Blog by Kyle Hislop

STOP Fingering Your Pictures!

April 18th, 2012

 If you have seen my "MLS pics gone Wrong" page, which you can see here by the way http://www.kylehislop.com/MLSpicsGoneWrong.php, you know that I am very picky about the pictures I use to market my listings.  As professionals, when marketing a product that in most cases is someone's most valuable asset, I believe they deserve the best service.  And quality photos is one of those services.
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Make your video tours Awesome!

April 12th, 2012
 

  I have been doing video tours of my properties since 2006.  Back in the day with my crappy still camera, and no HD, it was pretty much a useless service at the time. Today I use my iPhone 4S combined with an olloclip lens and Steadicam Smoothee, and the result it something that needs to be shared.  
  Let's start with the phone.  The iPhone 4s takes HD video and to be honest, I think it ...

Sign a contract on your iPad

December 14th, 2011
  I have had a ton of questions asking how to sign a contract on my iPad. Instead of walking around to everyone's office and doing a demo, here is a short 2 minute video instead. 

  In this video I am using 2 apps.  Dropbox, which is free.  iAnnotate, which at the time of this blog was $9.99 on the app store.  I am using my iPad 2 for the demo and a Hard Candy stylus for writing.  To shoot t ...

Why I use Dropbox for my real estate business...

September 23rd, 2011
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((Watch the Video at the bottom of this post))

  I've been using Dropbox for over a year now, and out of all the services I use, this is the most important to my business.  I use it every day because it's simple, it's smart and most important...it's free!

"...what is Dropbox"
 
  Dropbox is a cloud storage service which, as long as you stay under 2G, is completely free.  If you feel you ...

How to access MLXchange on your iPad...

August 17th, 2011
  logmein logoI get this question all the time, matter of fact I addressed it again yesterday, how to access MLXchange on my Apple products?  So for those of you who find this old news, take a hike and I'll address this problem for the newbies :)
 
"...MLXchange only works on PC's running Internet Explorer - not Apple"

  The creators of MLXchange built their product to only work with Internet Explorer, ...

DollyCam App Review for REALTORS®

August 12th, 2011
  
   dollyCamVideo tours have become very popular with REALTORS® when advertising a new listing.  Some do the sweeping, panning videos - some do walkthrough videos - while others do a picture slideshow and call it a video (which it isn't).  I've been doing video tours since 2007 and always walkthrough videos.  The reason I use a walkthrough video is because I want potential buyers to get a feel for ...

Chilliwack Real Estate and QR Codes

February 14th, 2011
  QR Code and SignLet's say you are driving down the street and you see a house you like that happens to be for sale.  You look at the sign in the front yard, but instead of waterlogged feature sheets sitting in a bird pooped box you see this weird bar code.  Well my friends, this is much better than a feature sheet.  These codes are called QR Codes, which stands for Quick Response, and the purpose is exactl ...

Chilliwack Real Estate - Zosh by: Kyle Hislop

February 10th, 2011
  A handy little app I use once in a while is called Zosh.  You can download it from the iPhone app store.  I'll preface this by saying it is still a little buggy, and not ready for iPad, but for the most part it works great.  Very simple process.  You send a pdf copy to Zosh - click on it - sign - adjust - and email it to whomever you want.  I use it mostly for when I have to sign for strata ...
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