by Kris Cone | Sep 2, 2014 | Listing Tools, Technology
Introducing the new Full Screen Tour viewer! We recently released this real estate marketing update that showcases your tours in stunning HD content. The new viewer features huge photos – they fill the browser window on any computer and look amazing, even on the big Apple Cinema Display that is 2560 pixels wide! Plus all of the other content like the FloorPlan, RoomPlanner, Map fill the screen too. The video rests over the background image of the tour and plays within a window, but you can also pop that to full screen. Note, if you want a different background image for the video, just select a different photo as the first photo in the Photo view of the tour.
If you are tired of those virtual tours that only occupy a small part of your screen, this tour viewer is for you! We feature the content in a viewer window that is up to 75% larger than the other guys!
Works on iPad too! If you select the Full Screen Tour for your default viewer, we also use this on the iPad. As with other tours, everything works, except the RoomPlanner tool, which is still in Flash (note, we are working on some enhancements for that tool this fall). All other tours will continue to use the tabbed tour on the iPad.
If you would like to see a sample, just click here.
Full Screen Photos
If you want to change your tours to full screen, just create a new tour, select the Full Screen Tour option as you go through the steps, or if you want to change an existing tour, just login, go to Manage Tours and select the Edit Details link for the listing. Note. You may need to do this for each tour as you place it for now. We hope you enjoy this free tour enhancement!
by Kris Cone | Apr 22, 2014 | Listing Tools, Technology
We recently launched a new 2 page flyer template that has one large photo on the front and then the floorplans and more photos and text on the back (or if it is a photo tour it had more photos on the left hand side). Just select the template when you go to Edit Flyer, as shown below. Mouse over the color area and click to open the color palette that allows you to pick a color…or even enter a custom color code, so you can match it exactly to your branding.
You can show or hide various things like Price, the QR code or even the tour link. The flyer can also be uploaded or imported into xpressdocs right from your account, or you should be able to upload it to any other printing company to get professionally printed flyers.
To get started just login to your account and go to Manage Tours, then Edit Tour/Edit Flyer. Download a Sample Flyer
by Kris Cone | Mar 12, 2014 | Listing Tools, Tour Updates
We released a new simplified way to either search/filter for accounts on the Manage Tour page, or when you are placing an order. In the past, there was a long list to select from. Now, if you are placing orders via a corporate account, just start typing the person’s name (first or last) or their customer ID and the list of filtered agents will appear. You can then quickly select from the list.
This is an example. Once the list appears just mouse over the desired name and click.
by Kris Cone | Mar 7, 2014 | Real Estate Info, Real Estate News
An interesting article from Inman the other day where the top 3 real estate portals are really dominating the search results. Zillow was at the top with 16.53 percent of real estate traffic. Then came Trulia with 8.66%. Rounding out the top 3 was Realtor.com (which used to be #1) with 7.26%. But what these numbers do not show is Zillow also powers several other websites, including Yahoo Homes, which is #4. So you have Zillow with over 64 million monthly visitors to their site and listings. Realtor.com does power MSN Real Estate, so together, they represent about 26 million monthly visits.
by Kris Cone | Feb 7, 2014 | Listing Tools, Testimonies, What's New
We recently launched intro and exit branding slides for the downloadable/YouTube video. We heard from some of you that you wanted this to be optional. We have listened, and you now have the ability to uncheck the box for the branding slides. If you do not want the branding, or if you want to first download the video file without the branding for use elsewhere…and then add the branding, just uncheck the box, save and we will regenerate the video you can download or that gets posted to YouTube. Each time you check or uncheck the box, we regenerate the video, so you do have some options to create multiple downloadable files.
We hope you enjoy this FREE enhancement!
by Kris Cone | Jan 22, 2014 | Real Estate Info
We are pleased to announce the launch of agent branding on the YouTube videos. We have been providing automated YouTube video uploads for years now, but the video was an exact replica of the video on your tour. Now, we have added agent branding at the beginning and end of the video that includes info on the property as well as 
your contact info, logo and photo. We also add a banner that displays your contact info and some property info.
As always, you can select the free YouTube posting service to either the FloorPlanOnline YouTube Channel, or you can set to authenticate with your own google account/YouTube account. See the settings under Edit Profile, then Edit Tour Linking & Distribution. Select the box to upload videos to your YouTube channel, then authenticate by signing in with your gmail account credentials (it helps to have gmail or your YouTube channel open when you do this). Save at the bottom.
Then just make sure as you create a new tour, the box is checked to upload the video to YouTube.
That’s it! Again we create these videos for free…no upgrades, up charges or manual work needed!
