Using video text as more personal way to reach absentee owners?

[Jennifer Diaz]

Has anyone tried using video text as a more personal way to reach absentee owners over cold calling and plain texting? 

My best impression is in person, and a short video is the next best option I feel to not coming across as an actual cold call or bot generated sales text.  Just need to figure out script for it.  Was wondering if anyone else had tried this and the kind of feedback or results.  TIA

[Jerry Puckett]

Hi @Jennifer Diaz

In my humble opinion, what you are talking about is similar to a TV commercial. I have some very strong opinions about non opt in texting for starters....it's just barely legal and skirts the spirit of the law. There is simply no way to pose the conversation naturally, and I can tell you that people's phones, texts especially are viewed very negatively as unwanted spam that invades the personal space. So....let me ask you. How would you feel if you were pinged many times daily only to find someone you don't know trying to talk to you about something you didn't ask for? 

I personally get annoyed when I'm part of group or community thread where people spend an hour shooting thumbs up and smiley face emojis back and forth at each other long after the important content has passed. As more and more people use text to spamvertize, the tools invented to circumvent will grow too as folks are desensitized to the bombardment. Cold calling is already a mess because people usually don't pick up numbers they don't know, and rarely listen to their voice mail. That's my 2 cents, hope it helps.