Apartment Photography by TDF, LLC.

Why Apartment Photography & TDF Interactive Apartment Virtual Tours?

We live in a world where styles change constantly and fresh images and interactive virtual media are always in demand. Professionals in every field, especially housing, must be aware of these changes and possess the flexibility and imagination to stay ahead of the trends.

The new rules of internet marketing are moving away from traditional monologue and making interactive virtual media a MUST. The central goal of online marketing is ENGAGEMENT. This means getting your customer or potential client involved with your apartment and staff before they ever actually pick up that phone. When customers like what they see this creates a virtual relationship between your apartment complex and the customer right there on the Web. It hooks them in and encourages the most qualified clients, and serious inquiries to reach out to you online.

Does your apartment complex need a virtual makeover? If you’re ready to take on more renters and fill your complex as soon as possible, let TDF help today! With our apartment photography and HD virtual tour services we can be sure to help give you the boost that you’re looking for. If you have outdated and unprofessional pictures of your apartments, clubhouse, pools, fitness centers, laundry areas, and offices, we can help turn it all around.

At TDF we specialize in professional apartment photography and much more. Not unlike real estate photography, having good images and solid virtual tours for each of your apartments can mean the difference of several leads. The fact that “photographs and virtual tours” are the most commonly used tool while searching for real estate and apartment rentals alike, it's more important than ever to invest in continual upkeep on the images you provide to potential renters.

Welcoming in people online through our professional and high resolution apartment photography will start getting you the renters you want sooner than you might think. Generally, as in real estate, the more pictures the better. You want to make sure that you are showing off your best features and that the onlookers can see everything that would be important to them when looking for a new place to call home. A riveting tour of the different floor plans, the common area, the grounds, and more could easily help a potential client choose you over the competition. Engaging people through your listings and letting them interact with you before they even step foot at your apartment complex is a key element in gaining more renters and earning you more money!

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Hotel Photography & National Photography Service

Real Estate Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose www.realtourvision.com virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers, and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.

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Assisted Care Virtual Tours & Photography Service

We live in a world where styles change constantly and fresh images and interactive virtual media are always in demand. Professionals in every field, especially on the web, must be aware of these changes and possess the flexibility and imagination to stay ahead of the trends.

The new rules of internet marketing are moving away from traditional monologue and making interactive virtual media a MUST. The central goal of online marketing is ENGAGEMENT. This means getting your customer or potential client involved with your assisted care facility, your products, and even your staff. When customers like what they see this creates a virtual relationship between your assisted care center and the customer right there on the Web. It hooks them in and encourages the most qualified clients, and serious inquiries to reach out to you online.

Does your assisted care facility need professional photography or virtual tours of multiple locations? Let RTV use our vast network of professional photographers to provide you with high quality, high resolution digital photographs and save money. We cover all areas of the US and 27 additional countries, so it doesn't matter where your assisted care centers are located!

Coordinating with multiple photographers for several assisted care photography shoots in multiple locations is a serious administrative burden on your business. With RTV you avoid the headache of locating, hiring and coordinating suitable photographers for multiple locations. We streamline the process, providing you with high quality professional service at a consistent and affordable price. You get professional results faster at a lower cost without sacrificing your image.

We offer nationwide coverage with hundreds of virtual tour photographers that cover coast to coast locations which is why so many companies enjoy using our assisted care photography service and getting professional photography at an incredibly low price! Other virtual tour and photography services may only cover large cities and metropolitan areas and take months to get to your assisted care center. RTV provides worldwide commercial photography services with its extensive network of over 1500 professional photographers and can therefore have each assisted care facility completed within two weeks. 

See you on site!

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Get Ready Lenawee County!

2011 was an amazing year here at Toursdforce.  We produced several  Lenawee County Virtual Tours in the Southern Michigan market helping homes sell faster.  We were pleased to see that many of you noticed several enhancements we implemented throughout the year including significantly widening our still shots with a hardware upgrade, increasing the quality of our still images with our D'Touch technology, delivering your listing images to you in a much cleaner and faster way, and finally, we increased the size of your virtual tour window to take full advantage of our High Definition images.  

What most of you don’t know, is that behind the scenes we’ve also been working on a brand new virtual tour software engine and back end management system that we’ll be releasing real soon.  Our Toursdforce Fusion system is a one of a kind that’s loaded with more bells and whistles than you can imagine.  We’ve been listening to you over the last four years and we know the feature sets you’re looking for.  

