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Tired of lugging around bulky equipment to your virtual tour shoots? Now you don't have to! With the new Ultra Mini Rotator for your Cell phone, just clip your cell phone to the rotator, connect the control cord to your phone's charging port, click the 10 second delay button and leave the room.

The Ultra-Mini Rotator will automatically take 12 pictures at the correct exposure to create your 360° image.  Yes, that's right, your cell phone! 

The Ultra-Mini works with all smart-phones and controls the exposure settings on your phone with the Ultra-Mini Smart base to produce high-quality professional images. No more expensive cameras, no more heavy equipment, all you need is a 1 mega pixel cell phone and your Ultra Mini Rotator and you're ready to go! No one will ever know that you used your cell phone to create your professional photography!

Just call RTV to order yours today.  And don't forget to ask us about our NEW Auto-magic FastStitch cell phone software. Connect your computer to the Ultra-Mini Rotator Smart Base and the software will stitch all of your images and upload the completed virtual tour to our servers. With the Auto-Magic FastStitch software, creating your virtual tour manually is a thing of the past! Based on room modeling recognition dynamics built into the Auto-Magic FastStitch software, each completed 360° image will be named the correct room name. Room modeling recognition and naming is 99.9% accurate and is achieved through our proprietary software algorithms.

Imagine, just set the Ultra-Mini Rotator, press one button then connect to your computer and your virtual tour is complete.

No bulky equipment, no manual stitching, no processing whatsoever. The software does all the work to make YOUR cell phone pictures look JUST like you hired a professional photographer to photograph your listing!

But that's not all.

Order before midnight on April 1, 2009 and we will add our Dynamic MLS Image Correction Software. Just enter your MLS username and password and this proprietary software will crawl your MLS listings and dynamically correct bad MLS photos. The software lightens, brightens, straightens and sharpens all MLS photos on your account while removing garbage cans, dirty dishes and laundry from all scenes! Run this software just once a week and never again worry about bad first impressions on buyers! (available for multiple MLS accounts in a single brokerage)

Lawrence Kansas – January 23, 2009 - Kansas 360 tours a division of marketmedia,LLC has relocated corporate offices and service center to Lawrence Kansas.  Kansas 360 tours, the newest addition to the marketmedia, LLC services, has partnered with RTV, inc. (RTV), the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual tour software provider.

 

As a RTV full service Douglas County virtual tour provider, Kansas 360 tours offers state-of-the-art virtual tours and innovative online marketing solutions to local real estate agents and businesses throughout the northeast Kansas area of Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City. Kansas 360 Tours’ holding company, marketmedia, LLC, has completed proprietary training as a certified RTV full service Kansas virtual tour dealer in January of 2006 and will also be offering clients and customers expert advice on internet marketing and social networking with Kansas virtual tours.

 

Jason LaVanture, Vice President of RTV, Inc. said: “We are very excited with the move marketmedia, LLC has made to the northeast Kansas area, as one of our stronger full service providers, the addition of Kansas 360 tours to their already strong service line will be a great addition to our network.  marketmedia, LLC displays the excellent leadership and skill sets required to become the regional leader in the industry.  No other virtual tour company in the industry can match the level of marketing assistance, business consulting and technical training that RTV invests in all our service providers. Now that marketmedia, LLC has relocated to the Kansas City area, as a certified full service dealer they will be able to offer this same level of service to the northeast Kansas market.”

 

William McCauley, RTV Provider and owner of marketmedia, LLC stated, “We’re very excited to have relocated back to the Lawrence Kansas area, we look forward to bringing the best virtual tour photography and services that are unmatched by other local or national companies here to my hometown.  Kansas 360 tours offers solutions to bring our clients from the initial listing to SOLD!  Our professional marketing is the competitive–edge that brokers and agents need in this tough market. The 2007 NAR Profile of Buyers and Sellers shows that internet–savvy consumers search the internet for two weeks before even calling a real estate agent. Our Lawrence Kansas virtual tours and professional photography are absolutely second-to-none and our clients are ecstatic to finally have the 360° interactive virtual tour services that their clients expect right here in the Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City area. Our clients especially like the fact we save them time, money and get their marketing online in just one business day.”

