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 If you have outdated and unprofessional pictures of your apartments, clubhouse, pools, fitness centers, laundry areas, and offices, we can help turn it all around.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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http://www.toursdforce.com 
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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
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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

http://www.toursdforce.com

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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Tours D' Force News

Tours D’ Force, creators of Lenawee County virtual tours, is pleased to announce three new cutting edge additions to our tours: Full screen HD virtual tours, mobile virtual tours and photo bracketing to bring out color and depth in your pictures.

Visit our blog at Lenawee County Virtual Tours for more information on all of these new technologies and view some of our HD virtual tours. Use your smart phone to view a mobile virtual tour here: http://rtvpix.com/RE-1716-3CCGHO-01

Or scan the QR Code.


Tours D’ Force provides you with all of the great tools you could ever imagine or need when it comes to marketing yourself, your business and your properties online. Backed by www.RealTourVision.com the world leader in virtual tour software and #1 Ranking virtual tour company on the Internet, you will find that our marketing tools are always evolving faster than anyone else. As your dedicated property marketing partner, we make sure the virtual tours you order from us today are still making you look your best tomorrow. See them at our website: http://www.toursdforce.com/

Today all homes, large and small, need virtual tours. According to the National Association of Realtors’ 2009 Survey of Home Buyers and Sellers, 90% of all home buyers begin their search on the internet. With so many homes available right now, most buyers narrow their search by looking at homes with virtual tours first. Whether you are a Southern Michigan Realtor or homeowner, put your home’s best face on the internet with a Tours D’ Force Virtual Tour.

Tours D’ Force has been providing the best virtual tours available in Southern Michigan since 2008. We chose Real Tour Vision (RTV) as our partner because they provide the best technology and tour quality in the business. Since that time they have continued to improve their products and services, keeping ahead of their competitors in every area.

Contact us soon to book your Southern Michigan virtual tour and find out more about optimizing your search engine visibility.

Hal Holubik
Toursdforce Virtual Tours
Lenawee County virtual tours
Order a virtual tour: 517.486.4209

Real Estate 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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The Power In Numbers

 The potential for successfully selling your home online grows with each passing day. According to the National Association of Realtors, 90 percent of buyers used the Internet when searching for a home. With the excess supply of homes on the market, marketing your home online can greatly increase your reach. Chances are high that this medium will lead a home buyer right to your door.

Why Use Social Networks?

Because selling a house these days takes a lot more imagination than it used to-especially in this economy! The Internet, and in conjunction social networking sites, makes this stressful process a lot easier. The point of social networking sites is to interact and connect with people. Sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter are quickly revolutionizing the way information is spread. According to Facebook, if Facebook were a country, it would be the THIRD LARGEST country in the world. Why not harness that power to quickly and efficiently spread the news about the home you have for sale?

How to Use Social Networking?

Tours D’ Force, your Lenawee County virtual tour company recognizes the importance of Networking to find prospects and get properties sold. That is why our virtual tours have social networking built right into the virtual tour viewer. With a simple click of the mouse, viewers can add your virtual tour to their social networks.


In just one click, you can harness the social aspect of the internet through social networking sites such as: Digg, Delicious, MySpace, Furl, Facebook, Mixx, FriendFeed, BackFlip, LinkedIn, Bebo, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Twitter, and Technorati.

One of the things that realtors have often said to me over the years is, 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 the virtual tour.  The single click social networking buttons. 

If your client has a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a linkedIn account, a Twitter account, etc., they can upload the virtual tour to their own personal account.  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 the virtual tour 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.  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. 

Virtual Tour Syndication, so folks, when we talk about going out there and grabbing a broader net.  Being able to cast your net to more prospects, we really need to make sure that you’re listing, and frankly, your virtual tour is cast out there for people to find. 

Social Networking should be part of everyone conversations and activities. 

Can You Show Me Evidence?

