Virtual Tour Marketing Pieces

Virtual Tour Marketing Update: January 2010

This month we decided to focus on a couple of markets that you may have overlooked in your virtual tour business. First off, winter is definitely here in Northern Michigan and that got me thinking about the year round attributes that ski resorts possess. They have moved beyond the ski hill with a rope tow and have become something more, a destination resort. This two page, half- fold brochure, highlights what your interactive virtual tours can do for such a resort.






Kennels are another nationwide business that may have been overlooked. It is a $3 + billion dollar industry per year. Next to children and sometimes in place of, pets are pampered, cared for and accessorized. People love their pets dearly and being able to view a virtual tour of a facility before booking can provide a much needed comfort level.


Each month we strive to help you become more efficient and better connected to existing and potential virtual tour customers. Our marketing pieces are easily customizable and typically just require you to insert your specific company information and logo. We recommend using Vistaprint for postcard printing and other printing needs. They seem to have fast service and extremely great rates.

Take a moment to read the text through and make sure your company can deliver the services delineated. If you can't or don't know how to provide a service such a bird's eye view shots or nighttime stills, contact us and we can set you in the right direction. If you have an idea for a piece, suggestions, or want to see something in the next few months send me an e-mail or simply use the RTV suggestion box when you login to http://www.rockpointemarketing.com

Best wishes, Jill K.
RTV Virtual Tour Marketing
National Virtual Tour Company

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British Columbia Virtual Tours

Hello from the West Coast of Canada! Well this is Randy from Direct Virtual Galleries in southeastern British Columbia. My wife Sherry and I own Fate Photography and have been in the Photography Biz for over 10 years now. We have started with RTV in Oct 2009 so, considered the newbies we are learning everyday on how to become the best at this new product.

Because we are getting setup to produce Kootenays Virtual Tours and it's a VERY rural area that we live in, it was a toss up on which way to take this. Some of the Realtors here use this type of product, but not alot. So, we have chosen to first do some tours and focus hospitality, businesses and smaller town city chambers and to pursue whole city virtual tours.

And we have some success with it as well already. Ya!! If you visit our site www.theDVG.com there are some of the local area Virtual Tours we've done. We have now picked up a few Realtors, and more will come as people talk here. The local papers and media have really embraced us doing many great articles for us.

Many great comments so far from clients and supporters. The Virtual Tour product here is very new to people but do believe this will be a great success and a wonderful assets to our community.

After a handful of technical issues, and the great support from Ben Knorr, Jason and all the staff at RTV we are off and running.

Well, That's my first blog ever. I will get more into it as we continue to build our virtual tour business.

We are here to stay!!!!

Randy,

www.theDVG.com
www.F-A-T-E.com
Kootenays Virtual Tours

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The FORMULA 20 | Protecting Your Business

There were 10 million victims of identity theft in 2008 in the United States.

1 in every 10 U.S. consumers has already been victimized by CC theft or identity theft.

1.6 million households experienced fraud.

The average Identity Theft life cycle lasted between 57 to 155 days of fraud or misuse.

10 percent of all victims spent at least 55 hours resolving their problems. The top 5 percent of victims spent at least 130 hours.

SOURCES: Javelin Strategy and Research, 2009

Ok, so you get the point. This stuff is bad and its happening all over the place. I think everyone knows at least one person that has experienced theft or fraud that had to spend a lot of time fixing it.

On this episode of The FORMULA we will be speaking with co-host John McGee on how to protect yourself, your family and your virtual tour business by using the popular LifeLock program.

RTV has worked out special pricing and a promotional code will be given out to anyone attending the live show.

Please join us on Tuesday January 19th at 7:00 PM EST as we talk about protecting your personal and business life from fraud and identity theft.

See you on the show!

Jason

Sign up now!

Real Tour Vision
International Virtual Tour Company

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Happy New Year From BlueLaVaMedia

Greetings from team BlueLaVaMedia. Jim, Heather and I want to wish you and your family a Happy New Year!

We are encouraged with the increasing number of our real estate client's closings in the last quarter of 2009. Equally heartening is the feedback that we are receiving from our property management clients as 2009 was a great rental year for them. Looking back at 2009 we are proud to have been chosen by nearly 100 real estate agents as their property marketing partner.

