Panorama Jack & RTV Virtual Tour Providers

Now that you have the listing, what can you do with it?  Recently I was helping a fellow Real Tour Vision Dealer while he was on vacation by filling in for him.  I had the pleasure of working with Monique Walker of Re/Max Achievers of Phoenix, Arizona.  Monique was relisting a beautiful property at 27198 N. 73rd Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85266 for the client. Monique was using the dealer for the first time, so I wanted to make sure that the dealer really looked great to her by providing great service and great photos and great GOOGLE JUICE!!!.

What can be done for a listing using photography?  

1. Use a professional photographer who specializes in architectural or real estate photography.

2. Don't skimp on the package being offered - mix in twilight shots and panoramics for that extra punch. Add lots of stills of the home's best features or additional rooms. Be sure to indicate that you want High Definition Photography.

3. If you are not a showcase Realtor.com agent - spend the $27.00 to upload the tour to the site - it creates great google juice and it is the site that most people go to on the internet while looking for a new home.

4. Be sure to create a virtual tour, a slide show and if you can a video.  

5. Be sure to share the listing, tour, slide show and video with every site you can including blogs like Active Rain.

We did this with Real Tour Vision's Virtual Tour.  We did a high definition virtual tour that included a mix of stills, twilight shots and panoramics.  

We added a brochure pdf just in case someone wanted to download the information on the home and remind themselves of the photographs.  

Also, we added the slide show in high definition (including the ability to be full screen).  The Real Tour Vision slide show has the ability to load the photos and start the show at the same time, making it one of the fastest slide shows to start in the industry.

And, just to make sure we had extra Google juice and to make sure that the home showed great on Vimeo and YouTube, we added an animoto slide show in high definition.  

As to sharing the video, we did our Exposure Engine Lite and did the following:  Blogged to our website blog, blogged to our Wordpress Blog, Blogged to our Active Rain Blog.  We uploaded the tour to our 2 websites.  We created an agent gallery for Monique that she could send the link to customers.  We posted the listing to several websites such as Trulia, FaceBook, YouTube and Vimeo.

Finally, to help Monique show her client that she is hard at work, we have sent her automatic hit reports on the virtual tour (already the tour has been up only two days and has 45 hits.) Our report breaks the hits by source and by page visited.  We would love for Monique to have this tour be a one property website with its own custom domain name and will be talking to her about this as well.  

Hope this has been helpful - remember, if you are an agent - it is your professional duty to the listing client to provide the best possible chance of selling the listing quickly.  Every time you drop the price as a marketing tool - the client loses money and you lose commission.  A $1000-$5000 drop in price does not bring a sale any sooner.  A $100-500 one time charge for services helps bring more people in as potential buyers quicker and creates excitement and buzz on the property.   

Suzanne Feinberg

RTV Virtual tour including Slide Show:    http://rtvpix.com/RE-5567-V5UZ56-01

RTV Hi Definition Slide Show including Virtual Tour: http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1795/

Animoto Video (HiDef or Regular) with call to action at end:        http://video214.com/play/xo8ERHzZHnaKl8J4T2ZNlw/s/dark

MONIQUE WALKER RE/MAX ACHIEVERS:   http://www.moniquesells.com

    Successful realtors are obtaining a huge amount of business from the Internet.

1. Are you getting your piece of this business?
2. Would you like to obtain a part of it?
3. Do you know what you will have to do?

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    Let us do a search on Miami + realtor and see the outcome ...

If you did not find your company in the first page of Google for your farm area then you will have to work on it.

1. Do you have a totally editable Web page as this one, or it is modified by a company that promises a lot and gives you  no real business?

If you are in the second situation you need a totally editable web page. This will allow you to increase the quality of the content of your web page and after some time you will be getting business from it.

2. Is this all you will have to do?

     If you will like to obtain a part of the Internet business, you will need to start working on your Web page key word optimization and SEO as soon as possible.

Our company can help you to do it. Yes we already did it for our Company, and we have been helping customers for more than five years to get their business exposed on the Internet.

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So you’ve been playing around with the new RTV HD Slideshow Module and now you’re ready to start pushing product out to your customer base.  Please join us on August 3rd at 7:00 Eastern for The FORMULA 32 - The Making and Marketing of RTV HD Slideshows. Register now in your TMS.

I will be accompanied by Torie Hermel, head of technical support here at RTV.  She will be kicking off the show and going through the HD Slideshow creation process step by step and pointing out power functions along the way.  During the second half of the show I will be talking about the ways in which you can market this exciting new product, how you might consider pricing a full service and self service slide show and more. 

