You know a picture tells a thousand words. Add to this line - a virtual tour (3D tour) tells it all! Plainly speaking words never speak better than a virtual tour. As the internet has become the mainstay in media, 3D tours, the new kid on the block, is breaking the clutter of web graphics. High-end virtual tours take the visibility of a business levels up. Have it, flaunt it! Virtual tours authenticate a companies/organizations worth. It presents the big picture interactively making way for easy decisions. Virtual tours prove to be a complete makeover for sagging the web presence of a company into hospitality. Virtual Tours - the Big Picture Virtual tour (3D tour) is but the all-round view of a venue, location, machinery or system, composed of a varying degree of images. It can also accompany texts and audio so as to make the walkthrough interesting. 360 degree virtual tours are highly advantageous for real estate industries. Prospective clients browsing these tours get rid of the pain of physically inspecting the places and systems. As an educational aid, they are unparalleled. Besides, 3D tour is used more or less in product advertisements. Virtual Tours - the Technology Bluntly saying, this is a visual media. Technicians optimize a series of photographs or a video panaroma to the web standards. Panographers can add hotspots to allow the users click-and-enter various mappings of the tour. Compatibility and compression are the major issues in creating 3D tours for the web. Because one is exposed to the world at a click. A slow rendering graphics is worse enough to ward off the busy traffic. Broadly, virtually tours can be divided into: *Fixed format (do-yourself) virtual tours: One can create virtual tours by using software. All one needs is but to enter some images, texts and sounds (if required) to the program and choose the options of panning, size and time parameters. If the budget is pinching this can be well-to-do for small enterprises. *Professional (full-service) virtual tours: Professional photographers, illustrators and programmers together can build a virtual tour as you specify. This can be expensive but one get the dream-results. One can also add/remove certain features as required. It is suitable for corporates. Virtual Tours - the Benefits *Over 50% of online viewers prefer to visit a real location after having viewed its virtual tour. *It stimulates the buying decision of potential clients. *Increases traffic and increases the recall-value in prospective clients. *Increases retail businesses looking to show off their showrooms.

I remember starting out as a real estate investor I had learned a very simple, yet mind-blowing strategy to make a million dollars in real estate. The concept was taught by Marshall Reddick, who is an avid real estate investor, and to date, he has over 200+ real estate rental properties in his portfolio. It could not have been said better than Marshall himself. To make a million dollars in real estate, you must: 1. Borrower a million dollars 2. Have someone else pay it back for you Simple as that. How does it apply to real estate investing, you may ask? Well, all you need to do is purchase enough investment properties worth a million dollars total, and have them rented out. That essentially is borrowing a million dollars in mortgage debt, and have your renters pay back the debt for you. For many people, borrowing a million dollars may seem out of reach, but just as you would eat an elephant one bite at a time, so is buying real estate properties - you buy one house at a time. Unless you live in California, there are still many states that you can purchase a home for around $100k. Even if you are residing in California, you will need to stretch your vision and reach out-of-state. Many people fear owning a property, let alone owning an investment property out of state. However, as a true real estate investor, you must put yourself in the mode of a business owner. Real estate investment is a business, and like any business, it may come necessary for you to hire people to work for you. That's what realtors and property managers are there for. In order to really expand your real estate investing business, you must get comfortable with hiring property managers to manage your properties. We have all heard good debt and bad debt, so don't let the concept of owing money scare you off - especially when you can have someone else pay it back for you! As an added bonus, real estate value on average has never gone down in value in history. You hear people losing money in real estate because they could not hold on to their properties and they let them go at unfortunate times. Even if real estate value do go down, you should never fear because you have someone else paying your mortgage - your renters. As good as the concept of making a million dollar in real estate may sound, fear not and take the first step in your real estate investing.

