Panorama Jack & RTV Virtual Tour Providers

Hi Jack,

Our virtual tour company recently joined a local Realtor's Association and will be attending our first monthly luncheon with them in April.  This luncheon will be the first impression that many agents will gain and we want to be able to get something into the hands of each real estate agent.  There will be approximately 60 agents attending this luncheon and I would like to place some of our virtual tour marketing material at each person's seat.  Out of the virtual tour marketing material that RTV provides online that we can modify with our company info, what 1 or 2 pieces would you advise to be the BEST for this situation?

Obviously we will leave our business card which has our branding.  Would you advise a virtual tour brochure such as a 1 pager, a tri-fold brochure, or a postcard?  We want to make a good first impression and we are willing to pay for good quality printing- we are just trying to narrow it down out of all the options.

Thanks,

Mickey
 

Dear Mickey,

For this situation I would recommend setting up a situation that will drive those very people back on over to your website AFTER the event.  Use a small business sized CD from CD-Rom2go.com, the vinyl sleeves, and a printed paper or glossy label.

To see the model number of the Cd's, Sleeves, and labels that I recommend using please login to www.rockpointemarketing.com and click on the BRC, Setting up your Business, then on Setting your pricing.  Scroll all the way down on this page and look for the cost analysis page.  This page will have everything you need on it.

Once you have your CD's ready to go with your labels I recommend that you use www.autorunmax.com to create an impressive company presentation CD geared towards real estate.  You can find a very nice ready to go presentation on www.rockpointemarketing.com under the presentations section.  This is literally ready to go for you and comes highly recommended by me.  The presentation allows you to select a music clip that you would like your CD to autoplay with and also comes with ready to go loaded graphics. 


From here you will need to put in the following:

• Your real estate Power Point presentation that you have converted to video
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• A link to your online virtual tour company website
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• Your real estate fact sheet
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• Your real estate virtual tour InfoPack
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• Your floor plan InfoPack - If you're doing floor plans
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• Your Real Estate Flyer

Now for a grand finale! You should tell people that you're giving away 50% off to the first X # of people who put in that CD, click over to your website and register with you.  In lieu of a 50% off you can also do a Free Exposure Engine, Free Single Property Website, Free Elevated Shot, or Free Night Shot session.  The 14th person to register with you will be a 50.00 gas card.  Do whatever you would like to do but at the end of the day you really want them to come to your website and sign up with you so you can start email marketing to them. 

If you're really slick you can tell them that they can come to your website and register for your free Social Ignition course.  Whatever you do just make sure that you have a direct response mechanism built into your handout. 

Well, I really hope this helps! At the end of the day I highly recommend that you do CD marketing as opposed to handing out paper and flyers at these meetings since you can pack so much on such a nifty little CD!

Good luck out there!

Sincerely,

Jack

Jack is a fictional "Know-it-All" Character Made up by RTV
Amazing Virtual Tours - RTV ;)
National Virtual Tour Company

Virtual Tour Marketing Update:  April/May 2010

Postcards, catchy, to the point and effective.  People are inundated with numerous, emails, publications and work related documents to read.  These simple marketing postcards highlight the new HD virtual tours, the importance of being proactive and focusing on your community.  They require a minimal time requirement for the information to be conveyed and are eye catching.  This increases the chance that they will be read and remembered!

Landscaping services and gardening facilities are in full swing during the spring.  This two page flyer highlights the unique ability of virtual tours to showcase their stunning creations even during the bleak winter months. 

If you haven’t shared the exciting new technology of full screen high definition tours yet, then this is the flyer for you.  We are so excited to roll out this new technology and can already see it is transforming the virtual tour into an amazing experience.

