Get your tour found on popular websites & Get More Leads!
Every paid tour or account includes some great FREE, built-in tour distribution options for your tours. These include YouTube video distribution, linking the tour and listing to Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and more. We can also link the tour automatically to your local MLS, or if not available, you can always add your tour to the MLS by editing your listing and adding in the virtual tour link (check your MLS help desk for specific instructions). You can even import your flyer, floorplans and photos right into xpressdocs and get flyers or brochures mailed right to your door.
Plus, we are now the only tour company allowed to upload our automated walkthrough video (or custom video, if applicable) directly to your listing on Zillow. It comes complete with an intro/exist agent branding slide so your information can be the first thing users see when they look at the media associated with your listing! No other tour company has this capability to post automated slideshow videos. Let’s leverage this together.
To Get Started marketing your tour, make sure your profile includes the various websites where you want it distributed. Go to Edit Profile at the top when logged in, and select Edit Tour Linking & Distribution. Then check the box next to each website option. Please allow up to 48 hours from the time you publish the tour for linking to be completed, a little more time for the video to show up on Zillow, because it is currently a manual process on all ends for FloorPlanOnline and Zillow. To see where the tour is linked or to use the Facebook or Craigslist tools, go to Manage Tours when logged in, then click the Photos & Marketing Tools link to get to the Marketing Center. At the bottom you will see some options like this…
Note on Zillow & Trulia Linking. If your company or MLS distributes the tour to Zillow or Trulia, anything we do will not matter, as there is a hierarchy of tour distribution and these sites do not combine listing info from different sources. Therefore it is important to ensure your virtual tour link is included with that listing distribution from these other sources. Even if they pull in the unbranded tour, it is ok….because we now automatically convert it to the branded tour via our patent-pending BrandKeepr functionality. We suggest you visit the Edit My BrandKeeper Profile under Edit Profile and make sure your website, blog and your company website are listed. With BrandKeeper, we automatically convert the unbranded tour that might have been pulled in from the MLS into the branded tour on various websites. We automatically do this for websites like Zillow and Trulia and your website added in your profile. But you can add other sites too, like your company website. Just don’t enter a competitor site, as that can be a violation of MLS IDX rules.
We believe these new tools will get you more leads for your listings than anything else out there….so stay tuned! And that is why you should get your tours linked and updated now!
-Cheers
Kris Cone, CEO
