Don't just say it, show it too!
It’s practically a cliche, but most businesses still choose to describe their company and products with words, instead of showing their business. Keeping in mind that the average page visit of the internet user lasts a little less than a minute, there is less to tell about your business. Luckily there is an answer to the question: “How do I extend my online visitor’s time on a webpage?”. So you can communicate everything needed to persuade them; by showing it!
“Capture and engage your audience”, that’s the key to success in 2014. With TourDash you not only show your business, to make it more appealing, it also allows you to interact with the visitor. While profiting from the online visitor’s focus, you can show everything. Your location, your products and your company- and contact information in an effective and unique way. This way you can gain several minutes of user attention, which is considerable and valuable time to make the difference in turning an online visitor into a customer.So to stand out in the overcrowded online world, where time is a rare commodity, you need to be creative and efficacious to make the difference. TourDash provides you with the tool to do so. See how this success seeker already uses TourDash for the business.
TourDash for your business; adding your contact information
By having a virtual tour, online visitors are already on your webpage for a longer period of time. Make use of this extra time by engaging the online visitor to come to the store or do business online and make a connection That is what it is all about right? Both parties engaging in business, make sure you get there, with TourDash.
TourDash helps your business display your contact information at key moments in your virtual tour. Simply by creating information hotspots within your tour, you can add links to direct your online visitors to your contact information web page. Additionally you can immediately add the contact information to your information hotspots and show the contact details as you desire. Just look at our example below to get an impression how you can use TourDash to show your contact information.
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TourDash for your business; Connecting with your crowd
For a couple of years now, organizations have been profiling themselves through social media. Think Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, five of the biggest online tools around for reaching customers. Have we gotten to the point where Google Maps Business View makes social media obsolete? We don’t think so. At TourDash we believe in synergy, by linking your online marketing tools together.
By making use of our boundary hotspot feature in TourDash, the business owner can decide whether or not to engage his/her customer and in doing so offer them targeted information. Not only can you offer them targeted information, you can also entice them to do things from within your virtual tour. Like connecting to social media, such as:
- Having them visit Facebook and like the business page
- Visit the company’s Google+ page and connect to it
- Connect via LinkedIn by sending them to the company page
- Visit YouTube channel to watch videos
- Follow you on Twitter by linking them to the account
TourDash ensures the virtual tour can be linked to social media. Opening the lines of communication once more.
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Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly you can reach out to us by sending a mail to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
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TourDash for your business; combine video with virtual tour
We can all agree that starting a business and using online tools can be quite a hassle. Having images, videos and a tour available online for your customers is key to communicate your business to your customers.
In an earlier news article we spoke about uploading pictures to the tour with ease, using TourDash. The same can be said for business videos or commercials. Not only can you show off your business through a virtual tour, but you can even show your online visitors videos, such as: product videos, business films and even commercials.
You can show these at any time using TourDash! By simply adding information fields (hotspots) you can add videos by using their Video Embed Code, simply copy and paste it into the Insert Video option of the TourDash Editor. What are you waiting for? Go try it for yourselves!
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Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly you can reach out to us by sending a mail to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
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Tourdash; The Why and The How
The minute Google launched Google My Business, small business owners, marketing media managers and marketers are profiting from Google’s integration of all their tools onto one platform. The functionality of the applications hasn’t changed, but the added value comes from easy access to analytics, profiles, listings and reviews. Also it gives you access to relevant information you want to know about your business’ online performance. Google My Business brings with it the launch of Google Business View, combine this with TourDash for a brand new outstanding marketing tool for every marketer’s media arsenal.
Why Do I Need TourDash?
Visual stimuli are easier to process by humans as we spoke of in a related story, discussing how virtual content adds to your online marketing. Now why would a business need TourDash? We believe that guiding your online visitors through your tour is the way to go. You wouldn’t have someone visit you without giving them directions, would you? Same difference, but online.
How do I get TourDash?
First and foremost you will need a Google Maps Business View which you can get by simply contacting a Google Trusted Photographer. By the same means you can get Tourdash, as it is a Google Approved product. Simply find your Trusted Reseller.
TourDash for your business; How to place TourDash on your website
At TourDash we believe that a virtual tour belongs on a website and should be used as a marketing tool to get visitors to do business online and visit the business. There are several ways of integrating TourDash on a business’ website.