Get ready to enjoy the following new enhancements on our Toursdforce Fusion platform:

•    Full motion video support among your stills and panoramas
•    360 x 360 imaging support for those of you who want to go from ceiling to floor
•    HD Download virtual tours for MAC and PC
•    Hit reporting system with more details about your viewers than ever before
•    Multi agent tour support
•    Agent Toolbox allowing you to login and make instant changes or edits to your own listings
•    New HD virtual tour player
•    New DIY system for those of you currently using other DIY virtual tour systems
•    Much much more!

We would like to thank you so much for your continued support and we’re looking forward to "wowing" you and your team here in 2012.   

Yours Sincerely,

Hal Holubik
Lenawee County Virtual Tours
Order a virtual tour: 517-486-4209

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The Importance of Online Virtual Tours

Are you concerned about how to ensure your home gets the best marketing and exposure to qualified home buyers in today’s market conditions? Did you know that 84% of buyers turn to the Internet to look for homes?  Do you ever wonder what makes certain homes capture their time and attention?

Properties for sale that provide more information and more photos of course! Listings with plenty of information including a 360 tour of the home get the most attention online. In fact 99% of consumers surveyed prefer listings with virtual tours and multiple photos. Seems pretty obvious right? You all did a little shopping here over the past Holiday season right? Now imagine if on Amazon.com or eBay, an automotive supplier only showed a couple of lines of text describing each item offered. No photos, no feature rich information about the specifications, the warranty, or how to find or purchase the item. You wouldn’t spend much time on that type of website would you?  In fact, if you're like most of us you would close that site down and run to any other site out there serving up HD images and more description. 

Not too long ago, providing a quality, rich media showcase of a home for sale was a luxury item.  Now it is demanded by most buyers and is one of the minimum requirements for a real estate professional to effectively market a seller’s home to attract buyers. No longer is it acceptable to just put a sign in the front yard, purchase a 3 line classified ad, send out a batch of “Just Listed” postcards to the neighbors and hold an open house.

Real estate professionals who are proactive in leveraging the power of the internet must use online virtual tours and it's your job as their property marketing partner & photographer to remind them of this fact.  This year don't forget that you now more than ever have the numbers stacked in your favor when you go into a presentation.  They're going to use someone....why not you?

Good luck out there!

Sincerely,

Team TDF
http://www.Toursdforce.com
Virtual Tour Software & Digital Marketing Tools 
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Keep Your Customers Loyal by Making It Fun!

What makes your consumers love your Web site and stay loyal to your product and brand? The answer is simple! Research shows that customers have a more upbeat attitude toward a site when their online experience is engaging and enjoyable. Enjoyment is a top reason as to why consumers browse on the web in the first place!

When they become engrossed in your site, customers need to view being on it as fun rather than work. If their experience feels like play, they return for more—making them more loyal to the site, your virtual tour company and the services it sells.

What creates this captivation? You gain loyalty when:

•    The site impresses customers. Customers don't want to be bored. They want their experience to be an enjoyable escape rather than a burden.

•    Customers have the ability to interact directly with the content on your site. Customers need to be entertained and enthralled by a form of media to stay focused and bond with your company. 

•    Customers feel they have control over the search. If the navigation is too complicated for the average user to master, they won't return to the site. If customers can't follow the site navigation, they will lose interest in their search and, perhaps, your company and its products.  Make your company’s Web site more appealing by adding sharp visuals created by the TDF Marketing Team.

Customers prefer one website over another because it is more visually pleasing. When the client has an emotional bond with a certain product, they will rationalize spending more money on it and downplay its negative points. Start carving out a little time each week and work on your marketing materials and customizing your website.

Sincerely,

Hal

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World's Largest Virtual Tour Provider Network

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Invest In Your Nest!

  The neighbor may be just the person to help you sell your listing.  Think about it: Since they already like the neighborhood, they are more likely to suggest to friends or acquaintances there's a house for sale in their neighborhood. You want, and need, all the "advertising" you can get. Talk to the neighbors, let them know that you are selling the house next door and give them a custom mini Virtual Tour CD like the one Tours D’ Force gives to all their clients and home sellers. Ask them if they know anyone looking to buy, and if perhaps they might be interested in the house themselves. Most people would like to help choose their new neighbors!