Sample some HD Slideshows:
http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1133/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1353

Finally, I’ll also be addressing RTV Slideshow pricing, terms and describe to you in full the difference between our RTV HD Slideshow and the new Standalone RTV Slideshow module which allows you to produce unlimited slideshows with unlimited scenes. Sign up now in your TMS.

See you on the show and be sure to bring your employees!




Sincerely,

Jason

Virtual Tour Software
http://twitter.com/BlueLaVaMedia
http://facebook.com/VirtualTourGuru

Surviving and thriving in a Different World …Tours D’ Force a Lenawee County Virtual Tour Company. There’s a revolution underway…. In the way we connect, get information, and entertain ourselves… Where are people going today for information and personal connections?  Online!  Let’s face it, in the future you will either follow or lead, Real Tour Vision has chosen to lead the revolution.  RTV is the world leader in virtual tour software and #1 Ranked virtual tour company on the internet.  Tours D’ Force is following RTV lead and is proud to say that the technology that they use is engineered in Michigan by RTV, the most established virtual tour company in the industry.

Our state of the art interactive virtual tour technology features a variety of custom options and unique features never before offered in the Southern Michigan market.

All of our products were designed with the highest standards of quality in mind, fastest delivery time and maximum listing exposure. The time to leave a lasting impression online and offline is now more important than ever. Welcome to INNOVATION INSANITY!

I’m sure we all agree that innovation is the only way to thrive in today’s global economy. We’re talking basically anything that will add value and improve quality for our customers. Innovation is not just about coming up with new ideas and products—it’s also about changes that lead to growth and differentiation.
Today the process of selling a home has moved beyond the simple “For Sale” sign.  Both buyers and sellers have demanded a more comprehensive approach that is in step with today’s technology. 

And at Real Tour Vision it’s INNOVATION INSANITY, their distributors have the tools, technology, inspiration, and education in the evolution of new products, methods, and enhancements = innovation as a mindset, and we’d like to add to the conversation with examples of our powerful marketing tools. There are many of 'em.

Here how we will differentiate your property online and offline:
1.  First of all, we use a professional photography that will showcase your property in the best light.  Crisp, clear daytime images, elevated shots, and nighttime photography capture the true feeling of your property.

2.  Virtual tours allow potential buyers to privately walk through your home on their own time without any inconvenience to you.  Online virtual tours are rapidly becoming the avenue for home shoppers to view properties and services before actually visiting.  Our virtual tours not only connect buyers to your home or business but with the community surrounding it.  They contain local city and school information as well as maps of the area.

3.  2D and 3D floor plans can be easily coupled with still photos so that prospective buyers can view dimensions and actual images at the same time. 

4.  Panoramic sign riders placed beneath you’re for sale sign highlight key photographs inside while providing an internet address for buyers to visit.

5.  Text Connect technology provides instant information to interested clients.  Buyers simply text specified number and instantly detailed property information is sent directly to their phone.  This amazing technology captures the moment of curiosity and is quickly going to become the norm. 

6. Virtual home tour CD’s make sharing your home or business offline incredibly simple. 

7.  Online exposure to nearly 100 of the Nation’s largest real estate portal sites such as Google base, Craigslist, YouTube, Trulia, Zillow, Facebook and more.

8.  Virtual home staging will take any unfurnished room and stage it to your taste and style.  You’re able to choose the furniture from our online furniture library. We all know that a staged home shows better than an empty home.

9.  Integrated social bookmarking with just one click, your virtual tour can be submitted to popular social bookmarking and networking sites such as: Digg, Delicious, Furl, Facebook, FriendFeed, MySpace, BackFlip, Linkedin, Reddit, Twiter, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Mixx and Bebo.  Now you, your customers, and their friends can bookmark your virtual tours.

10. HD full screen virtual tours transform the typical interactive virtual tour to something quite spectacular.  Our new HD experience literally makes your audience feel like they are standing right in the room!

11. Social ignition system, social networking, blogging, social bookmarking, and link building training is here. Times are quickly changing and once again you need to do the same, now you can sign up for our FREE Social Ignition Course and learn all these hot topics.

12. Agent virtual tour website and FREE agent listing gallery pages with the purchase of your very first virtual tour we create an online gallery that will display ALL of your virtual tour listings that you carry with us.  When your home sells we even mark those properties as sold. You can easily link your virtual tour gallery onto your website so visitors can view all of your virtual tour listings.

