I wrote a Post for our Active Rain Blog that talks about the National Association of Realtor Expo and compared it to a new type of event called a "RE BarCamp".
It also talks about Social Media, and how companies are marketing to Agents to get their business. Do Agents need a carrot to buy, or would they prefer to search on their own and make an informed decision?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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"
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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
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
Thursday, January 29, 2009
5151 55th Ave S, Seattle, WA
Check out this cool tour in Seattle. You too can easily embed a tour into a blog post. It is as simple as copying and pasting and adding some explanatory text.
You can use Blogger (blogger.com) or Wordpress (wordpress.com), both of which are fee and have some easy templates to use.
You can use Blogger (blogger.com) or Wordpress (wordpress.com), both of which are fee and have some easy templates to use.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Embeddable Tours are Here!
We have launched our embeddable tour feature. Right now it is in "beta" form (works but some issues). While we do support 3 different sizes of the embeddable tour, the floorplan image is not optimized for all. That is one fix. The other is for Photo tours, it embeds the photo gallery vs the WalkThru Video. So, we are working on those fixes. You can change the button colors and you can include a button for the full tour, which will give the user all the bells and whistles, including the branded tour with your info on it.
It works basically the same way you embed a YouTube video into a website or blog. So as long as your website supports embeddable objects, you just copy and paste and position your text around it. This blog post shows you how it would look on your blog, for example.
Interactive FloorPlan - Click Cameras for Photos!
As part of the embeddable object tool, we even allow you to change the colors of the buttons and text on the buttons, as well as show or hide the button to the Full Tour. This is great where you want a teaser of the the floorplan or video, but want the user to see the full tour, complete with your branding and contact info.
It works basically the same way you embed a YouTube video into a website or blog. So as long as your website supports embeddable objects, you just copy and paste and position your text around it. This blog post shows you how it would look on your blog, for example.
Interactive FloorPlan - Click Cameras for Photos!
As part of the embeddable object tool, we even allow you to change the colors of the buttons and text on the buttons, as well as show or hide the button to the Full Tour. This is great where you want a teaser of the the floorplan or video, but want the user to see the full tour, complete with your branding and contact info.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Buyers Love FloorPlanOnline!
We recently received an email from a potential buyer moving to Rhode Island. She is currently living in Europe where her husband is an Officer. We had to share it with you, because it really shows 1) people are starving for more and better listing content and 2) FloorPlanOnline can provide it for you!
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Dear FloorPlanOnline,
I am not a real estate agent, I am simply looking for a house online (I'm currently stationed overseas). I just had to tell you that in my opinion your product deserves 5 stars. Reviewing hundreds of listings the past few months has been challenging to say the least but whenever I come across a listing with your product attached - it's always a more positive experience from a
potential buyer's point of view. Your product takes only a few seconds to download compared to your competitors. If I WERE an agent I'd use your product.
So good job FloorPlanOnline, I wish you continued success.
~ Deborah Alves
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Dear FloorPlanOnline,
I am not a real estate agent, I am simply looking for a house online (I'm currently stationed overseas). I just had to tell you that in my opinion your product deserves 5 stars. Reviewing hundreds of listings the past few months has been challenging to say the least but whenever I come across a listing with your product attached - it's always a more positive experience from a
potential buyer's point of view. Your product takes only a few seconds to download compared to your competitors. If I WERE an agent I'd use your product.
So good job FloorPlanOnline, I wish you continued success.
~ Deborah Alves
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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
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
Monday, July 14, 2008
Press Release: FloorPlanOnline in San Francisco for Inman Connect
For Immediate Release
FloorPlanOnline will Demonstrate At Inman Connect SF Conference
July 14, 2008 - Kris Cone, CEO, Michael Rahmn, CTO and Chris Drayer, Central Region Sales Manager, will be demonstrating the exciting concepts being marketed by FloorPlanOnline to top real estate professionals and real estate companies throughout the North America and the U.K. at the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco, July 22-25 2008 at Demo Station #D10 on the second floor of the conference.
“Today’s buyers demand quality content online, and Interactive FloorPlans allow buyers to click and see individual rooms, space and views as well as room dimensions” says Cone. “Sellers are more likely to list homes with agents who use FloorPlanOnline Tour products”
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, shows key features (windows, doors, stairs, cabinets, etc.) along with photos which have been embedded throughout the floor plan so a photo view is incorporated with the floor plan view. This robust product also gives the viewer a “WalkThru” tour of the property via a video presentation of individual photos, set to music of the agent’s choice from a large library of music with more than 200 songs.
The value proposition of this state-of-the-art tour is further defined by a flyer program which gives the agent a choice from 7 different flyer templates plus the capability of creating their own customized flyer. Adding further value is a mapping system which gives views of the property via a street map, a topographical map and a satellite map. Further FloorPlanOnline offers the outstanding capability of launching a very effective viral marketing program which has been proven to generate more listing appointments, convert a larger percentage of listing appointments into listings and to secure more double-ended transactions from those listings for the agents using the Interactive FloorPlan Tour. All these outstanding features are included in both tour products.
