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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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It’s a challenge for many service firms because yesterday’s state-of-the-art practices are becoming outdated in a business environment increasingly dominated by the Internet.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!                                                                                                     

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Hal Holubik
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517-486-4209
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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.

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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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The Mobile View

Toursdforce, March 1st, 2011. Tours D’ Force, your Southern Michigan promotional media company, brings mobility to The Blissfield Connector.  Empowering Toursdforce NEW 2011 Explosive Exposure allows the Blissfield Business Channel to be adapted to the mobile marketing market.  Yes, The Blissfield Connector is now fully compatible with iPhones, iPads, and any other web-based SmartPhone for a mobile experience!  And we didn’t stop there Toursdforce is even tossing in a Quick Response (QR) code and a QR sticker so the Blissfield Businesses can easily share their tour and details with their mobile customers and prospects.

Hal Holubik of Toursdforce states; “Today’s customers and prospects are becoming more mobile and depending on their smart phone devices more and more as a source of information.  So utilizing a QR Code in your marketing materials will give you the upper hand to reach out to your mobile customers and prospects in a new and efficient way!”

What are QR Codes?
A QR Codes is a two dimensional bar code that can be printed on any marketing materials to link printed materials to mobile and Internet marketing efforts.  The Blissfield Connector QR Code below has been programmed to The Blissfield Business Channel /virtual tour but could be programmed to communicate several types of information.   After the receiver scans the QR Code with their smart phone, the bar code will automatically prompt the user’s phone to launch the virtual business tour.  Once the tour is loaded the viewer will simply click on the “iPad / SmartPhone” button at the top of the tour viewing window to view the business video that will fit perfectly on their Smart Phone.

A QR code can also be programmed to launch a website (note: the web site must be a mobile site to fit properly) play a video (in this case) automatically enter contact information into a contact list (good for the back of your business cards), send an e-mail, send a text message, or make a phone call.  QR Codes are completely customizable and the possibilities are truly endless (left up to your creative minds).  Most importantly, they are tractable and we’re able to see how many individuals scanned a specific QR Code and when (in our case the hits will show on the virtual tours weekly hit report because the QR Code has been programmed to the virtual tour).  This tractability makes QR Codes a valuable (and affordable) response tracking mechanism for all marketing materials.

How does it work?
1.    Use a smart phone with Internet access. (Note: An Android is the only smart phone on the market that comes with a Flash player and our virtual tours are in Flash.  But that’s OK because I have changed the button at the top of the tour window from ‘Video’ to ‘iPad / SmartPhone’ and this will take those without a Flash player to the YouTube Video or there are apps for Flash out there for them too.)
2.    Download a free bar code reader app (If you have a recently purchased BlackBerry it comes with the app, if not I suggest one of these NeoReader, or Scanlife)
3.    Scan or take a picture of the QR Code with the reader app.
4.    Phone will automatically launch the code’s message or tour.

What can QR Codes do for you?
QR Codes are a basically an image, just like any other graphic, and can be placed on any and all marketing materials such as: business cards, fliers, brochures, promotional items, t-shirts, car wraps, signs, posters, direct mail, print ads, and more! They allow you to:
•    Increase response rates (almost anyone who knows about this technology finds it difficult to resist scanning the bar codes).
•    Measure the effectiveness of your campaign; different QR Codes can be generated for each individual project and tracked.
•    Integrate print, mobile, and Internet marketing with three “touch points” in one print item.
•    Plus, you will be on the cutting edge of a marketing strategy that is still relatively new in the United States.

The Blissfield Connector participating businesses can now showcase their businesses to their mobile cliental via iPhones, iPads, and any other web-based SmartPhone .  To help the participating Blissfield businesses achieve mobile exposure Toursdforce is providing 2D code stickers (sample below)in four convent sizes (Small 4’ X 4’, Medium 5’ X 5’, Large 6’ X 6’ or  X Large 7.5” X 7.5”) to be proudly displayed.   Tousdforce believes that QR codes will be an integral part of a complete solution that they can provide to your clients.  The technology is free on both ends (code generator and code reader) so, it time is right to start introducing the technology starting with our virtual tours to show clients and build value as an internet marketing expert.

