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Official Press Release for FPO 2.0

May 19th, 2010

FloorplanOnline® version 2.0 provides Buyer, Seller and Agent valuable resources

ISSAQUAH, WA –FloorPlanOnline® (FPO), an interactive floorplan website that offers buyers and real estate agents the ability to virtually tour properties online announces the launch of FPO 2.0, a redesigned and upgraded version of its interactive online floorplan tour.

The new version includes a more user-friendly integrated website that consists of upgraded navigation with different property content and multiple tour customization options. The advanced site presents the consumer with a myriad of Media options; including a Floor Plan Viewer with zoom-ability and full screen, Photo Viewer with large, high quality photos, WalkThruTM Video, and the new RoomPlanner that allows the user to drag and drop furniture onto the floorplan to experiment with furniture placement and design. The site also allows the listing agent to perform search engine optimization (SEO) on individual properties and do their own tracking via Google Analytics (or other tracking programs).

“FPO 2.0 brings a new, high level of information to the home buyer about a listing. Our goal is to provide the most robust content platform for properties online,” said Kris Cone, CEO of FloorPlanOnline®. “To be able to see the floorplan of a home, click on a room and see the photo of that room – it’s a powerful tool. To then further make it your own with the RoomPlanner gets the buyer interested and engaged. We are taking great care to offer this premium service affordably and efficiently through full or self service options.”

FloorPlanOnline® launched in 2005 to provide home buyers with an accurate depiction of property online including big crisp photos, video, disclosures and floorplans. The new and upgraded version of the original floorplan website builds upon the success that FPO has already established, including being mentioned by real estate guru, Barbara Corcoran on the Today Show in 2009.

Research completed in 2009 by the California Association of Realtors showed that 20 or more photos online reduced the time a home is on the market up to 50 percent. Other independent research has shown that floorplans were second to photos when buyers were asked what they wanted to see when looking for a home online. FPO provides both.

Top agents and companies like Shea Homes know how important statistics like these are and have called upon FloorPlanOnline to help them market their homes. Recently, universities like UCLA have also asked FloorPlanOnline to build interactive campus and building maps for new and prospective students.

About FloorplanOnline
FloorPlanOnline created the Interactive FloorPlan Tour to fill the gap in the market created by traditional virtual tour services – namely, the inability to see the property layout before an actual site visit. FPOs products can save the Buyer, Seller and the Real Estate Agent valuable time while providing them key information that has been requested for years. FPO can be used for residential or commercial real estate listings, leases, retail centers and land development.

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New FPO 2.0 Virtual Tour – In a One Min Video

by chrisdrayer

April 26th, 2010

FloorPlanOnline launched the new FPO 2.0 Format on May 1, 2010. Your orders will now automatically receive the new enhanced premium virtual tour.
Enhancements are everywhere – Video, Photos, FloorPlan and Room Planner all with new crisp wide format, new easy to use navigation and built in local link tool, Google maps and Street View, Social Media and SEO.

New To FloorPlanOnline? Registration is FREE HERE.
For More info on FPO 2.0 check out this post.

FPO 2.0 will bring a high level of information to the home buyer about a listing. Our goal is to provide the most robust content platform for property online. We are taking great care to offer this premium service affordably and efficiently.

FPO 2.o by FloorPlanOnline Real Estate Marketing

Simple – We can Photograph, Measure and Produce
Effective – Buyers want to see Floor Plans with Photos
Affordable – Feature Rich without a Long Term Contract
Premium Virtual Tours for Top Agents

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Corporate & Sub Account Support

by Kris Cone

March 9th, 2010

I have talked to a lot of customers recently about situations where they have multiple accounts and need access to those account. So I wanted to let you know we support what we call a Corporate/Sub Account structure. Normally, when you register with us, you create an individual account. However, you can create a corporate account, and then once you have a corporate account, you can create sub accounts (this is done in the corporate account under the Manage Sub Accounts on the right when you are logged in), or with the corporate account info, an agent can create a sub account underneath your corporate account. All they need is the Company customer ID and the company password. The option to register as a sub account is located on our registration page, or click here.

With the Corporate/Sub account structure, you can have one person manage the office tours, for example, but each agent can get access into their own account. The corporate account sees all tours for each sub account. You can also place tour orders out of the corporate account for any sub-account. Just select the drop-down on page 2 as you are placing an order. This account structure is quite handy for companies that do some of the work for agents.

We can also set things up so the corporate account pays for all sub account tours. Please call us at 866-810-3816, option 3 if you would like to set up a corporate/sub account structure or you can always send us an email. Just use the form below.