Let me share a story with you about an elementary fifth-grader in my home town of Blissfield, MI. population 3,000.  This Blissfield Elementary School student’s portrayal of Leonardo da Vinci for a class project ended up winning first place in a nationwide contest sponsored by electronics company Samsung.  His school teacher, who had started the wax museum project several years ago, submitted a video of Austin giving his presentation.  About two weeks ago, he learned he was in the top ten.

He was pretty excited that he actually got that close to winning, he said.  “I wanted to know how to win right away.”

Having learned that it would take collect the most votes on Facebook to win, some of his friends made signs to put on lockers in his homeroom.  His older sister, a student at Grand Valley State University spread the word among her friends. His teacher’s daughter rounded up votes at Spring Arbor University.

And, Austin said he couldn’t count how many people came up to him and said “My grandma voted for you on Facebook.”

Well, I needn’t say more, Austin’s presentation received the most votes he won a $500 prize for himself and a document camera for his school.

There is power in numbers! And it doesn’t matter who you are or where you or your listing are as more individuals turn to the Internet during the home search process, the more likely your home will be seen if you take advantage of the opportunities provided by Social Networking.

Call me today and ask me how to integrate social networking into your overall marketing strategy.


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Hal Holubik
Tours D’ Force
Southern Michigan Virtual Tours
www.Toursdforce.com
hal@toursdforce.com

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The Large Home Myth

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Virtual tours are not just for large homes! A 2009 study by the National Association of Realtors indicates that more than 90% of home buyers search for homes on line. This means virtual tours are important for every home. The study also shows that the internet has surpassed yard signs as the second-most-used method for buyers to find the home they eventually purchase. Here are the significant numbers:

In 2009, 36% of home buyers found their new home through a Realtor; a matching 36% found the home they eventually purchased on line; 12% found a home from a yard sign or open house; and only 2% found their home through a print publication. For perspective, in 2001, 48% of buyers found their home through a Realtor and only 8% found their home on the internet. It seems the internet is poised to surpass Realtors as the way most buyers find a new home!

The home below is only 888 square feet, but it is beautifully maintained in a nice neighborhood - and someone is looking for it on the internet right now!  Check out ALL the virtual home tours on Southern Michigan Real Estate, TourLenaweeCounty.com.

What do buyers want to see on line? Pictures – more importantly, virtual tours. Many refine their initial search to show only listings with virtual tours. Buyers are deciding what houses they want to see based on what they find on the internet. They are telling their Realtor what homes they want to see, not waiting for the agent to come up with a list. And they are finding that Realtor on line; often because the agent represents one of the homes they want to see. Small homes need to be on the internet with virtual tours.

A virtual tour can show a home that looks small from the outside actually has plenty of space on the inside. It can show that the home has an inviting layout, plenty of light and special features that you can’t see from stills or from the curb.

Tours D’ Force online Virtual Tours, in partnership with RTV virtual tour software company, offers the very best HD virtual tours available. Our HD tours can go full screen to make an even better experience for the buyer. We offer not only tours and v-slide shows - our Internet Optimizer can help bring you great organic search engine rankings. We can also help you market your listings to area real estate agents and home owners through internet and print avenues.

Palatial or cozy, every home needs a virtual tour. Get the best. Tours D’ Force online Virtual Tours and RTV, Inc.

Hal Holubik
Tours D' Force
Southern Michigan Virtual Tours
http://www.toursdforce.com/
Property Marketing That Works!
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Lenawee County Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose http://www.toursdforce.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
Order a virtual tour today: 517-486-4209

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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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What Size Should I Make My QR Code?

QR Code Scan Distance

What’s size should I make my QR code?  The BIGGER the BETTER, not always says Lenawee County virtual tour company, Toursdforce.  They all work as long as they are of high quality, although when publishing them you will want to consider a size that’s appropriate for the scanning environment there being put into and here’s a good rule of thumb.

