Technology PR:
Redwood City, CA August 22, 2008 -- RealBird, a leading provider of Internet marketing tools for the real estate industry announces today the release of a low cost, high quality Virtual Tour product for REALTORS®. The unbranded Virtual Tour can be readily uploaded to any MLS or to the Realtor.com portal. The cost per property tour is only $9.99.
The Virtual Tour is based on the free RealBird Listing Publisher single property website and listing syndication service and focuses on high quality photo tours and neighborhood tours powered by Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth.
Unique features include:
- Large Google Street View where available - the virtual tour becomes a neighborhood tour
- Complete web analytics - detailed traffic analysis for virtual tours using Clicky, Google Analytics and MyBlogLog.
- Unlimited variations of design themes with background images and color themes
- 7 different maps and live traffic report
The following links show some live samples of both the branded and unbranded virtual tours:
"Stunning French Country Estate in the Redland"
Unbranded virtual tour:
http://listings.realbird.com/VirtualTour.aspx?id=F5D2E8D4&fid=23169
Branded virtual tour:
http://listings.realbird.com/VirtualTour.aspx?id=F5D2E8D4&fid=23169&rb-brand=1
Zoltan Szendro, Executive VP of the company said: "With the release of our new Virtual Tour product we have closed an important gap in our product line by providing a low-cost, high value Virtual Tour that can be used for uploading to the MLS and Realtor.com. This way, agents can get exposure for their listings not only through our free syndication services, but now also through the vast distribution channel provided by the IDX data sharing. With many different mapping options - Street View, Bird's Eye View and embedded Google® Earth - the RealBird Virtual Tours not only provide listing presentation tools but high quality neighborhood walkthroughs as well. At $9.99 per tour this product will also save a lot of money for agents, an important consideration in today's market conditions. Comparable Virtual Tours from other vendors cost currently significantly more."
Janie Coffey with Papillon Real Estate (http://www.PapillonRealEstate.com) said: "Using the RealBird listing marketing services, I not only market my current listings more effectively resulting in faster sales, but also use it to win new listings. I just won a new contract on a multi million dollar property and part of my pitch included a demonstration of my online marketing technology powered by RealBird. The seller loved the integrated Street View on her own property's website. The virtual tour add-on is a great service which allows me to distribute the high-impact listing presentation to even more destinations through IDX searches."
More details, case studies and examples can be found at http://www.RealBird.com
About RealBird:
RealBird's services (http://www.realbird.com) include listing marketing and lead generation tools uniquely tailored to the needs of the residential and commercial real estate industry. The RealBird Listing Publisher provides a free, next generation Property Website builder with syndication to 3rd party classified sites and advance presentation tools. The RealBird Map-based Search service couples the traditional, form-based MLS search with the ability to browse listings on a street or aerial map. SearchOnMaps.com is the real estate industry's first, fully map based Yellow pages portal (http://www.SearchOnMaps.com). RealBird has over 10,000 members and also provides mapping services to leading broker portals, virtual tour providers and luxury real estate brokers.
® RealBird is a registered trademark of RealBird Inc.
Contact: Gabriel Gross, (866) 551-2934
Email: pr @ realbird.com
Web: http://www.realbird.com
Blog: http://realbird.typepad.com
