Upmarket: The Business of Real Estate Photography & Media

This week, Reed chats with Melissa & Gerard Lynch, the co-founders of Rise Media in New York. They get into how Melissa and Gerard built Rise Media in the juggernaut that it is today, where they're shooting some of the most expensive homes in the country with a team of over 30 people. The Lynch's also detail what they're going to be presenting at PMRE and give us a couple of great Action Items at the end!PMRE 2024, bigger and better than ever, is November 13-15th at Palms Las Vegas. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get registered before it sells out! Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration OR code UPMARKET75 for $75 off the online-only, live stream and on-demand replay of the conference.AND Upmarket Pod is beyond excited to partner with iGUIDE to bring you our exclusive Road to PMRE 2024 series of Upmarket episodes.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod. Our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business is at UpmarketCourse.com!!!! Go to the site and book a one-on-one call with Reed to chat about the course (or anything else!) and he'll get you a special discount code!The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

HURRY! COUPON CODE!!!: Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration for PMRE 2024. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details.This week, after a brief check in with Mark and Chelsea, Reed sits down with Jenna Gaidusek, of AI for Interior Designers to talk, yet again, about AI. But this time, it's about AI that you can actually use, right here, right now. Jenna details a ton of ways that photographers can use the technology to streamline their businesses. This is a fun and practical discussion ntaht you won't want to miss! Also, you know darn well that they end the show with a couple great Action Items! (DISCLAIMER: This writeup and all content in this podcast was not in any way shape or form generated or helped by AI.)PMRE 2024, bigger and better than ever, is November 13-15th at Palms Las Vegas. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get registered before it sells out! Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration OR code UPMARKET75 for $75 off the online-only, live stream and on-demand replay of the conference.AND Upmarket Pod is beyond excited to partner with iGUIDE to bring you our exclusive Road to PMRE 2024 series of Upmarket episodes.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod. Our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business is at UpmarketCourse.com!!!! Go to the site and book a one-on-one call with Reed to chat about the course (or anything else!) and he'll get you a special discount code!The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

HURRY! COUPON CODE!!!: Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration for PMRE 2024. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details.This week Reed sits down with the legend, Fraser Almeida, of Luxury Homes Photography in Las Vegas Nevada. Fraser is an expert of Luxury Real Estate photography and is part of the dynamic three-way of Wayne, Tony and Fraser (WTF), the renowned instructors of the Capturing Luxury: A Focused Approach to Shooting Luxury Real Estate workshops. Let this fun episode whet your appetite and prime you for maybe taking the workshop at PMRE this year, or at one of their future events. Fraser is such a great, personable, guy that it makes for a great listen. Also, you know darn well that they end the show with a couple great Action Items!PMRE 2024, bigger and better than ever, is November 13-15th at Palms Las Vegas. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get registered before it sells out! Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration OR code UPMARKET75 for $75 off the online-only, live stream and on-demand replay of the conference.AND Upmarket Pod is beyond excited to partner with iGUIDE to bring you our exclusive Road to PMRE 2024 series of Upmarket episodes.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod. Our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business is at UpmarketCourse.com!!!! Go to the site and book a one-on-one call with Reed to chat about the course (or anything else!) and he'll get you a special discount code!The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

HURRY! COUPON CODE!!!: Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration for PMRE 2024. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get in there now to register and secure the preferred group hotel rate which needs to be booked by Oct. 11th!!!This week Reed sits down with Alexandria Abramian, the founder of The PR Collaborative, an online community for interior designers and photographers who want to get their work featured in top design publications. Alex is super smart, engaging and has a ton of great insight into how Real Estate Media Professionals can use some PR skills to leverage our position with our clients and create more opportunities for our businesses. This is a fun and informative episode, so give a listen! Also, you know darn well that they end the show with a couple great Action Items!PMRE 2024, bigger and better than ever, is November 13-15th at Palms Las Vegas. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get registered before it sells out! Use code UPMARKET100 for $100 off your registration OR code UPMARKET75 for $75 off the online-only, live stream and on-demand replay of the conference.AND Upmarket Pod is beyond excited to partner with iGUIDE to bring you our exclusive Road to PMRE 2024 series of Upmarket episodes.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod. Our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business is at UpmarketCourse.com!!!! Go to the site and book a one-on-one call with Reed to chat about the course (or anything else!) and he'll get you a special discount code!The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

Reed, Mark and Chelsea shake off the hangovers and dish about the Grand Opening Party for the Upmarket Studio at Gasworks! They get into how the party went down and if they think it justified the hefty final budget. In the second half of the show, a Special Guest comes on to talk about Cinematic twilight videos and the team gives an update on the suddenly volatile launch of the branding side of the business. Plus, ACTION ITEMS!!!! Action Items are something small that any listener can do right now to help make their Real Estate Media Business more efficient.Check out Upmarket's FREE webinar on How and Why to Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at upmarketcourse.com/webinar and our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at UpmarketCourse.com.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod and Chelsea @feedingbeautiful and Upmarket Media @upamarket.media.The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan WITH GLA square Footage. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

