FloorPlanOnline Top Secret News

FPO has been known as a leader in the Virtual Tour industry since our release of the very popular and often imitated Interactive FloorPlan Virtual Tour.

While some spent the last year reducing service and raising prices (or closing doors altogether) Our Development department has grown and we've had our nose to the grind stone. Thus we are preparing to release some really cool new tools, features and one gimmick. (hey gimmicks are cool too!)

We've already released our new Mobile Tours - Tours that can be viewed on your Palm, Blackberry and iphone etc. and ...we didn't charge a cent for it - they are included on each tour! Send a link to your phone or type it in the browser to try it out www.floorplanonline.com/1100 (it will look like a normal tour if you click it on your computer)

FloorPlanOnline also released the Social Media tools that are built into each tour and allow ANYONE to tweet about a listing, or post the pic and link of a home on their facebook page with one click. (this has received way more attention from our clients than I thought it would)

Our Get connected program helps agents learn to use Social Media in their day to day marketing - and focuses on TAFFY. (just ask and Ill tell!)

But the REALLY cool stuff is right around the corner. If you will be at Rebar Camp San Diego, or NAR 2009 in November give me a shout - Ill buy the beverages and you can be the first to know.

Facebook and FloorPlanOnline - How to get Social Media to work for your Tour

FloorPlanOnline has empowered and enabled all of its top of the line interactive tours with Twitter and Facebook (and many many more Social media sites)
Each FPO tour has built in buttons that allow buyers, sellers and Agents to post, tweet and share listings with friends.

Try it out your self - Here's how in 3 steps and 22 seconds:

#1 Click this tour link

(you may want to check out the great room and deck views of the lake by clicking the red icons)

#2 Then look to the bottom left of the tour for the Facebook "F" logo - and click it!

#3 If already in facebook, it will let you type a comment, or it will ask you to log in then comment - then click"Share"

Call, Tweet, Post, Poke, Friend or Write

There are lots of ways to contact FloorPlanOnline these Days. Here are some channels and tools you might find helpful:

Twitter
Weve been on Twitter for 2plus years - at first it was just a way to test new tools for agents - now our clients and homeowners can post listings and comments to twitter!

www.activerain.com/Fpo
Active Rain is the Social Networking site for Real Estate Agents. We work with agents in this community to help them Market homes more effectively online. You might want to snoop around the Active Rain community to investigate Real Estate related questions.

www.facebook.com/floorplanonline
Just like Twitter, we joined Facebook for the fun of it - and now agents, homeowners and friends can post floorplanonline tours to Facebook - and comment on the listings!

www.floorplanonline.com
Just our Sales Website - but it is packed with info about our Two types of tours, limitless service and record setting client care team.

FloorPlanOnline Phone Number
Yup - we still have one, give us a ring during business hours for real live people. 866-810-3816

Press Release: Agents Go “Virtually Hands Free” with FloorPlanOnline

For Immediate Release

Agents Go “Virtually Hands Free” with FloorPlanOnline

July 15, 2008 – Today’s Real Estate agents are required to have a strong working knowledge of a wide variety of digital tools in a seemingly decreasing amount of time. The time many agents plan on marketing a listing can get wasted simply loading and stitching photos for a virtual tour. Then there are flyers to design, videos to post and blogs to write – and today’s sellers want it all done with a very high level of quality. From Flyers to FloorPlans, Virtual Tours to Videos - FloorPlanOnline can save agents time, stress and money with “Virtually Hands Free” Premium FloorPlanOnline Tour Products.
“Today’s Agent wants the best for their clients, but there simply is not enough time in the day to manage it all. Even with an assistant, time spent on marketing can spin out of control.” Says FloorPlanOnline CEO, Kris Cone.
Kris Cone, CEO, Michael Rahmn, CTO and Chris Drayer, Central Region Sales Manager, will be demonstrating the exciting “Virtually Hands Free” concepts from FloorPlanOnline at the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco, July 22-25 2008 at Demo Station #D10 on the second floor of the conference.
FloorPlanOnline has a nationwide Service Provider network (available in most metros) that can not only professionally photograph, but measure and create a floor plan rendering from your existing listing. The FloorPlanOnline Production Department then edits the photos, digitally recreates the floorplan rendering and builds the Interactive FloorPlan Tour with outstanding features such as the WalkThru Video, Mapping, Flyers, Viral Marketing and “built-in” tracking and reporting.
The Interactive FloorPlan Tour gives the online viewer the opportunity to see all the key features of the property via a detailed floor plan which names the rooms, gives room dimensions and shows key features. Buyers can click on camera icons in each of the rooms to view the photos or view the “WalkThru” tour of the property – a video set to music from a library of over 200 songs. “Agents should not let today’s technology get in their way” Says Cone. “We really are making today’s online marketing Virtually Hands Free.”
Visit with FloorPlanOnline at Demo Station #D10 at the Inman Connect San Francisco Conference to learn more about this cutting edge technology.
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For additional information and to schedule an interview with Kris Cone please contact Chris Drayer, 866-810-3816 x110 or chris@floorplanonline.com