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Real Estate Photography Software Updates – July 2024

Hello real estate photographers, drone pilots, and virtual tour creators,

I hope this message finds you all having an amazing Summer! We’re thrilled to share that July has been yet another great month for software development at RTV. Our team has been hard at work implementing a range of powerful updates designed to enhance your real estate photography, aerial drone, and virtual tour business.

From new customization options and streamlined processes to advanced tools that will set your company apart, these updates are all about making your workflow smoother and your service even more impressive.

Thank you for your continued support and ongoing feedback. We’re excited to see how these new features will help you grow your business.

Here’s a look at what’s new last Month:

7-29-24 – DeScribe AI Secondary Location – You’ll be pleased to know that DeScribe AI has a secondary home on the Information Page making it easier for you AND your customer to utilize the feature while inputting property details. If you have given your AI bot a custom name, the system will utilize your custom name on the Information page. The system also recognizes whether you’ve granted that specific customer access to the AI tool. For example, if you have revoked access to the Edge Marketing Center for a particular customer, they will not be able to access the AI tool from their Delivery Site or the project Information page. If you have not tried the unique property description tool yet, we highly recommend doing so. Take a moment to learn more about it and train your customers to use it. Our DeScribe AI tool is yet one more thing that sets you apart from other real estate photographers in your area. Enjoy!

7-22-24 – Storefront Order Step Arrangement – You can now arrange nearly all of your Storefront order steps in any order that you see fit. At BlueLaVa, we have decided to have our customers provide their “Customer Information” first. By doing this we are able to chase after any of the tire kickers that might see our pricing and leave the Storefront. By default, all new RTV accounts are set to “Must Login” occurring first in the order process. Feel free to edit your “Login and Connectivity Settings,” so your customers are not required to log in first. When login first is off, the RTV system will automatically recognize returning customer email addresses and create the order in the system for the associated customer. While “View Cart” and “Checkout” must always come at the end, you can feel free to rearrange the first four steps in any order you like.

7-22-24- Full Storefront Textual Customization – We’re pleased to announce that you now have FULL control of nearly all of the text on your RTV Storefront! If you’ve been wanting to change up some of the text on your storefront that was hardcoded, now is your chance! We’ve now given you full control of the text on each page throughout the entire shopping experience. If you would like to tell your customer to “Choose ONE (1) Primary Package Below. Add-Ons are on the Following Page,” for example, you now can! Some of you may want to remind your customers to provide property access information by saying something like “Please provide lock box codes or other pertinent property access information using our special instructions area below.” on the details page. To explore your options, click on “Settings” followed by “Storefront Settings” – scroll down to the bottom of the Storefront Settings page, and you’ll see your “Order Step Settings.” Enjoy!

7-22-24 – HTML Support on Gallery Pages – If you recall, a while back, we revamped the Gallery Pages so they load faster, offer more usable features during listing presentations, and rank exceptionally well in the SERPS. As a result, we’ve received many requests to allow for HTML in your company description area. We are happy to inform you that your Gallery Pages now support HTML! Feel free to link out from your Gallery Page to your website, specific pages on the web, or get really fancy. Take a look at what we did over at BlueLaVaMedia using some basic HTML upgrades – https://tours.BlueLaVaMedia.com. To utilize this new feature yourself, simply click on “Settings” followed by “Profile.” From there, you can update your company description and utilize the new HTML capabilities. Enjoy!

7-11-24—Delivery Page Emails Template Upgrade—By popular demand, your project delivery email template now supports project “placeholders”, so you can fully customize the subject and body of your Delivery email. We recommend that you leave the project address in your subject so customers can easily identify individual projects as they’re delivered. Feel free to click on your “Settings” followed by “Emails” – “Email Templates” – “Delivery Page Email” and take notice of the NEW “Placeholders” button. From here, you can customize your Delivery Page Email to your liking.

