Ask the agent
Dropbox, Google Drive or a delivery site: how should I deliver photos?
Yes. A free link saves you five dollars and hands her a folder. It also throws away the one moment she is happy and ready to spend more. The link isn’t the product. What she can do with it is.
A Drive link hands over files and tells you nothing
She gets a folder. Twenty-eight JPEGs and nothing she can send a seller. The seller wants to see the house the way a buyer will, not download it.
Links get moved, expire, or ask her to log in. She is opening it on her phone in a parking lot between showings, and a login screen is where the delivery stops.
And you never find out if she opened it. The shoot ends the moment you hit send, and you are back to messaging strangers.
A delivery site hands her something to show the seller
It costs you five dollars. Cineminn delivers on HD PhotoHub at $5 a listing.
Her link doesn’t expire, and it comes with a property site. She sends the seller a website tonight, not a folder. The seller forwards it to his brother. That is what she wanted from the photos in the first place: something that makes her look like the obvious choice.
Every Drive link I got in ten years as an agent, I opened in a car between showings. Half wanted a login. A property site just opened. That is the difference she remembers when the next listing comes in.
She isn’t buying files. She is buying something to hand the seller the night of the shoot so he stops asking how it is going. A folder doesn’t do that. A website does.
A delivery site hands you the stats and the cart
Here is what a Drive link can never do. It keeps selling after you leave the house.
Per-photo views show you which shots she and the buyers actually open. You learn what sells a house in your market without asking anyone, and you shoot the next one accordingly.
She picked the package without video? The cart offers her video at a discount, right on the delivery page. The offer lands while she is looking at photos she likes, not in a follow-up email three days later when she has moved on. That is why the free link is expensive. It saves five dollars and skips the one moment she is happy, holding photos she likes, and ready to add something to the order.
One more thing, for the onboarding call: give the $50 marketing kit away free. They buy it afterward, once they have seen what it does for a listing.
The delivery is the last thing she sees before she decides whether to book you again.
This week: open an HD PhotoHub or Aryeo account, load your best listing, and deliver your next shoot through it.
The delivery checklist
What she actually needs when the files go out. Free. Then take the sixty-second roadmap quiz and I tell you what to fix first.
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- Should I deliver real estate photos through Google Drive or Dropbox?
- You can, but it hands her a folder and tells you nothing. Links expire, ask for logins, and give her nothing to send a seller. A delivery site costs about $5 a listing and fixes all three.
- What is the best way to deliver real estate photos to agents?
- A delivery site. Cineminn uses HD PhotoHub at $5 a listing: a link that does not expire, a property site she can send the seller tonight, per-photo views for you, and a cart that offers video on the delivery page.
- How much does a real estate photo delivery site cost?
- HD PhotoHub runs $5 a listing at Cineminn. Aryeo is the other common one. Either pays for itself the first time an agent adds video from the cart.
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Julian Lundgren sold real estate for ten years before he shot a listing for money. He runs Cineminn, a Minneapolis real estate photography studio, and writes these answers from the agent’s side of the table. Send a question to info@cineminn.com.