 Imagine what you can do with your QR sticker 

For more information on mobile marketing with QR codes read QR codes for Internet Marketing?           

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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.

Hal Holubik
ToursDForce
Southern Michigan Real Estate
Lenawee County Virtual Tour Company


Order your virtual tour today!
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Lenawee County Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose 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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Pump Up Your Digital Marketing

Part I of a IV part series

Thing Big and Play BIGGER!

 

Blissfield, MI, February 10, 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.

The first thing I would like to talk about is analyzing the market.  So as a realtor and a business person, you have to realize that the market is evolving and changing. The marketing techniques that you used last year, the ones that you used five years ago, ten years ago they are different from the ones that you will have to utilize today.  

Today market is composed of three very different generations, the Old school, new school, and the X and Y generation.  You have old school people that are out there that are going to be looking at newspapers, the real estate book and things like that, and the new school and X and Y generation. Now, old school and new school represents your second home buyers. Here in Lenawee County we have a lot of folks that live here part-time, they have their full time residence in Toledo, Wauseon, Ann Arbor, where ever Sylvania, but they choose to have their second homes here at one of our many inland lakes, so it’s a hot spot for our clients, that old school / new school the second home buyer.  X and Y generation, we have a lot of first time people moving into Lenawee County to get away from the metro areas and the hectic life.  X and Y generation represents those first time buyers, not to mention those first time and second time buyer within our communities, so we want to be able to touch all three.

How do they learn, how do they market, and how do they buy.  Most of the buyers use newspapers; you want to have ads in newspaper, you want to have ads in real estate book, and I’m not telling you to stop, but what I will tell you in a few minutes are how to use those ads more effectively.

New School buyers, they will use the internet.  I don’t know about you but I know if I’m interested in buying a new widget, the first place I go is out to Google, and I Google widgets just to see what’s out there.  Now I may not always buy off the internet but it’s always the first place I go.  So new school buyers absolutely are going to use the internet. Old school buyers, newspaper ads, new school they use the internet, the X and Y buyers, they are the immediate generation.  I want to see it NOW, I don’t want to wait for Pepsi commercials, I just want my information NOW, right NOW, and that’s were mobile websites QR Codes, and SMS technology comes in.  So, absolutely an area that you want to make sure that you reach out and touch.

OK, Successful marketing, successful agents and successful business people have a successful marketing plan they will appear and appeal to all three types of buyers.  Connect your buyers with your listings and your business that’s the bottom line. 

So how do we do that? How do we connect?  Well here’s how we connect, first of all let’s talk about what is digital marketing? Digital marketing is the usage of various technologies to capture additional market exposure. Digital marketing is digital photos; digital marketing is the internet, web site presents, virtual tours, QR codes and SMS technology through smart phones.  All of that is considered a part of digital marketing.  Why is it important to you the realtor and business person?  Very simple, it helps establish your professionalism; it differentiates yourself from the pack and show that you are technology savvy. 

Let’s talk about Newspaper.  Newspaper ads are something that have been out there for years. The local real estate company has been out there for years.  But here’s, I’d almost call this my pet peeve was, so as a realtor, first of all, just about everyone takes pictures of the front of the home that they’re going to market, that’s a requirement that they have it in all of your newspaper ads.  If you don’t hire a professional, that’s Ok, but pay attention to the time of day that you’re taking those photographs.  Don’t have this, you know, big sun blob in the middle of your photograph or don’t take it when all you see is this really dark image. 