Many homeowners know people who want to live in their neck of the woods; this is one reason many seasoned real estate professionals hold their listings open to neighbors and send out postcards to neighbors announcing the listing - the neighbors might know people who are interested in the home!   Also, neighbors who are out and about chatting with each other, laughing and playing with their kids, mowing their lawns or painting their fences, or even who just offer a smile and helpful area knowledge to the buyer-to-be they pass on the street can make a very favorable impression on prospective buyers.

It’s a good idea, when listing a home for sale, to touch base with neighbors and let them know; it’s in their best interests to get good new neighbors, so they might be able to go the extra mile in showing the neighborhood’s biggest asset - themselves - off to its best advantage.

Giving the neighbors a unique marketing tool that is a 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 V-slideshow for their distribution. Tour Discs are also 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!

GENERATE MORE REFERRALS!
Tours D' Force marketing tools makes it easy for your clients to tell others about you. Let us create a complete marketing program for your sellers and they will certainly spread the word about your unique programs. The seller’s friends, neighbors, and family will have the right impression about your professionalism and use of cutting edge marketing and technology. Tour Discs make it easy for them to pass it on to their friends and family, and each time, your contact information will be seen!



Read more:
Marketing with mini CDs:  http://halholubik.blogspot.com/2010/10/marketing-with-mini-cds.html

Home seller FREE CD Gift:  http://halholubik.blogspot.com/2010/10/home-owners-free-cd-gift.html
   
Agents FREE CD Gift:  http://halholubik.blogspot.com/2010/10/real-estate-agents-free-cd-gift.html   






Hal Holubik
Owner / Operator
ToursDForce.com
Order a Lenawee virtual tour: 517-486-4209

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Blender or Juicer

Say goodbye to white and washed-out windows… and rooms too dark!  Get perfect real estate photos each and every time in a fast and easy way with the help of your local Lenawee County virtual tour provider, Tours d’ force.  Tours D’ Force has taken exposure compensation a step further by varying the exposure into our all NEW D-Photos.

Let your photos portray the world as you see it… Don’t let your camera work on the assumption that everything is equivalent to a special hue of grey.  Ever tried taking a shot with tricky lighting, or one that has a lot of light variations between the dark and the bright areas  and you’re not sue which exposure to use?

Have you ever tried photographing a high contrast scene, and you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. The solution is Tours D’ Force D-Photo processing:

Click on the picture to take the D-Photo tour

Benefits of professional photographers:
›    Saving on lighting equipment
     No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable Tours D’ Force and their new D-Photo feature, and let them merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.
›    Great pictures on cloudy days
     Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The D-Photo feature of Tours D’ Force can turn them into great-looking images. Check out this amazing photography.
›    Saving time and money in post-processing
     Tours D’ Force automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing will save you hours of editing time while creating results that make you look like a pro.
=    Well exposed images
     Photos taken from the inside of a home or a business are almost always a high contrast scene -- you can't limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting. By taking views under several exposures and processing them Tours D’ Force can create an image that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene.


Don’t waste your time trying to juice-up your photos in some photo editing program.  Let Tours D’ Force blend your image to perfection.

Emphasize the quality of your properties by improving your photos.

☑    Quality real estate photos are an essential marketing tool.
☑    Say goodbye to white windows and rooms too dark.


Catch the Perfect Picture With Tours D’ Force!


Team Toursdforce
Hal Holubik
LC Virtual Tours
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Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose www.realtourvision.com virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.

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Five Levels of Success

Do you need just digital photos professionally photographed? We will go out and photograph your digital photos for the MLS(s), Realtor.com, company web site, personal web site, flyers and advertising. There is not a virtual tour or slideshow, just the still images done professionally. Gives you more time to do what you do best, list and sell. We’ll process the stills and then email them to you!


Nothing will help sell a listing FASTER than quality digital photography complemented by a great virtual tour, 87% of potential home buyers look at homes FIRST with virtual tours. Our Basic HD Full Screen Virtual Tour Includes: 4 - 360° virtual tour spins & 6 - digital photos Free Music, Company logo, agent photo, custom banner, contact info and weekly hit report sent to you.

For those of you that prefer the V-Slide over the interactive 360 virtual tours our HD V- Slide certainly will impress. This machine of wonder has been built using the very latest flash based engine; it loads at impressively timely speeds, and displays full screen HD images with grace and elegance. With the ever growing demand for professional photography, the need to have those photos displayed in a uniquely impressive format has never been greater.

