Bay Area Virtual Tours Save the World

Okay, prove it!!!

I learned a long time ago to take life One Day at a Time... Well to use that same philosophy, we plan on saving the world one house, one seller, one buyer, one property at a time...

Well, we may be exaggerating a little bit, but hopefully we got your attention! If we all do our part and focus on small improvements (Kaizen), we can make a difference. So, how do we all market and promote real estate today? Traditional methods include:

• Local Newspaper
• Local Real Estate Guides and Magazines
• Real Estate Flyer's (either mailed or hand delivered)
• Post Cards - Just Listed and Just Sold
• Online MLS Listing with a few agent produced digital pictures
• For Sale Sign in Yard
• Brokers Tour, Open House and of course networking...

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) we are on pace for existing homes sales of over SIX MILLION homes sold during 2009 in the United States, (helped by the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit). Every one of these homes used some form of property marketing.
If each buyer of these homes looked at 10 homes prior to making a buying decision and the buyers drove 10 miles to look at each house before narrowing their search to the 2 or 3 they were most interested in and then drove around to open houses for another 20 or 30 miles, they probably drove a minimum of 100 miles (conservative) before making a buying decision.

Staying on the conservative side, if we could cut this number in half, that would represent
SAVING over FIFTEEN MILLION GALLONS OF GAS PER YEAR!!!
Over 85% of home buyers last year say they used the Internet to search for homes. Bay Area Property Marketing Studios and virtual tours captures these home buyers and sellers and promotes a marketing program that reduces the need to drive around to every open house, and for real estate agents to reduce the number of newspaper ads, flyers and post cards that are polluting our environment, and SELL their properties FASTER!

And we haven't even gotten into the flyers, post cards, real estate guides, newspapers, etc... Well save that for another article. The point is, we all need to do our part to GO GREEN! And here in the Bay Area, Property Marketing Studios is doing our small part to SAVE THE WORLD!
Property Marketing Studios and virtual tours are the green alternative to home buying and selling. Let's take a look at some options home buyers and sellers in the San Francisco bay area and east bay can do to market, research, sell and buy real estate, both commercial and residential when they use Property Marketing Studios and our Super e-Distribution.

• We take professional, high-resolution still and 360 degree panorama photos of your property
• We produce a state-of-the-art virtual tour and slide show to highlight the properties features
• We include an online map and satellite view of the property
• We include a downloadable flyer, pictures and virtual tour
• We distribute your virtual tour and slide show to over the top real estate web sites, portals and search engines including Trulia, Zillow, Realtor.com, Homes, Backpage, Activerain, Google, Yahoo and so many more...
• Many of our tour packages include a YouTube production and a professional Craigslist Ad.
• We distribute your listing/virtual tour to over 500 local real estate agents and professionals.
• We include your property in blogs, Twitters and social networking distribution channels.

Property marketing is going green... are you? Visit our website, Property Marketing Studios and sign up to receive our trademark "Brokers Pajama Tour" email newsletter and see how you can save your buyers gas, your sellers time and money, promote yourself and your properties and at the same time... save the planet!




Tim Denbo
Property Marketing Studios
www.PMStudios360.com
Bay Area Virtual Tours
Visit our blog at: www.EastBayVirtualTours.com
Order a virtual tour: 925-549-0714

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We Love the IMAGE

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 the virtual tour dealers educated. New virtual tour 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
Pittsburgh Virtual Tours
www.picatour.com

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The Agent Video Connector Tip

Hey everyone out there. Don't forget to update the code on your website so your agent video connector works properly for you. Remember all you RTV virtual tour providers, The Agent Video Connector is a FREE service for everyone in our network. Go snag your code now and let's get some Video on our sites! You can see mine right now if you go to my Traverse City Virtual Tours Website.

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Client Appreciation Season

We all know how important it is to keep our virtual tour company name fresh in the minds of our clients. Throughout the year we send emails, newsletters, post cards, etc. advertising the benefits of RTV virtual tour technology, and marketing our new services. During the holiday season, don’t forget to take full advantage of this wonderful time of year to not only keep your name in front of them, but to also show your clients you truly appreciate their continued business.