2010 promises to be an outstanding year as an improving environment is projected to provide growth for our marketing savvy clients. Our commitment to you is that we will continue to build on our exciting powerful property marketing tools and programs to further increase the value of the services that we offer to you.

In 2010 we have several enhancements planned:
• We will be soon launching our new FULL SCREEN HD Virtual Tour
• Jim will be stopping by to meet with you about our new TxT Connect Program which allows for mobile phone marketing with lead capture built in
• We will be expanding our service area to the Mackinac Bridge by adding additional staff
• We plan on further investigating a new Digital Staging product
• We're launching a new Interactive Floor Plan System
• And finally we will be soon announcing our new Agent Video Connector
Be on the lookout for Jim, our press releases and new technology announcements as we kick off the year. We will also be keeping your updated via our E-Newsletter.

In closing we understand that part of the value that we represent to you is that you can have confidence in us doing some of the heavy marketing lifting for you, enabling you to focus on your clients and prospects to further increase your sales. We appreciate your confidence and assure you that we will not be content as we strive to add growth in value with the services that we offer to you.

I hope that you have a great New Year, and thank you for choosing BlueLaVaMedia.

Jason LaVanture & Jim Blue
http://www.BlueLaVaMedia.com
Traverse Virtual
Order a Virtual Tour Today: 877-941-8687

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Are Your Tours Dial-Up Friendly?

Are your clients still on dial-up? Are most of your virtual tour clients customers still on dial-up or returning to dial-up? Believe it or not because of our economy many cash-strapped Americans are giving up their broadband connections and returning to snail-paced dial up modems. What does this mean for your virtual tour company?

ISPs admit that while dial-up in the United States is declining, it is not dropping that fast. Kevin Brand, senior vice president of product management at EarthLink was quoted as saying that there was still a big market out there and during these tough times, even customers who have bundles including broadband may be looking at their bill and wondering if they really need it.

The good news for you, as an RTV Dealer, is that RTV's virtual tours run flawlessly on a dial-up connection. This is a huge selling point especially for those potential clients that have seen our competitors sluggish tours on a dial-up connection.

Don't forget too that the best part about using the RTV virtual tour solution is that they are able to program in all of features that their virtual tour dealers like about the other virtual tour systems, keeping their technology on the cutting edge of the virtual tour technology, even for dial-up users.

Mike and Joy Thompson
Detroit Virtual Tours
www.realvisionstudio.com
Order a Virtual Tour Today: 734-727-2276

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The IMAGE Gets Lovin From Waikoloa

Mahalo Ben! Tuesday’s webinar on lighting and framing was just what I needed. Tucked right in between our two busiest holidays of the year, it was almost…I say almost missed. I’m so happy my Outlook alerted me in time with a reminder. Ben’s tips for lighting make me want to run out and get a couple of ‘slave lights’…would definitely save loads of post-processing time when doing the virtual tours. This is where we see the profits always getting lost. And the framing pointers are guiding me to really look at the works of others to see better views.

I always thought that you never wanted to take a ‘straight on’ shot, but after seeing David Palermo’s virtual tour photography work I can now see how this can work very much in favor. I’ll be practicing on that one! I did know that the lower shots help the viewers feel like they are comfortably sitting there, so Lucky I’m a shorty…I don’t have to lower my tripod too much. But another thing I sometimes do is actually sit on a chair to bring the viewer right into that ‘being there’ plane. Works for me!

Hau’oli Makahiki Ho’u!!!
Happy New Year all you RTV Dealers out there!

Debrasue Stutts
Vizit360 Photography by VizWizardz LLC
Waikoloa Virtual Tours
Order a Virtual Tour: 808-333-6458

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A New Years Resolution

This year we decided to make some New Year's Resolutions for our Corinth Virtual Tour Company. One of ours is to consciously schedule our work day. We recently spoke with a tourism magazine to determine what their advertising rates run. Part of our "pitch" to those advertisers will be a price comparison to again demonstrate how virtual tours are an excellent addition for an advertising budget. (The smallest ad, which is 1/6 of a page, runs $375 for one month, with lower rates as you increase the number of advertising months.) We plan on contacting advertisers in several of these high-end publications.

