Month: April 2009

Create interactive floor plans from your property photos

Interactive floor plans add context to your content, showing your viewers where they are each step of the way as they tour your property online.

One of the main reasons that we created TourVista was to provide more information about properties online. Interactive floor plans are a wonderful way to accomplish this because they allow your viewers to orient themselves as they view each photo. By providing a “You are here” icon for each property photo, you have created a more engaging and memorable experience for your potential customers. Your property will definitely stand out.

Here’s a demo on creating interactive floor plans using TourVista:

Now showing all virtual tours in your account

Another frequently requested improvement to TourVista is to include on each virtual tour links to the other virtual tours in your account.  You’ve asked, we have delivered!

If you have setup multiple virtual tours in your TourVista account, they will now show on the left column of your dedicated property website, like so:

link to all virtual tours in your account

This addition is a great way to cross-market your other properties and take advantage of the traffic to each of your virtual tours.

TourVista is pleased to announce this newest update.  Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming!

#3: Craigslist copy/paste templates improved

Update: as of November 2013 Craigslist is no longer allowing fancy templates or externally-hosted images (you can still show images on your posts but they must be uploaded directly to Craigslist). More info and a great solution provided free from TourVista here.

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Our free Craigslist templates have been improved to save you even more time. In addition to the main description HTML code that you can copy and paste into your Craigslist post, your property title, price and address are also shown. Just click to highlight them, copy and paste into Craigslist.

craiglist-copy-paste-template

There is also a link to your virtual tour photos on TourVista. While our Craigslist templates include your first 7 photos, it’s also a good idea to upload at least one other photo using the “Add Images” form that Craigslist provides. This photo will show at the bottom of your post. We recommend using a photo that is not already included in the template code TourVista provides.

We are working on some new Craigslist templates and look forward to offering these in the near future!

(Update: 08-16-09) – Video tutorial for posting your virtual tour onto Craigslist in only 3 minutes.

Virtual tour statistics now showing in your TourVista account!

Update March 2011: integrate Google Analytics with your virtual tours!

One of the most requested features from our users has been the ability to see a detail of each virtual tour’s traffic.  While your tours have been tracking this information from the day you first created them, the only statistic available to users was the total number of views.  Until now…

It is now possible to view information about every time your virtual tour has been viewed. The virtual tour viewing statistics are updated real-time, meaning you can know exactly when your tour is being viewed and which sites are sending that traffic.  Use this data to make your marketing efforts more effective:

  • date & time of the view
  • virtual tour type – your dedicated property website on TourVista, or Large & Mini widgets that have been embedded on other sites
  • duration of visit – know how long your tours are being viewed!
  • referring URL – the web page the user came from, like your post on Craigslist, your blog, etc.

Note: stats are not counted when you are logged into TourVista and viewing your own tours.

It’s easy to filter your viewing statistics by date. Filter by:

  • today
  • last week
  • last month
  • last 2 months
  • last 3 months
  • all time
  • custom date range
  

Select "Tour Views" from the drop down menu.
Select “Tour Views” from the drop down menu.

Hope you like. Any suggestions? Let us know.