New RTV HD Slideshow ROCKS!

360imagemedia.com, producer of Wisconsin Virtual Tours, is pleased to announce the launch of our new High Definition Slideshow. This thing is truly an unbelievable new product that you must see to believe.
360 Image Media, and our partners at Real Tour Vision, have really knocked this one out of the park.

You can get this as a upgrade to your already beautiful HD Virtual tour for only a small charge, or you can get this as a standalone slideshow for your listing. Real Tour Vision has pulled all the stops to make this the absolute best slideshow product on the market today. Not only do you get unbelievable high quality images and fullscreen viewer, you will get blazing fast load times. It can be customized to match your color scheme as well as integrated fully into your existing 360 Image Media Virtual Tour. Plus it has google maps integrated, and you can now embed You Tube video onto the slideshow as well.

Wisconsin Virtual Tours and Real Tour Vision continue to dominate the virtual tour and property marketing industry. So don't get left behind when it comes to your property marketing needs, get on board and get a HD Slideshow today. You can also check out a few samples for yourself here.

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1109

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1105


Happy HD Sliding!

Robin Duran
Owner
Team 360 Image Media
Wisconsin Virtual Tours

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Enhance Your Bottom....Line

Made you look twice didn't I? AlamoAreaVirtualTours.com  knows that advertising can be expensive for us small virtual tour businesses. We all agree on that.  That is one reason for social networking as we find that opens doors that even advertising won’t open. However, if you have forgotten, we as RTV dealers have a unique way of helping others advertise at a phenomenally low cost and be effective. 

As you well know there is a section in your TMS called affiliates where you can put small banners on each virtual tour that you make. I see that some virtual tour providers in the RTV network use them better than others. It has been recommended that there be no more than 8 affiliates for a virtual tour, depending on the length of the virtual tour. (Obviously you want all affiliates to cycle through at least once.) Each showing is about three seconds.

These affiliate slots are not simply a small banner on the tour, but they are eye catching as they blink on and off. That may be good for the affiliate to be advertising, but how does that help your bottom line?  Simply sell those slots! San Antonio Virtual tours Real Estate support elements i.e. home inspectors, A/C repairmen, remodelers, and the list goes on,  are happy to get a slot for $5 or $10 dollars knowing they’ll be seen every time a tour is viewed.  Just add each advertiser to your hit report so they can see the traffic on the tours they advertise on.

Remember that the affiliate slot is a click to link to their website. When a viewer mouses over, the name of the company shows and a click takes them there.  I have found those businesses are happy for such advertising at such a cheap cost to such a targeted audience. First check and get approval from your customer to allow affiliates. What I do is split the fees. That can cut the cost significantly for the customer and bring in more cash for you the dealer. Don’t discount this till you try it!!!  It works for me and it can work for you. Listen to Suzanne and get out of your comfort zone!



James F. Hoback
L'oeil L'Esprit (Mind's Eye)
http://www.AlamoAreaVirtualTours.com
order a Virtual Tour: (210) 325-2675

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Don't Stay in Your Comfort Zone

Recently I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease which is an autoimmune genetic disease.  Luckily, this disease can only be treated with one very potent drug….food.  There is no Chemotherapy, there are no potent drugs with side effects.  However, I have noticed that because my food choices have become more limited – no items with gluten (bread, cake, pasta…and hidden gluten in everyday processed foods), that in order to be SAFE, I stick with the same food choices.  Every day I eat the same breakfast, the same lunch and basically the same dinner.  Boring, but safe.   In reality, there are many foods, food substitutes and great new choices for me to make.  However, recently my family challenged me to spread my wings and try new things .  I have discovered Almond Bread, Pumpkin Bread, Rice based Pastas and Pizza and many new foods.

How does this relate to RTV, Virtual Tour Software, Virtual Tours and business in General.  We become safe in our choices.  First out of fear of not knowing how to integrate new things, and then we find a comfort zone.  I want to challenge every RTV dealer to get out of the rut and try something new.  

Each and every one of you knows how to use your pano head and camera by now.  Most of you only use it to take Virtual Tours of homes.  Here is a great suggestion to have some fun with the Pano Head and break out of the comfort zone.

Take the pano head and camera on vacation.  Try shooting  a few virtual tours of the beach, of the hotel and of  your hotel rooms (great practice for tour tracks).  Take virtual tours of street fairs or natural landmarks. 

