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.
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.
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!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
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.
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!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
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!
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!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
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!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
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.
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.