For most smartphones the relationship between scan distance and minimum QR code size is approximately 10:1 for printed material such as in a magazine, newspaper, direct mailing, business cards, flyer, etc. There’s a bit of play here depending on the sort of smartphone but 10:1 is a good rule of thumb for a well-lit black and white QR code being scanned front-on.

Simple Formula:
Minimum QR Code Size = Scanning Distance  / 10

If you have a poorly lit or obliquely positioned QR code, or a colored one where the foreground/background color contrast might not be optimal, you should probably reduce this ratio to 8:1 or less (ie; the QR code size should 1/8th or less of the scan distance).

Simple Formula:
Minimum QR Code Size = Scanning Distance  / 8

QR Code Approximate Scan Distance for Outdoor Scanning

*Scan distance will vary depending on the complexity of the QR Code and lighting.
The proper size to make your QR code depends on the medium being used.

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

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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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Pitching New Services to Clients

What should you do when your industry is changing rapidly and your clients are not aware of the new services they should be asking for?

It’s a challenge for many service firms because yesterday’s state-of-the-art practices are becoming outdated in a business environment increasingly dominated by the Internet. One company that has faced this challenge is Tours D’ Force an online virtual tour company that specializes in property marketing and digital media between Southern Michigan and the rest of the world.

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TDF local clients were accustomed to paying for conventional marketing services, and they found it hard to understand the value of online tools such as search engine optimization, digital marketing solutions, and social networking to truly become visible. “We can’t only provide them with what has worked well in the past,” says Hal Holubik founder and organizer of Tours D’ Force. “For our clients to be successful, we have to give them tools for the future.”

How do you convince your clients to use something new from you?

THE BACKGROUND

Hal Holubik founded TDF online virtual tours in 2008 to provide property marketing services to Southern Michigan companies, mostly real estate agents/brokers and  small/medium-sized businesses interested in expanding presents to online prospects. Hal Holubik’s background spans Lenawee County and Southern Michigan, so he is ideally suited for this role. Born and educated in Lenawee County, he is a best virtual tour provider there with powerful property marketing tools targeted to Southern Michigan managers who want to increase traffic to their web sites, create better SEO, and of course encourage small business growth in Lenawee County and around the world.

He started TDF online virtual tours after completing training as a certified RTV (RealTourVision.com) full service dealer, a Blissfield-based property marketing firm. His company is offering their clients and customers expert advice on internet marketing.  Tours D' Force exceeds competitors in photographic quality and clarity, technological enhancements and most importantly unsurpassed personalized services that will make certain your online endeavors are a success.

In the past few years, as mobile marketing has become more important, RTV developed new mobile tour, including customized QR codes. A challenge was getting customers to try them.

THE SOLUTION

“In order to change client perceptions, you have to target both the influencers and your target market,” Hal Holubik.

Influencers are the organizations that have impact on client perceptions, such as local MLS and trade associations, and business/real estate agencies. Since their mandate is to educate their members, they are interested in learning about new ways to do things and passing them on. Hal Holubik helps them fulfill this mandate by offering to put on seminars about online digital marketing. The presentation is very informative and will be well received giving him credibility and subsequent invitations to other speaking events.

In order to influence his target market directly, Hal Holubik started by getting an endorsement from clients in Lenawee County. He deliberately picked a highly reputable, long-standing client, and offered to provide with a free customized all weather proof QR sticker to place on their yard sign, in addition to the property marketing services they were paying for.

“We worked with them for two years, so they trusted us,” Hal Holubik explains. “As well, our offer was risk free. They didn’t have to pay anything and they didn’t have to use the QR sticker if they didn’t want to.”

The client loved it as their hit states came in and gave TDF’s online marketing services a strong endorsement. Because the client was so well-regarded, that endorsement was influential in encouraging other clients to ask for the property marketing services TDF could provide.