When you get home, add your stills of your vacation and create a Virtual Tour or a new RTV HD Slideshow of your vacation.  It only costs you one tour credit (You can earn this credit by blogging with RTV or various other incentives that they always offers).  Then share the tour with family and friends, share on facebook, through a personal website, through the various social networking sites to which you belong.

Aside from a great way to document and share your vacation, what does this accomplish for business:

1.    You can see how the pano head functions in locations that might require real tours – i.e. hotels, museums, iconic landmarks or parks, cities, stores, etc.  And, you have built a virtual tour showing your skills to share with a potential client.

2.    It expands your comfort zone to new areas that you can photograph.  You have the practice on your own photos rather than a clients photos and you can see your success.

3.    You widen your horizons  and begin to think outside the box.

Hope to see you outside the COMFORT ZONE and if you ever invite me to dinner, remember I am gluten –free!


Suzanne Feinberg

Your Scottsdale Virtual Tour Provider
Order a virtual tour today! 480-284-8177

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Become a Picture Path Provider | More Exposure

I got my first virtual tour client from a lead that RTV gave me back in January of this year, having personalized and printed out most of the virtual tour marketing materials available from Rock Point Marketing.  He purchased one of my 360 Virtual tour packages and paid an extra $25 for the "Exposure Engine".   All you gotta do is put the Virtual Tour on Realtor.com and presto, it goes out to 93 other websites. 

Here is my problem. oops, I mean, opportunity for growth...
My first client was a property management company with 44 properties, none of which were for sale.  I found out that a property must be for sale, with an MLS# to be on Realtor.com.  I really didn't understand the difference in the 3 distribution options.  I created Postlets (and later used Vflyer.com) and put them on Craigslist.  The client still didn't get the results that he desired (he was expecting distribution to 93 websites), until I wrote a rather long email to each of the onsite property managers, explaining how they were to use and keep the postlet/ vfler distributed on Craigslist and any other website they could find that wasn't already a part of the syndication list.

This one of my virtual tours that I'm particularly proud of.  (The 3rd picture of the entry fountain was replaced by a photo that the manager took, so it's not in HD)  Check out the hit stats, the manager of this complex (Ambassador Inn) is really on top of keeping the ad distributed.  http://rtvpix.com/BU-3909-JX4DV5-01.  Some of the other apartments that I did a tour for are only getting less that 5 hits a week, while this one is consistently getting over 100, peaking at over 400 hits in the week that I sent the email that I mentioned in the previous paragraph..

I called Realtor.com last week and they verified what I was told a few months ago.  Then, while I was revising my contract and price list to include RTV's awesome new HD Slideshow and Broker/ Agent websites, I noticed that BlueLaVaMedia was a "Realtor.com Approved Vendor".  I called back to ask what this meant and was told that BlueLaVaMedia simply used RTV's Picture Path portal to allow us RTV dealers easy pushing to Realtor.com.  I began to think that maybe I could just become a Certified Picture Path provider too and gain additional exposure for my company. You can post photos and tours to a property thats on the site.  You will need the five documents that are in a ZIPPED file on www.rockpointemarketing.com to become a vendor. It's really that simple!  If you give them your credit card, they will charge you $20 per tour that you posted in the previous month, on the 15th of each month.  This is why you're charging the client $25 to offset this minimal charge.

Realtor.com does have an affiliate program to promote rental properties at Move.com.  If an apartment building has less than 75 units,  they charge a flat monthly fee of $30/mo. per floor plan for the showcase listing (ex. 2 floor plans at one address = $60/mo.) with unlimited pictures.  If an apartment building has more than 75 units,  then they do an unlimited floor plan showcase listing for $100/mo. for the first 4 months (until 12/1/2010 -50% off our normal rate) with unlimited photos and floor plans.  Both include: Link to your virtual tour, Link to your website, and a Toll free call source number for tracking, with NO contract, 30 day notice to cancel at anytime

Make sure you understand the adversting guidlines.  The 3rd one is directly related to our affiliate ads and single property websites.  Any affiliate ads have to be requested and or approved by the realtor and cannot be for services competing with what Realtor.com provides. 


--
Duane Williams, President
Urban Design Studios, LLC
LA Virtual Tours
Real Estate Marketing, Virtual Tours & Renderings,
Building Information Modeling & Construction Documents
urban.design.studios.llc@gmail.com
www.urbandesignstudios-llc.com

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Virtual Tour Marketing Pieces

Attention all RTV Virtual Tour Providers!  New Summer marketing pieces are now available in your marketing site. We updated and posted the NEW Full Service Dealer manual complete with current pricing for each of our new Business Bundles and a quick link table of contents.