Are you ready for Toursdforce HD V-Side?  Your customers are that’s for sure!  We’ll arrive on site and professionally photograph up to 20 scenes for you to really amaze your sellers too!  Great for MLS(s), Realtor.com, personal web site, flyers and advertising.

Want to step it UP a notch. Sometimes that vantage point is UP! The kind of UP that we’re talking about is only attainable from THIRD and FOURTH story windows. It’s simply impossible to achieve this impact from the ground or from an aircraft. Elevated Photos captures an amazing picture of your property and its surroundings.

As an alternative to expensive airplane flights you now can bring your real estate listings and property to the top by adding on one of our elevated shots with any of your virtual tours. Your listings will rise above the rest!

We also have what we call an Exposure Engine, we have found multiple portals that will get your listings on more web sites than ever before. This is a proven strategy that does work. It’s a numbers game, the more places that the listing shows up, the more chances you have to sell it faster. In addition, two hot places to have your listings today is CraigsList and YouTube. Why? More people go to CraigsList looking for almost anything and everything. We can provide you with a custom Craigslist posting and you don't have to do any of the work. With the introduction of SmartPhone technology YouTube is one of the most searched places for people with their cell phones. Having a YouTube video is another great way to attract potential clients to your listings. This service is FREE with the purchase of any one of our virtual tours and our Explosive Exposure Engine. But we didn’t stop there, we’re also tossing in our E-flyer so you can easily share listing details and your tour with prospects. We will publish your virtual tour to our local Blog portal; http://www.tourlenaweecounty.com/ which allows home shoppers, locals and literally any internet visitor to preview our entire virtual tour inventory with the click of a mouse! Finally...and saving the very best for last, we’re even providing you with a custom QR code to attach to your yard sign. You’ll be truly amazed at the traffic you’re getting when your weekly hit reports come in.

Hal Holubik
Tours D’ ForceSouthern Michigan Virtual Tours  
www.Toursdforce.com
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QR Code Sign Riders

In response to consumer trends, Toursdforce, a Lenawee County virtual tour company, is offering QR (Quick Response) Code signage.  QR Codes are a great way to do on-site advertising, they deliver on the customer pulling up in front of the house and get immediately information on that home.  They’ll also be able to see photographs and a virtual tour of the home simply by sitting in front of the house.  Now that’s a powerful tool when you consider that very often when someone pulls in front of the house today, less than half actually speak to the agent when they first try to call.  While if their using QR codes, their able to see information about the house, their able to find information frankly about you the realtor.

 

“This would be the most obvious usage in my opinion” says Hal Holubik at Toursdforce. Consumers like to get as much information as humanly possible before calling any kind of sales person.  By placing a QR Code on your sign you will be providing potentially the hottest leads, those driving around looking for homes to buy, with all of the information needed about that property instantly, price, home details, community info, and even the agent’s contact info, typically things that a lawn sign does not provide and by leveraging a QR Code you are really giving the consumer what they want when they want it.  It’s that tech savvyness, it’s the fact that I have a mobile web site so a person pulling up in front of the house on their iPhone they can view your home, and from the realtor’s perspective view ALL the of the different listings.  That’s a powerful tool for the realtor to utilize but it’s also a powerful selling tool for the realtor to be able to differentiate themselves on a listing appointment from other realtors too.

QR coded sign riders will absolutely help you the realtor push the envelope in being able to have a broader net, you want to have a broad net to be able to catch more fish or in this case more prospects to view your home and be able to sell that home faster.    


Hal Holubik
Owner / Operator
ToursDForce.com
Order a Lenawee virtual tour: 517-486-4209

Read more: http://halholubik.blogspot.com/

Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose http://www.realtourvision.com virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers, and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.
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Pump Up Your Digital Marketing

Part II of a IV part series

                                         Think Big and Play BIGGER!
   

Blissfield, MI, February 17, 2011 – Hal Holubik, owner of Tours D’ Force, a Southern Michigan Virtual Tour provider says; “What good is getting a virtual tour from anyone if it is not seen by the largest audience possible?  The bottom line with real estate as with many other kinds of sales, it’s a numbers game, the more people that see it the higher the ability of it being sold quickly.” Business Professionals in every field are in need of more exposure and a better way to capture and maintain the interest of online shoppers especially on the web; they must be aware and possess the flexibility to market their virtual tours in many places.

