by Kris Cone | Dec 24, 2018 | NJ, Spotlight Tours
Amazing Christmas House
North Pole, Alaska
See Santa's Holiday Tour
Take a magical tour of this home featuring all kinds of holiday decorations. The front of the home features a virtual twilight effect that is animated in the video.
“I love the video you guys created for my listing - how did you manage to take my photo by the tree? You also did an amazing job on the virtual twilight of the home as I was flying through the Christmas night sky"
Santa Clause, North Pole Real Estate
Head Gift Giver
North Pole Real Estate
223 Main St, North Pole, AK
by Christine Cox | Dec 20, 2018 | Spotlight Tours, WA
Contemporary Craftsman
Issaquah, WA
See The Story of This Home
Roanoke Woods original build, contemporary craftsman located in one of the most coveted enclaves in Issaquah Highlands!
Wrap around covered front porch across from neighborhood park setting, light & bright entry, formal living & dining, recessed & high ceilings, hardwoods & great millwork. Chef's kitchen design with slab granite open to family room overlooking backyard, covered patio & lush greenbelt. Master suite & 4 bedrooms upstairs. Lower level with huge rec-room/bonus & full bath. 2 car garage with built-ins. Close proximity to other parks, trails, Grand Ridge Elementary, shops, dining, movie theatre & I-90 transit.
Professional HDR Photography & Matterport provided by FloorPlanOnline photographer, Baylee Reinert.
Besides the marketing remarks as you will see in the tour, what I personally love about the property is its peacefulness and tranquility this quiet neighborhood enclave has to offer, at the same time of being interactive with neighbors and small park across the street. A classic and elegant craftsman style, with rounded and covered front and back porches, plus a well designed floor plan with spaces for everyone and everything.
Matt Jensen
If you are interested in listing your home or have questions, please contact:
by Kris Cone | Dec 18, 2018 | Real Estate Info
New Order & Service Options
Introducing a new way to place orders for all of the great content created by our new local market manager, Jim Harrison of Image Habitat, and the rest of the FPO Team. New service options include Premium HDR photography, a 360 Walkthrough Tour (powered by Matterport), aerials and custom video options.
Amazing new service options:
All presented in the amazing FloorPlanOnline Tour platform
We automatically convert the unbranded tour pulled in from the MLS to branded on sites like Zillow, Trulia & Realtor.com. With FPO YOU show on 95% of the top 10 sites!
Both the Buyer and Seller can claim the home and get a copy of the photos and floor plans as a tool or keepsake
Free Advertising on Zillow & other sites
With our patent-pending Brandkeepr functionality, we keep your branding on your virtual tour on the most popular real estate sites. NO other tour company is automatically converting the unbranded tour pulled from the MLS to branded on 95% of the top 10 search sites!
Embedded Video on Zillow & Trulia
Every FloorPlan oriented tour or custom video we do gets a free branded video embed on the Zillow and Trulia listing page. No other tour company can embed an automated video like we can where over 200 million people each month view properties for sale!
This means the first thing a viewer clicks on will pop the video, complete with branding (if selected to show). Leverage this free advertising opportunity to get more buyers, and sellers, coming to you. You do not have to be a Premier agent to take advantage of this awesome feature, but you do need a FloorPlanOnline virtual tour. Just putting photos into the MLS does not showcase you and the great content you create for your listings.
-Rick Franz Managing Broker, Windermere Real Estate
Download our Listing Presentation Template
and get $50 off a 360 Tour
by Christine Cox | Dec 6, 2018 | OH, Spotlight Tours
Timeless Elegance
Bay Village, OH
View The Story of This Home
Timeless elegance & exquisite architecture abound in this gracious residence redesigned & rebuilt in 2008. Impeccable attention to detail, unparalleled craftsmanship, quality & Lake Erie views! Extensive use of African Walnut, Beech hardwood floors, Italian porcelain, exotic finishes, custom crafted moldings, designer lighting personify classic sophistication.Six sandstone columns & wrought iron fence grace circular drive & double door entry to impressive two-story foyer with breathtaking Schoenbeck Strass crystal chandelier.
Tastefully appointed Formal Living Room and Dining room which seats 14. Beauty & function in 2 full gourmet kitchens with glazed cabinetry, huge islands, premier appliances-Bosch, Miele, Sub-Zero, Dacor, Thermador. Expansive family room features exquisite Woodmode cabinetry feature wall.Lighted built-ins with inlaid mirror in handsome den.Spacious Master Retreat has poplar octagonal ceiling alcove, sunny office, luxury bath, enormous walk-in closet, tandem fitness/nursery. All generous bedrooms have bath.Paneled 3-stop elevator to fabulous lower level family room, theater, billiard room, gorgeous spa bath sauna, cedar closet. Finelli wrought iron & natural arborvitae fence lend beauty & privacy to idyllic grounds.
Covered porch, 20x33 patio, wide boxwood lined sandstone walkways, two fountains & array of horticultural species.Two HVAC w/6-zones, 2 Rinnai tankless H2O ht, Lutron lighting, whole house generator. The complete list of construction/mechanical available.The best of everything!
