Is Technology Crumbling Your Live?

I was recently reading an article of a colleague that complains about how much time he is investing in keeping up with his technology applications. He says that he has to invest too much time updating and enhancing his website, posting his listings to the different social networking sites and creating his virtual tours, etc.

In reality I think all that either he is receiving the wrong advice or he is trying to save in the wrong places. If our colleague was using our virtual tours he will be able to syndicate the tours to a plethora of social network sites at a price that will not break his economy and then he will be able to dedicate his time to the thing he does the best (selling houses). You can even send us your own photos and we will build you a high definition slide show for only $25.00 dollars.

You do not need to blog every day by doing it once a week commenting either about your listings or the community you farm it will be enough to maintain yourself in touch with your community of readers. On the other hand to reduce the time you need to update your website you could buy a website from our company. The tours will then be posted automatically to your website reducing the time you need to update your website. You can even have a mobile website that you can place in your rider and conduct your clients directly to your listings.

Maybe you will need to participate in our SEO training course free for our clients and this will help you reduce the time you need to invest in blogging since this will help you increase your presence as we place your post in our company blog.

Can You Help Your Agents?

Most sellers are becoming more aware of the importance of obtaining professional photos of their properties when they are going to place their property on the market. They are also requiring the agents to place their listing in as many websites as possible.

This is creating an increase cost on the pockets of the agents that are trying desperately to get the listings in this frozen buyer’s market.

The cost of obtaining a virtual tour goes from $69.00 to $190.00 dollars depending of the kind of tour selected. This does not includes the work or cost of placing the listing on all the available websites like Trulia, Zillow, Craig's List, Google Base, You Tube, etc....

Can this burden be reduced? Recently a Title company owner asked us if he could buy a group of virtual tours, and use them as a token of appreciation for those realtors that were bringing business to his company. The answer is yes, any company can buy packages of virtual tours, or slideshows that can be given to their customers as a token of appreciation to be used when they needed.
Just imagine how much the agents will appreciate this little token. They will be able to offer a professional service at no extra cost for them, and you can pay just a fraction of the price.
If you will like to offer your customers this service please contact us at (305) 331 8960 or by clicking here.

The Advertisement Dilemma

The advetisemment dilemma starts with those realtors that will like that the return on Investment will show inmediiatelly. Regretfully this is not the case with Internet marketing. This is called the search engines sandbox. Googles sandbox takes around six months for your website to be visible. To get your website to be on the top page of Google it requires some work on your side. Yes, you will have to start a blog and continue blogging frequently.

So you have your listing priced correctly and you will like it to receive an offer in the first two weeks. In the kind of declining market we are right now, you need to have a way to make that property visible as much as possible.

The decision is what kind of advertisement you are goign to invest in.

1. Newspapers and magazines advertisements have a limited shelf live of a weekend or some weeks at the most, and are visible locally.
2. Virtual tours on the other hand will last one year on the Internet and will be visible world wide.

Regetfully placing a tour on the Internet will not make it inmediately visible, you will need to start your own blog to increase your presenc on the Internet, since having your own website is not enough to get your website to be visible to the search engines.

If you will like to achieve this results you can sign to obtain the required trainig by contacting us or calling at 305 331 8960.

Virtual HD Slideshows

Virtual Florida Tours is happy to announce our new VHD Slide Tour service. For the last years our parent company Real Tour Vision has been researching this innovative and more customer friendly way of presenting our customers listings.
This new service will allow the realtors to send the photos of their listings to us and we will make a slide show for them. The cost is only $25 per VHD slide show.
These tours have our hit information that can be shown to your customers and prospects. They are automatically placed in a great number of Real Estate websites like home.com at no extra cost for you just as our 360 Virtual Tours. You can upload the tour to multiple social networking sites including Digg. Of course if you have showcase service of Realtor.com the slide show can be uploaded at no extra cost for you or you will need to pay Realtor.com upload fee of $25 per tour.
If you will like our photographers to take the pictures for you the cost is only $69.99 per VHD slide show.
For your entire Internet marketing needs do not hesitate to contact us at 305 331 8960 or visit our website.