Now spend a little forethought in when can you take good pictures of that home that you’re marketing and go ahead and take those pictures then rather than having ugly boring pictures on your web site or in your newspaper marketing ad, or, hire a professional to do it.  Show your web address, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen real estate ads that don’t have the realty company address. So, tie it in, make sure your web address appears in your newspaper ads.  If you have a mobile web site address, put that in there as well.  Or even change it up, some weeks run your regular web address other weeks run mobile address, but the bottom line is show that internet presents. E-mail, e-mail address for you the realtor, should be in all print advertising.  That, often times is the primary way for people to communicate with you, so make sure that you have your e-mail address in there.  If you have a virtual tour, or better still if you have virtual tours on ALL of your property listings, SAY IT!  Come to my website and see the virtual tour of this property, or come to my website and see a virtual tour of ALL of my properties.  Emphasize that in your newspaper ads, tie it in.  And by the way if you have Text Connect, if you have texting services on your properties make sure that you put that in your print ads was well, say Text .bla..bla…bla @43766 to see up-to-the-minute property updates.  And that’s one thing that people are always looking for, is that there up-to-the-minute property updates, so make sure you are putting those things in your newspaper ads.

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

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Building a Bigger Tomorrow!

Hal Holubik
Owner/Organizer
Tours D’ Force
Order a Virtual Tour: 517-486-4209
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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Tours D’ Force Brings Innovative Approach to Blissfield Businesses

Tours D’ Force, a Lenawee County virtual tour provider announces a new advertising solution to help local businesses connect with potential customers.  The participating Blissfield Connector merchants can now advertise their business right off the Blissfield Business Virtual Tour, that’s right, “Internet Marketing Done…Simple.”  With this value added service, Blissfield businesses have the ability to offer money saving deals online that will drive more traffic into their stores.

Tours D’ Force has created a powerful new marketing vehicle for local merchants which gives their businesses the upper hand needed to help them grow.   This innovative approach to e-commerce will bring extra dollars in new revenue to local businesses while saving more for the consumers in and around Lenawee County.  The deals are activated only when the tour viewer clicks on the ‘Blissful Deal’ banner, which then encourages viewers to share the Blissfield Connector and promotions with family and friends.  Here’s how it works:

Tours D’ Force makes it simple for Local business to get their name and their companies name out in the public eye. And the best part is their information is made available right off the Blissfield Business Cannel Tour! This ensures that they generate the most qualified leads of online shoppers and buyers for their businesses.

By clicking on the ‘Blissful Deal banner, the tour viewer will be redirected to the ‘Social Living in Blissfield’ page which features all the local participating businesses.  From this page the viewer can click on the businesses Facebook page, their website, and the shopping cart that will take them to the Blissful Deal.

Blissful Deals features special saving values on the best stuff to do, eat, see and buy in the historic village of Blissfield.  Blissful Deals offers unbeatable prices and provide a win-win for the businesses and consumer, delivering super saving deals to the surrounding communities.

But wait, we didn’t stop there, Social Living in Blissfield also features business Events plus new Give-a-ways (contests).  To find out more the viewer can click on the calendar for special events and/or on the WIN button to enter a business contest.  Social Living in Blissfield, a place to strike deals!

Toursdforce is so excited to be able to help their community that they are offering ‘Blissful Deals’ to participants of The Blissfield Connector as FREE value added service, that’s their money $avings deal to them.  Are we crazy???  No… We are just excited to show off our uniquely powerful online marketing tools for 2011… and what better way to do that than to help our community grow.

In addition Tours D’ Force extends their reach through non-participating Blissfield Business tour members and to other Toursdforce virtual tours.  For a nominal fee for the life of the tour prospects will be able to connect directly with their business, allowing them to receive the most qualified leads, from all over the world.

Hal Holubik of Toursdforce states, “It’s very important for small businesses to support each other all the time. I mean, small businesses are what made this country.  So we have to always support them.  Any activity we can create here brings in additional business for all of the small businesses in town, not just for our community, but Downtown as well.”

Stay tuned as we are in the process of posting ads and plan to go live very soon. Visit TourBlissfield.com for $ savings deal’s.

Toursdforce will continue to work hard to shape the way local merchants and real estate agents market themselves and bring their businesses and websites to a whole new level.





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Building a Bigger Tomorrow!