Professional HDR Photography and Matterport provided by FloorPlanOnline Photographer, Christine Cox.
If you are interested in listing your home or have questions, please contact:
by Kris Cone | Nov 30, 2018 | Listing Tools, Real Estate Info, Technology
Secure Tours & Brandkeeper.
We have two great updates regarding our virtual tours that were released in the last week regarding SSL and Brandkeepr. These two updates go hand in hand with each other:
- SSL Secure Tours. Now, all tours are served using the SSL protocol, meaning they are served encrypted from end to end and the tour url uses https. While there really isn’t any personal info on the tour that required the switch, to get our Brandkeepr functionality to work on most of the top real estate search sites, we had to update our tours because most of those sites are using https, so to get our Brandkeepr magic to work, our tours also have to be SSL secured. Your company site, and your personal website may also use SSL, so when properly configured, we can automatically convert the unbranded tour to the branded version on about 95% of the top 10 sites, and more! Plus, it makes embedding a tour, like the example below, work if your own site or blog is secure.
- New Tour Viewer. We released a new Tour Viewer design in addition to the Story format. So if you like the more classic tour look that has your logo persistent and buttons for content items, the new Tour Viewer is for you. All it takes is selecting the option and then selecting your start content, including a new “Dashboard” view (read more on that below). This new viewer, combined with the secure protocol change, means you can now embed our tour easily on your own website or a blog post using simple embed code, just like this example. It is a full functioning tour, embedded into your own website.
Try this embedded tour – all content works, including on any mobile device. Just start clicking!
Display Options for the Virtual Tour.
In order to embed a tour into a website page, all you need to use is our sample code like this (which is also shown on the Tour Links page within the marketing center for each tour):
<!–start –>
<iframe name=”tour” src=” https://www.floorplanonline.com/tour/184056/b ” frameborder=”1″ width=”100%” height=”800″></iframe>
<!– end –> |
Just change the tour ID (184056 in this example) to your tour ID and this code should work on most sites. You can also change the width and height size, in pixels, which will set the maximum display (it is responsive so it will shrink on smaller devices). If you would like to start with a particular content view, you can either change to the desired view under Edit Details, Content Display Options (see screen shot below), or you can click on the desired content button on the tour itself and then copy and paste the URL that has the content at the end. For example, to start with the Floor Plan view, just use this as the embed url: https://www.floorplanonline.com/tour/184056/b/floorplan or to start with the video, use https://www.floorplanonline.com/tour/184056/b/walkthru. These options give you ultimate flexibility on displaying your tour.
Note…you can also use both the Story or the Tour Viewer links on the same listing at the same time. The default is what you set on Manage Tours, under the Tour Frame Type section at the very top, but both links work to display the tour in a specific format, as follows:
The Tour View – https://www.floorplanonline.com/tour/184056/ 
The Story View – https://www.floorplanonline.com/story/184056/
The normal tour link, like https://www.floorplanonline.com/184056/ will open up the default selected view but these specific links override that, if you want to use them for a specific reason (like using the Story for MLS and distribution but using the Tour for embedding on your blog). Again, it provides extreme flexibility.
Note: our existing embedded tour content option on the Marketing Center is still coded for the old format, so please use the instructions here for embedding the new tour viewer on your website. An update will come in the future for the legacy option to provide even more flexibility, so if you only wanted to show the floor plan and the video on the embedded version, you could without disturbing the main virtual tour view.
How to configure BrandkeeprTM for maximum exposure.
On sites like Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Homes.com and Redfin, we can now recognize the user is coming from one of these sites when they click on the virtual tour, and we therefore automatically convert the unbranded tour pulled in from the MLS to the branded version, so YOUR brand shows on 95.5% of the top 10 real estate oriented websites. The virtual tour is the ONLY content item for your listing that can lead people back to you on any number of sites. Leverage this bread crumb trail! It gives you more visibility that gets you more leads for free, just by people seeing the virtual tour on these sites! We can also do this for your company website, your personal website or blog or any other site YOU put into the BrandkeeprTM configuration.
To configure and edit your BrandkeeprTM profile, go to Edit Profile and then elect the Edit My Brandkeepr profile. From this page you can see what sites we automatically convert to the branded link, and you can add your own sites (we add your profile site by default), or turn off some if you do not want it branded for some reason. This tool gives you lots of flexibility. Note: do not put in your competitor websites as you could run afoul of the IDX rules that generally prohibit agent branding on content distributed from the MLS. It is ok on these major search portals, just don’t do it on your competitor’s websites…
The key to making all of this work is make sure to use the https link when you post the virtual tour. If you already have a tour linked, just change it in the mls – add the “s” at the end and it should get updated to other sites. That is it! going forward the links we provide you already has https in the link.
One final note. Leverage the Call2Action photo to also get more people to visit the virtual tour. Zillow does a good job of hiding the link below the fold (the user has to scroll), so get them to go to the tour that has all of this other great content, including floor plans, video, and more. Learn more on Call2Action here.
