floorplanonline: Keller Williams Family Reunion - Rookie Needs Advice - 02/01/11 03:48 AM
I've been to dozens of Real Estate tradeshows in my day - however one event has eluded me.  I'm so excited to see and participate in KW Family Reunion 2011 in Anaheim CA.  However because I've never been - I need advice.
They say Family Reunion is the most amazing and yet most crazy real estate event ever. Top producing agents like New Jersey's Sue Adler and North Carolina's Ashley Wilson are there to share and learn and yet there are so many in attendance that it can be intimidating.
Those that have been tell me "its shocking to witness the … (5 comments)

floorplanonline: Happy Friday the 13th! Lucky You, Its 50% Off - 08/05/10 04:58 AM
Happy Friday the 13th from FloorPlanOnline - Use this 50% off Coupon Code on the Self Service Photo Tour before time runs out. Its Simple. You take the photos of your real estate listing and upload them to FloorPlanOnline. Enter the code in the video to receive the discount. Self Service Photo Tours Only. Its a one time use Code that will work until Friday the 13th is over! http://FloorPlanOnline.com FloorPlanOnline creates Premium Real Estate Marketing Websites and Virtual Tours for Top of the Line Realtors. FPO Tours are Simple, Effective and Affordable. … (3 comments)

floorplanonline: Chris @TechSavvyAgent interviews Chris @FPO - 08/02/10 10:45 AM
Check out the video interview and the Review of the new FPO 2.0 Property website with Drag and Drop furnishings by FloorPlanOnline HERE.
This interview filmed on an iphone at Star Power Confrence in Nashville TN last week.

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floorplanonline: FloorPlanner and FloorPlanOnline Partnership will help agents and Buyers. - 07/16/10 02:31 AM
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 16, 2010
FloorPlanOnline.com, the leading provider of Interactive Floor Plan Tours for real estate listings in the United States, announces a major upgrade to its virtual tour platform with the launch of FPO 2.0, a customizable virtual tour system that features floor plans and photos in dedicated property websites. As part of this upgrade, FloorPlanOnline is including a new RoomPlanner tool, which allows buyers to drag and drop furniture, rugs, and other household items onto the floor plan, at no additional cost.
The RoomPlanner tool is powered by FloorPlanner.com, a leading provider of online floorplanning tools. … (6 comments)

floorplanonline: Virtual Tour of the Week- 7 fireplaces, but is it Cozy? - 03/22/10 09:00 AM
Located amungst the tall trees of Weston CT and is listed at $2,555,555 with five bedrooms and 4.5 baths, seven fireplaces and one very large wine cellar.
The high quality photography and floor plan for this tour were supplied by expert FPO service provider Larry Merz with the tour created by the FloorPlanOnline production department. The TOUR highlights the listings stunning design, with ample size in scenic Weston, CT. Seven separate fireplaces and a huge wine cellar help make this Premium Property the tour of the week.
This is Agent Stephanie Smith's first order with FloorPlanOnline. Were glad she chose our … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: Virtual Tour of the Week- 7 fireplaces, but is it Cozy? - 03/22/10 08:57 AM
Located amongst the tall trees of Weston CT and is listed at $2,555,555 with five bedrooms and 4.5 baths, seven fireplaces and one very large wine cellar.
The high quality photography and floor plan for this tour were supplied by expert FPO service provider Larry Merz with the tour created by the FloorPlanOnline production department. The TOUR highlights the listings stunning design, with ample size in scenic Weston, CT. Seven separate fireplaces and a huge wine cellar help make this Premium Property the tour of the week.
This is Agent Stephanie Smith's first order with FloorPlanOnline. Were glad she chose our … (2 comments)

floorplanonline: NEW Tool: Buyers can Drag and Drop a Dresser on FPO Virtual Tour - 03/16/10 02:29 AM
NEW: Buyers can Drag and Drop a Dresser on FPO Virtual Tour
FloorPlanOnline just released a cool new tool for real estate agents and home buyers!

