Innovation from Google based on Street View. In the future possible for Google Business View?
Google will soon release a new deep learning algorithm that could change te worlds of virtual reality and film. How cool is that?
The algorithm is using still images from Google Street View (multiple pictures) in order to determine how the images should fit together. It is a “self-learning” algorithm. It can then bring the images together into a single fluid animation, like if the viewer is watching a movie.
TourDash enables online conversion
Online interaction
Experience is important. After all emotion does buy. It remains a challenge to provide the online customer with the experience of the shop. What makes your store unique? Why do people come to you or your place? What mood do you put in your store?
If images could tell your store’ story in an interactive and qualitative way, then those pictures are worth a thousand words. Be different or otherwise and up just like the mainstream.
TourDash brings offline marketing to online interaction with your clients. TourDash, where clicks meet bricks!
Glad to be part of cartographic history?
With Google Maps Business View in combination with TourDash your customer will not only be part of cartographic history and online presence. Your client will also be able to guide the online visitor through his/her shop, store or location and build in contact moments (video, forms, buttons) within the online tour. An online visitor has never been so close!
For beautiful unique locations on Google Maps look here. Then you’ll know how this beautiful environments are recorded on camera. TourDash is proud of being part of the virtual tour history and also in making a contribution to the Google Maps Business View program.
TourDash has successfully completed its transformation
As you all know, two months ago we introduced our New Business Model, changing from subscription based periodic license fees to one-off payments at substantial lower fees. All with the goal of enabling you to offer better propositions to your clients and reducing your administrative handling to a minimum.
It looks you like our changes! In the first two months a total number of 124 of our resellers have made it possible for 271 clients to present their store, shop, location, etc. using TourDash! We have welcomed 61 new resellers, so our new business model also attracts new Google TIP’s.
Furthermore we have worked and continue to work on our support desk. We are satisfied with the increase in response time but will keep on working on improving it, making sure you and your clients get the best service possible.
For the coming period, we will focus on what new features we want to create so if you guys have any suggestions, please email them to info@tourdash.com.
Thanks for your trust; you guys rock!
Since summer is all over Europe at the moment, let’s also bring the sun inside your home with this stunning flower tour!
TourDash Tour Discovery – The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. It has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 by the London and North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable.
Since 2006, Roundhouse has hosted the BBC Electric Proms and numerous iTunes Festivals, as well as award ceremonies such as the BT Digital Music Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards.
This is a richly filled tour that features boundary hotspots and a thorough implementation of the advanced navigation. Through the navigation you can quickly visit the POI’s but at the same time you can make reservations and find out more about all of the specifics environment your looking at.
TourDash Reseller
This TourDash Discovery was brought to us by its TourDash Reseller, Theo Tzia from Biztour Virtual Tours. He is the Google Certified Business View Photographer and all Biztour shoots are carried out by him.
From all of us at TourDash; Thank you very much for this work Theo, we look forward to seeing more from you in the future!
It's back! TourDash Tour of the Week
TourDash Tour of the Week was on hiatus for the past couple of weeks but we’re back with a new series of TourDash tour of the Week! However, from this point on we’ll be referring to this event as TourDash Tour Discovery! If you have any tours you’d like to submit please send them to support@tourdash.com. We’re always keeping an eye out for Tours but if you’re particularly proud of a tour, share it with us!
Starting us off with the first TourDash Tour Discovery is the United Colors of Benetton.
The tour features a great minimalistic implementation that allows users to navigate through the environment via advanced navigation. At the same time they give you the opportunity to not only read about what the United Colors of Benetton stand for but also purchase some of their items.
If you want to create your own virtual tour using TourDash, register at https://live.tourdash.com/signup. Remember that you can only register as a TourDash reseller if you are an official Google Trusted Photographer or Agency.
Again, want your own tour submitted? Send us your tours at support@tourdash.com!
TourDash SSL Hiccups
Hello Everyone,
we just wanted to quickly inform you on regarding what happened past weekend. During the weekend we experienced some difficulties related to our SSL which caused our services to respond with a message saying that our security credentials were not being recognised.
Depending on personal security settings some of you may or may not have experienced this message and may or may not have noticed TourDash tours not displaying.
Fortunately the matter was resolved in a whopping 47 minutes and this issue shouldn’t arise ever again. We do hope that you’ve not experienced any difficulties because of the matter but should this be the case please contact us at support@tourdash.com.
You’ll notice that the difficulties persist with http://support.tourdash.com though the site is still reachable. Any security warnings should expire within 7 days. We use an external support system which takes a bit longer to update security credentials.
In the mean time, as I pointed out above, contact support@tourdash.com should you have any questions and we will do our bests to assist you where we can.
Sincerely,
Team TourDash
Roswell Balentien
Product Manager
TourDash & Hotels – Let's start selling!
Next week, starting at the 15th of September until the 26th of September, we want you to use TourDash to target and focus on Hotels. Luckily for everyone there are a lot of Google Maps Business View Examples for Hotels. This means that you can move forward with TourDash for both your existing clients and your potential new clients.
Sales Arguments
Don’t enter a sales meeting unprepared, use these sales arguments to convince the client!
- Google Maps Business View for Hotels consist out of multiple single tours. Use TourDash to connect all of your tours togethers and implement our advanced navigation to quickly jump through the tour.
- Looking at a hotel room or suite is great but leaves the users with all kind of questions. Supply suite information and answer your visitors questions before they even arise.
- Send your visitors straight to booking from within your virtual tour using TourDash.
Google Hangout
Join TourDash for a Hangout if you want to discuss and further explore the idea of using TourDash for Hotels.
- When – 20:00 CEST, September 15th 2014
- Where – Google Hangouts
- When – 12:00 CEST, September 16th 2014
- Where – Google Hangouts
Get Started!
Visit http://live.tourdash.com/signup to register for TourDash. Have a look at our support documentation or email us at support@tourdash.com if you’ve got any questions.
TourDash Multi-Tour
TourDash Platinum licenses will now have the ability to add an unrestricted amount of virtual tours into a single tour. This will allow you to create a large tour using several smaller tours. This feature is particularly useful when dealing with Hotels since they consist out a number of small tours.
Adding multiple tours to a single TourDash tour can be done through the advanced navigation feature.
- Add a tour to TourDash
- Create a navigation item to identify the primary tour
- Use the drop-down and select ‘Add another tour’
You are still limited to the amount of hotspots in your license. If you feel like you need more hotspots. Please contact support@tourdash.com.
TourDash Multi-Tour is only available to Platinum licenses. If you have previously purchased a platinum license you will also have access to this update in your tour. Multi-Tour only works through adding a direct URL to the tour, do not paste your iFrame code, simply input the tour URL as if you were sharing it with someone.
For any questions related to the TourDash Multi-Tour Feature or for support with TourDash; Please contact support@tourdash.com.
TourDash for your business; Advertising from within your virtual tour
After talking about TourDash as a tool to combine social media to a virtual tour, we’d like to take the time to inform you on another possibility of combining marketing tools within a virtual tour. Namely, advertising!
A lot of businesses use advertising, folders and flyers to promote their products, either online or offline. With TourDash you can make sure you can advertise your products online using smart links within information fields placed throughout your tour, sending your online visitors to your special deals. Simply add these promoting tools to your virtual tour, with TourDash.
Need Help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly you can drop us a line at support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.