Another objective will be to "get past the gatekeeper". For a number of weeks we have tried to speak with one potential customer, only to have the "gatekeeper" run interference. So, we spoke to another person who has immediate access and she has promised to speak with the future customer on our behalf. Moral of the story: networking and constantly getting your virtual tour and property marketing products mentioned brings results.

We also plan on "clustering" some of our virtual tour sales calls to neighboring communities. One day a week we will travel and have a schedule of potential contacts to cold-call.

One year from now, our next New Year's resolution will be to sit back and take all of those incoming calls! Got to have dreams right?

Enjoyed this week's webinar the IMAGE and got many helpful pointers--thanks Ben.
Happy New Year to one and all.


Hugh Jordan
www.seeitsellstudios.com
Corinth Virtual Tour Company
Corinth, MS
Order a Virtual Tour Today:662-286-9334

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Lake Leelanau in the Winter

All the families in Lake Leelanau County are finishing their Christmas shopping and doing all the great Leelanau activities like downhill skiing, snowboarding, snow tubing, cross country skiing, but not ice fishing and ice boating. It is too early for that. We don't have the ice buildup yet. The Suttons Bay, Leland, Northport and Glen Arbor Villages are so unique with the decorations. In the morning when you wake up the fresh white snow on the trees. The fresh snow covers all the previous day's mush. What a delight on to have Lake Leelanau real estate this time of the year!

As you may or may not know, people who live in Leelanau County and those who have a Lake Leelanau home right there on the water begin to hunker down for the long sleep of the land. Winter starts in earnest on December 21st and by this time of the year many people have had their snow blowers revered up and primed at least once or twice. They have made sure all of the windows have been caulked and some put up clear plastic to give extra protection to keep those heating bills down.

Our duvets for our beds are fluffed and ready with lots of warmth. We had a Charter Communications outage for telephone, internet and TV on Friday so we are making sure our entertainment is worked over as we spend more time watching movies, working on computers and talking on the phone. Of course, one of the most important downtime activities is reading good books.

When you live in Leelanau County one of your most frequent activities in the spring and fall will be garage sales. I did my share here this fall and ended up getting quite a few more books than I thought I would get. Needless to say I’m in full stock this year for good reading material. Also, Leland Library has been providing me with the Pulitzer Prize winning novels beginning in 1917.
I have read 9 so far and it is so fascinating to start with "His Family" by Earnest Poole, the first novel that won. It is about a widower and his relationships with his three daughters and it is still relevant today.

For those of you who are currently shopping for your Leelanau Home please be sure to visit my website. I do virtual tours of each and every listing so you will be very happy to be able to preview these homes before placing your phone call to me.

Happy New Year from Judy Levin here on Lake Leelanau.

Judy Levin
Lake Leelanau Homes

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Happy New Year From RTV

Happy holidays and warm wishes to all of our Real Tour Vision virtual tour dealers. We hope at this time of year that you have the opportunity to spend time with family, friends, and loved ones.

This is a great time to reflect on the past year. We feel we've made some very great strides in 2009 with the explosive growth in our Tour Track department and some technical enhancements too. We look forward to even more Tour Track growth along with major updates and enhancements to our virtual tour system in 2010.

Thank you for choosing to do business with us and be a part of Team RTV as you build your virtual tour company.

Real Tour Vision
National Virtual Tour Company
www.realtourvision.com
Contact us about Virtual Tours - 1.866.947.8687

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The IMAGE Testimonial

Dear RTV,

Brad and I were extremely impressed with Ben, the content of the IMAGE webinar last night and the communication of the information over the webinar format. Although we felt most of the content we had heard before, we again learned by listening and picking up new pointers. The presentations were clear, easy to understand and very impressive. I liked the simplicity, yet the complicated ideas that were conveyed. We're looking forward to our next webinar and are rapidly reviewing past webinars. Thank you for providing this content to us.

Suzanne Feinberg
Scottsdale Virtual Tours
www.PowerVision360.com - Coming Jan 4th 2010!!


Dear RTV,

I was pleased to participate in the Webinar last night, the IMAGE, about lighting and framing. Ben Knorr was extremely helpful with his tips about lighting and looking for artistic framing of our shots. As a new RTV dealer who has not done any Tour Track jobs, knowing settings of the camera that others use for these Hotel/Hospitality tours is very helpful. I enjoy learning something new from each of the webinars I listen to. I hope that my images quickly reflect that.

