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1. What is a Full-Service HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour?
A full-service HomeTour360 °™ is a complete end-to-end solution which provides the capture, process, technology, hosting and distribution of virtual tours. Full-Service HomeTour360 °™ tours are offered by Homestore local Authorized Service Providers. These Service Providers will handle the complete coordination of your HomeTour360 °™ virtual tours from order to billing to distribution. One simple call does it all. TransCarolina Marketing is the only Full Service Approved Service Provider in Western North Carolina and in the Greenville South Carolina area offering the full 360 ° x 360 ° – Floor to Ceiling viewing.
2. Why should agents offer virtual tours at every listing presentation?
• 13 of 20 Top Agents are offering tours at their listing presentation. If you don’t get the listing, it doesn’t cost you anything.
• In July 1997 approximately 42 Million Americans used the Internet. As of January 2002 – 164 Million are online – approximately 58.5%of the population. In a recent NAR study they found that "41% of home buyers used the Internet as an information source".
• A Realtor.com survey found that 92% of homebuyers considered the addition of images to an online listing to be very important. Of the nearly 2 million listings on Realtor.com, homes with Virtual Tours receive 40% more views than listings without tours.
3. What features are included in a Full-Service HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour?
• A fully coordinated tour from order to distribution.
• World-class, established and proven 360 ° x 360 ° IPIX ™ patented technology or a flexible panoramic technology
• Desktop Tour™ and Send-to-a-Friend™ features
• Find Out More™ lead generation and tracking tool
• Web hosting for one year or the life of the listing
• Distribution via the Homestore Distribution Network™ - National Company etc.
• Distribution via REALTOR.com®, the official site of the
National Association of REALTORS®
4. Where do I order my Full-Service HomeTour360 °™ virtual tours?
Please fill Online order form.
TCM is an Approved Service Provider and handles everything for you, taking your order, filming, processing and uploading your tours which will be faster and easier than ever before.
5. If I have questions about an existing virtual tour?
If you have a specific question about the processing or posting of a HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour, please call 828-253-9755.
6. How are HomeTour360 °™ different than other virtual tours?
There are a number of differences and benefits with the HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour solution that are not available with other virtual tour products including:
• Quality, established technology including the IPIX ™ 360 ° x 360 °, immersive tour
• Desktop Tour™ – The ability to download the tour to your desktop or floppy disk so you don’t have to be online to view the tour. Great for listing presentations!
• Send-to-a-Friend™ – Increase the way to reach homebuyers with an online email of the tour.
• Find Out More™ – Consumers can email REALTORS® directly from the virtual tour. This has generated thousands of direct email leads per month.
• Distribution via the Homestore Distribution Network™, the largest network of real estate web sites including national, franchise, broker and more web sites.
• REALTOR.com®. Make sure your listings are on the #1 real estate Web site. Hundreds of millions of properties are viewed every month on REALTOR.com®“ with nearly 2 million listings and 3.2 million monthly viewers.
7. What is the difference between the 'panoramic' virtual tour and the 360 ° x 360 ° 'immersive' HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour?
The HomeTour360 °™ virtual tour solution is supported by two technology platforms.
• The 'panoramic' technology is a 360 ° view of the home which allows the viewer to pan in a full circle from right to left. However, they are not able to pan up and down (from floor to ceiling).
• The 'immersive' IPIX ™ technology provides a complete 360 ° x 360 ° degree view of the property. The viewer has full ability to pan up and down and right to left. The patented technology ensures that potential buyers will see as much of the property as possible including cathedral ceilings, spiral staircases, oriental rugs, chandeliers and floor treatments that join rooms. And, tours can be shot, processed and distributed even faster than ever before.
8. What is your relationship with IPIX ™?
IPIX ™ is an important and valued strategic partner. Homestore will continue to offer the patented 360 ° x 360 ° immersive imaging technology exclusively in the residential real estate market. Homestore has licensed the IPIX ™ technology and will continue to offer this world-class solution through the Authorized Service Provider network.
9. Will my HomeTour360 °™ appear on REALTOR.com?
All HomeTour360 °™ tours for resale homes with current MLS numbers are integrated automatically with the appropriate property listing on REALTOR.com® and into the Homestore Distribution Network™ (HDN). Depending upon where your listing is placed, you can choose to have your HomeTour360 °™ automatically distributed to a number of other national, broker and other web sites. You can promote your tours nationally, regionally, locally or all of the above.
10. How do I get my tour posted to my Web site, to my broker’s Web site, to REALTOR.com® or elsewhere?
When you provide your Service Provider with your listing information, request distribution to the various Web sites where you would like the tour to appear. Once the tour is captured and processed, the link will be automatically sent to the REALTOR.com® site and the other real estate sites of your choice and posted as soon as the listing is active on that site. If there is a Web site you would like to send your tour to that is not part of the Homestore Distribution Newtork, you will receive a link to your virtual tour that you or your webmaster can post on that Web site.
11. How long will my virtual tour be on REALTOR.com®?
Tours remain on REALTOR.com® for the lesser of one year of the life of the listing.
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