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?
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.
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!
Not a TourDash Reseller?
Not a problem! Visit the TourDash Registration page and get started with TourDash today.
TourDash for your business, Do Business through your Virtual Tour
In our last article we spoke about your website being your online business card and how it reflects you and your business. What makes your business unique? Why do customers keep coming back to you? You probably already answered these questions, however does your website display this well enough?
With TourDash you can seamlessly navigate your online visitors through your store and experience first hand the things that make your business special, online!
“Do you see that great looking T-shirt over there, the blue one with the fun logo? Try clicking the T-shirt!â€
By simply making use of the call-to-action buttons from the dynamic hotspots,which TourDash offers, and by linking to your webshop, your online visitors will turn into your online customers with the click of a button!
TourDash enables your web visitors to navigate online with an immersive ‘real world’ experience. More importantly though, it allows them to make purchases in your webshop!
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.
TourDash for your business; Encouraging visitors to reserve online
During the New York City Restaurant Week of 2013, statistics showed that visitors who used Google Maps Business View to experience a restaurant online, were 50 percent more likely to reserve a table. Which is a whopping 20 percent more compared to the restaurants without Google Maps Business View.
That is great and all, but how does TourDash fit in here? Using TourDash allows you to easily lead the online visitor from within the tour to actually making a reservation at your establishment.
Either by phone, via e-mail or contact form, TourDash uses and combines existing channels in the manner the owner of the establishment sees fit.
“How nice would it be to walk through a hotel and be able to book a room or reserve a table at your favorite restaurant?â€
That would be nice, wouldn’t it? TourDash makes sure your accommodation, be it a pub, cafe, restaurant, hotel, motel, bed & breakfast or even a vacation home, gets the attention it deserves.
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.
TourDash for your Business; 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.
TourDash makes your website more accessible by allowing you to include links and buttons to specific pages within your website. Don’t just send them to your homepage. If your visitors are virtually looking at products, show them more information using TourDash and direct them to a page within your website where they can purchase these products.
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?
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.
TourDash 2014 World Cup Contest
We’re offering our resellers the opportunity to win a set of TourDash licenses for free! The idea is that in the spirit of the Football* World Cup we are giving you a chance to make your country proud! Pour all your talent and creativity into a TourDash and utilise a tour that perfectly depicts your home country. Together you can now make a great showcase for your potential clients and in doing so you have a chance to win up to 9 free licenses!
Simply head to our contest page to join the contest.
What’s the prize?
| License Type | 1st Prize | 2nd Prize | 3rd Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Gold | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Platinum | 3 | 2 | 1 |
In plain English; First place will receive 3 silver, 3 gold and 3 platinum licenses. Second place will receive 2 silver, 2 gold and 2 platinum licenses. Third place will receive 1 silver, 1 gold and 1 platinum license. These licenses are free for the first year once you apply them, this effectively makes your first year pure profit.
Not a TourDash Reseller? What are you waiting for?
*That’s soccer for our American resellers.
Cross channel marketing with TourDash
Nowadays you can buy almost anything online. Music, clothes, books, and even groceries are delivered to the door. You just need to come off the couch to take the packets.
Bad news for entrepreneurs who offer their products in the traditional way. Customers who previously went out to go to their local store now remain behind their laptop to order online elsewhere.
Do they?
Internet offers new opportunities
The Internet as a sales channel offers the retail new opportunities. It provides among other for more contact. Internet can also provide an important boost to traditional (offline) sales. Especially when retailers are able to tune the online and offline sales on each other. That means creating synergies between the channels; cross-channel commerce!
Purchase independent of time and place
buying purely online has had its days. Customers are in their buying process (from deciding to purchasing) not completely online. Cross-channel shopping, where you combine online with offline shopping, is the future. Customers no longer think only channels. They buy what they need, where and when it best suits them, independent of time and place. Consumers are now buying a brand, rather than a channel.
Changes at a high rate
How people shop and the way that they do is changing rapidly. Where once both the orientation and the sale itself took place in the shop today, the consumer has the possibility to orientate online and possibly to go on direct to purchase: We cannot ignore the fact that today’s consumer is increasingly connected to the Internet.
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.
TourDash brings offline marketing to online interaction with your clients. TourDash, where clicks meet bricks!
TourDash
TourDash is currently for your online customers the best option to experience the atmosphere of your shop. Offer you online customers the same experience in order to attract them to visit your store! By means of our advanced navigation menu customers are guided through the tour and our hotspots provided them interactive information about your location or products and services.
With TourDash you can direct your online customers from the virtual tour to your webshop or other specific parts of your website. Orientation was never so easy. The hotspotboxes can contain content in the form of text, photo or video. You can combine your website, webshop and social media at once, so you as a business owner have a more powerful marketing to your customers.
