This weekend we had a successful workshop on teaching real estate agents and property owners to market and advertise their houses and apartments online. The same tactics and strategies should be used by hotels and vacation resorts. Internet marketing is the best tool to get listings and rent homes. 92% of people search the internet before contacting a travel agency Here is a recap of the main takeaways from the workshop With rapidly evolving visual marketing tools and technologies, the real estate market is more competitive than ever. Top agents leverage the newest tools to stand out. 2D photography and DIY video no longer impresses a new generation of buyers and sellers who expect engaging online experiences that truly provide an understanding of a property. In a changing landscape, real estate agents and brokers who leverage new technology to inexpensively and quickly deliver immersive online and offline experiences are best...
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With the advent of social media foodie culture, food photography is everywhere. The market is saturated with top-down smartphone images of cappuccinos, healthy salads, and tasty steaks. How can a food blogger stand out in this overwhelming parade of food images? By taking high quality, eye catching images, of course! If you’ve asked people for help before or have done some web searching on the topic, you’ve probably heard these pieces of advice: 1. Use natural light 2. Don’t use flash 3. Use the macro setting on your camera (for food) And while each of these is, in essence, true, they’re also incomplete and too basic. That is why D2D Digital reached out to a professional food photographer Oxana Denezhkina and asked her to share 5 food photography secrets exclusively with our readers. Here are 5 giveaways on how to take tasty photos: The Power of Right Hand Side One...
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Citigroup raised the valuation of Instagram this morning from $19 billion to $35 billion. The photo-sharing network recently announced it had surpassed 300 million active users, and has taken steps toward cleaning up spam accounts, as well as adding new filters and features in an update this week. Clean-up of fake accounts caused follower counts to drop overnight. Ironically, it was Instagram itself that lost the most followers in the “Rapture.” The photo service has lost almost a third of its followers, dropping 18 million users in a single day. Instagram was acquired by Facebook back in April of 2012 for $1 billion. The acquisition came at a time when Instagram only had around 27 million users on iOS. However, the company saw over a million downloads n the first day of launching on Android, and Facebook put the pedal to the metal and closed the deal. Instagram has since grown to have...
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