-Cheers,

Kris Cone

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New Tour Highlights Beta Feature

by amyhayes

January 27th, 2010

We are excited to highlight new FPO tools and one Beta Tool on the FloorPlanOnline “Tour of the Week” Today.

The FPO Custom Hotspot tool launched this month and allows agents to link youtube video, neighborhood websites or other FPO tours directly on the interactive floorplan. On this tour the hotspot tool is used three times to link various other content. Two “house” type hotspot icons on the right side of the floorplan take you to a tour of the area Clubhouse and amenity’s. The second “house” hotspot links to the Naperville Park district website. Imagine how buyers will appreciate the custom information and ease of use.

Bamboo lane Naperville Brick Luxury lifestyle home

Live the Naperville luxury Lifestyle in this Brick Home - The FloorPlanOnline Tour of the Week.

Statistically Neighborhood Quality is the number one factor in deciding on a property (according this years NAR data). Thus – the more you can highlight about the quality of the neighborhood the better.

Secondly, the longer a visitor stays looking at a listing online, the more emotionally attached they become to the property. With the Beta FloorPlaner tool (gray icon to the left of the floorplan) buyers may select furnishings and move them into the home digitally. Select a couch, chair or lamp, and drag, rotate and click it into place. Its still in Beta testing, so not bug free – but a cool look at the possibility’s. Test the new tool here or on the tour above and give us your feedback!

Finally, we introduced the mouse over feature on all listings as well. Simply mouse over the camera icon on the floorplan to view a thumb nail or click it to view the large photo.

This listing is in Naperville IL, (Chicago Suburb) and located at www.floorplanonline.com/56464

If you wish to volunteer one of your upcoming listings for future Beta testing send an email to chris@floorplanonline.com.

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FloorPlanner Tool…Sneak Preview

by Kris Cone

January 22nd, 2010

Hi FloorPlanOnline users.
I wanted to give you a sneak preview of a floorplanner tool we are working on and get your thoughts. Can you review the tool below and then complete the poll on what you think. We are working to bring this, and some other exciting enhancements, to our tours soon. The embedded version is below, or Click Here to see the full screen version (so the icon library is not over the plan as in this embedded version).

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Mouse Over & Embed Enhancements

by Kris Cone

December 29th, 2009

Click for tour with mouse over

Mouse Over with Photo Thumbnails. Today, we released a small but useful feature – Photo Mouse Over. Now, when you are viewing an Interactive FloorPlan Tour, you can mouse over a camera icon and a small thumbnail image of the photo will pop-up next to the camera icon. Click, and the photo will change on the left. This new feature will allow users to quickly preview photos of interest, and then click to get a larger view. It is available and live today on all tours – you do not need to do anything!

Embedded Object Enhancement. We have also enhanced the embeddable object for the Interactive FloorPlan to include the mouse over feature, although a larger size photo does show. In addition, we have included navigation buttons on the photos to allow for easier navigation between photos – just click the arrow buttons to go forward or back. The old way required you to click a camera icon, then close it, and then click another camera to navigate between photos. This new feature should make it much faster to view photos on the embeddable FloorPlan Tours.

You can easily add an Embeddable FloorPlan Tour to your blog sites or on many company sites (like Windermere, John L Scott, Coldwell Banker Bain, and others). Just think of the SEO benefits of creating a blog post for each of your listings – name the Post the address of your listing, add your marketing text, and then include the embeddable FloorPlan Tour. You can also add the video if you want as well! It adds more content to your website, keeps browsers there longer and turns them into buyers!

To configure your tour’s embeddable objects, just go to Manage Orders, then click the View link under Marketing Materials, then click the Embeddable Object button to get to the set-up page. You can change the colors of the buttons and the text on the buttons, and you can elect to show a “Full Tour” button (or change it to other text), which when clicked, will open a new window with the complete branded tour. All you need to do when you have completed your customization is hit the Apply button, then click the link above the code and right click your mouse to copy the embeddable object code. Then, go to your blog or listing detail page for your listing and right click your mouse to paste the code in the desired location. Add additional explanatory text on top or below the code, and save. That is it! It is cool, effective, and keeps the buyer on your website longer to become a buyer!

Just try the example below to see how it works.

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New Hotspot Feature Launches

by Kris Cone

December 20th, 2009

We have launched a new feature on the FloorPlan Tours where you can now add a “hotspot” to any other webpage on the floor plan area. So you can add a link to a video (like a youtube video), another website, a community tour, or school website. Just go to Manage Orders, then click the link under the Tour Editor column, and then Edit Photos on FloorPlan. The hotspot tool is at the bottom towards save.

You can watch a “How To” video below.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

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