Best wishes, Jill K. Sill
RTV Marketing
Virtual Tour Marketing
   
 Each month we strive to help you become more efficient and better connected to existing and potential customers.  Our marketing pieces are easily customizable and typically just require you to insert your specific company information and logo.  We recommend using Vistaprint for postcard printing and other printing needs.  They seem to have fast service and extremely great rates. Take a moment to read the text through and make sure your company can deliver the services delineated.  If you can't or don't know how to provide a service such a bird's eye view shots or nighttime stills, contact us and we can set you in the right direction.  If you have an idea for a piece, suggestions, or want to see something in the next few months send me an e-mail.

As our virtual tour services, dealer network, and virtual tour technology offerings keep expanding we have added new staff to meet your needs.  Please welcome Megan and Melissa to team RTV.

Megan Ebersole will be joining us in the camera setup department and will be your contact for new camera setups, rotator settings, and more.  Megan loves photography and has been involved in film photography for over 12 years.  She also has recently made the transition to digital photography with a Nikon digital SLR.  She is very customer service oriented which comes from her involvement in retail and other industries.  We are excited to have her as part our RTV Staff and look forward to what she will bring to the team.


Melissa Vernon is our new digital imaging specialist.  She will take care of image editing and photo delivery for our Tour Track orders.  Originally from sunny San Diego, California Melissa moved to Traverse City 3 years ago when her husband was transferred to the local US Coast Guard air station. Melissa has a diverse background in the arts and photography has always been a hobby. She graduated from San Diego State in 2006 with a bachelor's in fine arts and a minor in psychology. Currently, she is finishing up a second degree online in web and graphic design.



RTV Virtual Tours
www.RealTourVision.com
Virtual Tour Software
866-947-8687 Ext 4

If you are looking for the best Dallas Virtual Tours then look no more. Pro 360 Virtual Tours and Photography has now added Full Screen HD Virtual Tours to our product offering. Once you open one of our new HD virtual tours: http://rtvpix.com/RE-4869-XWX4XI-01, click the four arrows to the far right of the navigation bar to see this magnificent, 3 story loft with a rooftop deck overlooking downtown Dallas in Full Screen HD.

In the past many Realtor's shied away from full screen virtual tours because they took longer to load. This tour loads just as quickly as our standard virtual tour thanks to RTV for pushing an already great virtual tour technology even farther. We want to help you add one more tool to your bag of tricks. Show an example of our Full Screen HD Tour at your next listing appointment and see how eager the sellers will be to put their home in your hands.

For years our customers have enjoyed the benefits that 20 years of photography experience and top notch customer service can provide. Those amazing photos are now showcased in Full Screen with this tour. If you want to see if your photographer has taken a quality photo, blow it up to the size of your screen and see what happens. We think you will be as excited as we are when you view this new virtual tour and are able to offer it to your clients.

Call Pro 360 Virtual Tours to capture the best photographs of your next listing. We want to help you look your best online with high quality, Dallas and Fort Worth virtual tours.

Lisa Castro / Owner
Pro 360 Virtual Tours and Photography
www.pro360virtualtours.com
Dallas Fort Worth Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour: 817-676-7176

Hello all you RTV virtual tour providers out there. I just wanted to say that blogs are a great way to boost your Google Juice as well as build quality back links to your virtual tour company website. So post on lots of relevant blogs (this one especially!!) as well as create your own virtual tour company blog and start blogging today.

That is where our Milwaukee virtual tour company can help you. For all the real estate agents and businesses out there, we have launched another cutting edge product, our 360 Image Blog. Now we are offering a blog page with custom domain name and everything setup for $100.00. A custom blog page just for you or your business!

It will rank on Google as well as give you an outlet to post anything and everything new and interesting about your business or listings. So there you have it another fantastic offering from Team 360 Image Media, and Real Tour Vision. Also don’t forget to view our stunning new High Definition Virtual Tours at South Eastern Wisconsin Virtual Tours, powered by Real Tour Vision. 