Just to give you some ideas we’ve listed a couple of examples:
Fisk Automotive has chosen for homepage integration by adding the TourDash tour as a banner. Making it the first thing you see when you enter their website.
Now you’re making sure that your giving your visitors ample oppertunity to navigate through your tour.
Wellness.nl is another good example of TourDash tour integration, they use it to show a specific location out of the many spa’s they show own their webpage.
Since how a spa looks matters so much you don’t want your visitors to miss out on this oppertunity.
Royal Caribbean shows a great way of using a TourDash tour as a complete webpage on it’s own.
This is great for big locations that want to prominently showcase their tour.
Just take a look at each of the before mentioned tours and decide which way is best for the website!
Adding TourDash to a website is pretty easy, simply copy the iframe code offered by TourDash and paste it on the desired location of the target website’s source code using your favorite content management system or source editor.
Need Help?
Visit support.tourdash.com for all of our documentation. If you want to talk to us directly you can reach out to us by sending a mail to support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started!
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TourDash for your business; Creating a layout for your tour
Let’s face it, Google Maps Business View adds a whole new spectrum to online marketing. Combine it with TourDash to make sure the company website and virtual tour have the same layout.
Using the TourDash Editor enables the creation of a personalized layout, making sure the business website’s layout is the same within the virtual tour. This includes, font type, text color, back color, text size, text alignment, etc.
Not only can you use TourDash to create a specialized layout for a virtual tour, it is also very user friendly and resembles any of the major text editing programs. Just take a look at the tour below and be inspired to create a personalized layout, using Tourdash!
The CODE tour has been communicated before to you however, it is a tour with a high-level of TourDash functionality integrations. Because of that it was made our Tour Of The Week a couple of weeks ago. This tour is a great example of how to integrate your website’s layout into your virtual tour.
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Visual Content for Online Marketing with TourDash
Go further with out-of-the-box marketing by managing your online data and making it engaging for your online visitors. Common online visualization stops at showing images of your product. However nowadays you can show your business through a 360degree virtual tour. Google Maps Business View does wonders for businesses. Combining it with TourDash you’re capable of making a great virtual tour greater through better navigation and interaction.
Visualization does wonders for businesses, just take a look at our top 5 reasons why you should include visual content in your marketing:
- 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text and 40% of people will respond better to visual information rather than plain text. (Sources: 3M Corporation and Zabisco)
- Publishers who use infographics grow in traffic an average of 12% more than those who do not.. (Source: AnsonAlex)
- Visual content drives engagement. In fact, just one month after the introduction of Facebook timeline for brands, visual content — photos and videos — saw a 65% increase in engagement. (Source: Simply Measured)
- Viewers spend 100% more time on pages with videos on them. (Source: MarketingSherpa)
- Viewers are 85% more likely to purchase a product after watching a product video. (Source: Internet Retailer)
TourDash for your business; What's for dinner?
In a related article we spoke about having the opportunity to reserve at your favorite establishment from within the virtual tour, using TourDash. Did you know that this is not the only thing TourDash can do for your establishment? No? Well that’s great, let us inform you on what else you can do with TourDash!
“Can’t wait to see what the restaurant has for dinner? You won’t have to, just click on the menu on the table to see what’s for dinner!â€
One of TourDash’s great features allow you to personalize each object in your tour using dynamic hotspots. Basically what you create is an information field specifically for an object. You might wonder if it is difficult to make, but no, its very easy. Simply by connecting the dots over a menu card within your tour, you can make it an interactive point of interest that links to your restaurant’s menu either on your own homepage or the online PDF version of your menu. So, what’s for dinner?
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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!
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TourDash for your business; Enrich your content by using pictures
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Combining TourDash with your virtual tour enables the use of pictures within it. By uploading a picture from your own computer or using its URL, you can simply embed it within the tour. Wherever and whenever you want it to appear. The best thing about adding pictures to the virtual tour using TourDash, is that you never have to do any resizing! TourDash automatically resizes the picture to fit the information field, making it very user friendly.
That’s not all though, every picture can be linked by URL to any web page you want. All you have to do is copy and paste the link within the editing field. In doing so you can add another dimension to your virtual tour!
“Take a good look at the screenshot below, it shows a creative yet effective way of picture usage within the virtual tour, using TourDash.â€
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!
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