Unlike most tour companies FloorPlanOnline has a large nationwide network of Service Providers who will measure the property, create the floor plan rendering and take professional photos with the Premium level of service. Premium service is available in most major markets and makes FloorPlanOnline Virtually hands free for agents.
Visit with FloorPlanOnline at Demo Station #D10 at the Inman Connect San Francisco Conference to learn more about this cutting edge technology.
###
For additional information and to schedule an interview with Kris Cone please contact Chris Drayer, 866-810-3816 x110 or chris@floorplanonline.com
FloorPlanOnline will Demonstrate At Inman Connect SF Conference
July 14, 2008 - Kris Cone, CEO, Michael Rahmn, CTO and Chris Drayer, Central Region Sales Manager, will be demonstrating the exciting concepts being marketed by FloorPlanOnline to top real estate professionals and real estate companies throughout the North America and the U.K. at the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco, July 22-25 2008 at Demo Station #D10 on the second floor of the conference.
“Today’s buyers demand quality content online, and Interactive FloorPlans allow buyers to click and see individual rooms, space and views as well as room dimensions” says Cone. “Sellers are more likely to list homes with agents who use FloorPlanOnline Tour products”
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, shows key features (windows, doors, stairs, cabinets, etc.) along with photos which have been embedded throughout the floor plan so a photo view is incorporated with the floor plan view. This robust product also gives the viewer a “WalkThru” tour of the property via a video presentation of individual photos, set to music of the agent’s choice from a large library of music with more than 200 songs.
The value proposition of this state-of-the-art tour is further defined by a flyer program which gives the agent a choice from 7 different flyer templates plus the capability of creating their own customized flyer. Adding further value is a mapping system which gives views of the property via a street map, a topographical map and a satellite map. Further FloorPlanOnline offers the outstanding capability of launching a very effective viral marketing program which has been proven to generate more listing appointments, convert a larger percentage of listing appointments into listings and to secure more double-ended transactions from those listings for the agents using the Interactive FloorPlan Tour. All these outstanding features are included in both tour products.
Unlike most tour companies FloorPlanOnline has a large nationwide network of Service Providers who will measure the property, create the floor plan rendering and take professional photos with the Premium level of service. Premium service is available in most major markets and makes FloorPlanOnline Virtually hands free for agents.
Visit with FloorPlanOnline at Demo Station #D10 at the Inman Connect San Francisco Conference to learn more about this cutting edge technology.
###
For additional information and to schedule an interview with Kris Cone please contact Chris Drayer, 866-810-3816 x110 or chris@floorplanonline.com
Friday, June 27, 2008
June Testimonies
Gerry,
I want to express my excitement and appreciation for the FloorPlanOnline program. This in my 25th year in real estate and this is one of the most exciting developments that I have seen.
I have very discerning clients who were “blown away” with the program. It presents the subject property in such an elegant way. I can’t decide which part of your program that I like best. I must admit I find being able to click on the cameras in each room is awesome. I also love the way I can chose which music fits the slide show presentation.
I look forward to working with your company many times in the future.
I want to express my excitement and appreciation for the FloorPlanOnline program. This in my 25th year in real estate and this is one of the most exciting developments that I have seen.
I have very discerning clients who were “blown away” with the program. It presents the subject property in such an elegant way. I can’t decide which part of your program that I like best. I must admit I find being able to click on the cameras in each room is awesome. I also love the way I can chose which music fits the slide show presentation.
I look forward to working with your company many times in the future.
Warm regards,
Diane Williams
Weichert, Realtors
President's Club, PAR Excellence Club
Spring House, PA
Diane Williams
Weichert, Realtors
President's Club, PAR Excellence Club
Spring House, PA
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Chris,
The Matthews Team would like to thank you for very effective and professional service that you provide. We truly feel that FloorPlanOnline is a valuable service to our sellers at the listing presentation. It really helps us when we are able to back up what we promise to the sellers. Your company has been part of our success in growing our business and selling our listings. We feel that we get what we pay for and then some. FloorPlanOnline will always be part of our marketing.
Thanks Again,
Tom and Susan Matthews
Keller Williams Realty Partners Inc.
Overland Park, KS
Hi FloorPlanOnline.
We are home owners and our agent Linda Cone of Reece & Nichols used you to create an Interactive FloorPlan Tour for our home. We have a contract on our house as of yesterday - LESS than 30 days from listing our house in a pretty tough real estate market. I am an FloorPlanOnline testimonial. The buyers LOVED the floor plan and called us on Tuesday to inquire about closing dates, etc BEFORE THEY EVEN set foot in the house. They came Tuesday pm and gave an offer that night. I am convinced the FloorPlanOnline Tour helped the buyers find our house, and make an offer, in a very quick fashion.
Now that we are buying a house in Washington, DC, I wish all properties had the FloorPlanOnline tour so my house hunting trips could be much more productive.
Sincerely
Satisfied Sellers
Kansas City, MO
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