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### Body
htmlText_3D9C3B47_29B8_1505_41C4_6E4637008B51.html = Everyone is familiar with 'normal' flat videos,but 360 videos are not well known. Too bad, because they're exceptionally powerful tools for communicating an environment's character.
They don't have quite the resolution of a flat video, however a viewer will hardly notice that once they start to pan around and explore the video like they do with a 360 photo.
My 360 video motto is, shoot it and let the viewer point the camera.
Click on the icon to the right for an example.
For some tours a drone photo will make a significant contribution. Tourism is a good example, and this specific photo implicitly invites people to come and explore 'canoe country'.
Drone photos can be normal flat images, or they can be 360s such as this one.
Here are three examples of meaningful icons: info boxes, and a navigation arrow.
There are several standard types of each, and it's also possible to create new custom ones for your tour, say from your logo.
Since a goal of a tour is for a website visitor to get to know you, like you, and trust you, a tour must invite the visitor to stay engaged.
As such, the tour must inform and/or entertain the visitor. Info boxes and photos help to achieve this.
If you have video with well done green screen, it can be incorporated into a 360 photo.
In this tour of a tour, you've seen 360 photos, hotspots triggering info boxes, normal (flat) photos, flat video, 360 video, callouts, drone 360 photos, and various navigation icons.
What remains is your imagination and creativity envisioning what your tour could look like.
My collegues around the globe and my own experience is that you can expect 30% increased conversion from website visitor to customer.
Invite me in for a chat: gregboyce360@gmail.com
Thanks for your attention.
Info boxes can be decorated.
Type of font, font size, font color, bold, italics, underscore are editable.
Text can be justified.
Background colors can be solids or gradients.
Borders can be colored and sized.
Other than for dramatic effect, these characteristics are useful in matching your website or your corporate color scheme.
Interior 360 images are important components of many virtual tours because they give visitors a realistic, shall we say an honest view. Trust building is what it is.
Visitors begin feeling as if they're actually on location. If a visitor has any, even a little anxiety about a real-life visit, these high quality 360 photos can reduce it.
Inviting the visitor to relax about strange new people, places and objects requires some effort on your part. Putting names on things, and describing their purpose goes a long way in calming any such anxiety.
Doing so also inspires confidence in you - you clearly know what you're talking about. Credibility.
Can you see how a tour builds trust and increases the probability of a visitor becoming a client?
Like the non-animated callouts, animated versions are exceptionally customizable.
Reach out and get in touch. We can chat about what your tour would look like and what the ballpark cost would be. If you like how that goes, I'll come in for a walk-around with you and we'll come up with a plan & price.
GregBoyce360@gmail.com
Sometimes a walk-thru is better than a tour. This is particularly true in real estate when turn-over is days or weeks. It's not cost effective to do a full blown tour on a property if it's on MLS for a short period of time.
On the other hand, if your property is for a model home or a renovation and will be on your website for months or years, a full featured tour is a very effective marketing tool.
If you had a serious prospect walking thru your property or looking at your renovation in person, you'd point out all the selling points, answer all questions, describe options, and offer incentives. A virtual tour can do all that at a fraction of the cost and 24/7.
This servery for example is worthy of a paragraph.
Sometimes an extra photo adds a lot. Normally in a tour you wouldn't need text like what you're reading right now - a picture says a thousand words. But you could.
The photos you use in the tour should be the same quality as your products or services.
Likewise, the photos should be in the same temperment. For example, if your product or service is calming or soothing, you should use photos that evoke that same feeling in the visitor.
Even the hotspot and navigation icons should be aligned with your products and services.
These blue rectangles are referred to as 'callouts'. They can be quite handy to draw a visitor's attention to something you consider important.
They can be 'clickable' like this one to perform some type of action, in this case to open an info box.
And they are completely customizable for color, size, shape, type of pointer, length of pointer and many other attributes.
This, what your looking at, is a tour of a what a tour can include. It will show you the components that will help keep visitors engaged. Longer engagement = more trust = higher conversion from visitor to customer.
In each of the photos presented in this tour I will highlight different components and describe options to consider or ideas to ponder when thinking about a tour for your business. And keep in mind that a tour may be a single photo or dozens.
I invite you to explore every photo, and click every icon before moving on to the next photo; each one offers something unique.
To include people in your tour is an important choice.
Generally I suggest not to and thereby avoid having to either blur faces (which looks odd), or get signed model releases (which people sometimes refuse - leaving no choice but to blur them).
However, your business may be better served with people in the shots. Staff members are preferable in this case since model releases are easier to manage.
Your business should stand out from the competition by being unique and intriguing to website visitors. It's a sad day if your website visitors say to themselves 'seen one, seen em all'.
Have you ever got down on your hands and knees to look at a cluster of mushrooms? Have you ever seen a 360 photo like this? It's different. It's invited you to stay here longer than if it was a normal photo.
