March 23rd, 2008
I just tried out a new do-it-yourself tour site that was launched not to long ago called tourbuzz.net.
The site is designed with photographers in mind because it allows a photographer to create an manage many client’s tours and put the photographer’s branding on tour as well as the agent’s branding information.
March 6th, 2008
Mike Martin pointed out that Ubuildtours.com has done a major upgrade. Back in December I did a post on ubuildtours.com. This new update has a bunch of updates:
More browsers than just IE for building tours.
March 4th, 2008
Drew King sent me a link to a tour done by Hurwitz-James of some luxury estates.Since we’ve been evaluating tours I thought this would be instructive to look at what kind of marketing is going on at the obscenely expensive ($9 million to $25 million) end of the market these days.
February 29th, 2008
I want to kick off the concept of tour reviews, a new use for the flickr group discussion group.
In a comment on the discussion of What to charge for real estate photography Mike Yother suggested that we setup a new scheme to allow all you gentle readers to evaluate and vote on tours. Mike’s […]
February 25th, 2008
Tour usage overall and video tour usage are both increased significantly over 2007.Last year at this time when I looked at tour usage only 8% of the listings I reviewed on our local MLS (Seattle’s east side) had links to tours. Click here for last years details. This year when I looked at a similar […]
February 8th, 2008
PFRE reader Michael Asgian is launching a new property site hosting service called homeXposure.com.
Michael’s company panostar.com, based in Newport Beach, CA, has been offering real estate marketing and imaging services since 2002. Panostar offers real estate photography, virtual tours, real estate flyers and postcards.
February 7th, 2008
Today I noticed that both of my favorite slide show products, buildatour.com and SlideshoPro have new features.Buildatour.com now has the ability to download your tours to your local computer and make a auto-run CD of the tour. This is a very cool feature. I’ve found that both buyers and sellers love to get CD tours […]
January 24th, 2008
Scott Pruett’s comments in my last post on 360VR made me realize that I need to be clear about the business case for 360VR in real estate photography.
I did a post last July were I intended to put 360VR in perspective of real estate photography but it fell short of it’s intended goal.
January 22nd, 2008
Today I was browsing through the PanotoolsNG forum which is where all the top panographers in the world hang out. (Not that I’m in that class but I love to keep up with what’s going on in this field and this is were all the important stuff in this field is discussed).
One of the postings […]
December 28th, 2007
Carol Lloyd has an article in the SF Chronicle on December 23 that describes a new product (vizzvox.com) that allows you to easily create a slide show with a voice-over. Here is an example. And here’s another. A great presentation of a pretty nice pad. I could live there! For $150 you can create a […]
