We have made a few requested updates to the Tabbed Tour viewer. The Tabbed Tour viewer is a template option for your tours, either when you create a new tour (or go to Edit Details) or in your proile. It is also the default viewer when you view the tour content on an iPad.
Several changes were made, as follows:
Default Media View
Now, when you select the default media to be the FloorPlan, Video or Photos, that selection will work for the Tabbed Tour. Previously, it only worked on the 2.0 Web Page Tour. The Dashboard view for the Tabbed Tour is the Home Tab.
For the Unbranded Tour, we also removed the top Header, so there is no contact info showing (previously it showed our branding). One little fix to be done is add the Address to the Details tab, since that was showing up in the header. That will be fixed in the next day or so.
Embedded and Side by Side FloorPlan Views for Interactive Floor Plan Tours
Both the Tabbed Tour and the Web Page tour now support two floor plans views. The default is the photos side by side the floorplan. However, you can now click the icon next to change view, and it changes to the embedded plan view. Here you can move the image around and zoom in on the floor plan so it fills the whole content area. This is helpful for very large and wide floor plans that might have had issues.
To use the tabbed tour for any of your tours, just go to Manage Tours, then click Edit Details for a tour. Select the Tabbed Tour as the Tour Frame Type at the top of the page. If you want to use this for all of your tours going forward, go to Edit Profile and make the selection. Next time you create a tour, it will default to that view. To default to the floor plan view for any or all of your tours, scroll down to the section titled Content Display Options and select the desired content under Show by Default. You can do this on the Edit Details page or Edit Profile page.
We are pleased to announce the release of our new Marketing Center layout, which is the centerpiece for how you quickly and easily get access to your FloorPlanOnline Interactive Floor Plan | Video content, both for online and offline use.
The new marketing center more logically lays out the placement of web links to your Interactive Floor Plan Tours or Video Tours, buttons for downloadable content, such as photos, your flyer or various file formats for your floor plans, and it includes quick access to xpressdocs so you can print your marketing flyers and brochures through xpressdocs and even import the images our photographers take to xpressdocs to use their 1, 2 or 4 page brochures or “Just Listed Postcards”
It also more directly shows you how to set up our Featured Listing app on your Facebook business page and more!
I would like to thank the FPO Dev team in making this new release a reality!
As part of this, we and xpressdocs are offering a 20% discount on your xpressdocs order before June 30th. To see the coupon code, visit our Facebook page, click the Big Sale image and Like Us, and you will then see the coupon.
One other small improvement. All of our modern tour templates (excludes the 1.0) now has 2 floor plan views. You can click the icon to change from the side by side view to an embedded plan view. This is the icon to the right of Change View. This makes wider, larger floor plans easier to see. You can move the image around for better viewing as well. This is also available on the iPad tour.
At this time we have depreciated the Facebook app because of lack of use and required development changes. If you want to post your tour to Facebook, simply copy and past the virtual tour URL to your Facebook business or personal page, add some intro text, and post. Facebook will automatically pull back an image and some marketing text.
If you have a Facebook business page, you can then boost the post – buy a paid ad and push that out to a certain area using Facebooks ad platform. Just know that this would be considered a “Fair Housing” special ad category, and as such, they have removed a lot of targeting capabilities, like target by job title or a speciic zip code. You can target by a city, just not a specific zip code.
We just updated our iPad tour with a couple of new features.
1. Swipe on the photos. Now you can just use your finger to swipe through images.
2. New Embed FloorPlan view. In addition to the side by side view (photos next to floor plans), you can click the button to see a larger floor plan with photos that pop on top of the floor plan. This enhancement will be added soon to the newer tour templates as well.
To read more about the best iPad tour viewer out there, including how to project the tour to any TV connected to an Apple TV, click here.
We are pleased to announce we have integrated our service with xpressdocs, a leader in print marketing. How, you can get your FloorPlanOnline property flyer commercially printed and shipped right to your door. Plus, you can import the photos and floor plans in our system to xpressdocs, and create your own flyer using any xpressdcos template. These include 1, 2 and 4 page flyers and brochures, or even just listed postcards.
To send your flyer to xpressdocs, just go to Manage Tours, select Edit Tour on the right under Tour Actions, and then Edit Flyer. Go to the bottom and select Save and Download Flyer. Once the flyer has been regenerated, you will see a new section where you can Send to Printer. Click the button.
For first time users without an existing xpressdocs account, a new account will be created for you – just confirm the information, including your shipping address. If your company already uses xpressdocs, their system should take you through a process to confirm you office. If you edit your floorplanonline profile, we have added a new field for the Office ID. That should speed the process.
You are buying from xpressdocs, so you will need to add or confirm you payment information.
Here is an interesting blog post from comScore – 2012 U.S. Digital Future in Focus a report detailing how fast the tablet market is growing, and how it has zoomed passed the growth lines of other tech tools. According to PewInternet, the number of eReaders and tablet users DOUBLED between mid-December and January of 2012. Wow…a popular holiday gift, it seems.
PEW Research Center
As it stands now, there are over 35 million tablets in use in the United States, some 19% of adults own some kind of tablet. Mobile use is also increasing. Companies like Zillow and Realtor.com also report a significant number of users over the weekends come from mobile devices. According to comScore, 20% of holiday shoppers used their smartphones to check prices while at a brick and mortar store. This includes scanning bar codes and QR codes, those funny looking square boxes we have on our property fliers. BestBuy and other retailers are starting to incorporate the use of QR codes more and more at the point of sale….so could QR codes be hitting the mainstream?
Luckily, FloorPlanOnline has tools to meet these growing demands. We recently launched our exclusive iPad Tabbed Tour. You can see most tour content, including the interactive floor plan, video and more, just by opening the tour up on your iPad. You can even connect your iPad to a TV connected to an Apple TV to show it off on the big screen. Pretty cool. Read more on that here. P.S. it works on other tablet devices too.
We also serve up a mobile tour for smartphones so the user can see basic listing content, including an image of the floor plan.
Finally, we automatically create a QR code for each listing. You can easily add it to any flyer and it is available as a download under marketing tools in your account. This helps reduce paper costs by allowing people to scan the code on your flyer in a flyer box for more info.
We are also exploring more advanced mobile tools….so stay tuned!
If you would like to see the comScore report, please see this video.
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Embedded and Side by Side FloorPlan Views for Interactive Floor Plan Tours
At this time we have depreciated the Facebook app because of lack of use and required development changes. If you want to post your tour to Facebook, simply copy and past the virtual tour URL to your Facebook business or personal page, add some intro text, and post. Facebook will automatically pull back an image and some marketing text. 
We are pleased to announce we have integrated our service with xpressdocs, a leader in print marketing. How, you can get your FloorPlanOnline property flyer commercially printed and shipped right to your door. Plus, you can import the photos and floor plans in our system to xpressdocs, and create your own flyer using any xpressdcos template. These include 1, 2 and 4 page flyers and brochures, or even just listed postcards.