The longer a visitor stays in your tour, the more comfortable they are with the idea of becoming a customer.
A typical real estate tour would link rooms with navigation icons such as this arrow.
If your business places importance on innovation however, the navigation icons can be completely customized. Almost any shape, animated doing almost anything.
This icon actually doesn't lead anywhere.
An excellent use of info boxes is to explain what a particular thing is. Your visitor likely won't know your business as well as you do, so now's your opportunity to inform. You gain credibility when you demonstrate expertise. In a real physical tour you'd explain certain aspects of your business, so too in a virtual tour. A good virtual tour isn't simply a walk-around or drive-by.
Example: The best time of the year for stargazing is winter. With cold air comes clear air (ie less humidity) and darkness comes earlier too so you don't have to lose sleep to see your favorite constellations. And out here, traffic isn't a concern, especially in winter. I was here for an hour and only one car went by.
If your business has a focus on process or change, such as renovations, or in this case closet organization, then a 'live panorama' is just the thing.
Close this box, wait 5 seconds and watch how the image toggles between a before shot to an after shot.
Could your business use such a feature?
(To navigate away from this pano, use the animated circle arrow, or click on Tourism in the gallery.)
Tell the visitor something interesting that isn't in the rest of your website, such as how many items you have in your inventory, or how many suppliers you partner with, or how many countries your inventory comes from.
The point is to educate/inform, or entertain the visitor. Doing so invites the person to stay in the tour ie. engagement = building trust by getting to know you.
The goal of a website is to convert website/virtual visitors into customers. To do that your website has to invite visitors to get to know you, like you (or your offering), and most importantly, trust you.
An in-person physical tour helps do that, and a virtual tour is the website counterpart. The tour should inform and maybe even entertain to keep the visitor engaged. The longer the engagement, the more a visitor gets to know you, like you, and trust you.
To navigate within a 360, click and drag.
Double-click to go full screen on and off.
Scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
To visit another photo, either click on one of the images in the carousel, or find a 'meaningful icon' such as an arrow or door, and click it.
For contact info, click the logo (upper left).
Close this box with the x (top right corner).
Everyone is familiar with 'normal' flat videos,but 360 videos are not well known. Too bad, because they're exceptionally powerful tools for communicating an environment's character.
They don't have quite the resolution of a flat video, however a viewer will hardly notice that once they start to pan around and explore the video like they do with a 360 photo.
My 360 video motto is, shoot it and let the viewer point the camera.
Click on the icon to the right for an example.
For some tours a drone photo will make a significant contribution. Tourism is a good example, and this specific photo implicitly invites people to come and explore 'canoe country'.
Drone photos can be normal flat images, or they can be 360s such as this one.
Here are three examples of meaningful icons: two info boxes and a navigation arrow.
There are several standard types of each, and it's also possible to create new custom ones for your tour, say from your logo.
Since a goal of a tour is for a website visitor to get to know you, like you, and trust you, a tour must invite the visitor to stay engaged.
As such, the tour has to engage and/or entertain the visitor. So info boxes and several photos help achieve that.
If you have a gallery of photos about your business, you could showcase them. As usual with a virtual tour, the idea is to engage your visitors.
I've elected to present 360 photos, not flat photos. Some are from actual tours, some are from my personal portfolio. Click on a thumbnail and explore these 360s.
If you have a gallery of photos about your business, you could showcase them. As usual with a virtual tour, the idea is to engage your visitors.
I've elected to present 360 photos, not flat photos. Some are from actual tours, some are from my personal portfolio. Click a thumbnail and explore these 360s.
And as usual with 360 photos, you can navigate this one or any of the other panos once they're open.
If you have video with well done green screen, it can be incorporated into a 360 photo.
In this tour of a tour, you've seen 360 photos, hotspots triggering info boxes, normal (flat) photos, flat video, 360 video, callouts, drone 360 photos, and various navigation icons.
What remains is your imagination and creativity envisioning what your tour could look like.
My collegues around the globe and my own experience is that you can expect 30% increased conversion from website visitor to customer.
Invite me in for a chat: gregboyce360@gmail.com
Thanks for your attention.
Info boxes can be decorated.
Font type, font size, font color, bold, italics, underscore are editable.
Text can be justified.
Background colors can be solids or gradients.
Borders can be colored and sized.
Other than for dramatic effect, these characteristics are useful in matching your website or your corporate color scheme.
Interior 360 images are important components of many virtual tours because they give visitors a realistic, shall we say an honest view. Trust building is what it is.
Visitors begin feeling as if they're actually on location. If a visitor has any, even a little anxiety about a real-life visit, these high quality 360 photos can reduce it.
Inviting the visitor to relax about strange new people, places and objects requires some effort on your part. Putting names on things, and describing their purpose goes a long way in calming any such anxiety.
