Get Ready Lenawee County!

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

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

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

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

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

Yours Sincerely,

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

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The Importance of Online Virtual Tours

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

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

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

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

Good luck out there!

Sincerely,

Team TDF
http://www.Toursdforce.com
Virtual Tour Software & Digital Marketing Tools 
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Marketing Real Estate With Virtual Tours

Today people are so busy that they don’t have time to do anything. Between job, volunteer, and home responsibilities, people have limited time to complete even the smallest of tasks. From bill management to real estate searches, everything they do is done online.

The Real Estate profession is coming into its own when it comes to virtual tours. Marketing real estate is not an easy job, especially when people are trying to juggle personal and professional responsibilities in the shadow of having to move. Just ten years ago, the only ‘shopping’ options for those in the market for a new home were limited to a review of still pictures of houses with limited written descriptions, followed by actual visits to dozens of properties.

Today, having a virtual tour in your marketing strategy brings a whole new level to the industry. Look at your local competition’s marketing strategy. Do they consistently offer virtual tours for all of their listings? If more real estate companies provided virtual tours of homes for sale, they would increase their sales exponentially. The use of virtual tours not only helps potential buyers narrow down the homes they want to see but it also helps to free up the real estate agent’s time.

Agents can use virtual tours not only as lead generators for future listings, but also to weed out people who are not interested in some homes that the agent may have otherwise spent time introducing them to in person. Potential buyers have 24 hour access to all of the agent’s listings and when they finally call the real estate agent, they have a list of the houses they want to see up close. Less showings? Yes. More productive time management? Definitely.

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Virtual Tours for the Travel Industry

Virtual Tours are a necessary investment in the world of travel. Think about it, If customers and potential vacationers could see what your hotel, bed and breakfast, campground, or vacation rental looks like before planning their vacation it would make the selection process SO MUCH EASIER! If you take a quick look at hte majority of travel websites today you will see pictures of rooms but most of them only show the sleeping area and not the rest of the attractions. Now if there were virtual tours of the rooms it would allow potential travelers to get a virtual in-person view of  your accommodations.

Another profitable addition would be to add virtual tours or still shots of the local area. Think about it. Suppose that someone were to plan a vacation to the Caribbean and they have never been there before. Give them a  sneak peak that could seal the deal over other hotels that opt to not provide virtual tours of the area.

No matter how the economy is doing this one is for sure; people will always take vacations. What would enhance the vacation process is to see a bit of where they would be staying as well as local virtual tours of the area. If you took a poll and asked 10 people if having seen a virtual tour before making reservations would make them reserve their vacation faster, 8 out of 10 would say yes. Try this at your next gathering. We did! There's good reason why to date RTV has photographed several thousand hotels. All of this only furthers the proof that virtual tours are becoming the norm in the commercial travel industry. 

There are people who are going to plan a vacation regardless of what the accommodations look like, but if they had a choice to see one destination with a virtual tour and another without, more often than not they would opt for the accommodations that have a virtual tour.

Let's face it, virtual tours are the wave of the future of commercial travel. Give us a call now and let help you increase your revenue through the use of our HD and Mobile virtual tours!

TDF, LLC

Lenawee County Virtual Tours & Hotel Photography Services

Order a virtual tour today! 517.486.4209

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Still Shopping For a Virtual Tour Company?

If you're currently in the research phase of selecting a virtual tour company, then by now you must be tired of looking at one virtual tour company website after another trying to decide which one can better market your real estate listings for you. It’s a daunting task, but a very important one. Because at the end of the day, you need a virtual tour company that  takes the extra step to actually market your listings online. You need to select a virtual tour company that does not just stop at delivering a virtual tour to your inbox.

There are many national and local companies to choose from. In fact, today, if you are to pull up a listing of all Realtor.com ® Picture Path®authorized partners, you would probably see a very long and almost overwhelming list. This is mostly due to the fact that there are no costs to be an authorized partner. This opens the floodgates for all kinds of different virtual tour companies that may or may not market your listings effectively. Many of these companies don't even offer national coverage and some are no longer in business.

