Wilmington Virtual Tours

When it comes to Virtual Tours and what’s new on the market I have seen a few things that make me want to say there is a very bright future coming and I need to get on board before I miss the boat.

First is the talking website Avatar that’s lets you use your own face for the Avatar and voice. It comes up on your front page and will be interactive to your viewing clients. We all know (or should) that the amount of time spent looking at a webpage is very short so your front page has to Wow them and it has to be easy to navigate so what better that an Avatar of you.

Second is video information on your virtual tour company website. Video clips that are geared towards our industry that will pop up on your front page also that will deliver important information on selling your home faster by staging it, Mortgagees and the new laws, and many more “How To “ video’s. Once you have gotten them to your site you need to keep them there so let’s not be boring or overwhelm them with soooo many drop downs and text that they just want to fly away to another site that’s easy to navigate.

Being a Wilmington virtual tour company, I pride myself on using the number 1 virtual tour software and system in the world. I know that I've got one of the largest Virtual Tour companies in Wilmington, NC. I currently provide virtual tours to the following counties:

Belville, Castle Hayne, Kings Grant, Leland, Masonboro ,Murraysville, Myrtle Grove, Navassa, Ogden, Seagate, Silver Lake, Wrightsboro, Wrightsville Beach. High quality service and images is what I deliver my customers. I'm also very pleased to say that I also offer the only Elevated camera shots around. I’m Douglas and this is the Virtual Tour Vision's way of getting out there on the Net and being seen and heard.


Sincerely Douglas Meyers
Virtual Tour Vision
Wilmington Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour: (910) 805-2467

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Tamed by Twitter and Propertybot

As virtual tour providers we are marketers. We market our own virtual tour and property marketing services, sure, but my business’ goal is to be a marketing partner for my clients. Whether I’m researching for my market or helping my clients research their market, detailed real estate marketing search is a key. Finding a certain type of property in the right price range quickly is an important skill.

This is a follow up to a blog post I wrote for TwiTip.com http://www.twitip.com/twitter-real-estate-listings-now-with-an-easy-button/. In that post I reviewed a great little tool for distributing Real Estate listings on Twitter called Tweetlister. (http://tweetlister.com) I wanted to let you know about another Twitter tool that goes hand in hand with Tweetlister and is from the same developer. It’s called Propertybot. http://tweetlister.com/propertybot.aspx

Propertybot allows you to search for listings by using the Twitter @reply function. Over the last few months, Tweetlister has had a ton of data thrown at it. According to Tweetlister.com, Tweetlister has a database of over 1.6 million listings, mainly from their partner listing feed partner, ListHub, but also from TweetLister members who have entered their listings manually. Because of this, the service has a great property search feature built into the Tweetlister.com site. Now with Propertybot, you can access this data in your Twitter app, whether that’s at your desktop or on your hand-held computer, I mean phone.

You don’t have to be a Tweetlister member to use Propertybot. The only requirement is a free Twitter account. If you’re not using Twitter and encouraging your virtual tour clients to use it, there’s never a better time than now to start. Here’s how:

• Log in to Twitter and follow @propertybot (http://twitter.com/propertybot).
• Start a tweet with @Propertybot and then add the search criteria.
• To get a full menu of the criteria available send this tweet: @Propertybot help

The main thing to remember is to put the location in quotes. For example, I sent this tweet: @Propertybot “Huntsville, AL” residential 3BR $175K-$250K

In a minute or two I received an @reply from the Propertybot account with a link to my search results. It found fifteen properties and each result has a link to the source of the listing. Most of the time it’s the Realtor’s website. Want to quickly find a list of the agents and brokers who list in the top tier in your area? Just change the location and price range and follow the links.

Speaking of Realtors, you can search a specific agent/broker's listings through Propertybot. This is a tool intended for TweetLister member agents/brokers. Your virtual tour clients can tell their clients to DM (direct message) Propertybot and get all their listings, or a specific set of their listings, by tweeting a message with the agent's Twitter name. If you tweet @Propertybot [agenttwittername] house for sale, you'll get all of the agent's home listings. This is just for agents/brokers who are TweetLister members, but you can get credit for recommending it!

The uses for this service are as many as you have reasons to search for properties. The killer part is that it’s free and there’s no new software to install if you’re already using Twitter.

Happy Tweeting!

Brett Weaver
Owner/Photographer
SpotLight Virtual Tours
Maury County TN Virtual Tours
http://spotlightvt.com
Order a virtual tour: 931-201-9328

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Lighting & Framing Photography Challenge

Virtual Tour Photography, taking pictures versus tech savvy training and experience, can be a perplexing challenge for a novice photographer and especially a virtual tour and real estate photographer, in the world today.

