Google Photo Spheres in TourDash tours
Hello, TourDash community! Today we are happy to announce a new era of Google Photo Spheres use in TourDash tours!
A Google Photo Sphere itself is basically a panorama photo that is viewable as a 360-degree image. Users can enjoy them by swiping around to determine the directionality of the view. Any person in the world can create his own Photo Sphere and contribute it to Google Street View to share with all Google Maps users.
Google Photo Spheres is a great opportunity to add some interesting external location to your virtual tour. In this case you can show your online visitors the panorama of the street area which is situated outside of your company. It is becoming very important for those businesses that have outside points such as veranda, terrace, roof-cafe, etc.
Currently TourDash has an experimental support of Google Photo Spheres. The current stable version of Google Maps API does not give us full possibilities to work with photospheres, that has been created after September 2015. But, we were able to solve this problem, and now you can use any photospheres in your TourDash tour, no matter when this photosphere has been created.
On our support page you can find an instruction about how to add Google Photo Sphere to your TourDash tour.
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Custom fonts for your TourDash tour
Useful information for those who want to use custom fonts in TourDash tours.
First of all, to use the custom fonts, you should convert your font to web-compatible formats. You can’t use OTF or TTF directly. For example, you can use fontsquirrel’s tool to convert the font (www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator).
Then you should access the TourDash Asset Manager (live.tourdash.com/assets) and upload “.eot” “.ttf” and “.woff” versions of the fonts. It will be useful to create a separate folder for fonts (e.g. “fonts”) and upload the files there.
After that you should copy the URL’s for the fonts from the asset manager and write them down. Just right-click the font files and choose “Copy link address”. You will use that URL’s later to setup the @font-face section.
The next step is to define a custom css styles for your fonts. Go to the Tour Editor and open the CSS panel (you can find it under the “Labs” icon). If you can’t find the “Labs” icon then you should send a request for enabling the advanced CSS functionality to support@tourdash.com
We have prepared a code snippet for you, that can be used as a base for your custom styles.
After creating custom styles you can save your tour and start editing the popup contents. To apply a custom font for a paragraph of text, for example, you should turn on the HTML editing mode of the popup editor (click the “<>” button) and use the following code:
If you want to apply your font to popup titles, your should copy this snippet to the custom CSS panel. Don’t forget to change “OpenSans” to the name of font that you are using.
This is an example of customized tour. Custom font is a very important part of brand-management and also it’s just beautiful. Make your own tour with your own fonts and look how easy it is!
For any technical questions about custom CSS please contact support@tourdash.com.
Google Street View: interesting facts and ideas for inspiration
Hello there! Today we want to share with you our inspiration from Google Street View and work their team has been doing. Take a little break from your work and get some interesting information that can help you to catch fresh motivation and creativity wave.Â
What is Google Street View?
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide. Streets with Street View imagery available are shown as blue lines on Google Maps.
Today Google Street View includes:
- 7 continents
- 65+ countries
- 7 million+ miles traveled
How does all this work?
Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images. Most photography is done by car, but some of it is done by trekker, tricycle, walking, boat, snowmobile, and underwater equipment. How to explore?
With Google Street View you can explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses.Â
- Track the Loch Ness monster, scale the famed rock wall El Capitan in Yosemite, and hike Mt. Fuji in this gallery of Google’s best contributions.
- Also you can use special Google Street View application for Android or iPhone and explore content from others, and create your own.
To be in touch and get all the news from Google Maps and Google Street View you can also follow the official blog and Facebook page.
Hope you enjoy exploring all these amazing things about Google Street View and watching several unbelievable places just sitting in your room. And please don’t forget that any tour can be even more awesome with Tourdash. 🙂
3 reasons to make a Google virtual tour for your company
Woody Allen ones said: “Eighty percent of success is showing upâ€. This is especially true today when the Internet has completely changed the way we make a decision to buy. There are various reasons why adding a virtual tour to your marketing can improve your business. We selected top 3 reasons to make a Google virtual tour for your company right away.
1. Attract more customers
Google virtual allows your potential customers to see the inside of your business which gives them an extra level of confidence in it. This significant advantage sets you apart from your competitors and provides an informative and entertaining experience. Your location is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week anywhere in the world. Isn’t it awesome?
2. Generate more and faster sales
Independent researches show that online viewers are 115% more likely to book accommodation, buy a product or use some services when a virtual tour or video is viewed instead of usual photos. As an example, virtual tours on websites of hotels increase online booking with 85%. The statistics can be even more impressive for the TourDash virtual tour because of the effective interactive instruments.
3. Increase clients’ loyalty
Perfect way to attract customers and get them to understand the benefits of any service or product is to explain and show what they can expect for their money. Today there are many businesses which lose valuable sales by not taking full advantage of internet marketing. With a Google Business View your customers know what to expect before their visit and are less likely to have disappointment or to feel confused.
With TourDash you can also show your special promotions, tell the interesting story of your company, products or service. People like creative treatment and will definitely remember your business because of an unusual experience.
3 ways how Google Business View can improve your positions in Google
Are you still in doubt whether your business needs a Google virtual tour? We prepared three interesting facts for you. Who knows, it might help you make a right decision.
