3D Walkthroughs Offered by Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours

Rebecca and Gary Bolda with Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours in Shreveport, LA are now offering the finest 3D Walkthroughs available from Real Tour Vision. The 3D Walkthrough capability was recently added as a way to continue to offer clients cutting edge technology. According to Gary, "It makes the average property really shine."

Click here to see the 3D Walkthrough.

In addition to 3d Walkthroughs, 3D Floor Plans, and 2D floor plans can also be added to virtual tours. 3D animation is also available for high end properties and business developments.

Rebecca and Gary Bolda
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours
Bossier City Virtual Tour Company
www.thevirtualtourpeople.com
Call 318-572-1779 to order a tour and 3D Walkthrough

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South Georgia Virtual Tour Provider Gives Praise

I want to let Real Tour Vision know how much I enjoy being a virtual tour provider! I used to work with other methods of creating virtual tours and I wasn’t able to give my customers the total package that I wanted to. Today, that’s not the case. Real Tour Vision's photo stitching software is truly superior and my customers are very satisfied with the results. My customers now have the professional appearance they need to stand out on the Internet. Plus the Real Tour Vision team continues to make improvements which helps my company stay ahead of the competition. Real Tour Vision virtual tours are by far the best on the market! Keep up the great work guys!

Jon Howell
Virtual Tours of Valdosta
Ph: 229-548-1433
South Georgia’s Virtual Tour Provider
vtoursofvaldosta@bellsouth.net

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PanoRiders for Realtors

If you are a Realtor®, you are probably always looking for that edge over your competition. But you are only interested in marketing that works. The PanoRider™ provided by your Real Tour Vision virtual tour provider is just such a marketing tool.

The PanoRider is a custom sign rider that hangs off your broker’s sign. It contains a property specific web address for the property along with a full color panoramic photograph of the property. The web address is the same as the property address so it is easy to remember for prospective buyers and neighbors.

The Statistics

• The top scoring source of information for buyers is now the Internet, mentioned by 77% of all Home Buyers.*

• In addition, 71% of all Home Buyers surveyed, mentioned the yard sign as an important source of information. *

*National Association of Realtors® Home Buyer and Seller Survey 2006

A PanoRider combines the exposure of the Yard Sign with the power of the Internet. It drives prospective buyers to a 360 virtual tour of the property, even if no one is home to let them see the inside. The statistics support the need for every listing to have a PanoRider, regardless of market conditions. And the virtual tour contains your phone number, website and email, so you get the most exposure possible to secure an offer!

Property Specific Websites (www.yourpropertyaddress.com)

The web address on the PanoRider is for a property specific website for your listing. This website contains your full interactive 360 virtual tour with enhanced listing features including these options:

• Integrated Panoramic and Still Photos with Interactive Hot Spot Navigation

• Map, Satellite View and Driving Directions

• Mortgage Calculator

• Optional Music, Floor Plans & Brochure

• MLS Number and Property Information

• Scene descriptions

• Agent Photo, Email Link, Website Link and Phone Number

• Broker Logo and Address

• Secret Hot-Link to Traffic Statistics


Real Tour Vision
Traverse City Virtual Tours
Order a Tour - 1-866-947-8687

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Panorama Jack Calls the Culligan Man

Breaking News!!

Real Tour Vision has ARRIVED. After years of deprivation, struggle, and minor health problems we now purchase water from the Culligan Man.

It all started when Panorama Jack was having trouble with facial tics. He went to our company doctor, Dr. Damitol, and was told, “You have too much lead in your diet. You need to cut back.” So Jack started cleaning up his diet. No more snacking on paint chips, using lipstick, or licking children’s toys. Still his problems continued.

Jack decided it must be the water. But what to do? Coffee is essential to the wellbeing of Panorama Jack. Not one to be held back when confronted by an obstacle Panorama Jack did what any plucky, kick butt, virtual tour photographer/movie mogul/ladies man would do. He started making his coffee with 100% Florida orange juice. Do not try this at home. Or if you do, for the love of all that is good and green and wonderful, use PULP FREE juice. Yes, Panorama Jack had to buy a new coffee maker after that fiasco. But he also got a date and some great advice. Forget the juice and go back to water in the coffee maker.

So Jack mulled. He pondered. He wondered. He called his mom. She said, “You need the Culligan Man.” Jack didn’t waste any time. He dialed up the Culligan Man so fast his fingers were afire. He got the deluxe setup with hot and cold taps, and the pleasant glug glug of water now fills our offices. Once again Panorama Jack (and his mom) has saved the day! Jack’s facial tics are gone.

This new change has benefited the other employees too. The mood is lighter, we smile at one another, afternoon Tea is sweeter, the virtual tours are more beautiful, and life is GOOD.


Real Tour Vision
Northern Michigan Virtual Tour Provider
Order a virtual tour - 866-947-8687
Real Tour Vision

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How Effective are Virtual Tours – Really?

In Shreveport and Bossier City virtual tours seem to be everywhere these days. Buyers are looking at them, sellers want them, realtors have them, but how effective are they really? Here are some statistics that may surprise you. According to a recent survey* conducted by the National Association of Realtors® 77% of all home buyers listed the internet as the most important source of information about a listing.

Statistics like this show us that buyers are shopping on the internet. And why not? They can view more homes in less time at their convenience by shopping online. And that’s not the end of the story. According to the NAR®, listings that have virtual tours are 88% more valuable than ones that don’t. Not to mention that Realtor.com states that the “virtual tour” feature is selected more than 100,000 times per day**.

Clearly, virtual tours are not just that new thing everybody is getting. They are becoming a necessary marketing tool. All virtual tours are not created equal. Everything from slide shows to 360 tours is being labeled as virtual tours. Some of these are high quality and some are not. But with 77% of all home buyers looking to the internet for information, at Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours we strive to provide that information.

As an RTV dealer we are able to effectively “show” the home with high quality, viewable photographs and panoramas that leave the viewer with a real sense of the property. Our virtual tours are able to provide all the information to the buyer that the Realtor would provide in person. Not just the price and square footage, but information about the neighborhood, the community and the features of the house itself.