7-11-24 – Traffic Report Batch Removal – We’ve added a very simple way to remove a recipient from ALL traffic reports at once. This comes in handy when a customer moves to a new brokerage, gets a new email address, or when they get a new assistant. You can access the batch removal tool by clicking on “Settings” followed by “Traffic Reports.” From there, you can enter the email address you would like to take off all traffic reports. You can also access this handy tool by clicking on any of your users, followed by their individual traffic report settings area.

7-8-24—Property Website Layout Access—Now that we have six unique property websites, it’s time to show your customers the vast offering you can provide them with your photo delivery. We are happy to announce that you now have the ability to let your customers choose their favorite property website layout directly from their Delivery Site. To enable this feature for all of your customers, click on “Settings” – “Deliverables & Links” and enable “Property Website Theme”. You can also set this feature on a customer-level basis or on a case-by-case basis for each Delivery Site.

Enjoy the updates and I look forward to seeing you on our next training event!

Sincerely,

Jason & Team RTV

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“Success with RTV from a Real Estate Agent’s Point of View
In early 2005 as the real estate market here in the Florida Keys started to slow, I could see I would have to brush up on my marketing skills and find better ways to expose my listings to potential buyers. With so many Florida Keys homes and condos sold as vacation homes, an online presence with great photos and virtual tours becomes essential. A few years earlier I was the first agent in our area to do virtual tours. I had tried the two-shot version but the results were not very good. Then the market got so hot, and properties were selling so fast, there was no real need to have tours. I could see the tide turning and I wanted to add virtual tours back to my listings so I started doing some research to find the best solution. After looking at a lot of low quality tours, I found RTV. Having taken some photography courses in college, and with over 30 years in the real estate business taking photos of houses, I decided to do the tours myself. My first RTV tour was of one of the highest priced homes in Key Largo. Shortly after submitting it, I received a call from a buyer who said his wife had seen a virtual tour on the Internet and she wanted him to take a look at the property while he was in the Keys. During the showing he called his wife at home and told her to look at the virtual tour again. They decided then and there to make an offer. They ended up buying the property. The wife never came to see it until closing. The selling price was $3.7 million.

Since then there have been other situations where a buyer’s partner or family member could not be present but the decision to go forward was based on the virtual tour. Many times in the course of showing one of my listings with an agent from another company, I hear the buyers talking about having seen the virtual tour on the Internet. It seems they find the listings and have their agent make the appointment which results in more showings and sales for my sellers. I have a contract pending on a property which is scheduled to close later this month. The buyers have never been inside the house. Asking price almost $3 million.

In spite of our market being down almost 50% in the number of sales, and the inventory being up almost 50% in the number of listings, this has been my best year ever in real estate with over $12 million in sales so far – and it is only April. Thank you RTV for helping take my career to a new level.”

Sharon Nyman

Virtual Tour Provider

Feature List

  • 100% Your Brand & White Label
  • Advanced Customer Storefront
  • Advanced Photo & 4K Streaming Video Delivery
  • Automated Weekly Traffic Reports
  • Built-in 360 Virtual Tour Software
  • Calendar Integration & Job Scheduling System
  • Create Interactive Floor Plans with Hot Spots
  • Custom 360 Virtual Tour Layouts
  • Discounted Virtual Staging Services
  • Easy-to-Use Secure Client Portal
  • Invoice, Prepay, & Pay-To-Download
  • Jobs from RTV’s National Hotel Accounts
  • Photographer Management System
  • Secure HTTPS Links
  • Six Elegant Property Website Layouts
  • Stripe, PayPal, Square, & QuickBooks Integration
  • Unlimited Hosting
  • Unlimited Phone Training & Technical Support
  • Works with ANY 3D–360 Camera
  • Zillow, Matterport, & iGuide Compatible

