YouTube as a Marketing Tool?

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  6. Been using videos and YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Blip.TV and others to market real estate in Southern New Hampshire. All listings, plus community tours are posted – and indexed in Google! Works like a charm!

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  10. Rudy,
    I just watched your video. In your video you say “perfect home for a family with children” is that a HUD violation. Russ do you know the answer. Are fines going to be more aggressive because agents are saying the words?

    Not trying to pick on you Rudy I love the videos. Its just I keep watching these custom videos and am surprised what the agents are saying.

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  11. rdb,

    You’re so right… I had forgot that I keep the rich text editor option off by default. I’d rather write my post in HTML, but I can’t blame most people for not wanting to do this.

    The option you described will work, but another option, and one that might be easier, is to push the button that says “HTML” on the page where you write a post. This will open up a popup window where you can insert the necessary code without changing your default rich text editor option.

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  12. rdb,

    You’re so right… I had forgot that I keep the rich text editor option off by default. I’d rather write my post in HTML, but I can’t blame most people for not wanting to do this.

    The option you described will work, but another option, and one that might be easier, is to push the button that says “HTML” on the page where you write a post. This will open up a popup window where you can insert the necessary code without changing your default rich text editor option.

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  13. sorry dustin, but if you leave the text editor text box selected and use the “html” link to insert an embed video, i will cause errors and your blog page will become distorted. have you tried it? i don’t think that’s an option.

    -rdb.sellsius°

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  14. sorry dustin, but if you leave the text editor text box selected and use the “html” link to insert an embed video, i will cause errors and your blog page will become distorted. have you tried it? i don’t think that’s an option.

    -rdb.sellsius°

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  15. Go figure… Why would I try out something before advising people to do it? 🙂 I can’t imagine what the HTML button is for if not for embedding content like podcasts and YouTube videos. Thanks for letting us know it doesn’t work.

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  18. Don’t waste your time with the wordpress plugins for youtube and google video. Just follow this:

    7. rudolph d. bachraty III – August 6, 2006

    a simple option to embed video when using wordpress is to disable the rich text editor check box found on the bottom of the “user

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  23. Hey all.

    Don’t want to rain on the YouTube parade (pun intended), but you really have to take a look at the terms of service and usage for YouTube and Google Video.

    From how I interpret the terms, promotional, business usage is a no-no.

    You can always host your videos on your own server. It takes a little more effort, but if you want to be “legal”… I host and display my videos independently of YouTube and Google Video. I’ve also read through the terms of service for Yahoo! Video. I’m no lawyer, but I didn’t see the explicit non-business usage term in their terms of service document. So, out of “The Big Three” of online video sharing, yhat’s where I put my videos.

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  24. Thanks for the head’s up! I wouldn’t be too worried about using YouTube for business purposes at this point, but it makes sense to look at other options in case it is necessary in the future!

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  25. Allen Benson is a smart guy.

    Be careful about what you say or put in a video. Fair Housing issues are no joke. Words like “private”, “quiet”, “family”, “empty nester”, “in-law apartment”, etc can be red flags, and the penalties for violating fair housing laws can be severe and career ending.

    I wonder if posting someone else’s video on your own site could cause problems – it’s not your words being spoken, but posting a questionable video is tantamount to saying the words yourself, the way I view things. The suburban rap video is funny, right up until the very end. Yikes!

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