Digital Picture Frames for Real Estate
By Chad A. Johnson · June 7, 2007
With the real estate industry being so visually driven, what better than a simple, portable way to display digital photos?
Digital frames are small LCD screens (usually 6-10 inches diagonally) disguised as a standard picture frame. Pictures can be transferred via USB connection or by inserting the memory card from your digital camera into the onboard card reader. Once loaded with pictures, the photographs are then displayed as a running slideshow. Some models even come with a remote control to make navigation a snap.
Think of the possibilities for the use of such a device in the real estate world. When at open houses, display photos as other homes for sale. At the office, promote agents and their listings by scrolling through office listings and agent photos. On your desk, highlight all of your past listings. The applications are endless.
The thing I like most about this is the way that it doesn’t appear technical. Yes, you could always display images on your laptop, but many people have an aversion to technology. The digital frames have the familiarity of a normal picture frame with the novelty of the slideshow capability. The way digital frames flew off the shelves at Christmas, even non-technical people had to have shown interest in them.
Check out this great selection of digital frames at Amazon.com.
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Using these to show listings is a great idea, but I think a little work in photoshop might help even more. I could see myself adding listing details over the picture before adding it to the frame. Nice job pointing out a feature I would never have thought about.
Thank you Shaun for the great idea of adding listing details to the picture using Photoshop or other photo editing tool. Publisher would even work and then save as a .jpg.