To get prestigious speaking engagements and great endorsements, however, you have to be sure the novel services you’re offering actually make a difference. Since practice in the online marketing world is changing so rapidly, achieving high quality requires paying considerable attention to monitoring and assessing these changes. Hal Holubik says that he will continue to spend more of the firm’s resources on this.

THE RESULT

Hal Holubik’s new mobile online service offerings and his two-pronged strategy of educating his client base will prove to be successful. The Southern Michigan clients will be happy because the new online digital marketing tools will help to increase their sales revenue.

Not only will this increased and diversified the company’s revenue stream, it will also given Hal Holubik and his team a better understanding of client needs.

Use Technology to Your Advantage and Capture Interest Immediately!!!

It is time to connect with all potential buyers, provide them immediate, detailed information, demonstrate your leadership in the industry and capture leads around the clock.  Not only are QR codes simple to use, and effective.  They are also extremely cost efficient and the return will be immediate.


Tours D’ Force is a digital marketing and virtual tour provider. Offering property marketing services throughout Lenawee and Monroe Counties. Tours D’ Force is a privately held virtual tour company specializing promotional media services. Our mission is to give outstanding customer support and powerful marketing tools with many features at an affordable price. For more small business information and to learn about Tours D’ Force portfolio and property marketing services, visit http://www.toursdforce.com




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

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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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Toursdforce Announces Mobile Marketing Service

Blissfield, MI April 5, 2011 — Toursdforce, a provider of Lenawee County virtual tours and property marketing services is pleased to announce our new mobile virtual tour for iPad, iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry, Android, and other web enabled portable devices. This new virtual tour is specially formatted for mobile devices so users of our virtual tour software can offer their customers maximum exposure.  Being that it has been programmed with JavaScript and HTML 5, the mobile tour remains interactive. Those with touch screens can actually scroll through the 360 panoramas and still images while enjoying an elegant fade from image to image. The technology has been enabled on both core products, the HD V-Slide and HD V-Tour so all users on the TDF platform can enjoy these new developments. 

Hal Holubik, Owner of Toursdforce stated: “This mobile exposure provides the perfect opportunity for our customers to start using QR Codes in their marketing packages. Because of the customization and flexibility of the TDF hit reporting system users will be able to track the number of times virtual tours are accessed by the scanning of a QR Code! An amazing feature that has TDF clients in Lenawee County and the surrounding region are cheering about and will certainly turn heads as our clients marketing campaigns get underway. ”

If you will like to see how this product looks in your phone just type this URL http://rtvpix.com/RE-7155-A3U2UE-01 on your smart phone right now and check it out!

Since late 2008, Toursdforce has continually led the way in the Southern Michigan area with marketing implementations such as interactive HD virtual tours, virtual staging, panoramic listing sign riders, single property websites, listing syndication, mobile TXT marketing, virtual tour traffic reporting, interactive floor plans, elevated photography, home staging, and social networking training. For more information call 517-486-4209 email Hal@Toursdforce.com or visit their website at http://www.ToursDForce.com . Those interested in sampling this new technology or business opportunities with Toursdforce are encouraged to visit their website for more information.

About Toursdforce
Toursdforce, a division of Tours D’ Force online virtual tours, LLC is a locally owned LC virtual tour company with team members Hal Holubik and partner Real Tour Vision. We’re a Michigan company and are proud to use software developed by a Michigan company, Real Tour Vision in Traverse City. Together we use cutting edge technology to produce razor sharp images with the highest caliber customer service. All MADE IN MICHIGAN!                                                                                                     

Contact:
Toursdforce.com, a division of Tours D’ Force online virtual tours, LLC
Hal Holubik
Owner / Organizer
517-486-4209
Hal AT ToursDForce.com

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Mobile 360 Virtual Tours

 Tours D’ Force Lenawee County Virtual Tour Company did it again. The development of the mobile HTML software that allows our 360 virtual tours to run on iPhones makes realtor’s mobile websites even more efficient for our customers.