In part I of this IV part series (see part I here:  http://halholubik.blogspot.com/2011/02/pump-up-your-digital-marketing.html) the first thing we talked about was analyzing the market.  How as a realtor, you have to realize that the market is evolving and changing. How the marketing techniques that you used last year, the ones that you used five years ago, ten years ago they are different than the ones that you will have to utilize for your marketing approach today. 

The second think that we talked about was covering the market.  How you spread out your dollars, your marketing dollars, to reach the maximum number of prospects?

We then spend some time talking about that framework its self.  How the digital marketing is a multi faceted marketing approach. 

We concluded by talking about print media, YES, I said print media.  How here are still folks out there that read things in print, and how you better use it as part of your digital marketing approach.

Now let’s talk about your actual digital marketing efforts. 


What you’re seeing in front of you is a virtual tour window.  It is very important that whatever virtual tour solution you choose has all the attributes that we’re talking about in this window.  First of all, you should look at this as a single property website.  Everything that you could want to know about this property should be available in this snap shoot, if it not, you’re barking up the wrong tree and you need to look at another type of virtual tour.  But this is a typical virtual tour and some of the attributes that you need to be looking for. 

First of all, upon top, it should talk about who you are, how to contact you, all of the information right up top so that way, any prospect comes across this virtual tour has an opportunity to give you a phone call.  So you’ll notice at the top it not only says who this realtor is, it has their logo, but even has buttons so they can easily click on one button and send an e-mail message, easily clicked to go to the website or to view the tour gallery and see other properties that the realtor has to offer.  Really important thou that right top up you have this information available.  Now I know that some of you are saying to yourselves, now wait a second Hal, my MLS burial says that I can’t show that information. My MLS burial says that I can’t do any branding on my virtual tours.  But that ok because virtual tour companies like this one have branded and non-branded versions.  You want to have the branded one out there on your website and places like realtor.com where you’re allowed to have branded, and then you can have an unbranded version for your local MLS burial.  But anyway, so we’re talking about the branded version here but rest assured you can have both from the same source.  Now let’s talk about the little box, the MLS summary on the right hand side.  That tells the prospect everything in a nut shell that they may want to know about that property.  They can do a deeper dive but the button line is how much does it cost, how many sq. ft., how many bedrooms, what’s the school district, summed up, that information is right there for them to see, perfectly right in front of them.  You’ll want to make sure that the photography that the first picture there and all the ones behind are good, crisp, clear, and really show off the house and that’s what we’re trying to do.  So the photography needs to be spot on as well, there’s actually a button in this virtual tour that allows you to  have full screen and fill up your entire screen with seeing the rooms as walking through that house. Now, one of the things that realtors have said to me over the years, they said, Hal, my customer wants to participate.  We’ll one of the things that you can do as a realtor to help your customers to participate is by utilizing the buttons at the bottom of this virtual tour.  What those are is there single click social networking buttons. 

So if your client has a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a linkedIn account, a Twitter account, etc., they can upload this virtual tour to their own personal account.  So, think about this for a second, you the realtor may have a hundred friends that are on your Facebook account, so you can click on the Facebook button and go ahead and upload that onto your Facebook profile page. But your customer may have another hundred people that they know, and maybe their kid has another two hundred people, so, bottom line is don’t be afraid of involving your customers, draw attention to the bottom line buttons in the virtual tour so that way you can get the word out there. Put it in the different social networking sites, let this thing really take off and be seen by a lot of people.  Bottom line with real estate as with many other kinds of sales, it’s a numbers game, the more people that see it the higher the ability of it being sold quickly.  Having a high quality virtual tour helps once again establish you, the realtor as being tech savvy as well as now involving your client in the process as much as they want to be involved.

This is another type of virtual tour.  This is a High Definition V-Slide. Same property, same high quality photos just another mechanism for getting the word out there.  But hey, take a look at the bottom; you also have on the bottom those social networking buttons.  So if you’re not seeing those from your virtual tour provider today you’re missing a huge opportunity of being able to go ahead and further market the property.  Make sure folks that your virtual tours have those social networking buttons.  In this particular case, this virtual tour has pull downs, once again has all the information about the realtor, the information about the property, as well as being able to map and being able to download brochures and so forth, so a burst of technology gets the word out there.

Stay tuned for part III of this IV part blog series.

Related Posts:
Building a Bigger Tomorrow!
Pump Up Your Digital Marketing Part I

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

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Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose http://www.realtourvision.com/virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.

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