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Dan Smigrod: Hi all, I’m Dan Smigrod,
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Dan Smigrod: Founder of the We Get Around Network Forum.
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Dan Smigrod: Today is Thursday, September 2,
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Dan Smigrod: 2021 and you’re watching WGAN-TV Live at 5.
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Dan Smigrod: We have an awesome show for you today:
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Dan Smigrod: How Photographers can Resist Zillow’s Threat to Monopolize Real Estate.
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Dan Smigrod: Here to talk to us about this topic is Joe Jesuele,
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Dan Smigrod: Founder and owner of HomeJab.
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Dan Smigrod: Hey Joe, good to see you.
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Joe Jesuele: Good to see you, Dan. Thanks for having me on.
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Dan Smigrod: Thanks for being on the show. I reached out to you in July,
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Dan Smigrod: back when you wrote a very in-depth blog post on HomeJab.
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Dan Smigrod: The title of that post was,
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Dan Smigrod: How Agents and Photographers can Resist Zillow’s Latest Threat to Monopolize Real Estate.
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Dan Smigrod: It was lengthy. It was well-researched.
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Dan Smigrod: It was very thoughtful;
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Dan Smigrod: and I thought it would be great to have you on the show. Thank you.
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Dan Smigrod: I would encourage our viewers to actually Google that
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Dan Smigrod: original article, or in fact, go to HomeJab HomeJab.com,
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Dan Smigrod: go to the tab “Blog” and go back to the July [2021] blog posts,
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Dan Smigrod: or simply Google, “How Agents and Photographers can Resist
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Dan Smigrod: Zillow’s Latest Threat to Monopolize
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Dan Smigrod: Real Estate.” Or, for our We Get Around Network Forum community –
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Dan Smigrod: www.WGANForum.com – just go to the search box and search for Zillow HomeJab;
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Dan Smigrod: just search the entire contents of the We Get Around Network Forum and it will pop up.
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Dan Smigrod: Joe, before we jump into this topic,
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Dan Smigrod: how about first tell us about HomeJab?
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Joe Jesuele: Yeah, sure Dan. HomeJab is an online marketplace for real estate photography,
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Joe Jesuele: but we also do many other services like video walkthroughs,
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Joe Jesuele: and aerials, and 3D
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Joe Jesuele: virtual tours, virtual staging.
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Joe Jesuele: It’s pretty much at any service.
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Joe Jesuele: From the photographer’s standpoint,
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Joe Jesuele: we’re really the back-end office for a photographer.
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Joe Jesuele: We have not only the scheduling software,
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Joe Jesuele: but we have a full-time staff that handles any customer support issues.
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Joe Jesuele: We do all the editing;
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Joe Jesuele: all of the post-production; all sales;
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Joe Jesuele: all scheduling; anything that comes up during the process regarding the customer.
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Joe Jesuele: It’s the photographer that goes to www. HomeJab.com;
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Joe Jesuele: downloads our app, gets approved as a photographer,
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Joe Jesuele: and then all you have to do is shoot.
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Joe Jesuele: You can make your own schedule and essentially after the shoot is done,
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Joe Jesuele: you just upload the raw files to our platform, and then we take it from there.
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Joe Jesuele: We’ll handle all that:
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Joe Jesuele: post-production, editing, media delivery.
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Joe Jesuele: We create the property pages,
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Joe Jesuele: we handle any marketing advice, MLS integration,
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Joe Jesuele: stuff like that, that the real estate agent needs,
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Joe Jesuele: and the photographer just has to shoot the property.
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Joe Jesuele: Therefore, we make things a little easy for the photographer and also the agent.
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Joe Jesuele: We create an easy way to schedule and a fast turnaround time,
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Joe Jesuele: you get everything back the next day.
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Joe Jesuele: It’s a good system and we’re up and running in 50 states now,
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Joe Jesuele: pretty much national,
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Joe Jesuele: and things are going pretty well
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Joe Jesuele: and we’re looking at a global expansion right now into parts of Europe.
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Joe Jesuele: We’re partnering with some people in Europe and in Canada.
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Joe Jesuele: So things are moving for us pretty nicely.