In short, TourDash enables the modern consumer to orientate online, before he decides to come with you to consume.
Boundary Hotspots – Technical Tuesday
Boundary Hotspots were not the first feature created for TourDash but none the less it is one of my personal favorites. The idea behind a boundary hotspot was to have a ‘smart’ hotspot, a hotspot that would appear based on where a user was looking within the virtual tour.
In order to create this effect we allow the person editing the tour to specify and set boundaries within a panorama. Whenever a user is navigating within the boundaries that have been set, they will be shown the hotspot, the boundary hotspot. It’s that simple.
In the earlier version of TourDash we required users to complete 7 steps before they could get started with their hotspots. With the release of TourDash 2.0 we brought that number down to 1, with a single click you can start editing hotspots.
What boundary hotspots allow you to achieve within the Google Maps Business View virtual tour is a seamless integration of your marketing efforts that does not disrupt the experience of the visitor.
A great example of a business that has mastered the art of boundary hotspots is our ‘TourDash Tour of the week’-virtual tour, the CODE Student Accommodation. This tour was created by our very own TourDash Reseller, Chris Jones.
So if you’re looking to utilize hotspots just like Chris and CODE Student Accommodation, sign up and register for TourDash. Offer your clients the exclusive ability to integrate hotspots within their virtual tours via the only official Google Partner, TourDash.
TourDash 2.0 is now live!
Today we announce the release of TourDash’s latest version: TourDash 2.0! The one and only enhancer for Google Maps Business View, has evolved into a more intuitive content editor. A revolutionising way to add boundary hotspots, a more flexible advanced navigation menu and a richer hotspot editor introduces a new standard for adding and editing content within your virtual tour.
We are very curious about your experiences! Later this week we will reveal short demonstrations of the new opportunities but first we want to go ahead and give you the time to play around.
Here’s a small list of what we’ve changed in TourDash 2.0
Advanced Navigation
Reordering your navigation items has never been as easy we with TourDash 2.0. Add and label your menu items and decide what goes where, later. Now you have complete freedom to work in a manner of your choosing and still get the end result that you want.
Boundary Hotspots
The process of adding Boundary Hotspots has been completely revamped.Initially it would take you up to 7 clicks to start editing your boundary hotspots, we’ve lowered that to 1. With just a single click of the button you’ll have added a boundary hotspot and can start editing it freely.
Dynamic Hotspots
The biggest change to dynamic hotspots is without a doubt how we handle the visuals, the hotspot markers/icons. You can now individually update/change the hotspot marker to suit your need. Display a separate icon depending on whether you’re showing information, want people to look at a photo or intend for them to fill in a form.
Visuals / Hotspot Markers
– We’ve updated the visuals tab, you can now change the default hotspot markers for all the dynamic hotspot
– It is also possible to assign individual hotspots markers per dynamic hotspot
Hotspot Animations
That’s right, we’ve put some attention to detail with this update. No more boring disappearing hotspot. These smooth babies slide away as you click the close button, talk about style! Left, right and ‘Houdini’-vanish, we have an animation for every hotspot position.
Rotation
Rotation is more or less the same, we’ve optimised the code and have added the ability to ‘never stop rotation’. Once enabled the default option for rotation is to ‘Stop rotation on tour hover’ opposed to ‘Stop rotation on tour controls hover’.
Hotspot Editor
We’ve completely revamped the editor for both the boundary and dynamic hotspot. In the spirit of WYSIWYG you will immediately see all of your edits live within the hotspot. No more hassle with uploading your images through separate services, simply drag and drop them inside of the editor and store all of your hotspot images inside TourDash.
Sign Up for TourDash Today!
Good news for all Google Maps Business View Photographers, Agencies and Resellers! You can start with TourDash today! Simply head on over to our TourDash Reseller Program page or visit the registration page directly at https://live.tourdash.com/signup.
We’ve made the application process a lot quicker asking only for the bare essentials. Once you feel you’re comfortable with all the amazing features that TourDash has to offer you can go ahead fill out the rest of your profile information and purchase your first license.
If you’ve used the old information form we will send you an invitation today!
TourDash makes great effort in ensuring that you have a complete platform available so that you can offer TourDash to all of your existing and new Google Maps Business View clients. In the same manner we listen to all of your questions, suggestions and even complaints! If you want to voice any of the aforementioned simply email us at support@tourdash.com, even if it’s just to say hi and show your appreciation!
The team here at TourDash is looking forward to seeing your creative work! We’re always looking out for examples such as DIY-Kitchens that was awarded the first TourDash Tour of the week. Think you can make something just as good? We would love to see it!
One last friendly reminder when you’re going to register for TourDash, please remember that you can only do this using the email for which you are publicly known on the Google Maps Business View website.