We can offer the buyer a printable flyer to easily remember the property. We can give them a 3d floor plan of the home and a map to the property. We can even offer them a mortgage calculator, information about the area schools and community links. Thanks to RTV's efforts to be the cutting edge of virtual tour technology, we can provide all the information a buyer is looking for and more.

So, how effective are virtual tours – really? According to recent statistics, they should allow the realtor’s listing to become 88% more valuable with 77% of the buyers. Very effective! And if a Realtor has a professional virtual tour company, such as an RTV full service dealer, which can help them put that tour to work for them, the possibilities could transform the real estate market.


Thanks RTV!

Gary and Rebecca Bolda
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours
Shreveport and Bossier City virtual tours
www.thevirtualtourpeople.com
Order a virtual tour today - 318-572-1779

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FREE 3D Floor Plan Webinar for ALL RTV Dealers!

Wed, Nov 7, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST - FREE Floor plans Webinar for ALL Real Tour Vision Dealers 2D/3D FloorPlans and 2D/3D Walk-Throughs. We will be covering the creation of our new 2D and 3D Floor Plans, Pictures Plus 2D plans and 3D Walkthroughs. This RTV and RPM exclusive will be hosted by Cheryl Waller from RPM with a special guest appearance from Jason LaVanture and Morgan Makowski from Real Tour Vision. Morgan will be unleashing the secrets behind utilizing this newest ‘edge-of-your-seat’ sales-power tool for your virtual tours! The webinar is open to the ENTIRE Real Tour Vision network. If you haven’t attended one of our webinars yet, this is NOT the one to miss!! Sign up NOW and ask questions LIVE during the webinar! Limited seating available… Don’t miss out on this one!

FREE Floorplans WEBINAR for RTV Dealers
"2D/3D FloorPlans and 2D/3D Walk-Throughs"
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST

Register now at www.rockpointemarketing.com
Rock Solid Marketing for Real Tour Vision Virtual Tour Providers
www.realtourvision.com

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Can I Have Fries With That?

I own a Southern Pines, NC Virtual Tour Compnay and we provide Virtual Tours, floor plans, professional printing (with an affiliate) and other various services. I have been taking some classes with an unmentioned real estate group just to see what Realtors are up to and how they are looking at and approaching things. I figure what better way to get into a Realtors head than to take a class with them and learn what they are learning. Not to mention they know I am a Virtual Tour Provider so how convenient when they are talking about marketing they have a marketing tool right at hand!

I have had many things just kick me in the face and make me wonder "why haven't I been doing this?" Realtors much like Virtual Tour Providers are trying to market them selves and their ability to do something for some one else that just about any other Realtor can do so it is more important than ever to find out what your customer really wants? I was told a quote that will stick with me for the rest of my life... "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there!"

So Real Tour Vision has put me on the right track and I am not about to sit here and get run over by the competition. We offer a better and much higher quality Virtual Tour than any of our competitors so why wouldn't people want to order from us? This is the biggest question and the biggest problem. Until you have figured out the exact answer to this question you have no other problem. The phone not ringing, no orders coming over via fax, emails not pouring do not even matter if you are unable to answer this question. What makes YOU better? What makes YOUR product better? Why should they use YOU if your prices are $25 higher than your competitor?

Customers don't care that you have better equipment they don't even care if you have only been doing this for 2 months or 2 years they want to know how YOU benefit them. NOT how Virtual Tours benefit them (because they already know this if they use them) but how YOU benefit them. What are YOU able to do that none of your competitors have even began to think about? Maybe it's 3-D Floor Plans or even just your personal attention to their needs and wants.

Don't promise them the world then only provide a City. Promise them a City then give them the whole country. Under promise and always over deliver. If you over state what your abilities and intentions are you are setting your self up for failure for sure. Why not promote and offer a smaller amount of service and provide a lot more. Doesn't it feel better to you if someone offers you a hot dog and then gives you a chili dog with fries? This also will get people talking.

When someone brings up Virtual Tours, they will immediately think about you and how you promised them a hot dog but gave them a chili dog with fries. Although you are offering a smaller amount of services you have the ability to exceed their expectations and do what you normally would do but make your services appear more valuable. It is not about how much you do but how well you market what you do. So from now on look at things like a Burger joint and don't ask would you like fries with that? Just give them the fries they wanted but didn't ask for.

Lacey Conn
Virtual Tours Plus
Southern Pines Virtual Tours
www.vtoursplus.com
Order a virtual tour now - 910-315-5358

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A Virtual Tour is A Virtual Tour - Not Really!

As a Realtor(r) with many years experience in down markets I knew the importance of keeping my name, expertise, and professional marketing ability in front of future clients. I went looking for a marketing tool to place myself in front of the whole pack of hungry agents. Since I own an Internet marketing company I knew that the Internet was the key. The technology I first found was the free programs from a major software company and I thought that this was a good solution. In fact I then went to a seminar and the program was pushed as a great way for an agent to make their mark as an above average agent.

I published two listings using this program and saw that they were far from the excellence I wanted. Being a perfectionist I looked for other solutions. I viewed at least fifteen tours posted on the local Mesa, AZ MLS that were offered by various companies using many different solutions to the “Virtual Tour” presentation for viewing on the Internet. My knowledge of the Internet allowed me to investigate even deeper as to what technology and provider would allow me to show case my listings in the best light.

I had a Samsung Digimax A7 camera I picked up for a reasonable price. Most real estate agents like reasonably priced products and services, as do I. The camera allowed me to make some adjustments just like the old 35mm cameras of the film age that I used to use. I then went off to photograph my first two tours using the free software. I was almost OK with this but saw that I used to do better photography with a film 35mm and my own darkroom. I was very disappointed at the quality even though the quality was equal to or better than most other agent self shot tours or tours shot by other tour companies. My photography background, classes, and darkroom experience told me that the point and shoot digital cameras would not give the quality marketing pictures that are needed in a down market to put me ahead of the rest. In fact I noticed that the majority of the virtual tours on the Internet were actually a slide show and not a true 360 Interactive tour.

I wanted technology that would allow me to tell my clients that they could have an interactive walk through virtual open house 24 hour per day 7 days a week to draw potential buyers to their home. I found Real Tour Vision and used their virtual tour software on a couple of listings and used my Samsung camera. I found out that the light blew out the windows, I did not get as crisp and clear images that I wanted, and that the photo shoot of each home was using up three to four hours of my time. This goes to show you that the best software cannot correct images obtained from a cheaper camera.