Changing the Culture at Your Workplace

How can a company successfully overcome the natural skepticism to overcome the resistance and achieve better customer service, stronger employee engagement or a reputation as one of the best places to work?
Unless the broker of your company is directly involved in the change, it comes off as an initiative, and it will eventually lose steam.
Rather than making a declaration about how you want to change the culture of your business, you just need to start doing it. So you will have to provide flexibility if you want to be viewed as a flexible workplace, or get behind a mentor program to allow your personnel to grow.
To provide an even better customer service to your customers and to the other companies that partner in our service. You will need all the different partners to work together and employees offering solutions.
The bottom line for real estate is that our line of business has changed. A large percentage of our customers are facing foreclosure and they are relying on us to solve their economical situation.
You need to redefine your mission statement and core values. Based on this you need to start training your personnel on what behavior they were expected to demonstrate. The improvement on quality service must be supervised.
You will need to talk to your realtors on a daily basis to hear their feedback from the customers. You need to recognize as frequently as possible the effort of your realtors to go the extra mile for their customers.
You will need to make emphasis on the importance of using the internet as a marketing tour, each realtor should have a website, a mobile website, use virtual tours or slideshows they should participate as frequently as possible on blogs, Facebook, Linkedin, Tweeter, etc.
It takes time for organizational cultural changes to take hold. So you should launch your Journey of Excellence program as soon as possible. You may mandatory training workshops for your realtors to improve customer service, use your monthly meetings with realtors as a reminder to keep their focus on improved customer service.
If you really want to improve the quality service of your company you need to start acting like the company you want to become.

Are You Ready?

Is your virtual tour & property marketing company setup to sell TXT Connect and Mobile Agent Websites yet? This is an amazing opportunity for you to really connect with your real estate clients and offer a service that they will love and promote your virtual tours at the same time!

In an effort to continue to provide agents with the best tools and information available in the industry, we have introduced a new service that will improve an agent's productivity, professionalism and relationships with buyers and sellers. Its important to note that access to real estate listing information while on-the-go has become mission critical to today's active buyer. Mobile Websites for Realtors is an industry first that not only helps meet the ever increasing demands of mobile buyers but also promotes the name and brand of the Realtor saving them time and money.
Some of you may not be aware of this yet but accessing the internet on a mobile phone is like night and day vs. using a standard computer and website. Unless a website is specifically built to work on all operating systems and for each of the thousands of mobile phone handsets, it will be a rather difficult browsing experience for any user. The mobile phone is here to stay and as they get smarter and smarter, and people continue to access the mobile web, Realtors and all other businesses need a mobile formatted website to continue to capture users and promote their services. This is where our TXT connect program hits a grand slam!

Virtual Florida Tour’s TxTConnect mobile solutions help real estate professionals win more listings, acquire more leads and close more sales, bottom line, make more money. Mobile Websites for Realtors is one of our most exciting property marketing tools available today next to our new HD Slideshow Module. It puts all of an agents listings in the hands of an active buyer and at a time when it is most advantageous. The built in GPS functionality will also identify the nearest properties available to where the buyer is at that time and show the next closest properties to them at that time. This added feature makes it so much more convenient for a buyer to view an agent's other properties nearby for sale.

The mobile site is created automatically and gives buyers instant access to the agent's bio, photo and contact info. In addition, the site promotes the virtual tour of every property listed by that agent.
So why should you purchase the Text Connect program for your virtual tour company and pitch TXT Connect / Mobile Sites to your real estate customers?

1. Mobile sites and TxT Connect is a GREAT way to promote your virtual tours
2. Any RTV provider reselling this service will make reoccurring 30% sales commissions
3. It is the most advanced tool on the market today to appeal to the mobile buyer
4. Every listing is displayed with a location map plotting all their listings, a video or virtual tour upload option, up to 10 photos, GPS activation, a full property description and "Click-to-call" links to contact the agent by SMS/Text, Email or Phone
5. It is all automatically created as they upload their listings and they are live within just a few minutes
6. Buyers access this mobile site either by using 1 single SMS/Text keyword or by an automatically generated QR barcode we create in each account.
7. They can then promote these in all their ads, signs, TV, radio, business cards, etc
8. Custom colors are available for the branding most of the major brokerages
9. This captures leads of all inquiries made to the mobile website
10.SMS technology and mobile sites raises the profile of the agent using the service

Can You Obtain An Affordable Mobile Website?

Virtual Florida Tours has been researching the market for years to obtain a cheaper andmore flexible solution for marketing realtors on the internet. At last in colaboration with our partners we can offer our clients a very effective website that will allow their prospects to have all their listings at the tips of their fingers. They will be able to see all your listings, browse the photos of the listing they are interested in, and also obtain driving locations to the listing of their choice.
By just sending a test message with your name to 43766 they will receive a website fitted exactly to their phone, that is extremely easy to browse. You will need to act fast before other realtors get their name and therefore exclude you of the possibility of using your own name as your website identifier. The cost is only 29.95 a month act now and get in front of your competition.