Watch ALL my Periscope videos on Katch.me/tinajan

     This year has been full of changes for me and my coworkers.  One of the biggest changes was really embracing the video trend for real estate.  There are so many venues for videos to be consumed, but I am really concentrating on YouTube and Periscope.  The videos that I have been putting on our office YouTube channel have been more formal and put-together.  We try to provide videos to the public that are educational and informative.  The videos aren't heavily scripted, but they are edited.  There are pros and cons to this, of course.  The videos look nice and polished, but it doesn't allow for much of our personalities to be displayed.

     Periscope is just the opposite.  It is a live-streaming service that allows people to broadcast from wherever they are at the moment.  Periscope could let me broadcast open houses, home previews, community events, behind the scenes of our video shoots, etc.  Unfortunately the broadcasts only stay for 24 hours on the Periscope app itself.  However, when used in tandem with Katch.me the videos can be archived elsewhere and rewatched at your leisure.  You can watch my Periscope videos at katch.me/tinajan !

     I've seen some YouTubers post their Periscope videos onto YouTube for more exposure, but the videos from Periscope aren't the prettiest things to rewatch.  They can be jumpy and pixelated from bad internet reception.  And although part of the fun of Periscope is that viewers can comment and interact with the broadcaster, this leaves replay viewers stuck watching all the greetings and random banter.  What do you think?  Should our Periscope videos be added to YouTube?  I would love to hear your input on Periscope, YouTube, realtor videos, and topics that you are interested in!

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~Tina Jan~
BRE# 01505855
Real Estate Masters Group
770 E. 6th St., Suite A,
Beaumont, CA 92223
Cell: 909-446-2666
Fax: 951-880-0819
tinajan@gmail.com
www.tinajan.com

Periscope is my new Favorite App!

What is Periscope? Periscope is an app for iOs and Android that lets you "go live" from your mobile device anytime! With this app, you can broadcast, live. People broadcast, or "scope," about what they see, like events, music. Or they broadcast themselves and speak with viewers who can leave comments and "hearts." The hearts appear when viewers tap anywhere on the screen of their device. It shows the broadcaster that the viewers are liking what they are seeing. Once the broadcast is over, the video can still be watched on "Replay" for 24 hours. Viewers can share the broadcaster's video with their own followers, or share it on Twitter or Facebook.

I've only just started to use Periscope, but I've already done several broadcasts during an open house that I did over the weekend. It is very easy to use, but there are a few things that I had to figure out.

1.  Make sure your phone does not have the portrait orientation locked, if you want to broadcast in landscape mode. For real estate, I like to show a wider view, rather than a tall view. But I didn't start out the broadcast in landscape mode. So throughout the broadcast, my video was just playing sideways. I finally figured out how to broadcast correctly in landscape mode today. Did a test broadcast of my dog eating dogfood outside so that I could see if the landscape mode would work.  It worked finally!

2.  Get a Twitter account.  I've always had a Twitter account, so that's not a problem.  But my coworker, needed to create a Twitter account when he downloaded Periscope.  So you will run into it eventually if you are interested in getting Periscope.

OKAY, so now you want to broadcast, what should you do?

When starting a Periscope broadcast, there are a few things you need to do!
 
a. make sure you are in landscape orientation (at least for real estate)
 
b. type in an interesting title (in landscape mode) add emojis
 
c. turn OFF Precise Location if you don't want people to know your exact location (it can be zoomed in on the map to a very detailed level, so turn it off if you don't want any creepers)
 
d. make sure comments are enabled for the public! it is fun interacting with the people who comment while watching your broadcast.  I had this feature blocked so only my friends/followers could comment, which was not what I had wanted to do!
 
 e. make sure you have battery backup or a charger because broadcasting live really drains your phone's power.  I found this out the hard way after my second day of broadcasting!  My battery went from 100% to 6% after 2 long-ish broadcasts!  Admittedly I was streaming jazz music from Youtube on my laptop, which was tethered to my phone's hotspot, soooo maybe that contributed quite a bit also.  :)

All in all, Periscope is so easy to use.  I am so excited to be a part of the Periscope world!  If you would like to see all my prior broadcasts, you can watch them on my Katch page!




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~Tina Jan~
BRE# 01505855
Real Estate Masters Group
770 E. 6th St., Suite A,
Beaumont, CA 92223
Cell: 909-446-2666
Fax: 951-880-0819
tinajan@gmail.com
www.tinajan.com

How to Unlink Gmail Accounts

Hi Everyone!  I wanted to share my experience with unlinking Gmail accounts.  I have multiple email accounts.  In fact, you could even call me a hoarder of email accounts.  I don't delete emails, I just get a new email account when the old one gets close to maximum storage capacity!  I know it's a little silly, but I don't have time to read junk email, let alone time to delete those emails.

What all this boils down to, is that I naturally have a few Gmail accounts and with the new changes to Gmail in the last few years, those accounts inevitably get linked together automatically.  This is convenient in many respects because I can check emails from other accounts seamlessly.  I can switch back and forth between different email accounts and reply to people in the account that I want to reply from.  It's great!

But there are times when someone will borrow my computer and sign into their Gmail account and now I'm stuck with their email account linked to mine.  How do you unlink and remove an unwanted Gmail account?

First of all, SIGN OUT.  Go to the upper right of your Gmail page, where your personal icon is.  Click the icon and it will open a little box with your name, email, profile, My Account, and Sign Out.  You need to sign out.  My problem was that I thought I had to be signed into my account to do anything.  I mistakenly thought that I had to be an authorized user and go into my settings, but this is not the case.

Once you are signed out, Google will have a new page that will allow you to Sign In.  This will show a list of all the linked accounts.  At the bottom of the list, you will see "Add Account" on the left and "Remove" on the right.  Click "Remove."  This will bring the list of linked accounts back up and you can hit "X" on the email accounts that you would like to remove.

Then click "Done" and you are... done!  Now you can sign back into your preferred default account!

Hope this helps someone!  If you have any questions, real estate or not, feel free to contact me.  :)

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~Tina Jan~
BRE# 01505855
Real Estate Masters Group
770 E. 6th St., Suite A,
Beaumont, CA 92223
Cell: 909-446-2666
Fax: 951-880-0819
tinajan@gmail.com
www.tinajan.com