This was way too much time to spend, so I went to the Real Tour Vision dealer forum to get advice and to see what other photographers were using. Boy did I get advice! These easy shoot cameras can be used for family photos, but to get great real estate shots better equipment is needed. Just like I have always been told when it comes to software and computers, junk in junk out.

From the advice that I received I decided to invest in an additional $2,000 worth of software and camera equipment. I now can say that I have the ability to shoot weddings like I used to do with my 35mm film equipment and dark room. Most home self-shot photos are good, but they would not past muster as a marketing tool. I have not talked to anyone, except professional photographers or serious amateurs, that know what real photography is. In fact when I mention the following terms to the average agent their eyes glaze over like a deer in the headlights of a car: f-stop, exposure, lighting, depth of field.

I saw that an agent that I had done tours for had a different tour on a new listing. She told me that she had an old tour for the listing prior to my entry into the virtual tour business (she had the listing many months ago and it was taken off the market for some time), and I asked to re-shoot the listing to make it look better and to showcase the differences. See the comparison photos below of a Tour Factory Virtual Tour and a Real Tour Vision Virtual Tour. The kitchen on the top is from inside the Tour Factory technology and the same kitchen below is in a Real Tour Vision virtual tour. The quality difference is amazing. The windows in the top tour are blown out with light.

I have 100% of my listings with a fully interactive tour, and every home has closed escrow or is in the pending stage at this time, in fact I need some more listings as I’ve sold every listing that I have accepted this year. Even though I do not make my full living as a virtual tour photographer, I have more experience than many of the competing slide show and 360 tour photographers have.

Steve Knievel
Best Web Tour

Mesa Virtual Tour Company

www.bestwebtour.com

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Real Tour Vision Pays For Itself

Here I am only a few months after signing up with Real Tour Vision and starting my own Virtual Tour Company in Minnesota. I have done a few virtual tours and completely out of the blue what happens this week? Real Tour Vision literally pays for itself. In the last several months Real Tour Vision has sent me numerous virtual tour leads, every one of which have turned into valued clients as well as providing me with an ample supply of pre-sold Tour Track jobs.

I admit, when signing up with Real Tour Vision I was told that they would send me virtual tours and throw business my way. I thought, yeah okay, I’ll believe it when I see it. But that was no sales line! As of this week Real Tour Vision has officially paid me more than my initial start up fees. In my opinion a company in this industry paying for themselves in only a few months is unbelievable.

I would like to send a big thank you to the whole Real Tour Vision team for their continuing high level of customer service as well as special congratulations to the INCREDIBLE Tour Track team for the awesome job they do of pulling in national contracts for their service providers. Together with Real Tour Vision I look forward to providing the absolute highest quality Virtual Tours in Minneapolis, Minnesota area for the long haul.

Jeff Bartol
Loop Photography
Minnesota Virtual Tour Company
www.loopphotography.com
Order a virtual tour today! 612-384-8037

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Selling New Construction With Virtual Tours

I sell real estate in the Orlando Florida area and work with buyers and sellers.

I use Real Tour Vision virtual tour software on all my listings if possible and find them extremely valuable when it comes to incurring showings in a slow market. I know of a number of occasions where a potential buyer called his agent after viewing the virtual tour of my listing so that they could arrange for a showing. These days agents have lost some control over which listings are getting on the showing list. Thanks to Realtor.com and other IDX listing sites, buyers have access to listings and virtual tours. Good tours definitely get you more showings and increased exposure in the marketplace. However, make sure the house is cleaned and tidy and shows nice for the full benefit.

I recently sold a new construction home in a vacation resort community to a European couple. They told me that they have a few friends that might be interested in something similar. I went to the builder’s model home and did a virtual tour of the two models. I posted a link on my website and sent the link to those tours to our client. Within 8 weeks I had another vacation home under contract. They bought it sight unseen!!!

The virtual tour and their friend’s testimonial was enough to make the deal. The tours really help convey a sense of space. I gave the builder’s rep the link to the non branded tour so they also can use it to send it to their interested buyers. It really helped me to build a good relationship with the sales staff. I am now considering adding more tours of new construction models to my website. This will help me to capture more of the second home business in the Central Florida Region.

Real Tour Vision is the right partner to develop a powerful virtual representation that is much more than the usual boring slide shows that other companies try to sell as virtual tours. I am glad that I signed up with Real Tour Vision. They have truly helped me to become a better marketing expert. Thanks guys - keep up the good work!


Malte Strauss
Deltona Real Estate
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Southern Realty Enterprises, Inc.
Broker Realtor®
mstrauss@luxuryhomesinorlando.com
Contact a Realtor in Deltona Today - 407-416-9659

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What is your combination?

Ever since I was a kid I always liked nice pictures, photography and cameras and eventually I turned into a "gadget" guy. I have collected various camera brands from old generation (regular film), a complete set of a "Hasselblad" the Cadillac of cameras, to the latest model of digital camera (till 8 months ago) which provides a great deal of flexibility and convenience. However over all these years my major task always was how can I make money off of doing what I love!?

I think this is a very popular topic and not easily done! After I spent the big bucks on the Hasselblad I started doing head shots and some other projects to make a career out of it. Shortly after that I found myself in the middle of the technology transition to digital photography. I could not compete any more! Right around that time, I came across property photography and virtual tours and decided that it was the combination that I have been looking for. Not long after that I started the company called "yVirtual" in Southern California serving the following cities:

Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Woodland Hills, Encino, Studio City, North Ridge, Reseda and ....plus, Brentwood, Palisades, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and the other surrounding area.

I certainly hope that one day you can find your right combination too!


Regards,
Mike Pashai
Y Virtual, Inc.
Calabasas Virtual Tour Company
818-377-9191
www.yVirtual.com

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Year One - A Quick Look Back

Hello fellow Real Tour Vision dealers around the World. I would say this has been a very exciting year. The 16th of October 2006 was our first Virtual Tour.

First Virtual Tour

I did it free of charge for a Friend of mine. In one year we've done 150 Real Estate Tours, 10 FSBO, commercial and business tours. Amazing!!