When you are looking through our Lenawee County Virtual Tour company website,  keep in mind the one question that brought you here: What makes Toursdforce different from other virtual tour providers in Michigan? How can this local Southern Michigan virtual tour company market my listings better than some of these national virtual tour companies or other local companies.

The answer friend is simple, and starts with our virtual tours. Here are a few differences for you to consider:

When I started Toursdforce in 2008, I chose to use RTV virtual tour software technology to power our virtual tours for you.

• Their interactive virtual tour technology has been around for over 12 years. During that time RTV has done an amazing job at keeping their virtual tour technology at the forefront of virtual tour technology. Because of our partnership with RTV you can sit back and do what you do best, list and sell. Let us continue advancing your virtual tour technology month after month. We'll inform you as our technology updates and new features are made available to you.
• We offer both HD V-Slides and HD V-Tours giving you the option of using either technology on your listings. Both technologies come in branded and non branded formats, can be pushed to Realtor.com, provide to you an elegant looking weekly hit report for you to send off to your client, are streamed in HD, and both are mobile friendly.  You will find both of our core technologies quite attractive.
• Both our HD V-Slides and V-Tours are interactive. They engage the users to click, drag and explore through your listing.  This level of interaction creates excitement with your listings and stirs emotion that will lead to you getting more showings than listings not taking advantage of interactive virtual tour technology.
• You wouldn’t be looking for a virtual tour company if you just wanted to have pictures taken. That's called a photographer. At Toursdforce, we combine the professional photographer with the digital marketer.  Many photographers have not yet made this leap and will ultimately struggle to continue to find work.  Since we wear both hats, we offer several powerful property marketing tools that promote your listings online, help them rank in the search engines, drive traffic to your website and make you look your very best online.  Consider our Exposure Engine which is our most popular virtual tour add on. Virtual tours pushed through our Exposure Engine receive 50% more traffic than those that are not submitted. It is vital today that once the tour is completed , it is then marketed to prospective buyers on the Internet. This is what we do best.
• We burn a feed of all of our virtual tours to local real estate agents by way of our Portal site, Southern Michigan Real Estate. This allows everyone to see your listings and connects potential buyers with your homes. Remember that a virtual tour is an Internet marketing tool, but without being actually marketed on the Internet, it is nothing more than a wasted advertising expense. 

At Toursdforce, everything is about marketing your listings, the more successful  you become, the more successful we become. This results in even more marketing for our website, your tours, your listings and this all happens automatically when you choose us as your digital marketing partner.

Take some time and look around our Lenawee County virtual tour company website. While you're there make sure you check out our HD Virtual Tour Gallery, read some client testimonials, and check out all of our powerful property marketing tools that help promote your business and listings on the Internet in today's digital world.


I look forward to working with you in the very near future! 

Hal Holubik
Owner / Organizer

Lenawee County Virtual Tours & Advanced Property Marketing
http://www.toursdforce.com
Order a virtual tour today: 517.486.4209

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Keep Your Customers Loyal by Making It Fun!

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

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

What creates this captivation? You gain loyalty when:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Hal

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Image Delivery Engine Released

RTV launched today their new Image Delivery Engine allowing RTV virtual tour providers a quick and simple way to deliver high resolution images directly to their customer base.

The Image Delivery Engine is as simple as pushing a button in the virtual tour manager system and emailing a link to the customer. The new Image Delivery Engine has been programmed to work with both the HD V-Slides and HD V-Tours so all TDF customers may take advantage of the latest developments.

Until now we had to invest valuable time setting the pictures on a zip file or sending the pictures in multiple emails to our clients. This new system simplifies the whole process of emailing the photo to our customers, reducing the time invested on both ends.

Hal Holubik
Owner / Operator
ToursDForce.com
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