Once upon a time, in the not too distance past, I can remember when being a photographer meant heavy, expensive equipment not to mention the technical training involving the operation of this equipment. A special talent, passion and extensive training were basics in starting a career as a professional virtual tour photographer and of course a mentor never hurt.

Very few in my world had these opportunities, so the question of even thinking about setting the goal of being a professional photographer, were out of the question. With the advancement of time, new technologies have been developed and have presented new opportunities where we can quench these daunting obstacles.

The meaning of being a professional photographer once meant more than just taking pictures with a camera. One had to experience patience in waiting for the film to be developed in a dark room before they could view what was captured in their photographs. I use the word photography instead of pictures, because I feel skill is need to produce photographs and pictures/pics are quick, uncalculated impressions.

With the wonders of digital photography, now we experience instant gratification. Immediately we are able to realize what has just happened and can correct or adjust our actions. Time being the equivalent of money, these expensive processes are reduced to affordable applications, leaving us with more time and energies to apply creative techniques to satisfy the virtual tour customer.

In real estate, the product we are selling, be it a building or land, we need to remember that we only have a small amount of time to capture our client’s interest. It is paramount we represent the property in an inviting, cozy and appealing manner. The angle/framing of the photo is essential to entice the client/buyer into action, the actual sale of the property. If you show too much open spaces of nothing, a thought can be placed in the viewer of an empty, useless area.

The same goes with lighting, if it is darkly lit, your viewer will not be see the points of interest, All in all, we can only do so much with post shoot adjustments. If we lay down a fundamental understanding of lighting and framing of our subject, the finally photo will represent what we want it to. Stop by our website today to get the Southern Michigan virtual tour and property marketing services that you deserve!

Have a warm, safe and prosperous New Year RTV!

Sandra Gibson

Power Play Multi Media Productions
Web Design, Internet Marketing, Virtual Tours
Southern Michigan Virtual Tours
http://www.powerplaymmp.com
Order a Virtual Tour Now: 517-869-2707

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We Love The IMAGE Webinars

RTV,

Last night Ben had another excellent IMAGE webinar. Although I was late to the Lighting topic I was able to take away enough in the framing portion to make it well worth it for my virtual tour business. Like always Ben broke it down to a very easy to understand level, while still getting straight to the point when balancing artistic expression. For all the virtual tour dealers that were not able to attend you may want to watch this one, On top of the excellent tips that Ben threw at us he explained exactly what our national virtual tour company accounts are looking for… Another great webinar Ben!

Matt Rayner
Lafayette Virtual Tours
www.acadiana360.com


Hello RTV Family,
I just wanted to say that the latest RTV webinar conducted by Ben Knorr was outstanding. Although I am a seasoned virtual tour photographer, I gleaned plenty of information concerning framing and overall lighting techniques. The additional virtual tour photography training proved to be refreshing! It is clear that Ben is not only well-versed in the technical aspects of RTV’s infrastructure, he is also has a clear grasp of virtual tour photography.

This is especially important when dealing with individuals who are just getting into RTV and virtual tour photography in general. If one has no clue in the basics of photography or virtual tour photography, especially lighting and framing, one’s reputation and creditability as a photographer will soon suffer. I stress “basics” because in order to advance to the next level of photography the fundamentals of photography must be mastered in order to progress. To this point, Ben did a superb job redirecting our attention to the makings of a stellar/ above-average visual presentation related to our virtual tours. I was impressed with Ben’s research to supplement his presentation. Instead of simply providing us an overall summary of lighting and framing, I found it extremely useful incorporating examples from other photographers who specialize in property & virtual tour photography.

In the same light (no pun intended), I found it equally useful and helpful when Ben incorporated the “No-No’s” of lighting and framing in his presentation. By displaying images submitted by current RTV dealers, he was able to point how each image fell short of RTV’s standards. In addition, he was able to show us, instead of simply telling us what to avoid. This technique was brilliant! Overall, I was quite impressed with the webinar. I will be attending more in 2010; more importantly, I will become more active this upcoming year with respect to the RTV business opportunity. Best wishes to the entire RTV family!

Wendell Nicholes



Thank you, Ben and RTV, for another interesting and very informative webinar. I really enjoyed the framing session. It started the creative juices flowing. I had a Knoxville virtual tour scheduled today and I put some of the ideas to work. I've shared some of the stills with the realtor and she loves them.

I'm really excited about the future virtual home staging webinar. That will put us even further ahead of the competition. Thank you RTV and Staff for the ongoing support and new ideas.

Looking forward to a very prosperous and successful 2010.

