In this post we are going to go through how to edit the overall presentation (the look and feel), the content itself, and some some unique settings and uses of your virtual tour and how to leverage it to get people coming back to your website.
First, let’s look at some Unique Uses of the Story:
1. The default tour theme people see – Select from our Story (4 themes) or our new Tour Viewer (top bar). See #2 below for Customizing your tour to pick a theme. You can also do this when you first create a tour order and there is a default setting for this under Profile (top right). As a bonus, you can have a default view, such as the Story, but still use another version, such as use the Tour version to embed on your blog or website. For example.
- Use my.homediary.com/story/184056 as the default tour (my.homediary.com/184056 is the default base URL) that gets linked to the MLS and everywhere else (just use the unbranded version we give you).
- Use my.homediary.com/tour/184056 on your blog and embed it, just like this example. You can see the difference –story or tour in the UR that is highlighted.
Once you have a tour, you can distribute it beyond your MLS, because you have both a branded and unbranded tour link. So leverage the branded version on your own website or blog, and on social media channels. For example, write a blog post talking about your new listing, get a quote from the owner, and then embed the tour into the blog post. See our Spotlight Gallery for what we do on our website. Post the blog link on social media to get people coming back to your site, and seeing you and the cool content you create for marketing listings. You can learn more about embedding the tour into your blog on this post here.
- Upload video clips to add real movement, an animated logo or a clip of you introducing your new listing
- Add a text explainer slide to communicate a space, complete with emojis, or create a custom call to action slide
- Select different music or transitions for each photo, including the time to display. Music is under the Settings icon.
- Add floor plan images in the sequence, all sync’d to the floor plan database.
- Add any kind of branded content and showcase it in the video or photo gallery. See this post on how to keep it only on the branded version of the virtual tour.
As you can see here, for floor plan oriented tours, we also provide 1 and multi-page printable floor plans.
You can also add your own custom flyer. Just go to Documents under Photos/Media and upload a custom flyer there. You can select a display name and mark if it contains branded content, and it will only show on the branded version of the virtual tour. You can do this with any custom document you might want to add.
Documents are also a great way to add other information about the house, just as a pre inspection report (#2 on Zillow’s list), pest report or disclosures.
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