“RTV, Best Service, Great Products!!!
We opened Photos Sell, real estate photography in January 2015. I found RTV during a search for a portal site so I could send high res images over the internet to my customers. When I called this company I was greeted by the owner himself. Jason LaVanture. Jason explained what RTV was about and what they can do for my new business. Great customer service, training, high res Virtual Tours and much, much more. After I signed up I got all of the above and much, much more. I received excellent training on the system. Instant help from customer support almost never got a voice mail and when I did they always got right back to me ASAP. The product is like nothing else, it set me apart from my competition. Look if your pictures are not good, they will no look good on any medium. I now work for 35 agents and exclusive with two large Brokers in our area. I am busy as hell. I read the complaints on this company and my response to those who complained is: you can’t make a living off the leads you get for RTV. You need to market you self, have a great product and provide great customer service. Look, I am no one special to RTV, just a customer and I have received outstanding service, their web portal works flawlessly and is easy to use and navigate. I can pickup the phone and speak to the Owner any time, he is a great resource and can be depended upon should you have a problem!! Thank you RTV. I prefer not be anonymizes: George Pulizzano, Photos Sell, Tampa, Florida.”

George Pulizzano

George Pulizzano Photography

“I became a RTV Full Service Provider after I researched many different virtual tour software solutions and purchased several different packages from virtual tour companies in the industry. RTV wins hands down! Their tours are truly INTERACTIVE and professional quality. Unlike other software that can distort images and give the ‘fishbowl’ effect, RTV offers a superior software solution that forgives even the most amateur of photographers and allows professional photographers to REALLY show off their work. In the last year my company has produced more than 170 tours for both commercial and real estate applications and that number is growing daily. On top of our own marketing efforts, RTV has sent us MANY qualified leads! 95% of all the leads that they send us result in an immediate order! To top the cake, their support staff is ON THE BALL!! A BIG thank you to Torie, Jon, Jacque (tour track), Ben and especially Jason for all of their training, support and attention to detail. I have been known to be a little ‘fiery’ and passionate about my business, but they have always answered my support requests promptly and professionally! I highly recommend their software to anyone who is even considering doing their own tours in-house OR starting a virtual tour company. You simply CANNOT beat the level of support or quality of software.”

Cheryl Waller

Virtual Tour Provider

“Success with RTV from a Real Estate Agent’s Point of View
In early 2005 as the real estate market here in the Florida Keys started to slow, I could see I would have to brush up on my marketing skills and find better ways to expose my listings to potential buyers. With so many Florida Keys homes and condos sold as vacation homes, an online presence with great photos and virtual tours becomes essential. A few years earlier I was the first agent in our area to do virtual tours. I had tried the two-shot version but the results were not very good. Then the market got so hot, and properties were selling so fast, there was no real need to have tours. I could see the tide turning and I wanted to add virtual tours back to my listings so I started doing some research to find the best solution. After looking at a lot of low quality tours, I found RTV. Having taken some photography courses in college, and with over 30 years in the real estate business taking photos of houses, I decided to do the tours myself. My first RTV tour was of one of the highest priced homes in Key Largo. Shortly after submitting it, I received a call from a buyer who said his wife had seen a virtual tour on the Internet and she wanted him to take a look at the property while he was in the Keys. During the showing he called his wife at home and told her to look at the virtual tour again. They decided then and there to make an offer. They ended up buying the property. The wife never came to see it until closing. The selling price was $3.7 million.

Since then there have been other situations where a buyer’s partner or family member could not be present but the decision to go forward was based on the virtual tour. Many times in the course of showing one of my listings with an agent from another company, I hear the buyers talking about having seen the virtual tour on the Internet. It seems they find the listings and have their agent make the appointment which results in more showings and sales for my sellers. I have a contract pending on a property which is scheduled to close later this month. The buyers have never been inside the house. Asking price almost $3 million.

In spite of our market being down almost 50% in the number of sales, and the inventory being up almost 50% in the number of listings, this has been my best year ever in real estate with over $12 million in sales so far – and it is only April. Thank you RTV for helping take my career to a new level.”

Sharon Nyman

Virtual Tour Provider