The Room Planner Is brand new from FPO. Room Planner allows buyers to move furniture into the listing to create their ideal dream home space inside a FloorPlanOnline Virtual Tour. Buyers may drag and drop a dresser, refresh the rugs, plan a pool, and landscape the listing. Its simple to use and very effective.
Top of the line agents know that Today's buyers already spend more time looking at FloorPlan Online virtual … (1 comments)

floorplanonline: Tour of the Week: Newport Mansion, FloorPlan with Photos - 03/10/10 02:01 AM
FPO Featured Tour of the Week is a $9.95M Mansion Just off the harbor in Newport Rhode Island. This Property is amazing and photographed well. Click the image below to see the FloorPlan Online virtual tour.

The stone tower entry opens to velvety green sprawling lawns surrounded by lush gardens. The facade of the Stone structure stands strong yet invites you to guess at the hidden rooms within. The Warm and Luxurious Library has a table that seats 30. Even the Hearth room off the main kitchen could host a large upscale benefit party.
Amazing, yet this is not uncommon … (1 comments)

floorplanonline: New Facebook FloorPlanOnline Page, Become a Fan to win free Virtual Tour! - 01/12/10 06:03 AM
FloorPlanOnline on Facebook
This is simple so Ill keep it short.  We just started promoting the new FPO FB page, and you can be one of the first to become a FloorPlanOnline Fan!
To get the ball rolling, we have a Cheesy Promo today: become a fan of FloorPlanOnline on Facebook, and you will automatically be entered to win a free photo tour for your next listing!  Its that easy. Click HERE

All FloorPlanOnline Tours have built in walk thru videos and have facebook tools to help you sell your listings.  Its easy to use - check out the … (3 comments)

floorplanonline: Cool New 2010 mktg tool / feature launches early! - 12/30/09 02:31 AM
Adding to the already way-cool floorplanonline interactive floor plan virtual tour, is a new automated tool that adds mouse-overs to each photo icon!  Simple idea, strong results.

When viewing an fpo floor plan tour you may click the icon in the kitchen to see the kitchen photo - or - you may mouse over the photo to get a small thumbnail of the photo.  The guys in the Dev department got it done before 2010 so... it is live now on all existing tours, and there is no extra fee for this addition.
Marketing features like the interactive floor-plan, embeddable … (7 comments)

floorplanonline: Five years old and looking forward to new mktg tools in 2010 - 12/28/09 11:00 PM
Here's wishing you a very happy holiday season and a fantastic New Year.
Thank you for your business during the past year. FloorPlanOnline surpassed our 5 year birthday in August 2009, and we have weathered the real estate crisis fairly well, and it is due to our customers, like you, and our great sales, customer care, production and development staff that we continue on! We hope to be able to service you more in the coming years.
The new website (launched late this fall) www.floorplanonline.com has recieved great reviews.  Check out the new 2 min overview video  Our new embedded youtube … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: Introduction to FloorPlanOnline: Real Estate Marketing, Video, Photos Measurement and Photography - 12/11/09 03:58 AM
Click to view this content in video format.
FloorPlanOnline creates top of the line interactive real estate property websites for homeowners, Real Estate agents, Brokers, and builders. We produce the website, edit the content and host the tour for you.
Anyone can order a Self Service FloorPlanOnline Tour. We currently create tours in the United States, Canada, and the UK. In the US we have Active Service Providers in 44 States where we offer Full Service Tours.
FloorPlan Online Tours are Easy to use and Order.When you click an icon in the Foyer, you see the Foyer. When you click in … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: Wordpress sites Rock - Like it or Loathe it? New FPO WP Site now live - 12/09/09 02:58 AM
We fought our old website long enough.  Wordpress came to the rescue!
If you are looking to develop a new web presence / platform, I highly recommend Word press as an easy to learn option that has plenty of options advanced features. 
The New FPO Site: 
www.floorplanonline.com