Sincerely,
Robin Duran
Team 360 Image Media
Milwaukee Virtual Tours
http://www.360imagemedia.com

Hello RTV virtual tour providers. I want to tell you all about a virtual tour that I just did…

I was doing a re-shoot of a virtual tour I did a while ago…a long story short, the home had wall paper pretty much everywhere.  To each his or her own, but what it comes down to is that not everyone has the same taste in anything.  The owners had removed most of the wall paper and painted in a more neutral fashion. 

Now, obviously, neutrality is a good thing and their next step was promoting the brokers open by way of MLS.  The Owners are realtors, by the way.  A brokers open is a great tool for realtors involved in selling a property, however, solely listing the open house on the MLS will no longer cut it.

So, being a realtor myself…I suggested that they be a bit more blunt in their promotional efforts. 

They have the virtual tour, professional stills, and property website.  Why not get their monies worth and use these tools to directly promote to the local realtor population…make flyers, phone calls, send out emails…simply raise awareness in the community.  They can and should do the same thing for the public open houses.

I think I opened their eyes, because they had never thought of these approaches, but they make perfect sense…

Many realtors seem so hesitant to spend the money on these wonderful property marketing TOOLS, to me, because as far as they are concerned they are no better than the pictures they have been taking for years.  Now, if all you are going to do is put them online and forget them, they probably are, but, if you use them…

Give yourself the edge, find a company like our Philadelphia virtual tour company,  Virtual Vista that will go the extra step for you, providing a product high in quality and functionality…Virtual tours should give you traffic reports, should be able to be emailed, downloaded, and provide usefulness to buyers, such as, school, area, and mortgage information.

Property websites should be like an online brochure, incorporating virtual tours, pictures, property information etc…i.e. http://www.211HollandAve.com

Brian Castro
http://www.virtualvista.net/
Check Out Virtual Vista’s Blog
Follow Virtual Vista On Twitter
Philadelphia Virtual Tours

This is a Three-Part Blog Leading Up To The Launch of a Colorado Springs Virtual Tour Company. It’s okay, go ahead and ask yourself the question.  I know I did.  What does a Rottweiler and eight days of house hunting have to do with virtual tours and Real Tour Vision? 

My wife is military and while she was deployed in the Gulf, she was notified of orders to Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Well if you know anything about the military you don’t do much about a military move where money is concerned because the time you buy that dream house or find that perfect place to rent, your orders are going to chance and you will have wasted a bunch of time and money.

Moving the blog along, when we knew the assignment was a lock and not changing, we called base housing to get placed on the base housing waiting list.  Much to our dismay, the company that owns the base housing on Peterson AFB informed us that our Chester (the Rottweiler) is of a dangerous breed and not welcome in base housing.  We went on to learn that most apartment buildings do not welcome dangerous breed dogs either. After consulting with several individuals, we decided we’d go ahead and buy because giving up a member of the family because he wasn’t wanted in base housing or in rental property just wasn’t an option.

We arrived in Colorado Springs on February 22 and my wife found out that our eight days of house hunting would start on February 25th.  Our real estate gave us a task of looking at about 80 MLS listings to narrow the search down to 15-20 properties within our price range and area we wanted to look at. Half of the listings from the MLS had three pictures or less.  My wife was furious with the listings and she had a valid point.   Without those pictures, there is no point to consider the listing.  After all, we had eight days to find a place to live.  She then hit me on the shoulder and said, “HEY, you don’t have a job.  You should take pictures for these real estate agents so I can see if I want to look at those properties or not.”  Little did she know, a seed had been planted.

Coming up next: "Eight Days And Counting...The House Hunt Is On"

Dan Derby Coming in April to Colorado Springs!
www.DanTheManMedia.com
Colorado Springs Virtual Tours

The Tuesday night virtual tour webinar was another awesome presentation by Jason LaVanture and fellow RTV dealers. The formula of surrounding yourself with positive people and you too will be a success is true. The tips given by the panel were great! I will incorporate these as I continue to develop my Harrison Virtual Tour business in the coming months.

