Digital Internet Marking Solutions
Virtual Tours are one of the most cost effective marketing tools that an Agent has at their disposal.
EPro Virtual Tours designs unique custom websites for the individual Real Estate Consultant's marketing strategy.
Thru our PicturePath ® partnership with Realtor.com®, our Virtual Tour can improve the
display ranking order of your listing thereby increasing the number of viewings and your
chances of "Closing the Sale".
EPro Virtual Tours is proud to offer a premium Virtual Tour with the following features.
- A large viewing window
for your tour presentation photos. (600 pixel x 360 pixel 7in x 4.25in.)
- By default all tours are linked to your listing on REALTOR.com®.
- Daily email feedback on the quantity of traffic your tour is generating.
- Custom website color matching so the tour blends in with your website branding.
- Two styles of tours for the price of one. With our products you can receive a branded and
unbranded tour just in case your local MLS does not allow branded tours on their website.
The branded tour is for REALTOR.com® and the unbranded tour can go to your local MLS.
- Automatic start and running of the tour. No need for your viewers to interact with the tour.
Controls provided in case they choose to.
- Multiple links from the tour to your personal support information, i.e. your website,
your other listings on the Internet, your email and phone, map directions,
satellite view, and a link to your listing flyer
(provided by you) describing your listing.
- 1 year or the close of escrow:
all tours stay active on the Internet for one year or until your listing closes escrow or the MLS number changes.
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Savvy agents know how to use virtual tours to their full advantage by using them
as a tool that distinguishes their marketing from their competitors.
The following are advantages for REALTORS® using virtual tours in their Internet marketing strategy.
- Helps illustrate to your clients that you understand and use technology to achieve their goals.
- Brings a higher quality and more interested buyer to your clients door which
helps maintain their privacy and security.
- Listings online with virtual tours have 85% more views than listings without virtual tours.
(REALTOR.com® user statistics)
- Virtual Tours can improve the display ranking order of your listing thereby increasing the
number of viewing's and your chances of "Closing the Sale".
- Thru Virtual Tour email and phone links, buyers can communicate
directly with you by the click of a mouse or push of a button.
- Virtual Tours are a good lead generating tool that gives you the
opportunity to convert buyers, without a representing agent, into clients.
- Virtual Tours provide a venue thru which you hold an Open House 24/7.
- Virtual Tours are a very cost effective marketing tool.
- Epro Virtual Tours provide daily email reports
on the number of tour viewing's. This information can be used to show your
clients the effectiveness of your virtual tour marketing plan for their listing..
The following statistics illustrate the importance of virtual tours to home buyers.
- Home buyers and Sellers spend 75% of their time searching online
for real estate on REALTOR.com®. (Media Metrix. January 2005)
- REALTOR.com® has, on average over 5.7 million visitors per month.
(Source: Media Metrix 2005)
- 78 % of those who shop for homes on the Internet say the
most important feature when searching online is photos -- followed closely by detailed
property descriptions and virtual tours, according to the 2003 National Association of Realtors Profile
of Home Buyers and Sellers.
- 120,000 ( 60% ) of users a day on REALTOR.com® prefer to view
Listings displaying a Home Tour over those Listings without a Virtual Tour.
(Media Metrix. January 2005)