The first virtual tour company to appear on the national real estate scene was IPIX, somewhere around 1999. They successfully coined the phrase" virtual tour." Originally, all they provided was a handful of 360 scenes of a home for sale. The moving 360 scenes were very distorted and were of poor quality. The 360 scenes were originally sold, admittedly by IPIX as a GIMMICK to the agents and brokers.
As the Internet was in its infancy at that time, the "virtual tour wave" swept the industry and the virtual tour era was born. Unfortunately as the "gimmick" caught up with reality IPIX did not support what they had advertised they could do and their quaility greatly suffered. Mismanagement then became a factor. The fall of IPIX fueled the launching of many other virtual tour vendors with better products, services and pricing.
Research shows that homes for sale with still pictures, moving images and videos (all known as virtual tours) are seen a lot more often than homes for sale without visual imagery. Home Buyers have become very Internet savvy and expect to see multiple photos and often feel suspious of a property that has none or not enough images. Successful agents use complete, effective virtual tours as a listing tool... the byproduct is home buyers! Having lots of listings with virtual tours on the Internet can help you get more listings and more home buyers resulting in more sales!
Hundreds of agents surveyed feel that HomeScenes.com offers the BEST Virtual Tour System on the Internet!
HomeScenes.com Virtual Tours offers real estate professionals different virtual tour/video packages! Every home for sale can require a different Internet marketing plan. Some homes may fair better with one or more of our current technologies that may include HomeScenes.com Still Images, Super Shots, 90 to 360 Degree Moving Images (panoramics), Community Scenes, Community Tours and Sound plus our latest VIDEO technogly may due justice to an upscale penthouse or a builder's model! Real estate professionals nationwide who feel comfortable with their digital cameras can use our Do-It-Yourself tour and upload UNLIMITED still digital images to our on line ordering program and our technicans will build an impressive still slide show tour with music within one business day for just $49.95 per property!
FREE HomeScenes.com "on the phone coaching" helps many agents decide which tour package is best for their listing! All virtual tours enjoy 180 days of FREE advertising/hosting on the HomeScenes.com web site plus FREE access to tour links is available in each agent's Agent Access Area on line so agents can intall tour links to their mulltiple listing service listings, their personal web sites, other web sites like ActiveRain, real estate company web sites and more!
We offer many popular products like our HomeScenes.com yard signs which capture drivebys! We are approved to install links to Realtor.com for a small fee... Realtor.com Showcase member agents receive FREE tour links to their Realtor.com listings!
What used to be a gimick has turned in to a MUST HAVE Internet marketing tool for the successful real estate professional. Imagine listing a home for sale today and deliberately not placing a for sign in the front yard. Many agents would agree that it would feel very strange, unfamiliar and maybe foolish to list a home for sale today without a for sale sign. In the near future adding a complete virtual tour to the maketing plan for your listings will be as common place as having a for sale sign in the front yard today. Marketing your listings on the Internet with visual imagery is here to stay. In just a few short years the Internet has totally changed the way home buyers shop for a home and how real estate professionals market their listings for sale.
We are committed to your success! Embracing technology is your first step! We are here to help with the rest!
Visit HomeScenes.com soon, you will be glad you did!
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