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Enhanced Co-Listing Update

Enhanced Co-Listing Update

Introducing Co-Listing Support!  In the past, you had to create a separate account to support the display of two agents and their contact info, which was time consuming and laborious.  Now you can easily add another agent to a listing just by typing in their name or manually adding their contact info. This is done on a listing by listing basis, making it a lot easier and faster to add a co-listing agent.  Once you add a co-list agent they will show up on the tour as well as on one of the co-listing flyers that we have added.

Click here to see an example.

There are two points where you can add a co-listing agent to an account:

Creating a New Tour

1. The first is during the process of creating a new tour. When you reach the Customize Tour step you are able to add a co-listing agent to the listing, just by searching for an agent already in our system, or manually add them.

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Managing Tours
 2. The second is adding it to an already existing tour under the Manage Tours tab of your FloorPlan Online account. Click on the edit details link next to the Listing ID. You can then add/edit the co-listing information there.

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As mentioned above, there are two ways to add an agent. Select from an already existing agent or manually add one, as you see below.

1. Choose from an Already Existing Agent

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2. Manually Add an Agent

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We have added 3 flyer templates that include the colist agents and the great photo and floor plan content we create too.  We hope you enjoy this long anticipated enhancement! It has actually been on our list of things to develop for many years, so we are glad to put our manual work around to bed!

 

Full Screen HD Tour Updates

Full Screen HD Tour Updates

We have made some great updates to the Full Screen HD Tour. Updates include:

  • Speed improvements. Tours loads within seconds
  • TRUE 1920×1080 p images.  Other tour providers show smaller images which look fuzz on HD screens
  • Zoom On/Off. You can turn photo zoom off to see the whole image.
  • Works on iPad.  We use the same viewer on the iPad. It looks great!

View the video to see a quick overview

To set-up a tour using the Full Screen Tour, just go to Manage Tours, then Edit Details for the listing, and select the Full Screen Tour at the top of the page.  You can also set it as the default tour by going to Edit Profile and selecting the Full Screen Tour option.

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YouTube Can Drive Website Traffic

Here is a great new article from RealtorMag about a study conducted by the WAV Group and Victor Lund that talks about how the portal sites like Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com are not driving traffic back to broker’s websites….and that YouTube is one of the top referring sites, thanks to Google.  See the full post from the WAV Group here.  He further states there should be a driving force to get virtual tours on every listing.

Google was also a top referrer, and that has important implications for virtual tours on YouTube because “Google displays YouTube results in the search results above the fold,” Lund writes. “That means that the video gets great SEO — usually better than the broker’s listing detail page. This is the driving force behind the strategy of publishing virtual tours on every company listing.”

Luckily, as a FloorPlanOnline customer, we generate a free YouTube video for each listing, and we can post it either to our YouTube channel or yours.  Just set it up under your Linking Profile.  The video is all automatic, based on your settings under the Edit Photo/Video tab.  You can even add text or video clips.  Some of the other guys charge you $25, and it is a manual process.  Plus, we are working on a cool new video update this winter…so stay tuned for that update.  A preview of what it might look like is in this post.

call2action brandedThis study highlights the importance of a new tool we have been working on for the last month, called our Call2Action Photo.  The goal of the Call2Action Photo is to get more users to the virtual tour, where lead capture and engagement can happen.  The photo is a composite image of the floor plan, a video screen shot and several other images, with the virtual tour link prominently displayed and text that says Get Exclusive Content.  So now, leverage the traffic on Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Craigslist or other websites  and create an incentive for people to get the exclusive content, like floor plans, on the virtual tour!

When you think about it, the virtual tour is the ONLY piece of content that can live on all of these websites (as well as your competitor sites) and drive traffic back to the listing.  If your tour features floor plans, the #2 requested item from buyers, and if you do not upload the floor plans as images with other photos (we think this is very important not to do), then the only place people will be able to see the floorplans is via the tour. This creates an opportunity for the potential buyer to find your tour, and you!

You get More Traffic, More Leads and More Results

But wait…it gets better!  Introducing a new option for corporate accounts where we can actually rebrand our virtual tour link with your domain name. So, Zillow can actually drive traffic to the tour which is now considered your website!  This means more visitors, more visits and more time on site, thanks to Zillow’s traffic!   This custom tour rebranding can be easily done with a sub domain, like tours.kw.com/xxxxxx, or with a little work on the IT side, like kw.com/tours/xxxxxx  where xxxxxx is our virtual tour ID.  This feature is exclusive to corporate account customers.  Please use the contact from below to discuss adding this feature to your account/sub accounts.

The bottom line, you need to provide something different than the same photos and text a user will find on Zillow, Realtor.com or your company website.  The FloorPlanOnline virtual tour does that, with the clickable floor plans, the RoomPlanner tool, flyer and other marketing tools we provide exclusive to the listing.  Buyers want to see floor plans….the virtual tour is the bait that will let you set the hook!  Plus, we can embed it on your website and further keep the user engaged.

YouTube Branding Now Optional

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!

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No Payments or Interest for 6 months!

Now you can defer your FloorPlanOnline tour cost and pay it off AFTER you close that sale! Just pay with PayPal and select the Bill Me Later option (subject to your credit approval with their terms) and you can now defer payment for months. It is a cool, new free option offered by PayPal, the leader of ecommerce payments on the web.

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