The Faststone Image viewer seems very helpful as well. What a great piece of software to get for free. I might need an entire webinar on how to use it. I think that RTV does a great job of keeping its dealers educated. New technology and techniques are shared freely and that makes RTV a truly unique experience. Thanks for welcoming me into the RTV family.

Mary Jane Salopek

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RTV Dealers Helping RTV Dealers

Greetings from Supernova Studios, Nova Scotia. My last blog; at Thanksgiving, I gave “thanks” to David Hall of Listing Solutions in St. Augustine Florida, for sharing his insight and sales success with the TxtConnect program. Since then I’ve connected with Buffy Crosby of Middleboro, MA, on facebook. Buffy is a newcomer and anxious to network with fellow RTV dealers.

The RTV blog (www.virtualtourprovider.com) is a great way to stay connected with your fellow dealers and get ideas on how to build your virtual tour company. Also I've found that if you're blogging somewhere else and NOT posting to the RTV blog you're really missing out on the google juice as they say. This is seriously the very BEST pumper site on the planet if you have a VT company. Anyway here in the blog you will find that other virtual tour providers from all over the World share their insight, words of wisdom, encouragement, tips & tricks and success stories.

If you aren’t reading RTV’s daily blogs you are not only missing out on some great information, but excellent networking opportunities. Go ahead and do a google search for “Nova Scotia virtual tour company”. The first two hits are my RTV blog. Third in line is my competitor. Were it not for the RTV blog this provider would be hard to find.

I made good of my plan to take advantage of the Txt Connect demo codes and contacted 8 top agents to email me listing information of a “high visibility” listing. I ordered 8 panoriders from a local sign company ($6 each) and chose generic company codes like “REMAX” and “EXIT. I contacted TxTConnect who were happy to provide me with a jpg image of the panorider shown on the how it works page. http://supernova.txt2look.com/howitworks.php It was important to me that I be consistent when establishing my brand. (when ordering your signs, be in touch with TxTConnect – they will share the RGB values of the blue and orange colors used in the sign as well as the font)

Signs in hand and listing information entered, I tested each code and “proofed” the listings. Worked like a charm – it was time to visit the real estate companies! I brought my cell phone, the panoriders, my business cards and a brochure with “how it works” also pointing them to my website in case they “forgot” as soon as I walked out the door. Fellow agents – when entering the listing information for you demo codes be sure that you click on the little phone to confirm all relevant text is captured. There is a maximum amount of characters allowed and you may have to abbreviate some words.

Each of the agents told me they had seen my print advertising and were curious but unsure. Each of the agents LOVED the technology and were very excited about capturing a lead. The “lead” was my largest selling feature, causing a certain “sparkle” in the eye of the agents. I explained that the first code was a “variable” and could be changed. Example – EXIT could be their “own” name - Text John to 25665. (they loved that too) But the second code 25665 was constant. I explained that every time someone texted “John” to 25665 they would get a lead to their phone, email or both.

Shortly after returning to my office I had a call from one of the “keener” agents I had visited. They had been “playing” with the technology at his office and he was not getting the “lead” information to his cell phone? It was then that I realized that because I had set them up under my demo codes that the “lead” was coming to MY cell phone. Do not make the same mistake I did. When you teach/show the technology using your cell phone (with the listing information that YOU have entered and proofed) be sure to also show them (using your cell phone) what the lead will look like. When they activate their OWN account and make a purchase the lead will go to THEIR phone. In the meantime I have promised to email daily reports with the lead information.

One final observation I would like to share. Of the 8 agents I visited, 5 of them preferred to have ME enter the listing information. The other 3 agents were thrilled about having an opportunity to update their listing information on their own, as often as they wanted. When a client purchases a code for 30 days, that code is not necessarily “married” to a specific property. The agent COULD put the panorider on one property for two weeks (change the information to reflect a new property) and put the sign on an entirely new property for the remainder of the month. An excellent idea to showcase an upcoming open house. My point is this- you may want to consider offering the “service” of entering the listing information for your client. I will be.

I invite you to send me (Nancy Elizabeth Bain) a friend request on facebook. I’ll send you an invitation to my group “Supernova Studios” and you can see how I am marketing myself on there. We can learn from one another.