Right now the realtor can place a rider sign on his listings that will not only show the listing with the map and only a photo of the listing now the customer will be able to see the whole tour of the property on his/her smart phone. If you will like to see how this product looks in your phone just type this URL http://rtvpix.com/RE-4305-0UTQ6D-01 on your smart phone right now and check it out!

Just place a rider with your mobile website address on each of your listings and you will not only be giving an astonishing service to your clients but you will be there  to contact the prospect that just saw your listing and help him/her become a proud owner of a new home.

This technological breakthrough places our company once again as the best virtual tour and Internet marketing provider in the market. This technology is also available on our newest product, the HD slide shows.

For all your Internet marketing and virtual tour needs just call 517 486 4209 or contact us on the web.

Thank you,

Hal Holubik
Team ToursdForce
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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Pump Up Your Digital Marketing

Part III of a IV part series

                                      Think Big and Play BIGGER!

Blissfield, MI, February, 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 II of this IV part series (see part II here:  http://halholubik.blogspot.com/2011/02/pump-up-your-digital-marketing_17.html) we talked about virtual tour websites and some of the attributes that you need to be looking for. 
How you as a realtor can involve your client in the process as much as they want to be involved. 

So now let’s tie this into something called SEO, Search Engine Optimization.  What people often don’t realize is that pretty pictures, pretty pictures don’t mean anything when you’re going out there in the Google bots of the world and their trying to deciding where you belong on the different pages of Google.  So, pretty pictures don’t mean a whole lot, however with the virtual tours that we have, we have text behind the virtual tour so the virtual tour is search engine optimized.  So that way when the Google bots goes out there able to find header information very readily about who is the realtor, the contact information, city information, their able to go out and detect the address off of that header, and oh, by the way, every virtual tour that we do, we go ahead and include the public comment that you have in MLS, and the reason why we do that is we want something for those Google bots to be able to sink their teeth into, so that way as a part of our virtual tour there is text behind everyone of them.

So it’s not just pictures but it is information about the property, information about the realtor, and then some real meat to help you get higher in your ranking in the search engine optimization.  Another thing that we are able to do for you, is we’re able to utilize something called a tour gallery (snip above). Every virtual tour that you have with us as a real estate agent, you can have in this tour gallery.  And we also identify and include those homes that have sold.  So not only are we sending the message that Amy Wilson associates sells houses, lists houses, but they sell them, they are indeed sold.  So we purposely keep the sold properties on here and clearly mark them as sold, so that way people have that little message that says, hey, this realtor on the ball, they sell property as well as list property.  We also encourage our client, and this is something that we do very inexpensively or you as a client can do. It’s, $15 bucks a hit from us, we create a custom domain name so that way you can easily pull up this whole gallery of tours.  So in this case www.AnyVirtualTours.com bring you to all of Amy Wilson virtual tours, it nice and easy for her to remember, I’ve got another client of mine, named Sherry, does www.SherryVirtualTours.com and by golly she’s got a bumper sticker on her car that says so. So bottom line is she out there marketing herself and her virtual tours she just does say Postline Properties on the side of her car, but she even has a very nicely in-scripted sticker on the back of the car that tells anyone driving behind her, hey go to www.SherryVirtualTours.com and see her listing.  But here we go with www.AmyVirtualTours.com really inexpensive, you can put sign riders on the property if you’d like to advertise that as well, but one single spot for people to go and see all of your listings and click on anyone of the virtual tours.     

All of this stuff is great to talk about, but now let’s talk about the results.  One of the things that always bothered me the most as a home list-err, was that time period from, you sign the agreement, pictures are taken, and you are told to remove bunches of stuff from your house and hide it in a, you know, storage bend somewhere. Now the papers are signed and then you never see or hear from the realtor, and weeks drag by, and trust me as a client, weeks dragged by, and you really wonder if there’s any action going on out there.  Well one of the byproducts of having a good high quality virtual tour and having it out there where people can see it is that you’re provided a weekly virtual tour report that you can share with your client, in fact many of our clients do share.