13. Virtual tour traffic reporting show not only where virtual tour views are coming from but they also display which scenes from within the tours are being viewed the most. The traffic reporting system will tell you where your marketing dollars are best spent. Most importantly, the traffic reports will automatically be sent to you once a week for your review.

14. E-Flyer is an HTML email-ready flyer that our customers can easily send out to prospects anytime they wish. You can preview a sample E-Flyer HERE.

15. Smart phone tours all real estate agents and business owners to carry with them at all times, their virtual tour on their cell phones for an on-demand preview. Check one out HERE

16. Virtual tour portal site blog posting. Don’t have time to blog your tours, no problem.  Every new virtual tour completed gets published to a blog portal which allows home shoppers, locals and literally any internet visitor to preview your entire virtual tour inventory with the click of a mouse.

17. Home/Business owner FREE CD gift with the purchase of any virtual tour we will program, burn and mail a CD sales presentation thank you gift directly to the home seller as a gift on your behalf. When placed into any CD or DVD ROM drive the presentation will begin. Your photo, contact information, a thank you message and a link to the virtual tour are displayed and at no extra cost to you.

18. Instant storefront when you order a virtual tour you can add storefront capabilities to any website or blog with just a few lines of code. It’s simple with RTV’s new “Alternate Linking Options” you can simply add your virtual tour Embed Code to any web page which will then displays brightly lit store that provides customers with an engaging and fluid shopping experience.

19. Agent site program, you can now have your own totally manageable website that automatically populates the tours that we shoot for you right into your website.

20. Agent listing presentation burn to a mini round presentation disc is unique because they are compact and easily passed along to others. Soon the seller’s friends, neighbors, and family will have the right impression about your professionalism and use of cutting edge marketing and technology.

21. With Voice Over you can personalize each tour further by having your voice or a professional voice on your tour. Guide your potential buyers or customers from the foyer to the veranda – from the cardio room to the locker room, highlighting the custom features along the way that may otherwise get overlooked. Customize the text of each tour to interact specifically with your needs.

INNOVATION INSANITY!  There will never be a shortage of smart new ideas, products, and services that deliver on consumers’ wants and needs from RTV. INNOVATION INSANITY is upon us. So yes, were innovative and ahead of the game, ….. and that’s where we’ll remain. In
I hope that we have inspired you to innovate, this was a country that made beautiful things and so it is again.  RTV does it right and you can too!
RTV & Tours D’ Force will continue to work hard to be your #1 Source for  all your  property marketing  needs, providing you with only the best innovative products, services, and experiences for you (or even better, with) your customers. We stand fast, and are dedicated in helping you to stay ahead of your competition and look your best in today’s… and tomorrow’s market.

Contact me today so I can customize a marketing approach that is as unique as your listings or business.  Toursdforce.com

Innovation: not just R&D labs, and not necessarily expensive
A couple more thoughts on innovation:
•    Innovation is not just about people in R&D labs taking the internet pulse. "Real" innovation does not happen haphazardly or sporadically within organizations. "Real" innovation is accomplished consistently and systematically, given the true voice of the customer and a process for delivering solutions.  Most important, innovation involves the taking of the work of an individual (or team) of inventors and taking it to a broader audience.
•    Trying or starting something new doesn't have to cost you and arm and a leg. Many of the innovations featured in this blog post are FREE; while the others are very cost effective, give as a call and you’ll be amassed!  Keep innovating!  You can be everything in your life—just not all at once.

Hal Holubik
Owner/Organizer
Tours D’ Force
Order a Virtual Tour: 517-486-4209
http://www.toursdforce.com

It's easy to tell the difference when you are dealing with a large company, such as RTV, as opposed to a company that only offers virtual tour software. When you need direction, as I often do, there is a network of knowledgeable people to reach out to and find the answers. There's never a “You're bothering me” type of attitude from anyone that works for RTV.

I recently launched the virtual tour company, www.virtualjerseyshore.com, after years of managing companies for other people. As most know, owning your own business is a lot different than working for someone else because the success or failure of the company rests mostly on your own shoulders. However, with RTV there is someone to share the pressure of knowing all the right answers.

Ben, Jason, Eve, and all the rest of the RTV staff are fast to offer help or direct you towards the answer you need. And, each staff member has their own specialty. Jason is there for help in running you virtual tour business. Ben is excellent in offering knowledge and help with photography issues. Eve is tirelessly helpful in getting you accurate information. Everyone at RTV has been very helpful. And, it doesn't stop there. I've reached out to other RTV dealers and they are just as eager to help in any way they can. It's nice to know that you're in business for yourself, but you still have the support system of a large company...and, it helps makes www.virtualjerseyshore.com the best virtual tour company in all of southern New Jersey.

