Over the last week i’ve purchased 2 white label tours and love them. I’ll be adding a third this afternoon. Being new to RE Photographt I find them are easy to set-up (which is good because i’m struggling with my work flow) and they look great. My question for you all is this. Are you finding that agents respond well to having a tour? It seems to me that a lot of agents are content by just posting pics to MLS or their web.

Taking my thought process a bit further, are any of you using sites like zenfolio to host tours? if so, does the lack of a map, property info, agent info etc.. play a role? I have a Zenfolio site for my general photography work and I could post slideshows there all day for no fee (other than my $100 annual)

Just looking at all of my options.

Have a great day everyone!

~ Dave

Good work on this, Larry.

@Jay
Hi Jay,
This is a really good question. I’ve promoted using Slideshow Pro from Lightroom for years and have done it for many years myself… the problem has always been the tours you can create are not as nice and as competitive as everyone would like. The following isn’t an exhaustive list, but these are generally the main features that PFREtour.com offers over and above Slideshow Pro tours that you host yourself:
1-The major difference is the branding and information links around the edge of the tour… none of these are present on straight Slideshow Pro tours. To add these to Slideshow Pro tours you need to be a HTML wiz. I used the straight Slideshow Pro tours generated from Lightroom for years but never was able to create the Property info, Agent Info, maps and e-mail stuff that look as nice as the ones on PFREtour.com tours.
2-Syndication: If you choose, PFREtours can be automatically sent to Zillow, Google Base and Trulia… this is free.
3-PFREtour.com tours can be posted on Realtor.com for an extra charge.
4-PFREtours.com tours can be viewed on the iPhone and on the iPad when it is available. This will become a much bigger issue if and when the iPad becomes widely used.
5-There will be per tour traffic statistics on PFREtours… you could do this on tours you host but it would require a fair amount of work.
6-There will be an agent portfolio page you can offer to agents that shows all their PFREtour.com tours
7-There will be a photographer portfolio page showing all tours by a give photographer.

I think what Sabrina’s question was: If you buy 10 or 20 tours and don’t use them right away, is there a time limit before which they must be used? i.e do unused tours expire?

No, it looks alot better than what Tour Factory offers, its alot cleaner and more professional looking.

The thumbnails on the Tourfactory slideshow look terrible. The whole flash presentation looks like it its been overstretched.

Please excuse my lack of experience – I just purchased the Slide Show Pro not too long ago (Just starting to learn/use it) and was wondering what specific pluses the new software has that I would be missing with my existing Slide Show Pro.

Is there available some kind of product comparison matrix available to show the feature difference?

Thanks so much in advance.