In the meantime tell all your friends, family and business associates in Nova Scotia to contact Supernova Studios for all their Nova Scotia virtual tour and text message marketing needs!

Book your Nova Scotia virtual tour today!

Supernova Studios
www.supernovastudios.ca
159 Alexandra Ave.
Bridgewater, NS B4V 1H6
Phone: 902-543-2185

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Need White Balance?

Hello everyone out there in RTV Land! I wanted to share this White balance information with you and maybe it will help you build a better 360 virtual tour.

I’m sure you know the importance of white balance and while the automatic settings are somewhat acceptable the best and most accurate White balance is a Custom White balance available only on SLR type digital cameras such as the Canon Rebel Xti. Creating a custom white balance setting has always been a bit cumbersome to do and it needs to be change with each room setting & lighting.

If set for a small room with incandescent/daylight & flash lighting it wont work in a larger room with say, A florescent & flash lighting set up so it needs to be set again; Very cumbersome and time consuming. However; I just found a new white balance lens cap that makes Custom White balance 10x easier! I saw this on someone’s camera and inquired about it, got the info and headed for the camera shop. They had 2 types ranging in price from $60- over $100. A bit pricey so I thought I would look on E-bay. As it turns out they had a similar product for $4.95 with FREE shipping! Could it be as good? I thought, Hmm? It was worth trying for 5 bucks.

I received it in about two weeks and it works like a charm, color is now spot on! Best 5 bucks I ever spent on photo gear. It is now just $4.55 if you login to Ebay and search for a
"White Balance Lens Filter Cap With Filter Mount.

Hmm, now if I could only figure a way to get a piece of the action when hundreds of RTV virtual tour dealers scramble for this...LOL Happy to share a $95.00 savings for everyone!

Dale Hart
Office/Cell 505 962 2207
Dragon Fly 360
Albuquerque Virtual Tours
www.DragonFly360Imaging.com

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Albuquerque Virtual Tours Expanding

DragonFly 360 Imaging, an Albuquerque virtual tour provider and iindependent RTV full service dealer continues to offer a vast range of property marketing tools to the Real Estate Professionals here in New Mexico.

Since setting up shop in Albuquerque, NM a little more then a year ago, DragonFly 360 imaging, an Albuquerque based Virtual Tour Company, has continued to strive to bring the local Real Estate industry products that enhance the marketing of your listings and personal Brand.

Starting with cutting-edge, fully interactive, 360 Virtual Tours custom branded for you, These SEO powered and Google linked Virtual Tours are the most important tool in your marketing arsenal given that 80% of home buyers start the search for their new home on the internet first.
Virtual Tours such as these offer the potential buyer a Virtual “Open House” 24 hrs a day and allow sellers a bit more peace of mind not having curiosity seekers traipsing through their home.
http://rtvpix.com/RE-5700-AI11JS-01
http://rtvpix.com/BU-7495-TZ48WB-01
http://rtvpix.com/BU-7095-48VOXD-01

To further enhance your 360 Virtual Tours DragonFly 360 Imaging offers syndication services through Realtor.com and other venues such as YouTube allowing for greater exposure of your listing and additional back linking to your website.

In August we introduced Text Message Marketing with our new DragonFlyTxt2look service offering property specific text messaging service with up to 10 photos to interested buyers and giving you, the Realtor exclusive lead capture! http://www.dragonfly360imaging.com/

As of November, you can now bring Properties to Life with Interactive Floor Plans that are easily integrated directly into your 360 virtual tour. This technology leapfrogs the competitors with the unique ability to add photographs, panoramas AND move furniture around!

Now, as we approach the end of the year, DragonFly 360 imaging is proud to offer you a Video Channel for your website. This very inexpensive service will allow you to have professionally produced, high quality videos with fresh industry relevant content directly on your Website automatically updated every month! These entertaining and informative videos will keep clients coming back to your site, increasing website optimization, building powerful links to your site and reducing bounce rate.

This, along with all the all of the tools provided by DragonFly 360 imaging will help position you as the industry expert clients keep coming back to. As we proceed into the New Year, DragonFly 360 imaging, Your Albuquerque, NM Virtual Tour provider, will continue to bring you, industry leading, cutting-edge technology that not only enhances your listings but allows you to shine as a leading Albuquerque Realtor.