Joseph Lake
Virtual Jersey Shore
www.virtualjerseyshore.com

Today RTV launched our brand new Flash Based High Definition (HD) Slide Show Player as a FREE add on to any existing RTV Hosted Interactive Virtual Tour.

View Sample HD Slide Shows now!

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1055/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1045/


http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1014/

Later next week the Stand-Alone HD Slide Show Module will be released allowing all RTV virtual tour providers the ability to create slide shows independently of their V-Tours for a small fee much less than that of a virtual tour credit.

Many of the original RTV Virtual Tour Providers remember the very first RTV slide show 1.0 from five years ago. It did the job, but the time for a complete overhaul of the player was imminent. The new technology allows for a much easier expansion and adoption of enhancements and is quite elegant looking in appearance.

Download our instructions right here and see how easy it is to make an HD RTV Slide Show!

Within one hour of the HD Slide Show being launched, over 100 brand new slide shows were created. The new slide show uses a very simple, user friendly slide show creator which automatically pulls images directly from the interactive 360 virtual tour.  The interface is so user friendly that everyone already knows how to use it even though they've never actually used it before. Finally the new RTV Batch Uploader allows all RTV virtual tour providers to batch upload any number of HD images to their slide show at once rather than having to select the images individually. The auto scaler and sizer built into the system re-sizes and scales the images for fastest load time. Best of all, the new HD Slide Show player will display panos from the 360 virtual tour, play an embedded video file, track hits, can be shared on social sites and with friends, and tracks hits. 

A very big thanks for those of you who have given us your continued support and business over the years. We love returning the favor in being able to offer you continual new technology, enhancements, talk shows, virtual tour leads, and of course an ever growing supply of national account dispatches.


Enjoy RTV!
Virtual Tour Software
866-947-8687 Ext. 4

When I started up BlueLaVaMedia a provider of Traverse City Virtual Tours three years ago so I could be right on the front lines of the Independent Virtual Tour Photographer Movement, I had no idea that our virtual tours and services would be so well received in the Traverse City market.  Our very first year Jim Blue from BlueLaVaMedia shot about 150 virtual tours which we were EXTREMELY pleased with.  Going into our second year we shot roughly 250 virtual tours and this year were on track to do about 400!

With the current state of the housing the demand for property marketing is bigger than I’ve ever seen before.  Sure many real estate agents are still shooting their own virtual tours but this is only increasing the demand for our technology altogether.  There are plenty of home sellers out there who will simply demand that their listing agent use a professional and that’s it!  More and more home sellers are realizing they can ask for virtual tours, night shots, enhanced exposure, PanoRiders, floor plans. The property marketing tool list goes on. What home sellers are often most surprised about is when they learn just how affordable the above professionally made property marketing services really are.

At BlueLaVaMedia we not only teach our customers how to get the most use out of our property marketing tool, we also teach the general public by making sure all of our Exposure Engine Craigslist ads have links back over to our site like so:

http://nmi.craigslist.org/reb/1843410968.html

Today more and more home sellers are learning about affordable PROFESSIONAL property marketing services simply by shopping on real estate portals. This has led to an increased demand for YOUR products and services.  Are you making sure that you’re virtual tour business is following the same steps to increased growth?  If you have not started an Exposure Engine for your virtual tour business it just might be time that you do!  Good luck out there!



Jason LaVanture - Traverse City Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour - 231-946-1360

We are getting very close to the release of the next version of Tour Builder.  This new Tour Builder 4.0 Online virtual tour software will be an online application offering numerous amazing features.  With the new Tour Builder software, all panorama stitching will be done directly in the photo stitching program of your choice.  The images will then be uploaded to the new online tour building interface.

Now is the perfect time to start practicing how to stitch directly in Panavue. This way you will be up and running efficiently when our new virtual tour software is released. If you are not sure how to stitch directly in Panavue then watch the IMAGE webinar Speed Stitching or the end of the IMAGE webinar HD Tours Step by Step.  We will also have a set of written directions in pdf format for you to download soon.

To access the webinars everyone can log into the virtual tour marketing website for free and access the Business Resource Center through the BRC button at the top of the website.  Once you are on the main page of the Business Resource Center you will see a button on the left hand side of the website for the IMAGE webinars. 

Click on that button and you will be taken to the download page where you can click to download any and all of the IMAGE webinars.

Good Luck out there!

RTV Virtual Tours
Virtual Tour Software
Order a virtual tour: 866-947-8687