Posts Tagged ‘online’
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Panoramic Sign Riders Stand Out and Grab Attention
Panoramic sign riders are a great innovative marketing solution for real estate agents or For Sale By Owner properties. These riders are designed to capture the attention of passers-by and to stand out from the crowd of other real estate riders.
A drive through any neighborhood in the Shreveport/Bossier City area will reveal a host of real estate signs and their respective riders. Most of these provide information such as the listing Realtor, a phone number or maybe a website address. However, PanoRiders are not your typical sign rider. A PanoRider offers a full color, high resolution panorama of the interior of the property. Text alone is not enough any more, this sign rider will capture interest with a glimpse inside the home. This is exceptionally great if there is a competing sign in the yard next door. Our sign rider will make your yard sign unique and attention grabbing.
Once interest is peaked, a buyer can gain the information they are seeking with the single property website located on the PanoRider. This single property web address is the address of the listing itself. Once online, the buyer will see a virtual tour of the entire interior of the home along with lots of additional photos, detailed text description and the listing agent’s or owner’s contact information. But wait, there’s more. The website is accessible from your smart phone! How awesome is that. It’s like marketing – with superpowers.
Next, of course, the interested buyer calls the agent and offers double the asking price for the home, then requests to bring a check by that afternoon……Ok, no, that part doesn’t really happen. But, this sign rider does generate highly interested leads.
This innovative marketing tool harnesses the power of the internet together with the power of a yard sign to gain exposure for real estate listings. If you are a real estate agent or an FSBO who wants to stand apart from the crowd while maintaining cost effective advertising, this is worth your time to investigate. No more soggy flyers or empty flyer boxes. Panoramic Sign Riders are full color and weather proof.
Contact Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours, your Shreveport/Bossier City virtual tour company, to learn more about innovative marketing solutions for your property.
Photo of Panoramic Sign Rider on a Rainy Day
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
In today’s real estate market, approximately 90% of home buyers start their search online, looking at dozens of photos of homes.
The photo of the front of the home is the single most important photo on the listing. This photo is the buyers very first impression of the home. It is the one that helps determine if the buyer will continue to look further into the listing or move on to the next one. It is important to spend the extra time and energy to get the “perfect” shot of the exterior of the home.
Whether you do your photos yourself or hire a professional photographer, here are some important things to consider in photographing the front of the home:
- Straight on is not always the best option. Try photographing from one side, especially if there are interesting architectural features. Also be certain to include all of the home in the frame.
- Choose your time of day. Photograph when the sun is on the front of the home, not behind it.
- Choose your day. Don’t photograph on dreary, gray, overcast days. Bright and sunny is preferable.
- Properly expose the photo. Make sure the color balance is correct – a strange blue or gray cast is not good. Make sure the photo is bright and cheerful and competitive.
Remember that your photo will be compared to other homes of similar size and price. If your photo is dark, awkwardly colored or generally uninviting, then it may leave the buyer feeling less than impressed with your listing. Possibly for reasons they can not even identify, they will just know that the house seems dreary.
Great photos should help bring buyers to the property. If you do not have the time in your busy day to take competitive photos, you might consider hiring a professional photographer. This is a small expense that can be recouped in freeing your time to actively sell homes. Not to mention that your seller will be very impressed with how their home is being marketed.
Tags: internet marketing, marketing, online, Photography, photos, real estate, real estate photography
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Working as a real estate photographer, one thing I often see is blurry photos. Blur can be caused by several factors, but often the culprit in real estate photos is camera shake. This is the result of the slow shutter speeds necessary to photograph home interiors. The longer the shutter is open, the more likely it is to record every little movement, no matter how small.
The best answer for eliminating camera shake is a tripod. But when that is just not a feasible answer, there are some other things you can do. This article from Darren Rowse at DPS has several tips for reducing camera shake when shooting hand held photos.
How to Hold a Digital Camera
One little trick I use when I don’t have a tripod available is to place the camera on a firm and level surface such as a table top. Just be careful not to move the camera when you press the shutter button.