Dale Hart
DragonFly 360 Imaging
Albuquerque Virtual Tours
505 962 2207
http://www.dragonfly360imaging.com/
Using the finest Virtual Tour Software!

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Virtual Florida Tours Announces TxT Connect

The new Miami-based mobile marketing and real estate agent lead capture system provide by Virtual Florida Tours is the best marketing service provided to Real Estate since the introduction of virtual tours.

The Realtor® creates his/her advertising campaign for the property places it on one of his listings page at miamidadeconect, and places a rider on the for sale sign. The customer sees the rider sends a message to obtain more information and receives immediate feedback on the property, at the same time the Realtor® receives a phone number that will allow her/him to contact the prospect.

This system is extremely affordable 2.95 per listing per month with up to 100 text messages free when you buy our 10 listings plan. Just imagine how this tool will help you to promote your business. You will be the realtor that is willing to go the extra mile for your customer. You can offer your customer this new text messaging system that not other one is offering. Your competition will not stand a chance.

For more information on how to obtain this new tool contact Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or see our add at www.virtualforidarealtours.com.

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Photography Tips From the Pro

Well here I am reporting from beautiful Spokane Washington folks. I'm staring at another week's virtual tour blog entry and thinking what could I write about this time. It seems to be quite a trick to come up with something on a regular basis. Especially when I'm so busy putting together my virtual tour company here in Spokane.

I had a newbie photographer ask me the other day, "how do you operate the exposure settings" he just could not get the light operating controls on his camera whether it be analog or digital. I pointed out that you have to think of it like a water faucet. The shutter on your camera lets light flow just like a water faucet lets water flow. The aperture is like the wheel handle on that water faucet and you control the amount of water pressure that flows through that faucet. It is the exact same thing for the aperture, you control the amount of flow. Together these two items give you the proper exposure for you shots. Try this next time your on a virtual tour shoot!

It seems to make sense to them when it is explained this way. Cameras have become increasingly automatic, often including automatic exposure and focus so that not too many people actually get to get creative with their cameras controls. Nevertheless, this Spokane virtual tour photographer prefers to use manual operation in order to make my own exposure and focusing decisions.

Whomever may be reading this, you might consider operating the camera manually for your first exposures to help you learn basic camera controls. Then once you have gotten the basics down, you can move on to become a better "artist at your craft" Most people want to know what to do after that to become a better photographer and my answer is always surprisingly consistent. "Take more pictures." "Shoot, shoot, shoot." "Persevere." Just keep after it; you can't help but improve if you do."

I know this sounds kind of obvious but it is advice that has worked for me and others in the business. It's not rocket science, no secrets or inside information. Just simply shooting a bunch is how I have improved my skills and I know that this will work for you too.

See if you can apply some of these techniques to your local virtual tour business. Good luck out there! Good luck all of you out there with your virtual tour business!

Steve Stephens
www.digitalshowcasevr.com
Spokane Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour - 509 868-4043

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The FORMULA 19 | Become a Social Bookmarking Expert

Welcome FORMULA fans and Happy Holidays to you all. Are you ready for The FORMULA 19?

If you're out there screaming "Teach Me Teach Me!" then let’s kick off 2010 and learn a little something about the power of social bookmarking sites. Please join myself, Jason LaVanture on Tuesday Jan 5th 2010 at 7:00 Eastern for an hour of social bookmarking excitement.

For those of you who are wondering how the little Traverse City virtual tour company, BlueLaVaMedia has been able to make their virtual tour videos, www.TourGrandTraverse.com blog submissions, and virtual tours rank so well in the search engines, you need to attend this next show. I will be discussing how you can setup 20-30 of your social bookmarking sites and finally fully automate the entire social bookmarking process down to three minutes per tour once you have all of your accounts setup and in place!! Yes that's right...3 minutes!

BlueLaVaMedia customers have come to love the fact that they can key in their property addresses and INSTANTLY find their listings on PAGE 1 of the search engine results page. Moreover 97% of all BlueLaVaMedia customers can type in their name (Agent Name real estate) and see the impressive work that we’ve done to get them MORE 1st page impressions.

To fully prepare for this webinar please be sure that you’re already taking our Social Ignition course by sending an email to rtvsocial@aweber.com.

See you Jan 5th on the show!

Happy New Year!