We started this virtual tour business out of desperation, and despair. Nothing was working with Real Estate. The market was starting to plunge and investors were watching there investments disappear.

We were thinking about having our own Treasure Coast virtual tour company for a while, but did not have the impulse nor the capital to start in our new journey. We found Real Tour Vision and everything seemed so simple. We actually borrowed our investment in order to start. It wasn't much, but for us at that moment, it was a fortune. It was amazing how quickly we made back that borrowed money and continued establishing our business in our quaint and quiet town. Thanks to Real tour Vision we managed to survive the Buyers market we had found ourselves in.

Real Tour Vision helps you through all the process, with their excellent customer service and supportive staff. Anyone can be a part of the success. You only have to take the chance and see your world change. We are proud to be a part of Real Tour Vision dealership. The greatest Virtual Tour company in the world.

Now there is no more looking back. Think Shift Grow - RTV!

Claudia Jaramillo
Perfect Images
Treasure Coast 360 Tours
www.360perfectimages.com
Our email: info@360perfectimages.com
Order a 360 Tour Today! 772-532-4860

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Search Engine Optimization Webinar

Rock Point Marketing Presents:

Search Engine Optimization 101 Webinar

As a player in the Real Tour Vision network, having your virtual tour company site on the front page of Google is more important than ever. That is exactly why Real Tour Vision and Rock Point Marketing are presenting a Webinar that will be held on October 24th at 7:00 EDT. This will be open to all RPM Inner Circle members. Look for RTV guest appearances from Jason LaVanture and Panorama Jack.

This weekly Webinar will be covering the following topics:

What are SERPs... search engine result pages (specifically Google)
Meta Tags (keywords and description)
Site content (relating to keywords and content)
Avoiding the mirror site dilemma and website differentiation
The importance of linking to RTV, the Blog and reciprocal links
Blogging

Webinar also includes SEO for RTV Full Service Dealers handbook available for you to download from http://www.rockpointemarketing.com/

We have the biggest network, best technology and ALL the fun!

Real Tour Vision
TC Virtual Tours

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Virtual Tour Insurance

What a Nightmare:

You know it not a good day when you are rushing to get to your first virtual tour shoot and in your haste -- you trip and fall on your client’s front porch stairs. In the process, you drop your tripod and camera. With that sinking feeling in your gut, you pick up your equipment and confirm that the camera is now smashed and one of the legs of the tripod is bent at an awkward angle.

Thoroughly rattled and upset, you put on your best smile when the client opens the door and invites you inside. Once inside the door and still frazzled, you unwittingly stand your tripod up in the foyer next to a very beautiful, and yes –very expensive—glass vase. As soon as you turn to your client---a sudden and incredibly loud crash occurs---telling you that the tripod has fallen and smashed the vase into a thousand pieces.

Hopefully, this scenario has not happened to anyone but the scary part of it is –it could happen – or something worse. It is not hard to imagine an incident involving grave personal injury to yourself or to your client.

The question that is raised is, “Are you covered by insurance?”

A lot of dealers may think that their home owner’s policy will cover their camera, tripod, and any accidents at a job site. This is simply not true.

As a virtual tour provider you need to protect your business with insurance that covers personal injury, liability, and your mobile equipment (laptop, camera, tripod, etc). Today, most insurance companies offer a bundled insurance plan sometimes known as Business Owner’s Insurance Package. These packages are designed to provide insurance protection to you while on the job site.

All dealers are encouraged to call their insurance companies and review with their agent the insurance needed to cover your business.

By Real Tour Vision
Leelanau County Virtual Tours
www.realtourvision.com
Request Virtual Tour Services Today - 866-947-8687

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Single Property Websites

The new Real Tour Vision PanoRider and PanoRider single property website service allows all Real Tour Vision Dealers both In-House and Full Service to provide an address specific domain name for every virtual tour listing. Single property websites or individual property websites are a very useful tool when marketing a home online. The unique domain name when typed into a web browser instantly pulls up that specific virtual tour with photos, agent's information, printable brochure, listing data, music or voice-overs and so much more. This amazing tool allows one to place that domain name in the newspaper, magazine or on the rider sign where many subscribers and or passer buyers will easily jot down the domain name for pulling up on internet at a later time.

Now anyone from anywhere in the United States can utilize the Real Tour Vision single property website and PanoRider by simply contacting Real Tour Vision today. This is not a subscription based service!

By calling the phone number below Real Tour Vision will connect you with the closest virtual tour provider in your area and get you setup with a professional virtual tour photographer and the worlds BEST single property website / rider sign service ever imagined!

Learn more about the Real Tour Vision PanoRider services and single property website domain forwarding at www.panorider.com.

Real Tour Vision
TC Virtual Tours
www.realtourvision.com
Order a Single Property Website and PanoRider Today! - 866-947-8687

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Automatic 3D Walkthrough Praise

Dear Real Tour Vision,

I just wanted to thank your entire team for all of your hard work on making our dream a reality. It was amazing how quickly you put together our first 3d virtual walkthrough from the 2d Floor Plan sketches that we faxed you. I am so grateful to you for being so easy to work with and always responding quickly to our requests.

We are in the process of building and selling a home so naturally we are very excited to be able to show what they house will look before it is even built. In the past we simply had to show someone a floor plan and the customer would have to visualize which is not something that everyone can do very well. Your floor plan and 3D walkthrough service really made the house come to life before our eyes. We are so grateful to you for making this happen.

We have just started to use this tool and we will be sending in over 20 more sketch and fax floor plans over the the next week or so because we are so happy with the product that you have provided to us. We are very glad that we found you and your company and we will be talking to you soon about the new floor plans and the new builders that this tool will attract.


Sincerely,

Sal Mercurio, Broker/Agent /Virtual Tour Provider
Idaho Dream Properties
www.idahodreamproperties.com
Order a 3D Walkthrough Today - 208-773-2625

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Virtual Tour Camera Migration

I started my virtual tour business in Lawrence with my nice Point and shoot digital camera, but I was not getting the "professional look" that I was aiming for since I had little or no experience nor example on my website to show off. I decided to jump into the SLR world and of course it's more complex than what I thought.