Tips on how to Sell, Buy, and list your property When it comes to property, first impressions count, so make sure yours is looking its absolute best. Making the most of your home doesn't have to cost a fortune, and a few inexpensive improvements can make all the difference. Put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer and, starting from the pavement outside, take a complete tour of the property. Work out a plan of action, and if necessary, draft in a friend or an objective other for a second opinion ? you?ll be amazed at the cracks and crevices, often that have gone unnoticed for years, that suddenly come to light. Once you've made a list of what needs to be done, work out a budget and priorities accordingly. There's no point throwing money at making unnecessary changes at this stage, so keep things in perspective. If your landscaping isn't that great, spend the money on new plants to make it look appealing. The buyer has to see themselves living in the property, so make it a paradise. Kerb appeal is essential because many prospective buyers may only drive by your home. Getting them back a second time will depend on their first impression, so make sure the outside is looking its absolute best; keep refuse bins out of sight, and, if it needs it, give the front door a fresh coat of paint. Clean up any paint issues on the interior of the property including behind doors, in closets and so on. This may sound odd, but buyers will look in every little cranny. You're effectively in competition with other homes in the area, so it pays to find out from your local estate agent what will make yours shine a new worktop in the kitchen might be all that it takes. Make your home as warm and inviting as possible, because more than most major purchases, people buy homes according to their emotions. That process begins by making your home feel homey without feeling cluttered. Doing up a house for sale is all about marketing a lifestyle so always keep your buyer in mind when making any changes. Once the property is clean and looks ready to sell (remember, you are trying to impress potential buyers!), create a listing. Getting a free listing on this site will expose your property to hundreds of thousands of buyers including people considering moving into your area. Most sellers fail to recognize that one of the largest pools of buyers are people relocating from one part of the country to another. This is where realtor MLS listings fail miserably. They simply do not expose your home to the correct market, making the sale of the property a long process.Many homebuyers use the Internet to find a home.Because when listing your home for sale, you?ll be able to provide a bevy of information to potential buyers. Essentially, you?ll get to provide everything you would in a typical MLS listing such as bedrooms, bathrooms, garages, appliances, price, square footage, contact information and so on. There is, however, one major advantage to listing on an online real estate site compared to regular MLS listings photographs.

Studies in demographics and trends abound in the market of real estate. Every day new reports are speculating about the ups and downs, the insides and out of this industry. In deciphering the material for building real estate business, the consensus shows that niche markets utilizing specialized services, provide the largest profit for the least amount of time investment. How does the average agent/broker tap into that knowledge? No longer is the real estate agent/broker set to go upon passing the real estate exams. Further training is needed in the area of marketing for success in today's business place. Broker Price Opinions, Short Sales, Credit Scores, REO, Staging, Retired Clientele, Investors.... The list goes on and on to divide the real estate market into specialized segments. Real estate exams are for legal proficiency, not marketing success. Why is the market becoming so segmented? Due to the rapid rise in real estate appreciation realized over the last few years, many newcomers have entered the field of real estate. Higher commissions were regularly realized and there was no need (or time) to study market segments. Now, the interest rates are starting to rise and whether or not they reach their previous highs, the market will experience a tightening of the belt. This tightening will weed out the real estate professionals that are unable or unwilling to increase their level of knowledge in specialized markets. Since there is no real estate exam for marketing to specialized niches, the agent/broker is left to his/her own resources for finding, training, and providing these necessary skills. There are many ways to do this. Certainly experience in the particular niche is valuable, but what if the professional doesn't have the experience? There are companies out there that are providing the knowledge to real estate professionals along with the marketing suggestions to build the specialized niche into a full fledged, profitable business. Agents/brokers need only to browse the resources available through the internet. Try www.realestate proguides.com. There are complete programs for specific real estate marketing. These programs provide knowledge of the specific market, including forms and examples for analysis. Some are touted as computer programs; however, we know that real estate is sold through the provision of specific, timely, knowledgeable attention given to the client in an easily comprehensible format. The personal touch is the most expected, expected source for this. New paths are exciting, and real estate is not known for a "boring" ride. Real Estate Professionals change with the times, and provide a comfortable, enjoyable experience to themselves and their clients.

With the introduction of new products and the growth of the purchasing power of the people continually escalates, it can be said that the advertising industry became fully energized. That's why even with the dawn of the new technology, advertising still continues to dominate the business world. As most business people asserts, business can never succeed without advertising. And so, in the real estate business, advertising remains to proliferate with more ways that could increase productivity. However, for those who still don't know how to maximize the potential of advertising in increasing their real estate sales, here are some ways to brood over: 1. Web site listings. Real estate businesses may consider the benefits of advertising their products or services online. In this manner, they could even increase their market share by accessing those who cannot be reached by simple ways of promotions and advertising. People behind the real estate business may choose from the different web site listings available in the Internet today. 2. Search engines registration. Real estate businessmen may also opt for the search engines that are available on the Internet. With a reasonable amount, real estate businesses may promote their products online and may get more exposure through search engines. Two of the most common search engines are Google and Yahoo. So, if the business is listed at these sites, chances are they'll reap more profits than they could imagine. 3. Banner ads. Banner ads are those ads that appear on top of a certain sponsoring website. It contains the business' name and the hyperlink that connects the customer to the business' site. In this way, real estate entrepreneurs may take the chance of increasing their exposure online by letting the people know that they exist. 4. Emails. Real estate businesses may also resort to this kind of advertising. Though, special considerations should be made when constructing emails so that it will not be categorized as spam. Also, to maximize the use of this advertising technique, the real estate business must also have an email list of their potential buyers. 5. The basics. It still pays to be traditional. In fact, one of the best ways to advertise a product is to use the traditional method of advertising - the print and the broadcast advertisements. There are people who would rather see the ads on television or in newspapers than online. But whatever type of advertising a real estate business uses, one thing is bound to help them boost their sales and profit. It just needs the skill to decide which would go best with the business.