Doing so also inspires confidence in you - you clearly know what you're talking about. Credibility.
Can you see how a tour builds trust and increases the probability of a visitor becoming a client?
Like the non-animated callouts, animated versions are exceptionally customizable.
Sometimes a walk-thru is better than a tour. This is particularly true in real estate when turn-over is days or weeks. It's not cost effective to do a full blown tour on a property if it's on MLS for a short period of time.
On the other hand, if your property is for a model home or a renovation and will be on your website for months or years, a full featured tour is a very effective marketing tool.
If you had a serious prospect walking thru your property or looking at your renovation in person, you'd point out all the selling points, answer all questions, describe options, and offer incentives. A virtual tour can do all that at a fraction of the cost and 24/7.
This servery for example is worthy of a paragraph.
Sometimes an extra photo adds a lot. Normally in a tour you wouldn't need text like what you're reading right now - a picture says a thousand words. But you could.
The photos you use in the tour should be the same quality as your products or services.
Likewise, the photos should be in the same temperment. For example, if your product or service is calming or soothing, you should use photos that evoke that same feeling in the visitor.
Even the hotspot and navigation icons should be aligned with your products and services.
These blue rectangles are referred to as 'callouts'. They can be quite handy to draw a visitor's attention to something you consider important.
They can be 'clickable' like this one to perform some type of action, in this case to open an info box.
The can be completely customizable as well. Your imagination can run wild with these.
This, what your looking at, is a tour of a what a tour can include. It will show you the components that will help keep visitors engaged. Longer engagement = more trust = higher conversion from visitor to customer.
In each of the photos presented in this tour I will highlight different components and describe options to consider or ideas to ponder when thinking about a tour for your business. Keep in mind that a tour may be a single photo or dozens.
Each photo has something unique to offer. Click every icon. Imagine what features your tour should have.
To include people in your tour is an important choice.
Generally I suggest not to and thereby avoid having to either blur faces (which looks odd), or get signed model releases (which people sometimes refuse - leaving no choice but to blur them).
However, your business may be better served with people in the shots. Staff members are preferable in this case since model releases are easier to manage.
Your business should stand out from the competition by being unique and intriguing to website visitors. It's a sad day if your website visitors say to themselves 'seen one, seen em all'.
Have you ever got down on your hands and knees to look at a cluster of mushrooms? Have you ever seen a 360 photo like this? It's different. It's invited you to stay here longer than if it was a normal photo.
The longer a visitor stays in your tour, the more comfortable they are with the idea of becoming a customer.
A typical real estate tour would link rooms with navigation icons such as this arrow.
If your business places importance on innovation however, the navigation icons can be completely customized. Almost any shape, animated doing almost anything.
This icon actually doesn't lead anywhere.
An excellent use of info boxes is to explain what a particular thing is. Your visitor likely won't know your business as well as you do, so now's your opportunity to inform. You gain credibility when you demonstrate expertise. In a real physical tour you'd explain certain aspects of your business, so too in a virtual tour. A good virtual tour isn't simply a walk-around or drive-by.
Example: The best time of the year for stargazing is winter. With cold air comes clear air (ie less humidity) and darkness comes earlier too so you don't have to lose sleep to see your favorite constellations. And out here, traffic isn't a concern, especially in winter. I was here for an hour and only one car went by.
If your business has a focus on process or change, such as renovations, or in this case closet organization, then a 'live panorama' is just the thing.
Close this box, wait 5 seconds and watch how the image toggles between a before shot to an after shot.
Could your business use such a feature?
(To navigate away from this pano, use the animated circle arrow, or click on Tourism in the gallery.)
Reachout and get in touch. We can chat about what your tour would look like and what the ballpark cost would be. If you like how that goes, I'll come in for a walk-around with you and we'll come up with a plan and price.
GregBoyce360@gmail.com
Tell the visitor something interesting that isn't in the rest of your website, such as how many items you have in your inventory, or how many suppliers you partner with, or how many countries your inventory comes from.
The point is to educate/inform, or entertain the visitor. Doing so invites the person to stay in the tour = engagement = building trust by getting to know you.
The goal of a website is to convert website/virtual visitors into customers. To do that your website has to invite visitors to get to know you, like you (or your offering), and most importantly, trust you.
An in-person physical tour helps do that, and a virtual tour is the website counterpart. The tour should inform and maybe even entertain to keep the visitor engaged. The longer the engagement, the more a visitor gets to know you, like you, and trust you.
To navigate within a 360, finger drag.
Double-tap to go full screen on and off.
Finger pinch & pull to zoom in and out.
To visit another photo, either tap on one of the images in the carousel, or find a 'meaningful icon' such as an arrow or door, and tap it.
For contact info, click the logo (upper left).
Close this box with the x (top right corner).