Targeting a niche market is a great way to focus on a property type and strive to gain their business in a systematic manner.  Horse stables are another property type that could really benefit from a virtual tour.  This is a 2 page flyer that is ready for you to easily insert your company name and contact information.

The use of walk in clinics and urgent care centers is rapidly increasing.  There are currently over 10,000 walk in clinics and over 1,000 convenient care clinics in the United States.  This two page flyer clearly states how their business can benefit from YOUR virtual tours.

If you have an idea or a need for a specific marketing piece email jill(at )realtourvision(dot)com and I will see what I can do.  Remember all of our marketing materials can be accessed through   http://www.RockPointeMarketing.com

Virtual Tour Marketing
Virtual Tour Software

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Blog on Bloggin

Ok so your new here or you've never sent in a blog before and you really just don't know what the heck a blog is or why you would want to do something that sounds so funny off the tongue. Well watch this video and DOMINATE YOUR GEO-KEYWORDS on Google.


For all you RTV Virtual Tour Providers out there sending a blog in is literally as easy as emailing in your submission to us here and we will post it for you making sure to link back to your website.  Start submitting today!

Jason LaVanture
RTV Virtual Tour Software

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Calling All Dealers - RTV Wants Your Slideshow

Some truly unique and amazing slideshows have been created since the launch of the new RTV HD slideshow module Friday July 16th. Please take a moment and browse through some of these active slideshow links below and keep an eye out for features that you may not be utilizing in your shows. Also try to think about additional revenue opportunities that are now open to your virtual tour company by using this exciting new tool we have made for you.

If you would like your slideshow to be featured in the RTV Virtual Tour and Slideshow gallery:

http://www.realtourvision.com/tourdemos.php

please be sure to email us your link. Finally please don't forget about the next FORMULA webinar to be held August 3rd which will cover the HD Slideshow module in great detail. Sign up now in your TMS.

Thanks everyone!!

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1705/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1371/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1353/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1463/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1396

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1688/

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1600/


Sincerely,

Jason
RTV, Inc
VP / Founder 
Virtual Tour Software

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The FORMULA 32 - The Making & Marketing of HD Slideshows

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

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

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

http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1353

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

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




Sincerely,

Jason

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

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It's a Brave New World With RTV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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RTV Makes a Difference

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

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

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

Joseph Lake
Virtual Jersey Shore
www.virtualjerseyshore.com

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RTV Launches New HD Slide Show Module

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

View Sample HD Slide Shows now!

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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Who Owns Your Virtual Tour Images?

It often comes up in our line of work as to who really owns the images from your virtual tour photography shoot. In this phone call I discuss how you can turn a couple wrenching questions into an up sell for your virtual tour business.

Good Luck Out There RTV!
Jason LaVanture
Virtual Tour Guru
Virtual Tour Software

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TC Virtual Tour Company Seeing HUGE Demand

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

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

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

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

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



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

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Tour Builder 4.0 Online - Are You Ready?

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

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

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

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

Good Luck out there!

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

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The FSBO Challenge

The Challenges that (FSBO’s) for sale by owners face!

In a 2006 National Association of Realtors survey, only 7% of sellers actually sell their homes without a licensed broker. The Challenges are many for the owners attempting to sell their own homes with very few benefits, from preparing the home, marketing, and handling the negotiations, the home owner will have many tasks to accomplish with which they may not be familiar. The owner must research and over-come the hurdles to be successful.

First and foremost, when an owner sells the home the realtor commission fees are nonexistent, which can add up to a substantial amount depending on the price of the home.  Another benefit is the vested interest the owner has in the sale of the home. The benefits of setting their own schedule for showings and openly negotiating with potential buyer without the hassle of sending paperwork back and forth with the realtor seems a little less daunting.

Marketing the home can be challenging for sale by owners (FSBO’s) simply because they do not have access to the multiple listing service (MLS) that licensed agents use to share listings and match buyers. Here at Tulsa Eagle Eye Virtual Tours we are able to assist (FSBO’s) by providing this service for a small reasonable fee as well as a single property website to advertise the home which will give you the exposure that you will need in order to present your home to potential buyers. We will post your home online with a beautiful 360 virtual tour displaying your homes beauty with professional photographs from an expert photographer.