One mistake that I made and quickly learned from:

A point and shoot is automatically turning on to the widest angle possible which is how you should take your pictures for your 360 virtual tour. Even if you take it the camera off of the Real Tour Vision rotator to do a nice still picture, set it down and let it turn off, that digital camera will always set itself back to the widest angle setting where it was left at. This I quickly found was not the case with my digital SLR. At least mine anyway.

The Real Tour Vision tour builder manual says on the quick shoot checklist - BE SURE YOUR CAMERA IS ALWAYS SET TO THE WIDEST ANGLE POSSIBLE BEFORE EVERY VIRTUAL TOUR SHOOT! If you don't follow this simple rule once you're back at home trying to stitch them up it won't work. For everyone out there just going into the SLR world be sure to always check that you have your camera set to the widest angle possible before every shoot. Especially after taking it off the tripod to zoom on a detail!

Kate Huchet
Lawrence Virtual Tour
Lawrence Virtual Tours
www.Lawrencevirtualtour.com
Now Servicing Lawrence, Overland Park and Topeka, Kansas - 785-764-2552

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Houston Virtual Tour Customer Service

What is the definition of Customer Service? Webster’s New Millennium ™ Dictionary of English states that Customer Service is the assistance and other resources that a company provides to the people who buy or use its products or services. (v0.9.7.) Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

While building up my virtual tour company in Houston throughout my daily travels, I always am disappointed in the lack of customer service that is given to me by businesses. Whether it is a fast food restaurant or a retail store I never get the level of customer service that I think I should get. Is customer service a forgotten relic? I hope not.

In my Virtual Tour business, the one thing I tell people that work with me is that customer service is top priority. I treat my clients the way I feel that I need to be treated when I use someone else’s services. Go the extra mile is what I say. This is one reason why I think I get business away from the national companies is because I will do almost anything for a client. I also understand that there will be instances when customer services have been exhausted with a client and you have to cut your losses. But always remember even if you have to cut your losses with a client do it in a way that you will not receive a bad referral. I know it is hard to do that but don’t give them a reason to speak bad of you. KILL THEM WITH KINDNESS is what my mom always told me.

So the moral of the BLOG is Customer Service should be your top priority. Treat your clients with the level of customer service that you would want to receive.

Mike Stolte
Digital Tours and More
Houston Virtual Tour Company
www.DigitalToursandMore.net
Order a virtual tour today!

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FREE Virtual Tour Sofware Updates

Real Tour Vision is pleased to announce that our virtual tour dealers worldwide are now able to control the pan speed and pan direction of the virtual tours. A pan speed of 99 is as fast as possible to the right and a pan speed setting of -99 is as fast as possible to the left. A pan speed of 0 will keep the panoramas from moving at all. This has been a very high request among our virtual tour dealer network for some time now. Some want it slower while others wanted it to be faster. Overall the panning speed of a virtual tour is highly dependent on the processor speed of the computer, how many tasks are running in the background, video card quality and how much RAM is inside of a computer. Since this is very different from one machine to the next we have adapted our system to satisfy everyone on a per tour basis. This is just another free virtual tour software edit that we have made allowing our providers to better accommodate.

Finally by popular demand the Real Tour Vision TMS now auto populates Google Maps and Google Satellite upon upload. This is a switch from the Yahoo mapping service that was previously used. To remain the most flexible virtual tour system on the market we will allow all of our virtual tour providers to change over to any other mapping technology or satellite technology by dropping in a new link when editing a virtual tour.

Real Tour Vision delivers the best virtual tour software in the industry and has the World's largest network.

Real Tour Vision
Northern Michigan Virtual Tours
www.realtourvision.com
Order a 360 Tour Today! 866-947-8687
Order a virtual tour

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It’s great to be able to offer more!

A Realtor(r) recently wrote that the virtual tour we produced for her was great and she loved the still photos. In following up to ensure that she had everything she needed, she asked if it would be possible to receive more still photos than the dozen included in the virtual tour package she ordered.

Depending on the size of the real estate listing, it’s quite possible that we have taken hundreds of photos. We are able to “go back to the raw data” and retrieve extra high-quality photos for you.

We applaud real estate professionals for acknowledging the power of the first impression and feel honored to be part of your marketing team.

Dawn Shaffer
All About Virtual Tours
Provider or Real Tour Vision Virtual Tours

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Don't Play Favorites With Your Clients

During a recent conversation with a Realtor(r) who was ordering a Virtual Tour I was told that she had another listing coming up this week but she didn't feel it justified a Virtual Tour. I wonder how the undeserving home's owner would feel about this? Think about this quote I actually heard from someone using the internet to look for their first home:

"If I see a home listed somewhere on the internet and the agent didn't think it was worthy of a virtual tour then it probably isn't worthy of my time."

It's easy to see the logic of this thinking. I was also told by a long time Minneapolis Realtor recently that if he sees a listing on the MLS that doesn't have a large number of great pictures he won't bother sending that listing to his buyers. He assumes that these days if you don't have at least 10 great pictures the home must not be that great.

Don't play favorites with your sellers, after all, one of the great benefits of an interactive virtual tour is to show other potential home sellers that you are using the latest technology in your efforts to market homes. Make a Virtual Tour on every home an important part of your marketing plan and set yourself apart as a leader in your market place. Remember, search sites like Realtor.com wouldn't give you the option of sorting out only homes with Virtual Tours if there wasn't buyers out there who only want to see homes with Virtual Tours first.

For more information about ordering the best Virtual Tours in Minnesota please visit our website below.

Jeff Bartol
Loop Photography
Minnesota Virtual Tours
www.loopphotography.com
jeff@loopphotography.com
Order a Virtual Tour in Minnesota Today - (612) 384-8037

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A Salute to the Staff and Fellow Dealers

Hello Fellow Dealers!

My name is Steve Boatwright, my wife Pam and I run a San Jose Virtual Tour Company! (Silicon Valley) We just finished our first virtual tour for a staging company who wanted a before and after to add to their website. We’re please to say everything worked out great and they were very impressed with the quality, service and quick turnaround they received and are looking at placing more tours with us along with other stagers in the area!