Weekly Activity Reports says how many hit they’ve had on the particular property, where was it from, so did it come from MLS, did it come from a realtors site, did it come from a competitors site, did it come from realtor.com, where are people looking at this property, and how many times have they looked, and oh by the way, it keeps a thirteen week history so that way people can see over time that indeed as your going out and marketing the property their able to find and see hits.  Once again, it’s a numbers game, the more hits you have the greater opportunity of this property selling.  Share this information! Most of our clients frankly, take this report they put a sentence or two on top of it that says, Hi Jean, just wanted you to know that we’ve had three showings of your home this week, traffic looks really good coming off of the realtor.com and craigslist ads we placed for you.  Here’s to having another good week, and boom, they just sent that e-mail out to their clients.  So, what a communications tools, what opportunity to see that you the realtor are doing something, that it’s not that you took the contract and quite.  So absolutely use these activity reports that come off of the virtual tours, use it as part of a selling technique as well as reinforcing with your clients that hey, something’s going on.  And by the way, side note, this is great for your clients and it’s great for you too, because over time if you keep these reports now look at that thirteen week history, you’re going to see certain times of the year you’re going to have a lot of traffic, it help you know when you might want to step up some of your other advertising campaigns. 

It helps you know when you might want to have open houses because people are looking.  This is also a leading indicator, what we have found historically is that people start seeing hits on their tour traffic report usually about a week or so before they see more people knocking on the door and asking to see the home.  It’s a leading indicator, it help you know when you want to make sure that home is spruced up as people come and see it.  So treat it that way, read historical information for you the realtor, great for your clients, and what a tool you have for over time to be able to help you determine, what is the best opportunity and bang for your buck and when you should have open houses and so forth.  So that’s your hit report, demand it for every virtual tour that you have.

Virtual Tour Syndication, when we talk about going out there and grabbing a broader net.  Being able to cast your net to more prospects, we really need to make sure that you’re listing, and frankly, your virtual tour is cast out there for people to find.  Now, historically, if we were having this conversation, even a couple of year ago we would primarily be talking about your local MLS and Realtor.com, because those were the two sights that people would look at.  And Realtor.com, by the way has done a great job, you know, you look on American Online, MSN all these different service locations all drive back to Realtor.com as the engine that they use, so Realtor.com to some degrees, Homes.com and certainly local MLS have been historically strong areas for us to market property.  Now, there’s one additional area that we need to talk about and that is the path, a little lest taken and a little bit main stream, but now there’s generation X and Y folks, the immediate, I want it now, those folks are looking at other sites besides AOL, MSN, and Realtor.com., their looking at sites like Craigslist, their looking at YouTube, and to some degree, the others that I have listed here.  Let’s talk about Craigslist and YouTube.  Craigslist is an interesting phenomenon, there are people who religiously go out and look at Craigslist everyday rather it be to look for a car, people go online and buy car’s, they look at buying  sports tickets, whatever, they go out to Craigslist.  There’s a whole section in Craigslist for homes and we really want to make sure that your listings out there on Craigslist.
 
What we have found, especially with the low and medium priced homes, is that we can get as many hits off of Craigslist as we do on places like Realtor.com, and I actually have some clients today who aren’t showcased so they don’t do Realtor.com lists but they do put it out on Craigslist because they see the value, they see the hits.  Two years ago we didn’t advertise on Craigslist.  The way we got started on Craigslist was we had realtors coming back to us saying, hey, my client wants to know how we can get this on Craigslist.  So this is a grassroots effort for people who are using the tool and saying, hey, how can I get my listing out there.  YouTube, YouTube is a phenomenon into itself.  YouTube is a great opportunity for something called SEO and helping people reach their quest for being on page number one of Google and a lot of that is through YouTube.

Stay tuned for part IV.

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

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

http://www.toursdforce.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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