 

Since 2000, RTV, Inc. has continually led the way in the virtual tour industry with marketing implementations such as their proprietary interactive software, RTV PanoRider™, single property websites, on-demand Virtual Tour Traffic Reporting 2.0, 2D/3D interactive floor plans, animated walk-throughs, custom websites, proprietary order-dispatch system, tour audio solutions, tour discs and sketch-and-fax services.

 

For more information on Kansas 360 tours call 937-974-4877 email info[@]marketmediallc.com or visit their website at kansas360tours.com .Those interested in business opportunities with RTV, Inc. are encouraged to visit virtualtourcompany.blogspot.com  for more information and current dealer testimonials before contacting RTV.

 

About RTV, Inc.:

 

RTV, Inc. is a recognized leader in interactive 360 panoramic virtual tours and virtual tour software. Over the past 9 years, the virtual tour software company has built up one of the world\'s largest and most powerful networks of virtual tour providers. The company encourages prospective virtual tour provider and real estate agent network clients to begin by making logical business decisions, working out the numbers, and finally choosing the RTV virtual tour software system to drive their virtual tour company or enhance their real estate website with virtual tour software products. RTV virtual tours are chosen over other virtual tour software programs daily by intelligent business owners who demand the best virtual tour software to showcase and market their businesses online.

 

About Kansas 360 tours:

 

Kansas 360 Tours is a division of marketmedia, LLC a multimedia company located in Lawrence, Kansas. They offer customers a wide range of media services. The company has been in business since 2004 and specializes in virtual web media, commercial photography, real estate photography, aerial photography, web design, video production and marketing consulting.  They have been a leader in commercial virtual tour design from coast to coast from everything from Florida resorts to California airports, large recreational vehicles to mega churches.

 

Contact:

Kansas 360 tours

William McCauley

http://www.marketmediallc.com

President

Phone: 937-974-4788

Email: info@marketmediallc.com

TRAVERSE CITY, MI - December 29, 2008 - RTV, Inc. today announced the release of their new Social Networking Utility that is now integrated with their virtual tours. This newest addition to their already technologically robust virtual tour features will allow virtual tour viewers and end-users to quickly add their favorite virtual tours to popular social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious, Furl, Backflip, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Mixx, and Bebo. The Social Networking Utility also allows virtual tour viewers to submit their favorite tours to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, FriendFeed, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter.

"We are very excited to give our virtual tour dealer network and their customers the ability to instantly share online tours across social networking and bookmarking sites that accept virtual tours." Stated Jason LaVanture, Vice President of RTV, Inc. "Now more than ever, real estate agents and business owners need our powerful marketing tools to stay ahead. This latest enhancement from our marketing department gives our virtual tour providers, real estate agents and brokers the competitive edge and visibility they need in an aggressive market."

This latest virtual tour marketing tool was released as part of a series of marketing enhancements to optimize RTV virtual tours for maximum exposure and distribution potential on the internet. The virtual tour viewer was also recently Search Engine Optimized and offers geographical targeting features to enable RTV virtual tour providers, real estate agents and brokers to effortlessly appear more quickly in search engine results for their farming areas. These pre-programmed features are controlled through the tour builder's tour management system and are able to be controlled on individual virtual tours.

"Team RTV understands that although we are in the virtual tour industry, we are first and foremost in the marketing business. Our marketing department has been hard at work to not only integrate incredible marketing features such as this, but also to coach our virtual tour providers, real estate agents and brokers how to use these tools to their greatest advantage." Stated Cheryl Waller, National Marketing Manager, RTV, Inc. "We are constantly evolving our virtual tour features and training to incorporate Web 2.0 features and functionality. This enables our virtual tour network to effortlessly market with progressive technology and concentrate on their businesses without having to keep up with the Web 2.0 learning-curve. That's the power of Team RTV; we do the work so that they don't have to."

According to the website, RTV virtual tours already incorporate integrated popular virtual tour features such as audio, video, brochure, and floor plan attachments as well as MLS information, maps, area information and even a linked tour gallery that is automatically populated with a real estate agent's virtual tour inventory.

About RTV, Inc.

