Saturday, February 14, 2009

Marketing Your Virtual Tours

Get More Out of Your Virtual Tour!
As a RTV virtual tour dealer servicing Southern Michigan I have noticed opportunities in the way real estate agents and business professionals are use their virtual tours. Real Estate Agents and Business Professionals are in need of more exposure and a better way to capture and maintain the interest of online shoppers. Professionals in every field, and especially on the web, must be aware and possess the flexibility to market their viortual tours in many places.

Put your virtual tours in front of more prospects, they will drastically increase your sales and referral business.

Once a client has ordered, received and posted their virtual tour to the internet, it all seems to end. Take a look at our area real estate magazines (Welcome Home Real Estate Magazine); the ones you receive as a supplement in The Daily Telegram or those that can be picked up at your local grocery store. I have yet to see a real estate listing or a business print ad mention their virtual tour. Today 80% of consumers search for information online, so why not provide link’s to your virtual tours in your print ads.

Don’t Sell You’re Virtual Tour Short – Cross Advertise Your Virtual Tour!
Advertising rarely stands alone, but works together with other marketing efforts. It takes “multiple impressions” of a message to get potential buyers to make that buying decision. “Be proud to have the highest quality virtual tour available on the market today and get those first impressions”, said Hal at Tours D’ Force. Don't just use the still shoots that I provide in our area real estate magazines, in brochures in flyers, and in newspaper ads, mention your virtual tour, and provide links that would ultimately drive traffic to your site.” If virtual tour is a tool, and they are, and the purpose of the tool is to help advertising the listing or business, then it makes since that transmitting your virtual tour would be the best way to use it.

We understand that, as a Real Estate Agent or a business professional, sometimes it seems a daunting task in selecting just the right marketing strategy to turn heads and make YOUR business stand out against the competition. You will never really know which piece of information caused a person to buy. But we do know that people who buy have seen it “in many places,” and that’s one reason you will be glad you’ve built ways to reach your potential buyer.

Use YOUR virtual tour to its full advantage; distinguish YOURSELF and YOUR marketing from YOUR competitors. Make an active effort to market your virtual tour properly and WIN MORE LISTINGS!

With increased competition, market instability and tech-savvy clients, the bar for marketing a home or business has been raised. Those agents and business professionals who understand that they must offer something truly unique and valuable to their sellers and customers are closing more listings and making more sales with Tours D’ Force Virtual Tours. TDF 360 interactive virtual tours are fully loaded with features such as, maps, local school and city information, floor plans, brochures, videos, music, professionally voiced audio, scene by scene text, agent banner, photo, email, and website link, and much more!

Bringing a buyer to the table generally means that you must first ‘bring them to the house’. That’s why Tours D’ Force employs a combination of effective online and offline marketing. I know from experience that buyers come from many sources. To be a truly effective property marketer you must appeal to all sources by using several marketing strategies at once.

There are many marketing methods Tours D’ Force employ’s that go well above and beyond the traditional posting to website, hosting of an open house, placing of standard yard signs and creation of a general home flyer. In my experience, it takes a combination of powerful marketing tools to facilitate a faster closing.

Some of the most POWERFUL MARKETING TOOLS that will put YOUR listings and YOUR business in front of more customers than ever before and keep them returning to YOUR site are:
email alerts - to inform prospects and others of your listing
content for website(s) - "See my Tour"
• content for newsletter, or market conditions reports
content for presentations
• a competitive edge - that all the agent's listings get a virtual tour regardless of the home's price
• given an eye-catching, traffic building panoramic sign riders to invite drive-by consumers to the your website to learn more
• customized sales flyers and brochures
• Tour Discs are a unique marketing tool that is the perfect upgrade to your Tours D’ Force Virtual Tours! Available on CD or DVD, have Tours D’ Force create a custom disc of your virtual tour with a slideshow for distribution. Tour Discs are great for sales centers, open houses, investor opportunities, and much more. Leave your customers remembering what you have to offer by handing them out as a keepsake for your client and even as a business card!
Single property website give’s your virtual tours a real presence on the web with an interactive site. These websites contain your full interactive virtual tour with enhanced listing features.
• Tours D’ Force has a well established distribution tool called their Exposure Engine which sends virtual tours to 98 real estate portal sites as well as converts virtual tours to a video format for enhanced video distribution. See samples of Lenawee County virtual tour Videos

KEEPING SEVERAL STEPS AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITION HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER! SAVVY REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS EVERYWHERE ARE NOW LEVERAGING THE POWER OF OUR CUTTING-EDGE VIRTUAL TOUR AND ONLINE SYNDICATION TECHNOLOGIES!

NEWLY Released – Social Bookmarking!
We now import your Lenawee County virtual tours directly into the most popular social bookmarking sites which helps promote further syndication of your listings online. You will also be very pleased to know that our new virtual tour links (SpiderLinks(tm)) are search engine friendly and get indexed by all search engine spiders!

Tours D’ Force, producer of Lenawee County virtual tours now offers a new Social Networking Utility that is integrated with their virtual tours. This newest addition to their already robust virtual tour will allow anyone to quickly add their favorite virtual tours to popular social bookmarking sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Furl, Backflip, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Mixx, and Bebo.

We are very excited to have this unique social bookmarking distribution tool in place and accompanying our already extreme virtual tour exposure. Typically tours sent through our Exposure Engine receive thirty to fifty percent more traffic than those not sent. This new tool will only elevate that number since literally anyone on the web can instantly share our tours across social networking sites. Now more than ever, real estate agents and business owners alike need powerful marketing tools like this to remain competitive. This latest enhancement gives our customers a competitive edge and the kind of visibility they need in this aggressive market.

Tour D’ Force not only takes the pictures for the tours, but we would also like to help our clients with a little marketing. Tours D' Force Builds Relationships, NOT simply transactional sales! We will be there with you through appointment, service, delivery, internet distribution, and more if need be.

LEARN HOW OTHER SMART
AGENTS ARE GROWING THEIR BUSINESSES ONLINE!
REQUEST AN INFORMATION PACK TODAY!


Hal Holubik
Lenawee County Virtual Tours
Order your virtual tour today! 517-486-4209

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