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Real Estate Photography System Updates – May 2025

Hello RTV Fans,

We’re excited to bring you another round of powerful real estate photography system updates designed to help you work smarter, book faster, and wow your clients. This past month, we rolled out improvements across the board, ranging from smoother booking and smarter Google calendar syncing to an upgraded floor plan editor, SSL-secured custom domains, and a fresh set of sleek marketing flyers waiting for you to grab in the Business Resource Center.

Whether you’re customizing your RTV Storefront checkout flow, fine-tuning your interactive floor plan displays, or preparing for office visits or a trade show, these updates were designed to streamline your workflow and drive results.

Scroll down to see what’s new and start taking advantage of the latest RTV tools and features today!

5-29-25 – Calendar Improvements + Secondary Calendars – We’ve made several “quality of life” improvements to the RTV booking calendar! Events synced from RTV to Google Calendar now include location data, making it easy for you or your photographers to launch GPS directions with just a simple tap. Color coding is now user-based (not zone-based), so you and your admin team can instantly see who is available and who is not. Event changes now only save when you hit Done, eliminating the possibility of sync issues. By popular request, we also added the ability for all users to have what we call secondary calendars. Each user is allowed up to four additional calendars. These additional calendars are used by the system as “Read Only” Calendars and are meant to block off time and used to show when you or your photographers are available and not available. Finally, the new calendars are 100% compatible with other calendar systems, should you or your photographers be using such services. Enjoy the upgrades and improvements, and happy bookings!

5-29-25 – RTV’s Custom Domain Service Now SSL-Secured – Your custom domains from RTV (like www.688madeiradrive.com) now come with complete HTTPS (SSL-Secured) security at no extra cost. SSL-Secured ensures shopper visibility on all platforms and devices. The Custom Domain service from RTV is not just for show. They’re an excellent tool for savvy marketers. Hits to the Custom Domain are tracked and will appear on the Weekly Seller’s Report, allowing you to measure the effectiveness of your print, email, and other marketing efforts where you decide to include the Custom Domain. Check out this Seller’s Report for the production above. By examining the traffic sources, you can see exactly how many visitors came in through your custom domain link, making it a fantastic way to measure marketing effectiveness. Pro Tip: Offer one of your top customers a complimentary custom domain with their next order. Use the RTV custom domain system and point the custom domain to the “Non-Branded” property site using the “Direct” Method. Next, instruct them to include the Custom Domain URL in their property description, as follows: Step inside and take a virtual tour at (Your Secure Custom Domain URL). From there, your local MLS will distribute the description and listing to all of the major real estate portals and more. Sit back and watch your Seller’s Report blow up as views come in by the dozens as you convert traffic from the portals directly to your production. As shown in the report above, your Seller’s Report will show you how many visits are coming from the Custom Domain. Show the results of this new marketing trick to your customer, and they’ll likely order one at full price from you with their next listing. Enjoy!

5-19-25 – Three New Marketing Flyers in the BRC – We’re proud to announce three brand-new, professionally designed marketing pieces now available in the Business Resource Center (BRC) and ready for you to customize and start using today! First up is version two of our popular Home Preparation Flyer. This will help you set clear expectations with homeowners before the photo shoot day and help agents include you in their listing presentations. Next, we have an all-new Real Estate Trade Show Flyer which stands out as a polished, all-in-one snapshot of your unique service offerings. This is ideal for office presentations and trade shows. Finally, we have rolled out version two of our Real Estate Add-Ons Flyer. This flyer will help you showcase your most profitable services and upsell with confidence during shoots and client meetings. Each flyer is editable, print-ready, and designed to help you look professional and sell more effectively. Visit the Business Resource Center and check them out today! Enjoy.

5-15-25 – Custom Checkout Button Text – If you’ve been wanting to further customize your Storefront checkout, this update is for you! You now have the ability to name your Pay Later button, Place Order button, Checkout button, and more to anything you like. What you decide to name your button will vary from user to user, as some of you allow for payment collection on your Storefront, while others prefer that their clients pay when the project is complete (and add-ons have been sold) via the Delivery Site. Whatever your process flow is, you can custom-fit your customer’s checkout experience to match your settings. Make your process crystal clear to clients with our fully customizable labels. Enjoy!

Floor Plan Virtual Tour5-15-25 – New Floor Plan Display Options – You asked, we delivered. When building Split-Screen Interactive Floor Plans, you now control how much screen space the floor plan takes up: 30%, 40%, or 50%. This lets you show off more of your photography on the screen (or floor plan) based on property type or client preference. The system default is set to 50%. You’ll find this new option in the Floor Plan Editor when “Split Screen” is selected. Here’s a sample set to 30%.

5-15-25 – New Floor Plan Editor UI – It’s official! The new Floor Plan Editor is now live, offering a cleaner, more spacious workspace designed to help you move faster. While our entire system will change later this year with our back-end overhaul, we felt it was vital to update the UI of our existing floor plan editor now to help you navigate the busy Summer months. You’ll also be excited to know that you can now drag and drop individual scenes directly onto your floor plan to create the hotspot icons for navigation.

That’s a wrap our May 2025 system updates!

We hope these new additions and features help you continue to dominate your local market and shine as a real estate photographer & media provider. If you have any questions about these updates, please don’t hesitate to contact our customer service team—we’re here to help.

RTV is dedicated to helping you achieve top-level success and seize every opportunity. We appreciate your business, loyalty, and support.

Enjoy the updates!

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

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  • 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
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“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