Happy New Year,
Tammy Mills
www.TimeMattersMarketing.com
Knoxville Virtual Tours

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Virtual Tour Marketing Pieces

Each month our Virtual Tour Company strives to help you become more efficient and better connected to existing and potential virtual tour customers. Our virtual tour marketing pieces are professionally made, 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. Did you know that you can also get 100 free postcards from them each month by going to http://www.vistaprint.com/nar?

Take a moment to read the text through and make sure your virtual tour and property marketing company can deliver the services delineated. If you can't or don't know how to provide a service such a bird's eye elevated shots, exposure engine, or night shots, contact us and we can point you in the right direction. As you know many of our monthly webinars cover these hot new topics and allow you to quickly and easily add these services to your virtual tour business.

If you have an idea for a new virtual tour marketing piece, suggestions, or want to see something in the next few months send me an e-mail. Best wishes, Jill K. Jill(at)realtourvision.com

Have you looked for a new dentist recently? We moved four years ago and I found just looking in the phone book daunting. I would have loved being able to really see inside and take virtual tours of local dental offices. We ended up with a great pediatric dentist that has an amazing facility. Each room is painted with a jungle theme and their waiting room has an island hut with a large salt water fish tank. Their office is ideal for a dental office virtual tour. Look into your community; you might be surprised what you find!

This months virtual tour marketing postcard is one that will spark the memory of how good it really does feel to sell properties to agents. The back of the postcard simple delineates how effective virtual tours are for selling properties. You should run one postcard campaign each month. The big dogs do and so should you!

As a final touch we have added an awesome new TxT Connect presentation that will allow you to drop by an office, talk about your new TxT Connect program and leave behind a very powerful CD with all of your TxT Connect marketing pieces neatly arranged. This powerful ready-to-go CD presentation requires that you have AutoRun Max on your computer and is ready for you to import. It comes with all the buttons, graphics and layout. Simply add your marketing pieces, powerpoint video presentation, flyer, company logo and start burning your CD's!

Happy Marketing Team & Good Luck out there

RealTourVision
The Best Virtual Tour Marketing System
The Largest Virtual Tour Network
The Coolest Virtual Tour Staff...ok we are gloating now.

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Special 2010 TxT Connect Offer

RTV is pleased to announce a Special 2010 TxT Connect Offer to kick start 2010. Did you participate in our TxT Connect program last year? Are you a new provider with RTV that would like to get setup selling our new Mobile Text Marketing System? The time is now to get your site going. This is a limited time offer only available to RTV Dealers who sign up for the TxTConnect program during the month of February. The commission plan is not quite as generous at it was the last time around but we're still offering one heck of a deal on the white label site. For $249.00 you will get the following:

• a custom TxTConnect site and license fee for $249
• a commission of 20% for all sales including all recurring sales.
An additional bonus to the next 50 RTV Dealers who sign up in February including 5 free packages of TxTConnect 10 code plans. These 10 code plans can be used for demo purposes or sold to interested agents.

We will pay a further commission bonus on the initial orders for any of these plans that a dealer sells. The 20% commission has been increased to 50% commission on the initial order and then 20% every month the plan stays active.

This is a great opportunity to sell an exciting new technology and service into the accounts you already do business with. If they are using Virtual tours they can benefit from TxTConnect. Act fast to take advantage of this great opportunity. Sign up now in your TMS!

~Go RTV
www.RealTourVision.com
International MLS

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Join us for a Webinar

Well we took a little break to let you digest part one of The FORMULA Setting up Shop and now the gang is back for more action in part two of this series.

Have you been wondering if you’re setting up your virtual tour company the right way?

Ever ask yourself what you could do right out of the gate to set yourself apart?

Are you a bit confused as to what to do next and where to put your precious company dollars?

Has your business slowed down and are you in need of an overhaul of your virtual tour products and virtual tour service offerings?

Do you just need to put a little more steam into your virtual tour & property marketing sales?

If you answered yes, and you're an RTV virtual tour provider you MUST attend part 2 of Setting up Shop next week for The FORMULA 21.

We have arranged to have guest appearances from Graves Carey of Delaware Virtual Tours http://www.360Visions.com, Alan Fon of Corpus Christi Virtual Tours http://www.IslandDigitalImages.com, Mike Thompson of Detroit Virtual Tours http://www.RealVisionStudio.com and of course Jason LaVanture of Traverse City Virtual Tours and http://www.BlueLaVaMedia.com.

This combined panel has produced a total of 6314 virtual tours with “Kid Dynamite” Graves Carey leading the pack with over 2600 tours produced!

Please join us on Tuesday February 2nd at 7:00 PM EST as we engage in a round table discussion on “Setting up Shop”. This is an Inner Circle Only Event. See you at the show!

~RTV

Reserve your Webinar seat now by logging into your TMS!

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