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Unlimited still, wide-angle, and 360-degree scenes:
Don't be limited by your virtual tours! Build the perfect tour for each listing. Some rooms call for sweeping 360-degree shots, which show the entire room. For others, a wide-angle shot that only pans halfway across the room will do. For some, a still picture does the trick. With Tour Now, you get to decide, and we won't limit you at all. Click here to see a virtual tour with all three types of scenes.
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Name, company, photo and contact information:
Many times, a virtual tour is a buyer's introduction to a listing, and to the agent who is selling it. It's important to make a positive first impression, and giving the buyer your name, company, photo and contact information helps to establish a relationship right from the beginning. Tour Now offers many options for personalizing your virtual tours that will help make your tours all your own. Click here to see a personalized virtual tour with the agent's name, company, photo and contact information.
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E-mail the Agent:
Customers are able to send an e-mail message to the agent right from the tour. The system sends the message right away, and remembers who sent the message, their contact information, and the house they expressed interest in. The full text of the message is also archived for the agent's records, and is not deleted until after the home sells, and the tour is deleted.
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Send a message to the Agent's Pager or Cell Phone:
If the agent wishes, customers are able to send text messages directly to the agent's pager or text-enabled cell phone. As with e-mail, the message and contact information are archived for the agent's convenience.
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Bookmark this Tour:
If a customer is interested in a house, they will want to remember it. Clicking on the bookmark this tour button stores the Virtual Tour in their Browser's favorites list. This allows them to access the tour quickly and frequently, and not forget what they have seen. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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Mortgage Calculator:
A big question for home buyers (especially young, first time purchasers who typically use the Internet for home searches) is how much home can I afford? This simple mortgage calculator breaks the purchase down for the customer into monthly payments, to help them answer that question. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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More About this Listing:
Customers who are jumping from one tour to another can quickly view basic information about each listing. You can chose in your virtual tour preferences, which details are shared. Typically, this section includes the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, asking price, and either address, property title, or city, state and zip code. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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View a Map (Optional):
If you wish, a Yahoo! map of the area can be linked to your virtual tour automatically, allowing prospective buyers to see where a listing is located. If you would like to link a different map, Tour Now gives you the option. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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View a School Report (Optional):
If you would like to link a school report of all of the schools in the area to your map, Tour Now will automatically include a link to statistics provided by the National Center for Educational Statistics. If you would like to link a different School Information website, Tour Now gives you the option. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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Community Information (Optional):
Tour Now has partnered with City-Data.com to provide you with the option to link a community website to your virtual tours automatically. If your community has its own website, you can link to it instead very quickly and easily. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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View a Floorplan (Optional):
For each virtual tour you create, you are given the opportunity to upload a scan of a floorplan. This is a valuable tool for customers who are conducting a home search, and are searching for specific type of layout. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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View all my Tours:
Customers who click on this link will be taken to a complete listing of all of your Tour Now virtual tours. This list is maintained for you dynamically, which means no manual work on your part! Click here to see a sample.
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Visit my Website:
This link will take customers to your personal or brokerage website, or whichever site you select to help you get more leads. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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Send Tour to a Friend:
This link allows customers to share tours with their friends, which helps you gain more leads and prospects. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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Print a Tour:
Prospective buyers can print your tour by clicking on the Print This Tour button. This feature allows buyers to take the tours with them when they go offline. The printed version features your name and contact information, enabling you to get offline leads from your tours as well. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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IDX Compliance:
Every tour that you create can be viewed in an unbranded, IDX compliant way, which is required on many Real Estate websites, and on most MLS systems. Click here to view an IDX Version of a Tour Now tour. View a branded version of the same tour by clicking here.
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Attach Riders to your Tours:
Tour Now virtual tours allow you to attach a rider sign to your tours to send a special message about a listing. Signs are available for sale-status messages like 'New Listing', 'Sale Pending', 'Sold', or for listing-specific messages like 'Swimming Pool', 'Lakefront Property' and more! Many options are available, and they can be added or deleted with the click of a button. Click here to see a virtual tour with this feature.
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Full Screen Virtual Tours:
Take advantage of full screen virtual tours that fill your entire browser window. This eye-catching new design features thumbnail navigation in addition to the familiar next and previous buttons.
Interested in customization? The full screen tour viewer can be branded for over 50 of the nation's largest real estate franchises. 10 unbranded designs are also available. Click here to see a sample full screen tour.
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Add Voice Narrations or Music Tracks to your Tours:
Want to put your voice on a tour? Want to put the seller's voice on a tour? Want to add music? Tour audio is a compelling new feature that will help your tours be more engaging and dynamic. Simply call Tour Now's virtual tour narration line, and record your tour narration. It will be automatically integrated into your tour for you. Tour Now also offers 10 musical scores that you can use to spice up your tours.
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Add Satellite Images, Topographical Maps, Road Maps and Environmental Maps to your Tours:
Tour Now has partnered with RealBird, the leader in aerial imaging for real estate, to allow you to optionally integrate satellite photography into your tours. This exciting new feature allows prospective buyers to see a listing from the air, and better determine its position relative to important local landmarks. This feature also enables the buyer to plot the listing on a local road map, topographical map, and enviornmental map.
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Support for One-Click Lenses:
Tour Now has become the first self-service virtual tour provider to offer agents a choice between creating panoramas with stitching software, or capturing them with one-click lenses. Users of the 0-360 one click lens may now upload their unwrapped JPEG images directly into the Tour Now system with 100% compatibility. One click images offer seamless immersive experiences for visitors, allowing them the scope to view rooms from ceiling to floor in every direction. Click here to see a Tour Now tour that was captured with a one-click lens.
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Informative Tour Loading Window:
To better accommodate buyers with pop-up blockers, we have developed a new and informative tour loading window. The new window features an image of the listing, some basic information about the listing, and an easy-to-read link that prompts the buyer to open the tour, should the tour fail to load correctly due to a pop-up blocker. Click here to see a tour that opens with the new Tour Loading Window.
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Autoplaying Slideshows:
Tour Now's new Full Screen Viewer features a slideshow option, which cycles through all of the still scenes in a tour automatically, allowing for a hands-free dynamic presentation at an open house or listing appointment. Click here to see a sample full screen tour with an autoplaying slideshow.
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