Jason

Reserve your Webinar seat now!

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Traverse City Real Estate Sponsors Hospital

Century 21 Northland a Traverse City Real Estate brokerage is proud to be a sponsor of Munson Healthcare’s Healthy Futures program. Over the past two years our agents have donated more than $10,500 to promote the health of area mothers-to-be and young children. The program provides valuable health information and in-home nursing visits to new families.

Community involvement is a major goal of Century 21, and our agents are proud to support an area organization that focuses on children. A portion of an agent’s commission at each closing is donated to this worthwhile cause and specifically to help families that find themselves in crisis situations. Healthy Futures can provide financial relief for unexpected hospital stays, transportation and home safety items.

The Healthy Futures Program begins with support during pregnancy and continues through the child’s fifth year. During this time families have access to support groups, educational materials and valuable information about immunizations and nutrition. During these tough economic times, families are surprised and relieved to find out that help and support are available at no cost.

Please keep in mind; next time you buy or sell a house with Century 21 Northland, you will help to give one more child in our community the shot at a healthy future.

C-21 Northland
Traverse City Real Estate
Using only the finest property marketing tools to sell your home!

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The IMAGE | Lighting and Framing Class

Sign up for the next episode of The IMAGE!!

Join me, Ben Knorr as we take a look at the advantage and outcome of using additional lighting beyond just the flash that is built into your camera. You will see how to get the lighting just right by adding some of your own.

On Tuesday December 29th at 7:00 Eastern I will go over some tips on framing a shot to make it sell. So if you're tired of always struggling with lighting and you're looking to make the ordinary room look extraordinary this is a show that you won't want to miss out on. Join me for an informative evening all about multi-flash photography and framing.

Sign up now in your TMS!

Ben Knorr
The IMAGE

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Office Space for Rent?

Does your virtual tour company have a desk, cubicle, office or suite that is generating dust as opposed to revenue? Have you recently downsized your workforce resulting in an abundance of unused office space? Is your company locked into a long term lease and could benefit from an additional revenue stream?

In today's economy, many companies of all kinds are downsizing their workforce, resulting in a growing inventory of unused commercial space. At the same time, a large number of entrepreneurs and small businesses are looking to reduce their overhead by re-negotiating their existing commercial leases, or finding new space altogether.

Open Office Space, based in New York City, has launched a new website to facilitate the interaction between companies burdened with carrying the cost of their unused office space and small businesses/entrepreneurs looking to streamline their expenses.

A shared space is the perfect solution for a small business or entrepreneur looking to cut costs while providing a revenue stream to a space holder when they can use it the most.

Openofficespace.com was designed with ease of use as the number one priority. "We set out to create an extremely clean and user friendly experience that is unlike any other typical real estate or classified website”. As we continue to grow we are finding that more and more of our customers see a large need to do virtual tours of their office space for rent.

The comprehensive “Evolving Guide to Leasing” alone is worth a visit to the site. The interactive guide explores the “Top 10 Mistakes” made by companies during the leasing process with and outlines in layman's terms “The 4 Steps” it takes to be successful every step of the way. From finding the right space and negotiating the lease to planning the layout and creating an eco-friendly work place, the sites powerful interactive tools and easily understandable content simplifies the leasing process for everyone involved.

One of the most common mistakes made during the leasing process is estimating how much space your business will actually need. Getting too much means unnecessary additional costs while too little means growing out of it before you are ready to move. For entrepreneurs and small businesses (even you virtual tour providers that are out there!!) that are unsure of how much space they actually need, the space estimation tool can be used to calculate the right amount of square footage based on a company’s specific requirements. With options ranging from a single desk, a cubicle, a shared office, a private office, to a co-working space or an executive suite, the calculator and check list take visitors through the entire process.

“It is an excellent resource, not only in this economy but in any economy, for small businesses with limited budgets, looking to create the ideal working environment,” said Spector.

Users can design, find or post available office space at no cost, anywhere in the US and Canada. With the help of the RTV Virtual Tour Network users may also order full service open office space virtual tours for their listings at a very reasonable price! Featured cities on the site include Austin, TX; Charleston, SC; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Toronto, Ontario; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; San Jose, CA; Vancouver, British Columbia; Boston, MA; Dallas, TX; New York, NY and Seattle, WA

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