RTV, Inc. is a recognized leader in interactive 360 panoramic virtual tours and virtual tour software. Since 1999, RTV has continually led the way in the virtual tour industry with marketing implementations such as their proprietary interactive software, RTV PanoRider(TM), single property websites, on-demand HitStats 2.0, 2D/3D interactive floor plans, 3D animated walk-throughs, custom websites, TourTrack(TM), tour audio solutions, TourDiscs(TM) and Sketch-and-Fax(TM) services. RTV virtual tours are chosen over other virtual tour software programs daily by intelligent business owners who demand the best virtual tour software to showcase and market their businesses online. For more information about RTV virtual tours and marketing tools, visit their website at RealTourVision.com or give them a call at (866) 947-8687.

TourTrack, Sketch-and-Fax, PanoRider, HitStats, TourDiscs and RTV are trademarks of RTV, Inc.

Contact Information:

Jason LaVanture, Vice President
RTV, Inc.
www.RealTourVision.com
(866) 947-8687

Follow-up with your customers and increase your upsell income! Download your choice of two available postcards in your residential marketing section. While you are there, don’t forget to download your Social Networking Guide. We will be going over social networking during the next episode of the ‘Formula’, so get your guide now and get started early.

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Our technology team here at RTV has recently released a new powerful search engine optimization tool for RTV virtual tour dealers. Once implemented, this tool will allow our worldwide network of dealers to effortlessly increase traffic to their websites.

Increasing traffic to your website is the first step to increasing conversions and gaining new clients through your website. RTV has now made it easier than ever for dealers to not only attract traffic, but also rank high for geo and long tail keywords with ONE simple change in their virtual tour builder system.

The new SEO tool will be announced during tonight’s webinar, The Formula.

All full service and In-house dealers are HIGHLY encouraged to attend! If you are at all serious about marketing your website on the internet, this will NOT be the webinar to miss!

Register right now… while it is fresh in your mind!
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/662616055

-Team RTV
www.RealTourVision.com

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The days of Googling your keywords to measure the effectiveness of your SEO strategy are coming to an end.  According to Bruce Clay of PubCon, there will be big changes in ranking. In the name of Top Shelp Organic SEO, Google will be tuning into the specific behaviors of individual users to serve up more customized results. 

What this means to the end-user is better results and less spam.

What does this mean to SEO professionals?

Well, for the good ones it means more business. For those that have been concentrating on ranking without any reference to traffic, bounce rates and conversions it means a serious reality check.

At the end of the day, this is a change for the better. More individualized search results means higher conversion rates for companies that have a well built website. This does not mean that SEO is no longer important; it actually makes it more important! Tracking your marketing efforts will definitely require more diligence.

Q: What should you do to get ready for the change?

A: Nothing that you should not have already been doing.

The most important part of a website is the ends result; attracting more leads and increasing business. To get there you have to attract website visitors, keep them interested in your website long enough to stay past the first page and finally get them to convert. By convert, I mean to get them to perform a specific action like sign up for a newsletter or request additional information. Conversions vary by website. A conversion for you may be a request for information about one of your listings while a conversion for amazon.com could be the sale of a bestselling novel.

I, for one, think this is a great lead by Google.  It forces website owners and SEO professionals to take a closer look of what traffic is actually DOING when it gets to your website. It puts the emphasis on website content, navigation and functionality.

Sending people to your website and getting XXXXX visitors is one thing,  conversion rates are a completely different (and more important) aspect.  I mean, you can send all the traffic (paid or otherwise) in the world to a dilapidated home, but if they never get out of the car and go inside... it's not going to sell.

It's time to get your website to do what it's supposed to:  SELL!

Go Google!

This year we are opening up our dealer teleconference to ANYONE in the network. If you are familiar with RTV, then you know that we have thelargest dealer network of virtual tour providers with 1500 dealers in27 countries. We constantly work together to improve each other'sbusinesses and grow as a family.

Join Jason LaVanture&Cheryl Waller on this excitingteleconference where we will be discussing some of the SECRETS behind running a successful virtual tour company. Guest appearance of MikeThompson of Real Vision Studio.

Just how did BlueLaVaMedia produce over 200 tours in 7 months time? What is ‘The Formula' for this success? Find out about the powerful marketing tools used.

Listento key strategies that WORKED with a potential customer base of only500 active area real estate agents, despite outrageous gas prices and astruggling real estate market.

Find out how easy it is to apply ‘The Formula' to your business! 

Title:The FORMULA

Date:Wednesday, November 19, 2008 

Time:7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST

Space is limited. Open to the public.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

For more information about our virtual tour company visit our website or visit our virtual tour blog.