1. Your Google virtual tour will appear not only in Google Maps, but also it will be shown in organic Google search and on your Google+ Local page. With four access points to your virtual tour (organic search, Google+, Google Maps, Pegman) you have much more opportunities to be seen by your target audience.
2. Google virtual tour with TourDash addons embedded to your website makes visitors be three times longer on the webpage with the tour. So compelling use of virtual technology will keep visitors on your site, but furthermore it will keep them coming back. As you know it really improves the behavioral factor of your website, which in its turn have a good influence on ranking.
3. People like to share interesting websites and pages. So if your virtual tour is really exiting be sure you will have a lot of sharings in social media. And this is very positive factor for promotion of your website in Google and of your business in general. TourDash offers a bunch of effective features that can make your tour viral in social networks.
Higher Google positions will help you attract more daily traffic on your website. Obviously, every visitor is a potential customer.
TourDash tour of the month | February'16
Hello everybody! Hope your working week is going great! We have a nice news for you. Today we are starting a new column at our blog – TourDash tour of the month. Every month we will post here the best tour made by our resellers. We are sure that your awesome tours should be paid attention to by all TD users. It can definitely help to inspire and motivate other resellers and owners of businesses to make new interesting tours!
We’ve carefully investigated all the tours made during last four weeks. Thank you all! They are really amazing! And we are proud to present you the winner: The Stand – Edinburgh Tour.
This tour was made by Alan Mence from Easy Web company and placed on The Stand website. The most exciting part of the tour is an integration of some offline and online elements. In every room in the club there are actual paper speech bubbles on the walls which works as Dynamic Hotspots in the tour. It is just a great idea! We are happy to share this unusual tour! Enjoy watching it!
Thank you for working with TourDash! See you soon!
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 an email to 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.
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a good day! 🙂
Our blog and social media
Hey, guys! How are you doing? We are doing very well! Now we are working on improvements at our website. And today we want to inform you that we are going to renew our awesome blog and all the social media activity. Therefore, during the next several months you will see a lot of interesting posts here and on our Facebook page. We prepared some interesting topics for you and we really want to communicate with you more.
In addition, we are launching a regular newsletter and very soon you will receive our first informing letter about cool new feature in TourDash tours.
Don’t forget to follow us on:
Facebook
Google+
Youtube
and Twitter
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 an email to 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.
We appreciate any and every comment we get so do not hesitate to write us right here under this post or on our Facebook page. Have a good day! 🙂
Effective interaction with TourDash
Invite customers inside
Your clients are using Google Streetview Trusted to engage customers. Enhancing their business’ presence across Google powered by Street View technology.
Interact with your customers and let them act!
In combination with TourDash the strong visual aspects of a Google Streetview Trusted tour gives any company a powerful marketing tool on the businesses website.
TourDash enriches the Google Streetview Trusted with content and smart links; the virtual tour now is an added value to the website of the businesses. Turn passive virtual tours into active ones and let the entrepreneurs start extracting value from their virtual tour.
More advantages of creating, using and embedding TourDash on your clients website are:
+ Ensuring a great first impression
+ Zooming in on the finer details
+ Fantastic entertainment value
+ Virtual tours are effective
With TourDash, you get to give your current and prospective customers of your client an interactive image of your clients business. Visual marketing is fun, entertaining, and cost effective. Most importantly it helps customers in their online orientation and online shopping; What you see is what you get.
Need Help?
Need more information or want to talk to us directly? No problem, just drop a line at support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started! Or visit our support page
TourDash; Guide your visitors through your website
Your website is your online business card, however, in many cases it is too static to leave behind a good impression. By using TourDash you can make your website interactive and accessible.
Use the same conviction that created your offline business and bundle it with TourDash to offer a similar experience online. TourDash offers you the opportunity to communicate your company characteristics by displaying specific information at times best suited for your visitors.
It all comes down to you being able to offer targeted information within the virtual tour, whenever you want it and your visitors need it. For example; emerge a visitor in the history of your business, display accurate product information or excite them about event opportunities.
What are you waiting for? Offer your online visitors the unique opportunity to drop by and ensure a realistic experience online, through TourDash!
Need Help?
Need more information or want to talk to us directly? No problem, just drop a line at support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started! Or visit our support page
Why TourDash increases the marketing power of Street View Trusted
Interesting article explaining considering marketing via Street View Trusted. The problem however, is that Street View Trusted only provides a visually engaging manner.
That is where TourDash kicks in and in combination with TourDash the strong visual aspects of a Street View Trusted tour gives any company a powerful marketing tool on the businesses website. This will result in greater engagement and increase the chances of visitors buying online and/or visiting the business directly. Innovative marketing at its best.
TourDash enriches the Street View Trusted with content and smart links; the virtual tour now is an added value to the website of the businesses. Turn passive virtual tours into active ones and let the entrepreneurs start extracting value from their virtual tour.
This will result in greater engagement and increase the chances of visitors buying online and/or visiting the business directly.
Need Help?
Need more information or want to talk to us directly? No problem, just drop a line at support@tourdash.com and we’ll get you started! Or visit our support page