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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/
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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

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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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

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

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
http://www.Toursdforce.com
Order a virtual tour today- 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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