charleston virtual tours: It's Not My Job...Or Is It? - 03/08/12 08:03 AM
One of my least favorite phrases has always been “It’s not my job.”  Having owned my own company prior to entering the corporate world, I never understood how the ultimate success of any organization was not the job of every single employee.  Now that I am back to being a small business owner, the question of “Is this my job?”takes on an even greater importance.
I visited the website of another Charleston, SC virtual tour provider to check out our competition.  On their website, they have samples of their work and the tour that they chose to showcase their services has a panoramic spin with someone … (3 comments)

charleston virtual tours: The Importance of Written Proposals - Clarify things up front! - 02/07/12 10:03 AM
Have you ever had a situation where what you said and what someone else heard was not anywhere close to the same thing? My parent’s favorite quote after 52 years of marriage is “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” (Robert McCloskey)
In the past, we relied on emails and phone calls to clarify information and then sent an invoice once we came to terms and hoped to be paid when we arrived to shoot the virtual tour. While this worked … (29 comments)

charleston virtual tours: Utilizing Your Local University for Free Help - 02/02/12 05:48 AM
Vision Quest Virtual Tours is excited to have been chosen by two teams from the University of Illinois for a small business marketing project.  The teams were given several small businesses to choose from and will work on a group project this semester analyzing our business and coming up with suggestions for our business.  We shared our marketing challenges and goals and they will spend the next few months creating a project with suggestions on how we can improve our marketing. 
We will be working with each group of students to give them suggestions and help them learn more about our business … (0 comments)

charleston virtual tours: The Importance of Variety in Search Engine Optimization - 01/25/12 09:22 AM
Before we started Vision Quest Virtual Tours, I worked for a therapeutic boarding school that had been embroiled in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.  The bulk of the lawsuit was thrown out by the judge and a small portion was settled but the mother who initiated the suit had a vendetta that lasted until the school eventually closed.  The school survived the lawsuit but did not survive the onslaught of internet attacks that this mother led.  A Google search for the school’s name yielded the school’s website first and second and our virtual tour as the third  listing but the fourth through … (0 comments)