enlarged), and information about you. Also, the other items can be displayed in a mobile browser - like any documents you want to upload or even hyperlinks you add in the description.

However, we know you may want to have it open to the photo gallery, panoramas, or even the video tab. Once in the tour, visitors can click anywhere.

So...let's say you want to have the tour open to the Video tab by default. Here is all you need to do.

We provide you a link to the tour - you only need to add &show=video at the end of the URL and that's it! The tour link now opens to the video tab by default.

Adding &show=photos or &show=panos or even &show=map will take visitors to that portion of the tour by default.

So this link would take you to the normal landing page:
http://www.whirligighd.com/vtour/vtour.php?action=listingtour&listingID=300

This link would take you to the same tour but open the video tab first:
http://www.whirligighd.com/vtour/vtour.php?action=listingtour&listingID=300&show=video

as always, let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Current MLS photos

Someone sent me a funny picture of a bad Real Estate photo - things you don't want to do for your sellers. If you're not going to hire out to do photos, at least we can all agree that technology has come a long way that there is no reason to have any photos like these here.

These are all recent examples directly from submitted entries from several MLS sites. Many of them are for recent listings in our very own SCWMLS...I won't pick on anyone.

We can also agree that you don't have to look far for many examples like this. Remember, sellers give referrals.

Bottom line is this....DID YOU KNOW....

As a do-it-yourself customer of WhirligigHD ($15 per listing...no monthly fee), we give you access to a secure help blog that helps you take better photos - recommended equipment, how to take better panoramas, how to shoot better video, angles of attack, etc.

Yes, we have all the equipment and experience to make it look great...but we also understand $$ is an issue and you would rather wear two hats - Real Estate professional and photographer.

You shoot at will, upload everything to our site (including video, documents, photos, panoramas, hyperlinks, logos, etc.) and we'll submit your listings to our community blog network and even spread it out to heavily-indexed mapping sites and other major Real Estate sites.

Drum roll please...these took 10 minutes to find.

Click here to see the tour of photos

http://bit.ly/MiddletonXmas Christmas tree shopping fun in Middleton, WI! Thanks Cathy Lacy and Pam Widen!