Our main reason for writing today is to say “Thank You” to Real Tour Vision for such great support and always being there when we need them. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area there are a lot of people that promise a lot of things to you and never deliver on those promises.

Finding a company like Real Tour Vision with people who actually do what they say and stand behind their product is a breath of fresh air and a rare breed…at least for us. Thank you to all the staff at Real Tour Vision and thank you to the dealers we contacted in the beginning that helped us in making our decision to become RTV dealers. We look forward to a long and successful relationship with RTV and the amazing group of dealers around the globe…best to all of you!

Sincerely,
Steve and Pam Boatwright
Virtual Marketing Solutions
San Jose Virtual Tours
www.yourvms.com
snp@yourvms.com
Order Virtual Tours - 408-314-3352

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Just Bloggin Away To Success

It has been about 6 months now since the birth of our virtual tour company blog and let me tell you that Blogging is much easier than it seems!! This blog has grown quite quickly into its own and rightfully so, with all of the participation that we have had. For those in the Real Tour Vision family of dealers who have not yet taken advantage of this incredible marketing tool, I would have to say that you should read this particular blog closely and pay special attention to some key points along the way. I am about to reveal my newest secret weapon in marketing.

It all started about 6 months ago when Jason started the Real Tour Vision virtual tour company blog. Looking back, I remember being a bit hesitant about spending additional time writing blogs in addition to the ones that I had currently been submitting through another blog. I submitted the first dealer blog on February 20th. Well, just a little over a month later I started noticing hits coming into my website. When I checked my website stats, I had received over 50 hits referred from the virtual tour company blog! Over 250% more hits from a brand new blog over my other blog! Not bad.I was hooked! Since that time I have made a habit of submitting blogs on a regular basis to RTV and the extra effort has paid off.

Now that the virtual tour company blog has a Google PR of 5/10 my local SERPs show my website as the first two listings with one of my more popular blog entries as number three! And that is just for ONE of the three counties that I service. Another county shows two of my blogs as the first and second top results, my website third & fourth, my RTV testimonial fifth, and two blogger feeds as sixth and seventh. Yes, you read that right. I hold the top seven search results for Treasure Coast Virtual Tour Company.

So what is my newest secret weapon in marketing… you are reading it!

If you have yet to submit a blog for the Real Tour Vision virtual tour company blog, I highly suggest you start today! Talk about the industry, talk about your experiences, talk about anything… just get your blogs into Real Tour Vision on a regular basis and then watch your website stats for the results!

-Cheryl

Cheryl Waller
TreasureCoastSolutions.com
Treasure Coast Virtual Tours

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The Virtual Tour Pitch

I am preparing to give a sales meeting presentation about virtual tours in a real estate office in nearby Chester County, Pennsylvania. In getting ready to talk about using virtual tours to promote properties and market a real estate agent, I came across some astounding statistics:

Last year, home buyers were actively using the Internet to make their home purchases. What is so important is that these buyers overwhelmingly eventually use real estate agents to assist in their purchase:

· Method of Home Purchase, By Use of Internet:

· Agent/Broker - 81%

· Direct from Builder - 10%

· Direct from previous owner whom buyer didn't know - 5 %

Source: 2006 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers

Consider what this means: 4 out 5 buyers using the Internet also use an agent!

So if you are a real estate agent, you have to ask what you are doing to improve your Internet marketing. Based on last year's data, you just can't sit back. If you don’t get active marketing on the Internet, this business is just lost to your competitor. Remember that listings with virtual tours always get selected first by potential clients. So as you allow last year’s statistics guide your future marketing plans, consider how important quality virtual tours are to your marketing plan.

George Sheldon
VirtualToursCompany
Virtual Tours of Lancaster, PA
www.VirtualToursCompany.com
Order Virtual tours in Lancaster NOW! - 800-681-5095

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Real Tour Vision PanoRider ULEASHED!

71% of Home Buyers say Yard Sign is Important Source of Information. Second only to the Internet, the YARD SIGN is stated as being the largest source of information for home buyers according to the National Association of Realtors® Home Buyer and Seller Survey 2006

71% of all home buyers surveyed, mentioned the yard sign as an important source of information. The top scoring source of information is now the Internet, mentioned by 77% of all Buyers.

The PanoRiders are now ready for purchase and are available only to Real Tour Vision dealers and their clients nationwide. The Real Tour Vision PanoRiders are signs that hang below or above the real estate broker's sign that display a FULL COLOR panoramic scene from inside the property and are assigned a unique web address for the property. ( EX: www.3157voicerd.com)

These signs are made with PVC and UV protected inks so they will last well beyond the sale of the home. It’s a great product to stimulate new interest in your service as well as set you apart from ALL of your local competitors. This product has been tested for nearly a year and is proven to be an AMAZING listing tool that NO other virtual tour company offers at this time.

See more at www.panorider.com


PanoRider Testimonial:

"I am pleased as punch that the house you did a virtual tour and PanoRider of is under contract, and awfully glad that the buyer found it on her own. The house is under contract, the buyers found the house themselves, they loved the PanoRider- that is what caught their eye and ultimately sold the property! I understand they had been looking unsuccessfully for months. My seller had given me a deadline until the end of the September to secure an offer so thank you for your expertise!"

Best regards,
Teresita Vignale
Long & Foster Realtor
Licensed in Virginia & Washington, DC

Real Tour Vision also offers single property websites or individual property sites to their dealer network as well.

www.realtourvision.com
Traverse City Virtual Tours
Order a Panoramic Sign Rider Today - 866-947-8687

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Floor Plan Software Now Available!

Creating floor plans with Real Tour Vision for real estate or businesses is an easy and rather inexpensive approach to making your clients home or business stand out. The combination of a floor plan and a virtual tour gives viewers a real sense of place and perception. The perspective gives them the ability to see how rooms come together, allowing them to visualize themselves there.

This release of the Real Tour Vision floor plans is phase one of what will be a two step process. Phase two is when our floor plans become fully integrated within our virtual tour viewer. Buyers will then have all the information they need about your property and business by looking at the virtual tour while they look at the plan and the panorama on their screen.

Real Tour Vision has made creating stunning floor plans very simple and easy to do. We have setup and established for all of our virtual tour providers three simple ways to create and offer 2d and 3d floor plans. We have taken into consideration the fact that many of our virtual tour providers will want to learn how to use our new floor plan software while others will not.