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Media is located in Shreveport/Bossier City, La and provides real estate photography, virtual tours and website design to real estate and commercial clients.
Tags: homeinteriors, marketing, online, Photography, realestatephoto, realestatephotography
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
On Demand Hit Statistics
Did you know that you can run an INSTANT on demand hit report by clicking on the little “Eye” at the bottom of any of your virtual tours? That’s right! Information like who your virtual tour is reaching, how many people have viewed it or where those viewers are coming from is right at your finger tips.
Click here to view your On Demand Hit Stats
And in addition to On Demand hit stats, you can also receive this information via email each week. Making it easy for you to stay up to date on how your online marketing is doing. And your clients can see how often their home is being viewed. Weekly reports ensure that everyone involved is kept informed and up to date!
Simply put, you will be amazed at the traffic you are getting on your virtual tour when your weekly hit reports come in.
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Do you need a virtual tour of your Shreveport or Bossier City lisitng? Contact Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours today to learn more about the online marketing options we can offer you!
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Media would like to send out a huge thanks to C.O.R.E. of Shreveport, La. for their kind words about the virtual tour we recently photographed for them. Here’s what they had to say…
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I’m sending our appreciation for your professional work on the virtual tour for Center of Recovery-CORE. It was indeed a pleasure to work with you and your wife on this project. You came highly recommended by more than one agency to use and we are pleased we chose your company to work with. We have already had numerous positive responses from our virtual tour being added to the web site. Thank you for your great work! Janet Miller, M.S., LAC, CCGC,AADC Director of Clinical Services-LACG Program Director Center of Recovery – CORE 635 Stoner Avenue Shreveport, LA 71101
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
When photographing still images for MLS, shoot on small size. Today’s modern point and shoot cameras can shoot in excess of 10 megapixels. This giant megapixel digital image on your camera is a poster sized photo. Bigger is not always better. If you ever wonder why it takes 5 minutes to upload a single picture to your listing, it is because the server has to reduce the size of your picture to a smaller use-for-web size. This process can cause a loss of image quality resulting in a blurry image.
If you must shoot large images, consider resizing the image width to 512 pixels in your favorite photo editing software. You will get some blurring if you do this. To correct this after reducing an image’s size, we recommend a “Smart Sharpen” (in Photoshop) around 40%, and then “Save for Web” at “High” quality.
Now you have a clear High Definition photo that loads very fast thanks to its small size!
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Tags: marketing, online, Photography, photos, real estate, Tips
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Are you feeling the crunch on your marketing budget? Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours can help with low cost, flat fee virtual tours. Designed to keep your marketing competitive and professional looking without putting a strain on your budget, our flat fee virtual tours are ideal for any size home.
For as low as $75, this virtual tour option consists of a 6 scene high res. tour which can still accommodate all the add-on features you have come to rely on such as audio, single-property website, mls stills and realtor.com submission.
While we still offer our custom tours based on square footage, the flat fee tour is the same cost for any size home. Call or visit our website today for more information.
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Tags: internet marketing, online, property, real estate photography, virtual tour, virtual tour company
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours is pleased to announce that our realtors’ virtual tour galleries have now been SEO optimized, making it possible to reach a bigger internet market!
Your Virtual Tour Gallery
A link to your tour gallery is located at the top right of all your virtual tours. The gallery includes all of your active
tours. This link can be utilized on your website and in your emails to allow viewers to see all your listings right from their own computer.
SEO Optimized
What is SEO optimized? This simply means that you have now gained more online marketing power to boost you and your property to the top of the internet search results – a process which is key to getting noticed on the web.
So, don’t hesitate to take advantae of your new marketing power boost and increase your online exposure. Contact Ark-La-Tex Virtual Tours today! Whether you need a virtual tour, still pictures, or added internet exposure for your Shreveport/Bossier City area property, we are here to help you get noticed on the internet.
Tags: internet marketing, marketing, online, property, shreveport, virtual tour company, virtual tours
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