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Harness the Power of Video Online to Increase Traffic and ROI

Derek-

I'm glad to see someone doing videos like you are. Currently we can provide our clients with an automated used car video. It's the best product out there but I really think the future is to have stations set up where you have a live camera on a track loop around the car. You'll produce steady shots at every angle and really give customers a movie-like experience when viewing the vehicle. I know this is going to be expensive but the first dealer to do this right will really benefit from this.
 
Justin, your idea is cool and probably someday will be standard. I checked out your website, it looks like you're using Sister tech's Video carlot automated slide show videos for your dealers.
I noticed they've been hyping 5fifty free, which on their website says free walk around videos for a website, w/youtube uploads..?
What's up with that? What's the catch?
Why would they give dealers free videos? And I've heard they make videos every month w/5 uploads to youtube for free???
Is anyone doing this free video from them right now?
 
I loved V-SEO. We started popping out videos left and right and immediately they started showing up for the keywords we had targeted with them. The only problem was they weren't professional looking. I think this was a big set back for us. Some of the videos did really well in traffic but few to none of them sold cars. I think if you are going to do it you have to really be prepared to put out a good walk-around.