We can provide you with all the tools needed to personally network and advertise your home to lead to the sale.A virtual tour is an online open house, so preparing the home for the virtual tour is very important.  As a home owner you will need to keep the home clean and clutter-free, making your home sparkle and shine for all potential buyers.

To increase your home’s value you will need to follow a few simple and easy steps. You can find these steps and tips on our website to help you look your very best and help impress those potential buyers, so please visit; Tulsa Eagle Eye Virtual Tours for our suggested preparations.

If you are a (FSBO) that hopes to sell a home without the help of a broker or realtor you will face more work than you might think, let us help you eliminate some of the marketing task with a virtual tour that will turn heads and make your home and property stand out against all the competition online.

Start today to ensure your success by using a virtual tour company that you can count on that has been using RTV virtual tour software technology that has been in the industry from the start, and the virtual tour company that has the systems in place to make you look your very best, drive more traffic to your property for that potential sale while spending less.

Tulsa Eagle Eye Virtual Tours
Tulsa Virtual Tours
Vicki Tuttle (owner)
Order a virtual tour: 918-622-3280

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Should I Invest Time on Social Media?

When you are looking for the answer to a certain question (or a product) which one of the following things you do?

a. Look in a dictionary
b. Use printed advertisement (magazines or newspaper)
c. Pay attention to see if any TV or Radio add gives you the solution
d. Google it or use another search engine
e. Email friends and family to see if anyone can send you an URL that will contain the answer to your problems.

Multiple authors recommend that you should have a presence on the Internet. Maybe you have already a webpage and are asking yourself why you cannot find your page when you Google it? The problem is no one is looking for your business! You are the one most interested in selling your product or services.

The answer to your problem is simple, but requires some dedication on your part. If you want to obtain a solid Internet presence Virtual Florida Tours can offer you all the help you need.

a. Business and Personal Web pages
b. Interactive virtual tours of your business or listings that will be automatically posted to your webpage
c. Free training in how to get to the front page of Google search engine
d. All the other needs for your Internet advertising.

Let the world to see your business now!

Gabriel Duque
Virtual Florida Tours
www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

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Virtual Tour Possibilities

Are you tapping all possibilities? SeeItSellStudios, a Missisissippi virtual tour company, has found that our "other niches" are easier sales and more lucrative than focusing on real estate tours only. Businesses with web sites can often profit by having a virtual showroom added to their sites. Hospitals and manufacturing companies can use tours for recruiting purposes as well as featuring their physical properties. Churches have expanded into the internet age too. With a virtual tour on their website they can share with potential members the layout of their church campuses or send the tour to friends, family, and other churches that are in their conference area. Thinking outside the box has never had a greater importance than today, so don't sell yourself short by focusing narrowly on one market.

Hugh Jordan
Corinth Mississippi
SeeItSellStudios
http://www.seeitsellstudios.com/

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RealTourVision - It's The Real Deal

Team RTV provides their dealers with many things, support, educational virtual tour webinars, marketing materials and much more.  Just last week I was out introducing myself and my Monroe Michigan virtual tour company, to my local real estate agents and businesses, upon returning home I found a message on my machine (I find when I leave home good thing happen).

It was Jacque at RTV; she said that she had a lead for me.  Now that’s exactly what I needed after spending a long day looking for new virtual tour business! She said that she had received an inquiry from a realtor 45 minutes from my location and that I was the closest dealer and was I interested. Well, I didn’t have to think twice, I took down the name and number and immediately called.  I got an answer, introduced myself and asked if there was a specific listing in mind, and if so, what was the sq. ft. and location of the home.

I then told her that her that her listing qualified for the Tours D’ Force Standard Package and further explained that I have several virtual tour packages and that this packaged fit the bill.  She agreed, and I got job.  But wait that’s not all, after completing the virtual tour and delivering the finished product I (and also RTV) did our routine follow-up. I thanked her for her business and asked how her how her tour was etc..  Her response to me and also to RTV was “the tour was GREAT and I plan on doing a lot more”.  Not only did I get the tour, but I now have reoccurring client.  Now that’s a Real Deal!

RTV works for me.  Send me more!!

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

Visit today to find out how Tours D’ Force can help your company leverage the depth and interactivity of the Web to create a memorable relationship with the customer that is available to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Selling Jersey Shore Virtual Tours

Being in a New Jersey shore resort area, the summer presents both an amazing opportunity and a challenge. Most of the business owners are extremely busy with tourists. Too busy, sometimes, to break for a sales pitch. However, as soon as I mention virtual tours, they stop in their tracks and listen.

