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Eric Manthey From Vid2r Says Video Is The Next Big Thing for real estate brokers and to become placed in search engines for the web 2.0 world

BrokerIPTV  : We are talking today with Eric Manthey founder of Vid2r. Eric thanks for being with us. What is Vid2r, how did it get started? 

Eric Manthey: Vid2r produces stream video tours of residential real-estate and we deliver them in an online media player. Its very similar to a single property website and its very search engine friendly. 

BrokerIPTV  : Now, some agents say well a video taping none moving objects, are they excited about it, is that a concern. Whats you thoughts about that? 

Eric Manthey: Well, they absolutely love it because the big change between the video tours and the panoramic tours is that a video tour is a very realistic to what the property really looks like, what it resembles when they are in the property. An agent has an opportunity to tell a perspective buyer, exactly what they want them to know about the house, rather than giving them an old stored stat that came in, that spins around and then the buyers left in guess what it is in the property thats there. 

BrokerIPTV  : You are more than just video, you are like one stop shop, you are doing stills and posting these things, posting the video places for people is that right? 

Eric Manthey: Absolutely, we understand with the Web 2.0, its very hard for people to keep up with all the changes. So, aside from the video tours themselves, Vid2r is a complete internet marketing suite. We have over 10 top search engine websites that we place these on. We have flyers that print from the tour, mortgage calculator, school information, community profiles. So, when somebody visits the Vid2r we want to give them the most information that we can about their home that they are looking to buy. 

BrokerIPTV  : Whats been the response from both the consumer and the agent? 

Eric Manthey: They love it. We are still new, we are still trying to get the word out there, but the agents that have used us have had a very great success. Obviously the consumer loves it, streaming videos blowing up online, its taking over the internet as whole. So, I think its a right place in the right time for it. 

BrokerIPTV  : Is this affordable? 

Eric Manthey: Absolutely, if agents are doing panoramic tours right now. We fall into the same exact price ranges. We are going to rage from 140 bucks to a full blown HD tour, thats $400. 

BrokerIPTV  : Well, must you have your own website in order to take advantage of your service? 

Eric Manthey: No, its great if you do, but I think with the search engine optimization we have built probably you are going to come across Vid2r before you find your own website. 

BrokerIPTV  : So, people could go to Vid2r to view a home or any of those other websites where you post a video people to go there as well? 

Eric Manthey: Correct. 

BrokerIPTV  : Like YouTube? 

Eric Manthey: Correct, YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, Google and we try to make sure we get it out there. so, when somebody is looking for a home its going to come out pretty high in the search engine. 

BrokerIPTV  : Eric, thanks, great talking with you, very interesting stuff.