Option One - Make Your Own Floor Plan

This first option that we now offer we feel most of our virtual tour providers will take advantage of and that is the ability to draw a floor plan directly from our tour management system. Our easy to use floor plan software will allow even a novice to create stunning 2D and 3D floor plans as well as order 3D walkthroughs of homes with just the click of a button. The floor plan software is now active and ready to use for all Real Tour Vision virtual tour dealers.

Option Two - Floor Plan Sketch & Fax Service

The second option that we are opening up to our virtual tour providers is a service that we call floor plan sketch & fax. The Real Tour Vision floor plan Sketch & Fax allows our virtual tour providers to take our graph paper into the home with, draw a rough sketch of the layout and fax it into Real Tour Vision. We take care of the final floor plan measuring, drawing and production. It's really that easy!

Option Three - Order Full Service Floor Plans

Finally our third option to our dealers is our full service option. We now offer a national floor plan service in most areas of the USA. You are able to simply pickup the phone, call Real Tour Vision and we will place your floor plan order right over the phone. At the day and time of your scheduled floor plan a representative will show up, measure the home, draw a floor plan and deliver that to Real Tour Vision. This is by far the easiest solution we now offer for our virtual tour providers nationwide.

If you are in need of 2D floor plans or our new and exciting 3D floor plans make sure you contact us today and we will put you in touch with a Real Tour Vision floor plan provider who can help you fulfill your floor plan order!The cost per plan will vary depending on the square footage of the home.

By Real Tour Vision
Michigan Virtual Tours
www.realtourvision.com
Make a Floor Plan - 866-947-8687

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Hats Off To The Baker B And His Queen

Happy Ten Year Anniversary to Alex Saenger and his wife Sharon. Alex and Sharon have been a part of team Real Tour Vision now for over two years offering virtual tours of Rockville, MD.


Congrats Alex and Sharon!!
BakerB Solutions
Rockville, Maryland Virtual Tour Company
www.bakerb.com
Order a Virtual Tour - 703-599-7933

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Des Moines Virtual Tours

Are you interested in owning a Des Moines virtual tour company? Real Tour Vision is currently looking for an entrepreneur, that enjoys photography and will be our new Des Moines, IA virtual tour provider.

Real Tour Vision is a recognized leader in interactive 360° panoramic virtual tours and virtual tour software. Over the past 7 years our virtual tour software company has built up one of the world's largest and most powerful networks of virtual tour providers. We currently have an immediate need for the production of Des Moines Virtual Tours!

Running your own independent business and becoming a virtual tour builder, you will be equipped with the Real Tour Vision virtual tour software and virtual tour hardware package that allows anyone with little to no photography or technical abilities to complete a full featured online virtual home tour in about one hour. All of our virtual tour software and virtual tour hardware packages include everything you will need to start a Des Moines, IA based virtual tour business in less than 15 days. Produce your Central Iowa virtual real estate tours in a timely fashion and offer high end virtual tours to the businesses in the Des Moines area.

Join the virtual tour company that you can count on, the virtual tour company that has been in the virtual tour software industry from the start and the virtual tour company that has the virtual tour software technology to back you up! Call today and let one of our helpful Real Tour Vision representatives talk to you about the real estate virtual tour industry, answer your virtual tour software and virtual tour hardware questions start doing business with the best virtual tour company in the world!

Des Moines Virtual Tours Needed! 866-947-8687

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3D Walkthroughs for ANY Budget!

Real Tour Vision is shifting gears on our 3D technology and we now offer what we feel is the industries finest 3D products at the most affordable price. First off if you would like to order a custom 3D walkthrough or Animation the Real Tour Vision team is the industry’s best. Just one look at some of our STUNNING custom 3D projects is keeping those developers wide eyed and asking for MORE.

With our new 3D Walkthrough technology, prospects and literally 'walk-through' a property in 3D on the web just as if they were really there in person. Our 3D Animation, 3D Walkthroughs and 3D renderings are all taking on breathtaking lifelike formation right on your computer screen, kiosk, or high definition television. While most of our custom 3D walkthrough projects start off at several thousand dollars we are now also offering a low cost solution for all of our virtual tour providers both In-House and Full-Service!

Our new automated 3D walkthrough technology is built directly into our virtual tour management system and is accessible 24/7. To create an automated 3D walkthrough with the Real Tour Vision virtual tour solution you simply log in, draw your floor plan, convert it to a 3D floor plan and convert that to a 3D walkthrough. The conversion to a 3D floor plan and the 3D Walkthrough is simply a push of the button on your end and on ours is simply the processing time it takes on the servers. The conversion to a full 3D walkthrough animation will take approximately 24 hours and is delivered to you via hyper link.

The automated 3D-Walkthroughs are essentially computer rendered and auto generated videos based on the 2d and 3d floor plans that you draw from within our system. The end result is not the quality you will find in our custom 3D Walkthroughs and Animations but it is several thousand dollars less and it still lets anyone from around the world experience a home and get a realistic feel for its size and layout. Multiple furnishing styles are used in the presentation so as the visitor 'walks-through' the home, room styles change in their furnishing and decorative styles. One moment the sitting room is bold and funky and the next moment it has faded into a calm and restful environment. The automated 3D Walkthrough really is the ultimate property marketing tool while our custom 3D Walkthroughs are the perfect for developments and high end presentations.

“I have never seen anything like this in my life. It is a magical experience and the 3D Walkthrough video is like somebody moving through the property with a video camera. However this is light years ahead of anything that a video tour could ever accomplish since the clarity is amazing and as a visitor on the automated 3D Walkthrough I am able to jump from one room to another simply by clicking on the name button for each room. At the end of the 3D Walkthrough tour I can even see photographs that show exactly how the home looks today.”
-Morgan Makowski




Real Tour Vision
Virtual Tour Provider of Traverse City
Order a 3D Walkthrough 866-947-8687

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Market Going Down Orders Going UP

Hello out there! I just started a Southern Pines, NC Virtual Tour Company. It is in times like these you begin to wonder if your order volume will stay up while the market trend is going down. Just remember that even though the market is going down people are still selling their homes and moving. Don't let your customers forget about you, stay in their faces so to speak. In times like this I have been going the extra mile for my customers and doing things for them that the other virtual tour providers may not.