Sending greeting cards during the holidays is a wonderful way of getting your name in front of your clients and letting them know you appreciate them; but you may also want to consider a face-to-face greeting in addition to a mailed greeting card. A great way to have the opportunity for that face-to-face is by being creative and putting together a small goodie package for each of your clients and then making personal deliveries. For example, I like to make cookies, fudge, candy, etc. and wrap them in colorful cellophane and tie them up with curly ribbon. Everyone appreciates homemade goodies, and the fact that they are hand delivered lets my clients know that their local North Dallas virtual tour provider is thinking about them this holiday season and personally appreciates them and their business. I have never had anyone too busy to personally accept homemade fudge!

I delivered my client goodie sacks this week and was thrilled with the experience. Not only did it make me feel good to give back to my clients, but during my visits I was given 2 virtual tour orders and was asked to give a quote on updating some photos for a few listings that have been on the market for a while. What a great day!

Trina Jackson
Take Me There! Virtual Tours and Photography
www.TakeMeThere360.com
Dallas Virtual Tour Company

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Lean on Your Fellow Virtual Tour Provider

As an RTV Virtual Tour Provider you must take advantage of the fact that you're part of a very large network of virtual tour providers. You're not alone out there. When you find an RTV provider that you know is having success take some time and look at their location, their city, their pricing and packages. Then take a moment and subscribe to their newsletter, their blog feed and more. When you surround yourself with successful people you will have a tendency to find the same success. Furthermore, when you spend too much time in social networks exchanging ideas with providers who are not advancing their technology or services and just getting by, you're more than likely to achieve the same level of success.

Our most successful virtual tour providers spend their days shooting virtual tours and working hard at rolling out new products and services. You should do the same. Before you copy and paste the text from a fellow RTV provider's site be sure that you ask the provider and always try to edit or modify the text before using it on your own site. The same protocol applies if a fellow RTV provider sends out an amazing news release and you would like to use it in your market for your own set of customers.

Take some time now and visit some of the more successful RTV provider's websites. Look for products and services that you might not be offering. Look for ways to sign up for their newsletters or blog feeds. There is great power in our numbers, especially when we mimic what our fellow successful RTV providers are doing.

Good luck out there!
Jason LaVanture
International MLS & Virtual Tours

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Happy Virtual Tour Campers

Dear RTV,

"OK, just so you know - we are very happy. It seems to me that we are getting quite a value for the money we paid to RTV. Even if there were no virtual tour software involved, just being associated with RTV has greatly enhanced our personal and business skills in the short time we have been dealers.

As far as I'm concerned, the tools you provide to enhance the dealership are far more advanced than anything else we have evaluated before making our decision to sign up. Specifically, your classes in SEO, your classes in Social Networking, your marketing tools and presentations and your webinars make it very easy to compete here in Arizona where the market is extremely crowded.

Your webinars from both The FORMULA and The IMAGE are something we look forward to on Tuesday afternoons. There is always a take-away from each webinar that we implement the next day. Additionally, we have found Ben Knorr to be a great communicator of technical knowledge which isn't a very easy thing to do. He is equally skilled in software and in photography. Everything is laid out perfectly and creates a good foundation for understanding new ideas and techniques.

Finally we must say that the RTV virtual tour software is put together so easy to use. We are excited and hope to become a very successful high end dealer of your product as well as high end photographers for the Tour Track system. You will need to sign up Brad Feinberg Photography, LLC for the Inner Circle because we are addicted to improving our business through the model you have established.

Please let me know when our "free" subscription is ending and when we need to upgrade to the Inner Circle. Once again, thank you very much for all of the help and the transfer of knowledge that you are providing.

Sincerely,
Brad and Suzanne Feinberg
Brad Feinberg Photography, LLC
Phoenix Virtual Tours

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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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