Blissfield, MI, January 18, 2011 – Hal Holubik, owner of Tours D’ Force, a Lenawee County property marketing company challenges themselves to  THINK BIG and maybe you should too.  How often have you heard the comment “thing big/play big or go home”?  Often we don’t allow ourselves to thing big about our business to attract Bigger Clients.  But it sounds like a great motivational quote for us right now.

So let’s use it for our digital marketing based business.  How do you think about your business?

First of all, why are we even a questioning that!  Shouldn’t we all think big about our businesses?  Of course we should!  Are we?  That’s the question.

Well we at Team Tours D’ Force are not going home in fact we’re leveling the playing field. We have shifted our spotlight on how to ‘think big’ by understanding what it means and then we’ll share some of the steps with you on how to be bigger thinkers and create bigger clients in our business.

First of all, to ‘think big’ in your business doesn’t mean to create bigger programs, bigger product lines or even bigger services.  It doesn’t mean charging more, adding more, etc., etc., etc. That is ‘doing’, not thinking.

We’re talking about improve our business skills and attracting more clients with less effort.  We’re talking about being the go-to person for our clients and potential clients so that they can be more successful.

To play harder in your business means to have a deeper meaning in the minds and hearts of your clients.
To give them what they truly want and value.

So here’s the question, how can we help our clients improve their existing processes and gain greater efficiency, value, and results? Now that’s where we need to go.  Instead of your clients doing the same process over and over, how can you help them to improve upon their processes to gain greater yields.  I bet you that they would happily invest in that.

The ‘Think big’ game plan:

First – Look at how we might improve our existing processes, products, and services to be more effective, learn how to network to attract leads, use social media to increase our visibility, and speak occasionally to share our expertise, etc.

Second – Examine where we can create more efficiency to speed up a good and effective process, teach our prospects and clients how they can get more from what we offer, expand our services and create additional streams of income.

Third – Once that ground work has been laid it will be time to share the results with our clients, and explode our presence with workshops and events.

Think big about your business and gain great returns when you share that information with your clients.

To see how you can get more out of your virtual tours and digital marketing efforts, watch;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx51l90x83c and also stay tuned ‘Pump-UP Your Digital Marketing’ blog, coming soon.  Questions or comments can be directed to (517) 486-4209 or email to: Hal@Toursdforce.com.


Team Toursdforce
Hal Holubik
LC Virtual Tours
http://www.Toursdforce.com Order a virtual tour: 517-486-4209

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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LC Virtual Tours Now Offering QR Codes

Team Toursdforce, Lenawee County Virtual Tour Provider, is very pleased to inform you that you’re going to be getting MORE VALUE than ever in 2011!!  First off all of our virtual tours are now automatically created in High Definition (HD).  No additional work is required on our end to make your virtual tours HD so we’re passing that time savings to YOU, our valued customer. From here forward all of our virtual tours will be HD at no extra cost to you.  Check out our current real estate tour pricing at http://www.toursdforce.com/pricing.html

Please don’t forget that we’re also currently running a buy five and get one free special on all of these packages.

Secondly, we’re expanding our Exposure Engine offering to now include a QR code for you to use in your print advertising (or wherever else you see fit).  A QR or Quick Response code can be scanned in by ANY web enabled smart phone and link a shopper directly to your virtual tour or youtube video for that listing.  Try it now!  Scan the code below with a bar code reader on your smart phone and you will see our virtual tour template load. If you need a barcode reader simply go into your app store and download one.  They’re free!

For those of you that don’t have flash enabled phones you will have to click on the iPad & Smartphone link off the tour to catch the video.  Are you ready for the best part?  When anyone scans your QR codes and checks out your virtual tours these will appear as HITS on your weekly virtual tour hit reports!!

So what is your solution for utilizing QR codes without a new monthly bill?  All Weather QR code stickers can be added to yard signs, they can be printed on brochures, added to your property virtual and video tours, to your Craiglist postings, and so much more.


Thanks for your support!

Team Toursdforce


Hal Holubik
LC Virtual Tours
http://www.Toursdforce.com Order a virtual tour: 517-486-4209

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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