It seems that everyone wants to hear about my Jersey Shore virtual tours because it's a fairly new technology. And, since most businesses now have websites, the owners consider speaking with me a chance to gain insight into an advancement that their competitors may be utilizing. No smart businessman wants to be left behind or miss out on an opportunity to maximize their sales. And, even if I don't make a sale on the spot, I know that I have planted a seed.

Recently, I was shooting a motel virtual tour that has a cafe. While I was spinning the cafe, another motel owner from across the street was eating breakfast. The lady was very interested in what I was doing photographing the cafe. I explained to her that I have a company, www.virtualjerseyshore.com, that does virtual tours for the New Jersey shore area. She asked me for a business card and some information. Luckily, I had a little introductory brochure in my camera bag. She was quite shocked that her friend and fellow business owner hadn't mentioned that she was having a virtual tour done. Now, I've had magnetic car sign made so that everyone knows a virtual tour is being made when I'm on-site.

Joseph Lake
Virtual Jersey Shore
www.virtualjerseyshore.com

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A Clean Machine Keeps the Dream

Keeping in good physical shape translates into a healthy mental state. Same goes for your computer. When your computer gets sick your business WILL suffer and that's exactly what "they" want. Follow my steps here for a healthy computer and profitable biz!

Jason LaVanture
Virtual Tour Software

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Bloggity Blog Blog Blog

Setting here by the lake at our vacation rental, watching my children eating ice cream, in these sunny days of summer here in South Central Michigan is the type of joy shared by many who have the security of owning their own home, “The American Dream”. Today’s economy, with the talk of foreclosures, the necessity of refinancing, the possibility of your interest rates on your mortgage increasing, the cost of insurance rising, and even  having to put a “For Sale” sign; presents a dilemma.  How do I sell my home fast?  Who do I ask for help?  Do I use a realtor?  How do I get my home sold FAST?

Powerplaymmp in partnership with RTV virtual tours can present your property in a manner that entice your customers to stay and look at your website longer, and provide the tools necessary for them to make a more educated decision.  Along with the built-in marketing tools, our South Central Michigan virtual tours will get your property in front of potential buyers faster.

Usually, my blog content consists of commenting on someone else’s blog.  To actually write one, takes a little more effort.  But sure, I know how.  Don’t I?  So the first thing to do is google “how to write a blog”, then I gather guidelines from different social networks (at least review them), add relative keywords and make sure I use the keywords everyone is search for this week.

Okay, now I know how, what keywords to use and I even have a topic.  I just have to come up with a meaningful reason for my blog and present it in a humorous manor.  Since I do virtual tours, my objective is to convince a person they need a virtual tour. According to a blog alert I received, this morning from a friend on LinkedIn : Based on yesterday's HubSpot webinar, I'd include the constant development of humorous content that includes topics of ice cream, sex, animals, and babies and I would post it on Saturday.

Considering my distaste for long articles and the fact that I usually deliver the straight line, and once I got past the fact that sex is also a noun, I think I haven’t done too badly.

--
Sandra Gibson
Power Play Multi Media Productions
South Central Michigan Virtual Tours
http://www.powerplaymmp.com
Order a Virtual Tour Today: 517-610-7136

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Ok Dale...What's Your Secret?

We recently asked Dale Hart what his secret is for consistently "Rocking the Shoot". Here is his reply:

"LOL, Oh I don’t know, let me see, Hmmm, maybe it’s 30 years experience much of that in the very demanding market of NYC. Maybe it’s just taking my time to get the best angle and exposure, Maybe it’s my Canon equipment. Canon Rules!  Nikon Drools... LOL.  But seriously, I think the big KEY is taking the time to do a CUSTOM white balance every time and when ever the dominant or combinations of light sources changes.

For instance a very dark room without much daylight coming in, your dominant light source will be your flash unit. A large dining room with florescent lights, daylight coming in plus your flash unit is going to create a different color on the camera sensor so a new white balance needs to be calibrated. The pre-set white balances or automatic whit balance just doesn’t cut in the Professional world. Also, I find the proper custom white balance also makes it easier to get the proper exposure."


-- Dale Hart
www.DragonFly360Imaging.com
Rio Rancho Virtual Tours
Order a Virtual Tour Today: 505-962-2207

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