I have been busy sponsoring events and even hosting a photography training session. Many realty offices have weekly events and training sessions so you try to become a sponsor for one too. This will get you two things; first you have the opportunity to become a preferred provider for that office and secondly chances are if you sponsor it you will get a small time block to go in and talk about your virtual tour business. This is your opportunity to stand out. You are already on their good side because you are making their event possible so now is your chance to blow them away.

Don't bore them with the typical slide show presentation ~ Slide shows are old ~ Come up with something new, maybe don't even talk to them bring them a snack and let them go on their way. They do say that FOOD is the way to any ones heart. Hand out coupons with crowd participation get them involved don't put them to sleep.

Lastly, often these events are more than just that particular office and other Realtors from other offices participate so this is your chance to gain their business too. If you already provide virtual tours for the office you sponsor that's ok. This is a chance for you to reinforce your bond. It is the little things like this that earn me life-long relationships and produce repeat business. While your competitors are looking for work in this down time your orders will be sure to stay steady when you invest in your clients.

Lacey Conn
VToursPlus
Southern Pines Virtual Tour Company
www.vtoursplus.com
Order a Virtual Tour Today!! 910-315-5358

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A Little Texas Tour Sold em

We offer Virtual Tours in Shreveport and Bossier City area in Northwest Louisiana. Given our location we find our market often extends into the rural areas of East Texas. We had spoken with a Realtor from one of these rural towns in East Texas on several occasions, answering his questions regarding virtual tours. Finally, after several months, he took the plunge and ordered a tour for one of his outlying properties. A few weeks later we received another call from him for another virtual tour. It was at this second meeting that he related the story of the first property.

It seems that shortly after posting the 360 tour, he received a call from an interested buyer stating that she had seen the online virtual tour and was interested in seeing the home in person. He told her that he would be glad to show her property and that he had some time the following day. "Oh," she replied, "I don't think I can be there that quickly." Our Realtor asked her where she was coming from. "Belgium" she replied. Shocked, our Realtor says, "The country?!" "Yes", she exclaimed.

To make a long story short, she did eventually make it into town, saw the property in person and bought it. Our Realtor calls us regularly now and we always enjoy working with him. He had a first hand experience with the power of marketing with our virtual tours and the internet. Real Tour Vision not only make us and our clients look their BEST online it also enables Realtors to extend their markets well beyond their local area. Maybe even to markets they didn't even realize they had!

Thanks Real Tour Vision!

Rebecca and Gary Bolda
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours
Bossier City Virtual Tour Company
www.thevirtualtourpeople.com
Order Bossier City Virtual Tours - 318-572-1779

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Boone NC Virtual Tour Attraction Distraction

Well the worst happened the other day when I got back from shooting virtual tours in Boone, NC.

Yes oh yes an entire folder of photo's a 6 bedroom 7,000sq home was deleted from my computer and went off to photo Heaven without passing Go and I did not collect $200.00! Yes folks I have to go back with my tail between my legs and do it ALL over again.

I did look into having it restored from the hard drive of my computer but it would have cost me more to have it retrieved from my computer than to go back and shoot it again. OK the agent is cute and single but I promise you all that really has nothing to do with it, I think...

Wish me luck and just watch that delete button.

Good Shooting Folks...Douglas

Douglas Meyers
Virtual Tour Vision.net
Boone Virtual Tours
www.virtualtourvision.net
Order a Virtul Tour - (828) 719-0609

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Evansville Virtual Tours Are Here

We’re excited to be associated with Real Tour Vision! We began setting up a dealership less than a month ago and working with them has been great. We had looked at other virtual tour companies and we are extremely happy that we chose to go with Real Tour Vision.

Our website, www.customtours360.com, has just gone live and we are already making contacts and lining up virtual tours in Evansville, IN. We want to thank the wonderful people at Real Tour Vision for the fantastic support they have given us in getting our virtual tour company, CustomTours360 started. Also, we want to say a big thank you to the RTV dealers across the country, who gave us much needed information and the confidence to take advantage of this amazing opportunity.

Thank you,

Steve Ricker and Brad Hahn
CustomTours360
Evansville Virtual Tour Company
www.Customtours360.com
Order a Virtual Tour Today! 812-492-4302

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Houston Virtual Tour Company Gaining Momentum

I have been in the Real Estate Industry of almost 5 years. I wanted to start a marketing company because I just got tired of seeing agents with their expensive camera’s take terrible pictures. So I started up a marketing company and began to offer various services. Eventually, I was being asked if I did 360 Virtual Tours in Houston. At the time, I did not offer such a tool. So I started to scour the internet.

It was then that I came to Real Tour Vision and saw what they had to offer. Immediately after speaking with my sales rep I was sold! I have now been a Real Tour Vision virtual tour provider in Houston, TX for 9 months and my business is growing. I have hired another photographer to help me handle the load. I am interviewing Sales Reps to hit the entire high end Houston Virtual Tour Market. Real Tour Vision is surprising me weekly with a steady flow of virtual tour software updates and enhancements. I absolutely know now that I chose the right Virtual Tour Company.

Real Tour Vision’s new virtual tour management system is so much better than the previous one. I am so excited to be using such a system that is on the cutting edge of today’s virtual tour technology.

Thanks Real Tour Vision

Mike Stolte
Digital Tours and More
Houston Virtual Tour Company
www.digitaltoursandmore.net

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Treasure Coast Virtual Tour Company

Why would you want to include a Virtual Tour in your home marketing efforts? Our Treasure Coast virtual tours will help you sell homes locally and much faster than ever before. To sell a house, you need exposure. Gaining national exposure for your home will help those out-of-towners who might be relocating to your area. With our virtual tours people anywhere in the world can get a complete picture of your home.

This and much more is why our virtual tour business is growing leaps and bounds. We have the best virtual tour technology to sell your home faster!

Thank You,

Claudia Jaramillo

Perfect Images
Treasure Coast Virtual Tour Company
www.360perfectimages.com
Order Virtual Tours NOW! 772-532-4860
info@360perfectimages.com

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