This week Reed and Mark dish about all the details and costs of the imminent Grand Opening Party of Upmarket's new studio space at Gasworks in Ventura. 200 clients are expected at the party and the guys dish about the everything that is going into the party, including the ever-ballooning budget. In the second half of the show they talk about the challenges and triumphs they've had over the last couple months in the business and then wrap up the show with Action Items! Action Items are something small that any listener can do right now to help make their Real Estate Media Business more efficient.Check out Upmarket's FREE webinar on How and Why to Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at upmarketcourse.com/webinar and our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at UpmarketCourse.com.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod and Chelsea @feedingbeautiful and Upmarket Media @upamarket.media.The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan WITH GLA square Footage. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

This week Reed sits down with Jamie McInally of Autoenhance.ai to talk further about the hot topic of the year, AI. As CEO of an AI real estate photography editing company, Jamie is well-positioned to speak to the benefits of Real Estate Media professionals using AI to help their businesses in many ways, not just with editing photos. Jamie also gets into what he will be speaking about on stage at PMRE 2024. Reed and Jamie also get into some of the potential drawbacks of AI and what issues the industry must confront before widespread adoption of AI editing. ALSO, they end the show with special AI GENERATED ACTION ITEMS!PMRE 2024, bigger and better than ever, is November 13-15th at Palms Las Vegas. Go to pmreconference.com for all the details. Get registered before it sells out!AND Upmarket Pod is beyond excited to partner with iGUIDE to bring you our exclusive Road to PMRE 2024 series of Upmarket episodes.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod. Our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business is at UpmarketCourse.com!!!! Go to the site and book a one-on-one call with Reed to chat about the course (or anything else!) and he'll get you a special discount code!The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

Danny Bertollo, the owner of Futuro Avenue and The Property Videographer, shares his expertise in real estate video production. He discusses the evolving trends in cinematic content and how videographers can align with agents' goals for better business outcomes. Danny introduces the concept of the 'flywheel' to boost demand and pricing, emphasizing quality and effective training. They conclude with actionable items, as well as insights on the importance of strategic planning and management skills for long-term success in the industry.

This episode starts with Reed and Skylar Lawrence-Lebel and the iGUIDE Tour to PMRE Sweepstakes Winners announcement! 2 lucky winners get ALL-EXPENSES PAID TRIPS TO PMRE 2024 courtesy of the fine folks at iGUIDE. @go_iguide Then, it's a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE with, for the first time in history, a GUEST HOST taking the reins of the podcast!!! It's none other than Bethany Diedrich of @highland_visual in Davenport, Iowa (and Upmarket Pod editor)!! Bethany brings on her husband and business partner, Andre Diedrich in addition to Tessa and Brian Foster of @sweetwaterphoto_murphys in Murphy's, CA. They all have a great conversation about the pleasures and pitfalls of being in business with your spouse! Even with a guest host, they still manage to end the episode with Action Items! Action Items are something small that any listener can do right now to help make their Real Estate Media Business more efficient.Check out Upmarket's FREE webinar on How and Why to Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at upmarketcourse.com/webinar and our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at UpmarketCourse.com.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod and Chelsea @feedingbeautiful and Upmarket Media @upmarket.media.The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan WITH GLA square Footage. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!

This week Reed sits down with Alex Farrell of Blueprint Media in Centralia, WA to talk about his plan to take on a business partner and the thought processes behind that. They're also joined by the potential new Business partner, Jeremy Almond, to hear the perspective from the other side. They're plenty to chew on here and Reed has loads of experience and advice after having spent the last 3 years teamed up with Mark. They wrap up the show with Action Items! Action Items are something small that any listener can do right now to help make their Real Estate Media Business more efficient.RED ALERT!!! LAST CHANCE!!!! Entries MUST be received by August 15th and Noon Eastern!!!! SWEEPSTAKES ALERT - iGUIDE and their Tour to PMRE is giving away 2 ALL-EXPENSES PAID TRIPS TO PMRE 2024!!!!! That's right, two lucky winners will be drawn this summer to win PMRE tickets, travel and accommodation, all compliments of the fine folks at iGUIDE. To enter, all you need to do is follow @go_iguide and @upmarketpod on Instagram. Then, go to goiguide.com/pmre and enter your email address and you'll be entered in the drawing.Check out Upmarket's FREE webinar on How and Why to Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at upmarketcourse.com/webinar and our course How to Grow and Scale Your Real Estate Media Business at UpmarketCourse.com.Follow the pod on Instagram at @upmarketpod and Chelsea @feedingbeautiful and Upmarket Media @upamarket.media.The Presenting Sponsor of Upmarket is Aryeo, the best place to help grow and manage your Real Estate Media business. Use the code "Upmarket" at aryeo.com to get 15 free bonus listings with any new account.Another amazing sponsor of Upmarket is SecondFloor, the fastest way to create a finished floor plan WITH GLA square Footage. It's so fast that you can deliver the finished floor plan while you are still on-site! Not only that, but you can get UNLIMITED floorplans for one low monthly fee. We love SecondFloor and you can use the code UPMARKET at checkout and any new subscriber will get a 1 month free trial.Our Action Items are sponsored by PixlCRM, where you can scale your real estate photography business through automation. It's an all-in-one business and marketing platform that compliments your current delivery app. If you go to pixlcrm.com/upmarket you can get a 30 day risk free trial!!!