Our new site was created in very little time and already is making our clients more pleased as the order process more streamlined, Info is more easily viewed and for us, the SEO is killer.  We selected a template (read bought a template) and started plugging in content. The only development department … (5 comments)

floorplanonline: Tips for hangin' in San Diego CA for ReBarCamp and NAR 2009 - 09/28/09 09:26 AM
San Diego REBARCAMP and NAR November 2009 Tips
I'm in!  I just registered for #rebcsd (rebarcamp San Diego). Its the day before #NAR2009 - and I have to say, I look forward to rebcsd much more than NAR. However both will be great as the REBarCamp and NAR are in Sunny San Diego.
SD is a fantastic city, and I highly recommend hanging around and taking in the sights. I lived in SD for 14 months, and spent way to much time hiking the hills, sailing the harbor and soaking up the sun on my favorite beach (la jolla shore).
Airport … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: Tips for attending the Largest BBQ Contest in the Nation - American Royal BBQ Contest - 09/22/09 05:02 AM
Im VERY biased, but you need to go to the AR BBQ Contest the first weekend in Oct.
The American Royal BBQ in Kansas City is the Best BBQ contest or for that matter, outdoor Cooking Contest in the nation.  On their website, they simply say its the largest... "Best" is subjective I guess.

Just across the Kansas state line in downtown KC MO sits the American Royal BBQ Contest - and each year for the last 10 or so, Ive gotten together with friends and family as a team and entered the worlds greatest BBQ contest. Our team name … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: New Hi-Res Photo Download Page for FloorPlanOnline Virtual Tour Clients - 09/02/09 05:05 AM
Lots of cool projects coming out of development right now. (but...some projects are boring and I wont bother talking about 'em) 
One of the cool things we released this week was the new photo download page and Hi-Res Photo page. Now, any of our FloorPlanOnline clients may select to download all the photos from thier tour in different sizes or download photos individually. The Hi-Res should be in around 2500x1800 in size, which is good for printing.
This will be especialy helpfull when you want to place a Hi-Res photo of the listing in a high end printed publication, digital billboard … (1 comments)

floorplanonline: Response to Social Media tools overwelming for Virtual Tour Company - 08/26/09 08:42 AM
Yeah - we almost capsized the ship due to the flood of orders and response from agents. I had no idea social media tools tied to virtual tours could have such a profound effect!  FloorPlanOnline Tours are going viral - homeowners are happy, homes are selling and agents are calling in the praise.  Thanks to those of you that have said the nice words.
Brief Summary to review: We simply added the ability for anyone to comment, post, tweet, blog (you get the idea) to any FloorPlanOnline Virtual Tour.  there are buttons on each tour - you click "twitter" and the … (0 comments)

floorplanonline: Poke, Friend, Tweet and Post your Listing - FPO Free Summer Viral Tools - 07/20/09 03:57 AM
For years the Real Estate Community, including FloorPlanOnline has been on Twitter, (twitter.com/fpo) Facebook (facebook.com/floorplanonline) and Here on Active Rain (ActiveRain.com/FPO) to network, learn and educate.  FloorPlanOnline has long been the main player in the Floor Plan Virtual Tour Business - so it really only made sense to combine the power of social media and the effectiveness of Floor Plan Tours.
As of right now you can see more than a dozen of your favorite social media tools built into your FloorPlanOnline Tour. Also included are MySpace, Linked in and Blogger as well as many up-and-commers that are all embedded for … (3 comments)

floorplanonline: House of glass, Pane in the sash - 07/10/09 02:38 AM
At FloorPlanOnline we run into agents sometimes that take good photos, but more frequently than not, we run into agents that THINK they take great photos. (that's why we offer to take photos for agents, and offer to measure the listing).  Sometimes the issues are easy repaired....the lessons easily learned.
But every now and then a listing comes along that simply is not photogenic.  This is not the fault of the photographer.  Sometimes its paint, and other times...well its more of an architectural issue.  I believe the guy that built this place must have traded a jet ski for a random … (3 comments)

floorplanonline: 70% of Buyers Want to See FloorPlans - 06/24/09 10:03 AM
Yet another Study came across my desk that backs up the NAR and CAR (California) studies.
In this most recent survey, 90% of buyers wanted clear Photos. this makes sense - however why do some not want photos? The Second most desired online content was FloorPlans at 70%, third was Photo Slideshow at 50%.
Because we are in the floorplan and photo business, we've been tracking this for the last 5 years.  The percent of buyers that desire floorplans online continues to climb, and photo slide-shows has dipped a bit recently.  Photos have and willl remain the most important untill high … (0 comments)