I'm very excited about getting my postcards produced and mailed using the RTV Virtual Tour Marketing  standards. Going after top local agents and winning their trust is another direction I will take, thanks to the advice on this webinar. I am also realizing the importance of having both a local number and a toll free number. The list of tips could go on and on.

Last time I blogged about being an RTV newbie I mentioned being intimidated by all there is to learn. However, one thing I took away from this webinar is the fact that even Jason and the other top RTV dealers still find corrections on their sites that needed addressing. This truly is a “learn as you go” enterprise!

The virtual tour business will be ever changing and growing. As we move into the new HD tours there will be more to learn! What a great way to go through life…owning a business that offers such an opportunity!  As we journey down this road to building successful virtual tours I expect to stumble here and there, but am happy to know that there is so much support and advice along the way.

Buffy Crosby / Owner
Harrison Virtual Tours
www.virtualtoursuccess.com

Jason, Sorry I missed the virtual tour Webinar, I've been swamped. However, I just wanted to let you know that I love the new HD Virtual Tours. They look AWESOME!!!!!!  I have upgraded several of my virtual tours already and still can’t believe how easy it is. After you do a couple, it really only takes another 10-15 minutes to upgrade a tour to HD. You guys really hit a Home Run!!!  I'm on track to knock out a few hundred tours this year...maybe more.

I also did a little website for a local stone dealer and embedded a virtual tour on his site. Well I didn’t really embed it, I just framed it. Anyways I think it looks great and really is the High Light of the website.

Here is the address if you care to take a look.  http://www.lonesstone.com

Thank You for all your support. I still would like to see an Agency Virtual Tour Gallery if you are looking for any new projects.

Thanks again and Go Team RTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim Kopcho / Owner
www.fullviewmark.com
Ohio Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour: 740-624-3368

My father has many wise sayings but perhaps the one that has stuck with me most is “If you don’t ask the question, the answer is no”.  This simple advice has been invaluable to me throughout my life and most importantly in my career in sales. 

Living in the North Georgia mountains, we have decided to focus much of our initial prospecting for virtual tours on rental properties.  There are scores of cabins, bed and breakfasts and other vacation get-aways for us who would benefit from our services.  Getting started with a bang happened by chance. 

I had run to the grocery store to pick up a few things and saw a truck for one of the local rental management companies.  I tracked the owner of the truck down in the store and introduced myself and told him a little about Vision Quest Media.  I asked if I could set up a time to talk to him about doing virtual tours on his properties.  He mentioned that he and his wife had explored this in the past but it just never made it to the top of the to-do list.  I got his card and put following up with him on top of my to-do list!

After doing a little research on their web site, we realized that this company has over 50 cabins in the North Georgia area which they manage and market.  I got as much information as I could about their company from their web site and went in prepared to offer them an introductory price on 5 of the cabins just so that we could get started.  Not far into my presentation, I asked which cabins they would like to have us start with.  I managed to keep my composure when she said that she wanted us to do ALL OF THEM. 

The logic makes perfect sense…if they see the value in having a virtual tour on one of their properties, they would want them on all the properties.  But sometimes we set our expectations too low. 

The lessons learned from this are priceless…

•    We must walk into a sales presentation with a firm belief in the value of our services.  At Vision Quest Media, we know that we provide the best virtual tours in the industry.  Backed by RTV, we have access to the premier technology available in our field.  We were able to provide a package deal for them and will customize each tour based on the specifics of each individual property. 
•    While we offer a service, we must sell our service in order to make money.  To quote from the movie “Glengarry Glen Ross” we must “Always Be Closing.”  Look for opportunities everywhere you go.
•    Never leave home unprepared.  Have business cards handy at all times.
•    Remember that you never get a chance to make a first impression.  Realize that a professional image at the sales presentation won’t necessarily overcome an unprofessional image should you run into a prospective customer outside of a work environment.

To learn more about tour packages and pricing and for samples of our work, please  contact us today!

Paige LeFevre
Vision Quest Media
Order a virtual tour: 770-503-4493.