{"id":2297,"date":"2007-12-01T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2007-12-01T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:09:36","slug":"bloodhoundrealty-after-dark-illuminating-our-yard-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2297\/bloodhoundrealty-after-dark-illuminating-our-yard-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"BloodhoundRealty after dark: Illuminating our yard signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with trade shows is the shopportunities. I can restrain myself, by Cathy can be suggestible. Jeff Brown had been talking to me about after-dark lights for our yard signs, but it wasn&#8217;t until StarPower, when Cathy saw the product offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/listinglight.com\/home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">ListingLight.com<\/a>, that we bought into the idea:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/IllumintaedSigns.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s flash photography. The light emitted by the ListingLight is adequate for reading at night, but taking a useful picture would require a tri-pod. Even so, they do the job. Where every other sign on the street is an unreadable silhouette, ours pop out at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Is it enough to sell the house? Perhaps not, but every little thing helps. There&#8217;s no telling when the buyer is coming by, and, even in Arizona, evenings are dark in Winter.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/StarPower\" rel=\"tag\">StarPower<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with trade shows is the shopportunities. I can restrain myself, by Cathy can be suggestible. Jeff Brown had been talking to me about after-dark lights for our yard signs, but it wasn&#8217;t until StarPower, when Cathy saw the product offered by ListingLight.com, that we bought into the idea: That&#8217;s flash photography. The light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2814,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2814\/listing-real-estate-the-bloodhound-way-virtual-remodeling\/","url_meta":{"origin":2297,"position":0},"title":"Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Virtual remodeling","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote about Obeo's virtual remodeling feature when first I discovered it (they call it Style Designer). 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