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Real Estate Photography System Updates – Fall 2021

Fall is here, and while the trees up north are shedding their leaves and preparing for winter, Team RTV has been hard at work developing new features and enhancements for our platform.

Our development team remains focused on completing the upcoming Storefront and Scheduling systems while continuing to deliver improvements across our real estate photography software platform.

Please take a few moments to review the latest updates below. Whether you’re a photographer, virtual tour provider, or marketing professional, there’s something here for everyone.

Also, have you seen our newly launched website? We’re excited to unveil the updated home page and the next phase of our online presence. The new site reflects both how far we’ve come and where we’re headed in the future.

We’re incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished so far. While we know there’s still plenty of work ahead, we’re grateful to be sharing this journey with our loyal customers, providers, and supporters.

Thank you for your continued business, trust, and support. We appreciate the opportunity to help power your success and look forward to what’s ahead.

Enjoy the updates!

 

October 2021

Package Tax Settings – Tax settings are now ready for you to set up in your “Ordering System Settings” area of your RTV manager. RTV’s tax settings allow for city and state tax, and we’re also compatible with those of you servicing more than one state!

Tour Track Capabilities Updates – We’ve updated our Tour Track section back in your RTV manager. Those of you picking up jobs from our national accounts are encouraged to log in and click on “Settings” then click on “Tour Track (RTV Jobs)” Be sure to let us know as much as possible about you, your gear, and your capabilities. Let’s rock the shoot together!

September 2021

Custom Email Domain/White Label Email – Our new custom email domain is ready for you to set up. Log into your RTV system now, click on “Settings” click on “Emails” and from there, you can easily add and verify your email address. Once set up and verified, your weekly traffic reports, leads, and photography deliveries will come from YOUR DOMAIN and not @tourmailserver.com. A big thank you to the dev team for putting this together. Enjoy!

Invoice For Every Order – For those of you that have migrated over and started using our new Delivery Site, you love that we now create an invoice for every order. This is likely saving you bookkeeping time, and you’re probably not spending much time chasing after money. The new RTV Invoices can be generated in just a few clicks of the mouse! RTV’s product invoices will show a paid or unpaid status, and they also do a great job itemizing each product that your customer purchases. Enjoy!

Favicon Update – Have you noticed that your logo/favicon is now placed onto every property website, virtual tour, delivery site, and gallery? That’s right! It took a while, but we’re finally putting your logo/favicon on your productions when you private label our system.

Activate Upon Completion – Now complete a project in even fewer clicks with our new “Activate Upon Completion” feature. You probably already noticed by now that you no longer have to click on the activate button to make your property website or virtual tour visible to the world. This is one more little step that we’re happy to save you and your team throughout the build process. Enjoy!

Delete an order – We’re proud to announce that you can now delete an order from within your RTV system. We maintain the order, order number, and order details for your records, but the order itself will not take up space and clutter your projects.

New Login Page – Wow! Did you happen to check out the new RTV manager login page located at https://manage.realtourvision.com? The login page is sporting our new 2021 RTV logo, and we’ve added a photo just for fun. If you have a special photo that you think would look nice on our login page, please feel free to toss it our way along with your logo. We might choose your image when we update next!

Lost August 2021

Ken Burns on Mobile – It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No. It’s Ken Burns on mobile again. That’s right team, Ken is back! In late August of 2021, we brought back Ken Burns to mobile but forgot to tell you in our last battery of updates. For most of you, it’s turned off by default, but we highly recommend that you give it a try and turn it on! From your Dashboard click on “Settings” then click on “Tour Options”. From there, scroll down and turn Ken Burns on Mobile to “on” for both your branded and non-branded productions. Don’t forget to apply your defaults to your customers!

We love helping you dominate the real estate photography, virtual tour, and drone jobs in your market!

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